{{Short description|Russian writer, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2010)}} {{family name hatnote|Mikhailovich|Roshchin|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | image = Mikhail Roshchin.jpg | imagesize = 230px | caption = | birth_name = Mikhail Mikhailovich Gibelman | birth_date = {{birth date|1933|2|10|df=y}} | birth_place = Kazan | death_date = {{death date and age|2010|10|1|1933|2|10|df=y}} | death_place = Moscow | awards = Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage }}
'''Mikhail Mikhailovich Roshchin''' ({{langx|ru|Михаи́л Миха́йлович Ро́щин}}; 10 February 1933 – 1 October 2010) was a Russian playwright, screenwriter and short story writer.
==Biography== He was born to Mikhail Gibelman (born 1908) and Klavdiya Efimova-Tyurkina (born 1911), Roshchin spent his early childhood in Sevastopol.<ref name="CDR">{{cite web|url=http://www.cdr.theatre.ru/staff/mroschin/|script-title=ru:Михаил Рощин|publisher=CDR Theatre|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101005041503/http://www.cdr.theatre.ru/staff/mroschin/|access-date=May 27, 2010|archive-date=2010-10-05|language=Russian}}</ref> In 1943, during World War II, the family moved to Moscow.
After finishing school, Roshchin worked as a miner at fort rose, and attended night classes at the Moscow State Lenin Pedagogical Institute. In 1952, he published his first story in the Moscow daily newspaper, ''Moskovsky Komsomolets''.<ref name="CDR"/> In 1953, he entered the Literary Institute and worked as a journalist of the regional newspaper, ''Kamyshin'' in the city of Volga.<ref name="CDR"/> Whilst there, in 1956 he wrote his first collection of his short stories ''In a Small Town'', published in 1957.<ref name="CDR"/>
In 1963, Roshchin wrote the play ''The Seventh feat of Hercules'', which due to censorship was not fully published until 1988.<ref name="CDR"/> In 1968, he wrote the children's play, ''Rainbow in the Winter'', a play with was put on at the Leningrad Youth Theatre under Zinovy Karagodsky.<ref name="CDR"/> His most successful play, ''Valentin and Valentina'' was written in 1971 and performed the same year at Moscow's Sovremennik Theatre, directed by Valery Fokin.<ref>{{cite book|author=Skatov, Nikolai|title=Russian Literature 20th century (Volume 3: writers, poets, playwrights)|publisher=Olma Media Group|year=2005|page=227|language=Russian}}</ref><ref>Russian Literature Triquarterly, Issue 6 (1973), Ardis, p.666</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Комиссаржевский, Виктор Григорьевич |script-title=ru:Ныне модерн Совыет плайс|title=Прогресс Совыет аутхорс либрарий|publisher=Progress|year=1977|page=377|language=Russian}}</ref> It was also performed at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre in 1976 under the helm of Georgi Tovstonogov and by several other notable directors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mironov-theatre.ru/show/chayka/sandro-lena.html|script-title=ru:«ЧАЙКА» Последняя «Чайка» Александра Товстоногов|publisher=Mirinov Theatre|language=Russian|access-date=May 27, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091107135144/http://www.mironov-theatre.ru/show/chayka/sandro-lena.html|archive-date=November 7, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Kaiser, Robert G.|title=Russia: The People and the Power|publisher=Washington Square Press|year=1984|isbn=0-671-50324-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/russiapeoplet00kais/page/41 41]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/russiapeoplet00kais/page/41}}</ref> In 1985, it was made into a film, directed by Georgy Natanson, which Roshchin also adapted the script for. His 1975 play ''Echelon'' was staged at the Moscow Theatre, directed by Galina Volchek.
In the 1980s, Roshchin was occupied with writing scripts for films. These include ''Old New Year'' (1980), ''Valentin and Valentina'' (1985) (film adaptation), ''Shura i Prosvirnyak'' (1987) and ''The New Adventures of Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' (1988). ''New Adventures of Yankee in King Arthur's Court'', an adventure comedy, was directed by Viktor Gres under the Dovzhenko Film Studio banner and was based on American author Mark Twain's ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fandom.rusf.ru/about_fan/revich_19.htm|author=Revich, Vsevolod |script-title=ru: О фильме "Новые приключения янки при дворе короля Артура"|publisher=Sov. Culture|date=June 8, 1989|access-date=May 27, 2010|language=Russian}}</ref>
From 1993 to 1998, along with Aleksei Kazantsev, Roshchin published the magazine ''Playwright''.<ref name="CDR"/> From 1998 on until his death Roshchin served as the Chairman of the Board of Creative Playwrights and Directors and in 2007 he was elected Chairman of the Arts Council of the Centre.<ref name="CDR"/> Roshchin was a recipient of the Stanislavsky Prize of Moscow.<ref name="CDR"/>
Roshchin was married fours times, to dramatist Tatiana Butrova, journalist Natalia Lavrentieva,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adetech.org/kuchkina/roschin/new_page_4.htm|title= We did not have Private Life|publisher=Adetech.org|access-date=May 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040123194825/http://www.adetech.org/kuchkina/roschin/new_page_4.htm|archive-date=January 23, 2004|url-status=dead}}</ref> and actresses Lidiya Savchenko, and Yekaterina Vasilyeva.<ref>{{cite news|author=Letopistseva, Alevtina.|script-title=ru:Тайны династии |publisher=Moskovsky Komsomolets|date=June 1, 2007|language=Russian}}</ref> He has four children; Tatiana (born 1956), Natalia (born 1966), Dmitry (born 1973) and Aleksei (born 1985).
==Works== ===English translations=== * ''Twenty Minutes or So'', (story), from ''Anthology of Soviet Short Stories, Vol 2'', Progress Publishers, 1976. * ''The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti'', (story), from ''The New Soviet Fiction'', Abbeville Press, 1989. * ''First Love'', (novel), Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1991.
===Plays=== * ''Seventh Feat Hercules'' (1963) * ''Militia'' (1965) * ''Rainbow Winter'' (1968) * ''Valentin and Valentina'' (1971) * ''Echelon'' (1975)
===Screen=== * ''I Love'' (1973) * ''Old New Year'' (1980) * ''Valentin and Valentina'' (1985) * ''Shura i Prosvirnyak'' (1987) * ''The New Adventures of Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' (1988) * ''Fatal Error'' (1990)
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