{{family name hatnote|Natanovna|Solovyova|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Infobox person | name = Inna Solovyova | native_name = Инна Соловьёва | native_name_lang = ru | other_names = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|11|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | death_date = {{Death date and age|2024|05|29|1927|11|16|df=y}} | death_place = Moscow, Russia | occupation = {{Plainlist| * Theatre critic * Film critic * Scholar }} | years_active = 1954–2024 | awards = {{Plainlist| * Order of Friendship * Order of Honour * State Prize of the Russian Federation * Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" * Golden Mask * Order of Alexander Nevsky }} }} '''Inna Natanovna Solovyova''' ({{Langx|ru|'''Инна Натановна Соловьёва'''}}; {{Nee|'''Bazilevskaya'''}}; 16 November 1927 – 29 May 2024) was a Russian theatre and film critic and scholar. She wrote for the magazines ''{{ill|Teatr.|hy|Տեատր (ամսագիր)|ru|Театр (журнал)}}'' and ''Novy Mir'' as well as the newspaper ''Kultura''. Solovyova taught a theatre criticism workshop at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts and taught the history of Russian theatre at the Moscow Art Theatre School. She was the author of books on cinema and theatre. Solovyova was a recipient of the Order of Friendship, the Order of Honour, the State Prize of the Russian Federation, the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", the Golden Mask and the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
== Early life == Solovyova was born in Moscow on 16 November 1927.<ref name="GREEntry2">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Соловьёва Инна Натановна |encyclopedia=Great Russian Encyclopedia |url=https://old.bigenc.ru/theatre_and_cinema/text/v/3634790 |access-date=10 January 2026 |language=ru |trans-title=Soloviova Inna Natanovna}}</ref><ref name="MoscowWritersEntry">{{cite book |url=https://imwerden.de/pdf/pisateli_moskvy_biobibliografichesky_spravochnik_1987__ocr.pdf |title=Writers of Moscow: A Biographical Directory |publisher={{ill|Moskovskii rabochii|ru|Московский рабочий}} |year=1987 |editor1-last=Ionov |editor1-first=E. P. |location=Moscow, Russia |page=436 |language=ru |chapter=Соловьeва Инна Натановна |access-date=10 January 2026 |editor2-last=Kolov |editor2-first=Sergey Petrovich |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Her father was the Soviet playwright {{Interlanguage link|Natan Bazilevsky-Blumkin|ru|Базилевский-Блюмкин, Натан Григорьевич}}.<ref name="MKObit">{{cite news |last=Khokhryakova |first=Svetlana |date=30 May 2024 |title=Умерла Инна Соловьева: выпустила десятки книг, посвященных Станиславскому и Немировичу-Данченко, истории МХТ |trans-title=Inna Solovieva has died: she published dozens of books dedicated to Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, and the history of the Moscow Art Theatre |url=https://www.mk.ru/culture/2024/05/30/umerla-inna-soloveva-vypustila-desyatki-knig-posvyashhennykh-stanislavskomu-i-nemirovichu-danchenko-istorii-mkht.html |access-date=10 January 2026 |work=Moskovskij Komsomolets |language=ru}}</ref> In 1949,<ref name="GREEntry2" /><ref name="MoscowWritersEntry" /> Solovyova graduated the theatre studies department and postgraduate programme under the tutelage of the theatre critic Pavel Markov at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS).<ref name="MKObit" /><ref name="KrugosvetEntry">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Solovyova Inna Natanovna |encyclopedia=Krugosvet |url=https://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/kultura_i_obrazovanie/teatr_i_kino/SOLOVEVA_INNA_NATANOVNA.html |access-date=10 January 2026 |language=ru |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250615185816/https://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/kultura_i_obrazovanie/teatr_i_kino/SOLOVEVA_INNA_NATANOVNA.html |archive-date=15 June 2025}}</ref> She defended her defended her dissertation on ''The Moscow Art Theatr''''e'' ''in the Period of Preparation for the 1905 Revolution'' in 1952,<ref name="MKObit" /><ref name="RG2024">{{cite news |last=Shvydkoy |first=Mikhail |date=4 June 2024 |title=Инна Соловьева всегда высоко чтила миссию основателей Художественного театра |trans-title=Inna Solovieva always held the mission of the founders of the Art Theatre in high regard |url=https://rg.ru/2024/06/04/posledniaia-iz-mogikan.html |access-date=10 January 2026 |work=Rossiyskaya Gazeta |language=ru}}</ref> a subject she was interested in since her youth.<ref name="KommersantObit">{{cite news |date=30 May 2024 |title=Человек-институция |trans-title=Man-institution |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6731072 |access-date=10 January 2026 |work=Kommersant |language=ru}}</ref>
== Career == Starting in 1954, Solovyova was a member of the circle of young critics who gathered to write for the magazine ''{{ill|Teatr.|hy|Տեատր (ամսագիր)|ru|Театр (журнал)}}'', the newspaper ''Kultura'' as well as the magazine ''Novy Mir''.<ref name="MKObit" /><ref name="MATSEntry">{{cite web |title=Инна Соловьева (Базилевская) |trans-title=Inna Solovieva (Bazilevskaya) |url=http://mhatschool.theatre.ru/people/research/Soloviova/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017103420/http://mhatschool.theatre.ru/people/research/Soloviova/ |archive-date=17 October 2007 |access-date=10 January 2026 |publisher=Moscow Art Theatre School |language=ru}}</ref> In 1967, she joined the Moscow Art Theatre School Studio's Commission for the Study and Publication of the Legacy of Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, which later became, through her efforts, a research department of the school in 2008,<ref name="GREEntry2" /><ref name="TheatreMagazine">{{cite web |last=Ermolova |first=Anastasia |date=29 May 2024 |title=Ушла из жизни Инна Соловьёва |trans-title=Inna Solovieva has passed away |url=https://oteatre.info/ushla-iz-zhizni-inna-solovyova/ |access-date=10 January 2026 |work={{ill|Teatr.|hy|Տեատր (ամսագիր)|ru|Театр (журнал)}} |language=ru}}</ref> researching and analysing the Moscow Art Theater.<ref name="TheatreMagazine" /> From 1982 to 2001, she taught a theatre criticism workshop at GITIS and was appointed head of the research sector of the Moscow Art Theatre School in 2000,<ref name="KrugosvetEntry" /> teaching the history of Russian theatre.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Markov |first=Philip |date=30 May 2024 |title=Легенда театроведения. Ушла из жизни Инна Соловьёва |trans-title=A legend of theater studies, Inna Solovieva has passed away |url=https://babr24.com/msk/?lDE=260592 |access-date=10 January 2026 |publisher=Babr24 |language=ru}}</ref> She administered examinations to graduate students, attended dissertation defences and was a lecturer.<ref name="MKObit" /> According to ''The Economist'', Solovyova would spend around 10 to 12 hours per day, almost uninterrupted, until she had completed her task.<ref name="EconomistObit">{{cite news |date=8 August 2024 |title=Inna Solovyova studied both stagecraft and the Russian soul |url=https://www.economist.com/obituary/2024/08/08/inna-solovyova-studied-both-stagecraft-and-the-russian-soul |access-date=10 January 2026 |work=The Economist}}</ref> Some of Solovyova's most notable students include the critics {{Interlanguage link|Marina Davidova|de|Marina Jurjewna Dawydowa|hy|Մարինա Դավիդովա|ru|Давыдова, Марина Юрьевна|uk|Давидова Марина Юріївна}}, {{Interlanguage link|Dina Goder|ru|Годер, Дина Натановна}} and {{Interlanguage link|Gleb Sitkovsky|ru|Ситковский, Глеб Семёнович}}.<ref name="MATSEntry" /><ref name="TheatreMagazine" />
She was the author of eight books on cinema and theatre.<ref name="KrugosvetEntry" /> These include ''Cinema of Italy'' (1945–1960), ''Essays'' in 1961, a collection of articles known as ''The Performance is on Today'' in 1966;<ref name="RG2024" /> ''Jean Gabin'' (with {{Interlanguage link|Vera Shitova|ru|Шитова, Вера Васильевна}}) about the French actor Jean Gabin in 1967; ''Nemirovich-Danchenko'' in 1979, ''Fourteen Sessions'' (with V. Shitova) in 1981, ''K.S. Stanislavsky'' (with V. Shitova) in 1985, and ''Branches and Roots'' in 1998.<ref name="MKObit" /><ref name="KrugosvetEntry" /> Under her editorship, with her prefaces, Stanislavsky's director's manuscripts were included in the six-volume edition ''Director's Copies'' and published between 1980 and 1994; the six-volume edition ''of K.S. Stanislavsky's Director's Copies'' as well as ''the Director's Copies of Uncle Vanya'' were published.<ref name="GREEntry2" /><ref name="KrugosvetEntry" /> She also wrote volumes 1 to 2 of ''Moscow Art Theatre. 100 Years'' with {{Interlanguage link|Anatoly Mironovich Smelyansky|ru|Смелянский, Анатолий Миронович}} and Olga Egoshina in 1998 in which she authored around 200 articles for the book, ''Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. Creative Legacy'' volumes 1 to 4 in 2004, volumes 1 to 2 of ''Letters from O. Bokshanskaya to Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko'' in 2005, ''The Second Moscow Art Theatre. An Attempt to Reconstruct a Biography'' in 2010.<ref name="GREEntry2" /><ref name="KrugosvetEntry" /> She wrote the book ''The First Studio – The Second Moscow Art Theatre'' in 2016.<ref name="MCATEntry">{{cite web |title=Inna Natanovna Solovieva (Bazilevskaya) |trans-title=Инна Натановна Соловьева (Базилевская) |url=https://mxat.ru/o-teatre/imena/persona/Soloviova/ |access-date=10 January 2026 |publisher=Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre |language=ru}}</ref>
Solovyova became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1960.<ref name="MoscowWritersEntry" />
== Personal life == She died in Moscow on 29 May 2024.<ref name="EconomistObit" /><ref name="MCATEntry" /> Solovyova's farewell ceremony took place on 3 June at the Moscow Art Theatre and the urn with her ashes was buried in the columbarium of the Donskoye Cemetery.<ref name="RG2024" />
== Awards == She was made a Laureate of the USSR Writers' Union Prize in 1969,<ref name="MoscowWritersEntry" /> and was named an {{Interlanguage link|Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation|et|Venemaa Föderatsiooni teeneline kunstitegelane|hy|Ռուսաստանի Դաշնության արվեստի վաստակավոր գործիչ|io|Estimata aganto pri arti di Rusa Federuro|pl|Zasłużony Działacz Sztuk Federacji Rosyjskiej|ru|Заслуженный деятель искусств Российской Федерации|uk|Заслужений діяч мистецтв Росії|zh|俄罗斯联邦功勋艺术工作者}} on 23 November 1993 "for services in the field of art''".''<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 November 1993 |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 23.11.1993 г. № 1994 |trans-title=Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 23, 1993, No. 1994 |url=http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/4886 |access-date=10 January 2026 |publisher=Kremlin.ru |language=ru}}</ref> Solovyoba was a recipient of the Order of Friendship on 23 October 1998 "for many years of fruitful work in the field of theatrical arts and in connection with the 100th anniversary of the Moscow Art Academic Theatre".<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 October 1998 |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 23.10.1998 г. № 1300 |trans-title=Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 23, 1998 No. 1300 |url=http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/13063 |access-date=10 January 2026 |publisher=Kremlin.ru |language=ru}}</ref> She was awarded the Order of Honour on 22 February 2003 "for many years of fruitful work in the field of culture and art".<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 February 2003 |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 22.02.2003 г. № 236 |trans-title=Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 22, 2003, No. 236 |url=http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/19225 |access-date=10 January 2026 |publisher=Kremlin.ru |language=ru}}</ref>
Solovyoba received the State Prize of the Russian Federation on 12 June 2004 "for long-term scientific research and publication of the creative legacy of the founders of the Moscow Art Theatre.",<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 June 2004 |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 12.06.2004 г. № 766 |trans-title=Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 12, 2004, No. 766 |url=http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/21015 |access-date=10 January 2026 |publisher=Kremlin.ru |language=ru}}</ref> and the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th degree on 4 June 2008 "for a major contribution to the development of domestic and world theatrical art and many years of fruitful scientific and pedagogical activity."<ref name="MCATEntry" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=4 June 2009 |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 04.06.2008 г. № 893 |trans-title=Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 4, 2008, No. 893 |url=http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/27574 |access-date=10 January 2026 |publisher=Kremlin.ru |language=ru}}</ref> She was named the winner of the Golden Mask in the "Honour and Dignity" category in 2009.<ref name=":0" /> Solovyoba received the Order of Alexander Nevsky on 29 June 2018 "for a significant contribution to the development of Russian culture and art, mass media, and many years of fruitful activity."<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 June 2018 |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 29 июня 2018 года № 377 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации» |trans-title=Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 29, 2018 No. 377 "On awarding state awards of the Russian Federation" |url=http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/43251/page/3 |access-date=10 January 2026 |publisher=Kremlin.ru |language=ru}}</ref>
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