With creativity Eugene Grishkovtsa familiar to many. Those who are not familiar with the work, know who Grishkovets. Those who do not know, at least heard of Eugene Grishkovtsa. Those who have not heard ... No, no one who has not at least heard of Eugene Grishkovtsa. Actor, director, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, until recently an active Internet activist - since the late nineties Grishkovets became a prominent figure in the Russian cultural and okolokulturnoy environment.

The service in the Navy did come in handy ...

Yevgeni Grishkovetz born February 17, 1967 in the city of Kemerovo, in the family while still a student, and later researchers. Childhood and adolescence spent Grishkovets in Kemerovo, where he graduated in 1984 from high school and enrolled in college. Selection of Evgeny philological faculty of Kemerovo State University may seem a bit strange (after all, young men usually choose other departments than filfak), but by that time he already had a certain interest in belles lettres. And by the time Eugene had, in his own words, ill theater - in his case it was a pantomime theater. By some coincidence grader Eugene Grishkovets hit the city of Tomsk in the representation of the local theater mime, and decided that's what he wanted to do in the future.

Meanwhile, on the way to implement his dreams got hard reality - in 1985, after the first year, and on reaching the age of eighteen Grishkovets went to serve for military conscription. Call that brought him to the Pacific Fleet, where he spent the next three years of life. It should be noted that this naval impressions and memories became the basis for the fateful play Grishkovtsa "How I ate a dog." After demobilization he returned to Grishkovets Kemerovo University, and from 1988 to 1990 he studied at the same time the student engaged in pantomime studio.

Time was perestroika, in the air of freedom, the world seemed open to the achievements and exploits - and Eugene felt it was time to conquer this very world. In 1990, he came at the invitation of friends in East Germany, and from there he moved to West Germany (after the fall of the Berlin Wall in late 1989, this division has been suspended) and managed the local branch of the Red Cross to get even the status almost of a political refugee. However, a few days washing dishes in the factory canteen and living in a hostel Grishkovets enough to understand that the West - is not that a fabulous place, what he saw because of the "Iron Curtain", and it's time to go home.

When there is something to say, the scene can become a smoking room

By the time of his return from Germany in 1990, Eugene Grishkovets was still half-educated student of philological faculty of the University of Kemerovo (by the way, he managed to finish filfak only in 1994). However, the dream of pantomime theater did not disappear, on the contrary, has become even stronger. So strong, that Eugene has decided not to postpone it indefinitely, and in the same 1990, he founded his own theater in Kemerovo od pantomime called "The Lodge". In the next seven years, until 1998, the theater was delivered ten performances and, by the way, here Grishkovets met his future wife Helen. By 1998, however, he realized that the prospects for Pantomime Theatre in Kemerovo no, and at most he hopes for some development in his hometown little more. It's time for a change, I decided to Eugene.

First, he and his family moved to Kaliningrad (as would later say in an interview, the city seemed to him the most comfortable life emotionally), and then went hiking in the Moscow theater to show the play-a play of his own composition and execution, "How I ate a dog. " Grishkovtsa momentous was the visit to the Theatre of the Russian Army in November 1998: there, in the smoking room, only to viewers seventeen he first played in the capital, "How I Ate a Dog" - and from that moment his life changed.

After a few months the press and experts in unison called it a major theatrical phenomenon of Russia in recent years, and for the audience Evgeny Grishkovets was largely a pioneer of a new genre of literature and drama .  In many ways, plays and books Grishkovtsa became a model for the flow of the literary intelligentsia of Internet activity, which swept in two thousandth ðóíåò: its motifs nostalgia, soft melancholy, a certain confessional and appeal to the same feelings and recollections of its viewers, listeners, readers .  Over the past ten years Evgeny Grishkovets, if not become a modern Russian version of Leonardo da Vinci, it is a good idea to close the great Italian Eugene continued to write plays, put them as a director and to perform in their roles; He began acting in movies; He began to publish books; He began recording music albums as a singer in collaboration with the group "Curler" .  

Currently Eugene Grishkovets living in Kaliningrad (by his own admission, at one time thought of buying an apartment in Moscow, but did not grow together) with his wife Helen and three children: son Alexander (born in 2004) and daughters Natalia (born in 1995) and Maria (2010 year of birth).

Alexander Babitsky

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