{{Short description|Soviet and Russian theater artist, set designer and teacher}} {{Infobox person | name = Boris Messerer | image = Борис Мессерер 2018 (cropped).jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Boris Asafovich Messerer | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1933|3|15|df=y}} | birth_place = Moscow | occupation = stage designer, teacher, theater artist | years_active = | spouse = Nina Chistova (1 child together)<br/>{{marriage|Bella Akhmadulina|1974|2010|end=her death}} | children = Alexander Messerer | parents = Asaf Messerer (father)<br/>Anel Sudakevich (mother) | relatives = Rachel Messerer (aunt)<br/>Sulamith Messerer (aunt)<br/>Maya Plisetskaya (cousin)<br/>Alexander Plisetski (cousin)<br/>Azari Plisetski (cousin) }}
'''Boris Asafovich Messerer''' ({{langx|ru|Бори́с Аса́фович Мессере́р}}; born March 15, 1933, in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian theater artist,<ref>[https://www.cultu.ru/event/therestissilence/messerer/ Культу. Ru!<!-- Заголовок добавлен ботом -->]</ref> set designer and teacher. President of the association of artists of theater, cinema and television in Moscow.
Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (1997, Corresponding Member of 1990). People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1993). Winner of two State Prizes of the Russian Federation (1995, 2002). Member of the USSR Union of Artists in 1960, Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation and Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.<ref>[http://www.peoples.ru/art/painter/boris_messerer/ Борис Мессерер. Биография]</ref> In 2016 he became a member of the Board of Trustees Fazil Iskander International Literary Award<ref name="bb-jury">{{Cite web |url = https://penrus.ru/2022/04/05/polozhenie-o-mezhdunarodnoj-premii-imeni-fazilya-iskandera/ |title = Jury |language=ru |script-title = ru:Жюри |trans-title = Jury |date = 5 April 2022 |website = Fazil Iskander International Literary Award (Iskander Prize) |access-date = April 5, 2022 }}</ref>
== Family == He was born to ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer Asaf Messerer and silent film actress Anel Sudakevich. The ballerina Sulamith Messerer and the actress Rachel Messerer were his paternal aunts and the actor Azari Azarin his paternal uncle. Through his aunt Rachel he was cousin to Maya Plisetskaya, Alexander Plisetski and Azari Plisetski.
He was married twice. From his first wife, Nina Chistova, he had his only child, Alexander Messerer. His son is a painter and has seven children. His second wife was poet and translator Bella Akhmadulina. They were married from 1974 to her death in 2010. Boris was her fourth husband.
== Awards== * 1995 — State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of fine art * 2001 — Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts *2002 — State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of design * 2003 — Order of Honour * 2008 — Crystal Turandot<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jewish.ru/news/culture/2008/06/news994264226.php |title=Борис Мессерер получит "Хрустальную Турандот" за честь и достоинство<!-- Заголовок добавлен ботом --> |access-date=2016-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903063145/http://www.jewish.ru/news/culture/2008/06/news994264226.php |archive-date=2014-09-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 2008 — Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 4th class <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jewish.ru/news/cis/2008/11/news994268712.php |title=Театральный художник Борис Мессерер получил орден<!-- Заголовок добавлен ботом --> |access-date=2016-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903063004/http://www.jewish.ru/news/cis/2008/11/news994268712.php |archive-date=2014-09-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.gazeta.ru/news/culture/2008/11/14/n_1295857.shtml Художник Борис Мессерер награждён орденом | Газета. Ru: Новости<!-- Заголовок добавлен ботом -->]</ref> * 2013 — Order of Friendship
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==External links== * [http://www.rah.ru/the_academy_today/the_members_of_the_academie/member.php?ID=17448 Страница на сайте РАХ] * [http://rutube.ru/tracks/5697269.html ТВ-интервью 2009 года] {{Authority control}}
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