{{Short description|Soviet playwright (1932–2010)}} {{Infobox person | name = Mikhail Shatrov | image = | caption = | birth_name = Mikhail Marshak | birth_date = April 3, 1932 | birth_place = Moscow, Soviet Union | death_date = May 24, 2010 | death_place = Moscow, Russia | resting_place = Troyekurovskoye Cemetery | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma_mater = Moscow State Mining University | employer = | occupation = Playwright | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | political_party = | boards = | spouse = | children = | relatives = Alexei Rykov <small>(uncle-in-law)</small><br/>Samuil Marshak <small>(cousin)</small> }} '''Mikhail Filippovich Shatrov''' (1932–2010) was a Soviet playwright.<ref name="nytimesmikhailoutspoken">{{cite news|last1=Grimes|first1=William|title=Mikhail Shatrov, Outspoken Soviet Playwright, Dies at 78|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/theater/27shatrov.html?_r=0|accessdate=May 9, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=May 26, 2010}}</ref><ref name="independentplaywrightwhose">{{cite news|last1=Riley|first1=John|title=Mikhail Shatrov: Playwright whose work asserted that Stalinism was a deviation from Leninism|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mikhail-shatrov-playwright-whose-work-asserted-that-stalinism-was-a-deviation-from-leninism-2061054.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220514/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mikhail-shatrov-playwright-whose-work-asserted-that-stalinism-was-a-deviation-from-leninism-2061054.html |archive-date=2022-05-14 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|accessdate=May 9, 2016|work=The Independent|date=August 24, 2010}}</ref> In 1958 he was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers. Member of the CPSU since 1961. In a series of historical plays, he shook up the genre of Leniniana. (Faina Ranevskaya sarcastically remarked: "Shatrov - this is the Krupskaya of our days".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6JwUAgAAQBAJ&q=%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5+%D1%8D%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE+%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%2C+%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE+%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%83+%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE+%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%BA&pg=PA51|title = Фаина Раневская. Клочки воспоминаний|isbn = 9785386061784|last1 = Андреев|first1 = Иван|year = 2013}}</ref>)
His plays are often based on historical events. "The Bolsheviks" is based on the true story of Fanny Kaplan's attempt to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Bolsheviks and Other Plays|isbn = 1854590367|last1 = Shatrov|first1 = Mikhail|year = 1990}}</ref> The play "The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk" was initially banned by the regime in the USSR due to its depiction of Lenin and was approved for publication only in 1987, 25 years after it was written.<ref name="chicagotribune2bolsheviks">{{cite news|title=2 Bolsheviks Find Roles in Play|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-05-21-8702070804-story.html|accessdate=October 3, 2021|work=Chicago Tribune|date=May 21, 1987}}</ref> In 1988 an all-Russian cast toured Europe performing "The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk"; in 1990 the company toured in the US as well.<ref name="latimesbannedplay">{{cite news|title=Once-Banned Soviet Play to Open in Chicago|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-04-13-ca-1499-story.html|accessdate=October 3, 2021|newspaper=LA Times|date=April 13, 1990}}</ref>
Mikhail Shatrov died in Moscow at the 79th year of his life from a heart attack in his apartment in the House on the Embankment. He was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.
The 1968 Soviet film ''The Sixth of July'' is based on Shatrov's play with the same name.
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