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Nikolay Robertovich Erdman
Николай Эрдман
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16 November 1900 - 10 August 1970
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Soviet playwright, poet, screenwriter Nikolai Robertovich Erdman was born on November 16, 1900 in Moscow in the family of a Russified German. After graduating from real school in 1919, he continued to write poems that saw paper in his youth. And publications have been published since 1922.
Fame brought Nikolai Erdman his satirical play “The Mandate” (1925), staged by the famous Vsevolod Meyerhold. The second play - "Suicide" (1928) - was banned for production on the stage, but did not reduce the
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Soviet playwright, poet, screenwriter Nikolai Robertovich Erdman was born on November 16, 1900 in Moscow in the family of a Russified German. After graduating from real school in 1919, he continued to write poems that saw paper in his youth. And publications have been published since 1922.
Fame brought Nikolai Erdman his satirical play “The Mandate” (1925), staged by the famous Vsevolod Meyerhold. The second play - "Suicide" (1928) - was banned for production on the stage, but did not reduce the popularity of Nikolai Robertovich.
In 1927 he began to work as a screenwriter, and in 1928 he met A. O. Stepanova, with whom he was associated with a long and difficult relationship. In 1933, for politically sharp poems and parody Erdman together with V. Z. Mass was arrested and exiled first to Yeniseysk, and later to Tomsk. All this time, the writer conducted correspondence with Stepanova. In 1936, Nikolai Robertovich was released, but Stepanova connected her life with the writer Alexander Fadeev. Despite the pain, Erdman continued to work. Among his well-known pre-war works are the scripts for the popular musical comedies of Grigory Alexandrov “Merry Guys” (1934) and “Volga-Volga” (1938).
In 1942, Erdman worked in the NKVD song and dance ensemble, where he served as a screenwriter until 1948, and after a long time wrote scripts for films and worked in the Moscow theater on Taganka. In 1951, Nikolai Erdman was awarded the State Prize for the script for the film directed by Konstantin Yudin “Bold People” (1950). Among his works can be noted scripts for such films as "Outpost in the mountains", "Swedish Match", "Stories of Lenin", "Fire, water ... and copper pipes", cartoons "The Snow Queen", "Cat House", "Thumbelina", "Traveler Frog". In 1970, Nicola Erdman died. A talented screenwriter was buried at the new Donskoy cemetery in Moscow. /