Years of Petrushevskaya's life. Russian writer Lyudmila Petrushevskaya: biography, personal life, creativity
Petrushevskaya Lyudmila Stefanovna - prose writer, playwright, poet, screenwriter, author of watercolors and monotypes, artist and director of eight of her own animated films("Studio manual labor"), composer and singer, creator of the traveling theater "Cabaret of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya".
She was born on May 26, 1938 in Moscow into a family of IFLI (Institute of Philosophy, Literature, History) students. Granddaughter of the linguist, professor of oriental studies N. F. Yakovlev. Mother, Valentina Nikolaevna Yakovleva, later worked as an editor, father, Stefan Antonovich Petrushevsky, whom L.S. I almost didn’t know, I became a Doctor of Philosophy.
L.S., whose family was subjected to repression (three were shot), experienced severe famine during the war, lived with relatives who were not given work (as family members of enemies of the people), and also, after the war, in an orphanage for disabled children and tuberculosis survivors of famine near Ufa. She graduated from school in Moscow with a silver medal and received a diploma from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University.
She started writing early, published notes in newspapers (Moskovsky Komsomolets, 1957, Mosk. Pravda, 1958, Krokodil magazine 1960, Nedelya newspaper, 1961), worked as a correspondent All-Union Radio and Krugozor magazine. She wrote her first story in 1968 (“Such a Girl,” published 20 years later in the magazine “Ogonyok”), and from that moment on she wrote mainly prose. I sent stories to various magazines, they were returned, only the Leningrad Aurora responded. The first works published there were the stories "The Story of Clarissa" and "The Storyteller", which appeared in 1972 in the magazine "Aurora" and caused sharp criticism in " Literary newspaper" In 1974, the story “Nets and Traps” was published there, then “Across the Fields”. In total, by 1988, only seven stories, one children's play ("Two Windows") and several fairy tales had been published. Having joined the Writers' Union in 1977, L.P. earned money by translating from Polish and articles in magazines. In 1988, she sent a letter to Gorbachev, the letter was sent to the Writers' Union for a response. And the secretary of the Writers' Union, Ilyin, helped with the publication of the first book (Immortal Love, 1988, Moskovsky Rabochiy publishing house, circulation thirty thousand).
The play “Music Lessons” was staged by Roman Viktyuk in 1979 in Student theater Moscow State University, after 6 performances it was banned, then the theater moved to the Moskvorechye House of Culture, and Lessons was banned again in the spring of 1980 (the play was published in 1983 in periodical, in the brochure “To help amateur performances", with a circulation of 60 thousand copies).
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is the author of many prose works and plays, books for children. She also wrote scripts for the animated films “Lamzi-Tyri-Bondi, evil wizard"(1976), "All the Dumb" (1976), "The Stolen Sun" (1978), "Tale of Tales" (1979, jointly with Yu. Norshtein), "The Cat Who Could Sing" (1988), "Hare's Tail ", "There are only tears from you", "Peter the Pig" and the first part of the film "The Overcoat" (co-authored with Yu. Norshtein).
Petrushevskaya's stories and plays have been translated into many languages of the world, her dramatic works staged in Russia and abroad.
Laureate International Prize“Alexandr Puschkin” (1991, Hamburg), State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art (2002), Independent Prize “Triumph” (2002), Bunin Prize, Stanislavsky Theater Prize, World Fantasy Award for the collection “ Once upon a time there lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor’s child”, the humorous prize “Maly Zolotoy Ostap” for the collection “Wild Animal Tales”, etc.
Academician of the Bavarian Academy of Arts.
In 1991, from February to August, she was under investigation for insulting President M.S. Gorbachev. The reason was a letter to Lithuania after the entry into Vilnius Soviet tanks, reprinted in Vilnius and translated in the Yaroslavl newspaper “Northern Bee”. The case was closed due to the resignation of the president.
IN last years her books are published - prose, poetry, drama, fairy tales, journalism, more than 10 children's books have been published, performances are staged - “He is in Argentina” at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, plays “Love”, “Cinzano” and “Smirnova’s Birthday” in Moscow and in different cities Russia, graphic exhibitions are held (in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, in Literary Museum, in the Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg, in private galleries in Moscow and Yekaterinburg). L. Petrushevskaya speaks with concert programs under the name “Cabaret of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya” in Moscow, throughout Russia, abroad - in London, Paris, New York, Budapest, Pula, Rio de Janeiro, where he performs hits of the twentieth century in his translation, as well as songs of his own composition .
Started selling her watercolors and monotypes - via the Internet - for the benefit of orphanage for disabled teenagers in Porkhov near Pskov. Sick children live there, whom the PROBO Rostock Charitable Society saved from staying in an old age home for mentally disabled people, where they are sent at the age of 15 after orphanages - for life. The children are taught by teachers, they get used to independence, grow vegetables, do handicrafts, housework, etc. Now is a difficult time, they need help.
Contemporary Russian literature
Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya
Biography
PETRUSHEVSKAYA, LYUDMILA STEFANOVNA (b. 1938), Russian writer. Born on May 26, 1938 in Moscow. She graduated from Moscow State University and worked as a television editor. In the mid-1960s, she began writing stories, the first of which, The Story of Clarissa, was published in 1972. The play Music Lessons (1973) was first staged by director R. Viktyuk at the Moscow State University Student Theater. The first production on the professional stage was the play Love (1974) at the Taganka Theater (directed by Yu. Lyubimov).
The action of Petrushevskaya’s plays takes place in ordinary, easily recognizable circumstances: in a country house (Three Girls in Blue, 1980), on a staircase landing (Staircase, 1974), etc. The personalities of the heroines are revealed during the exhausting struggle for existence that they wage in harsh life situations. Petrushevskaya makes visible the absurdity of everyday life, and this determines the ambiguity of the characters of her characters. In this sense, thematically related plays by Cinzano (1973) and Smirnova’s Birthday (1977), as well as the play Music Lessons, are especially indicative. At the end of Music Lessons, the characters are completely transformed into their antipodes: the romantically in love Nikolai turns out to be a cynic, the broken Nadya turns out to be a woman capable of deep feeling, the good-natured Kozlovs turn out to be primitive and cruel people. The dialogues in most of Petrushevskaya’s plays are structured in such a way that each subsequent remark often changes the meaning of the previous one. According to the critic M. Turovskaya, “modern everyday speech... is condensed in her to the level of a literary phenomenon. Vocabulary makes it possible to look into a character’s biography, determine his social affiliation and personality.” One of the most famous plays Petrushevskaya - Three girls in blue. Inner wealth of its main characters, warring relatives, is that they are able to live in spite of circumstances, at the behest of their hearts. Petrushevskaya shows in her works how any life situation can turn into its own opposite. Therefore, surreal elements appear natural, breaking through the realistic dramatic fabric. This happens in the one-act play Andante (1975), which tells about the painful coexistence of the wife and mistress of a diplomat. The names of the heroines - Buldi and Au - are as absurd as their monologues. In the play Columbine's Apartment (1981), surrealism is a plot-forming principle. Literary critic R. Timenchik believes that Petrushevskaya’s plays contain a prosaic element, which turns them into “a novel written in conversations.” Petrushevskaya's prose is as phantasmagorical and at the same time realistic as her drama. The author's language is devoid of metaphors, sometimes dry and confusing. Petrushevskaya’s stories are characterized by “novelistic surprise” (I. Borisova). Thus, in the story Immortal Love (1988), the writer describes in detail the story of the heroine’s difficult life, giving the reader the impression that she considers her main task to be the description of everyday situations. But unexpected and Noble act Albert, the main character's husband, gives the ending this "simple life history"parable character. Petrushevskaya’s characters behave in accordance with the cruel life circumstances in which they are forced to live. For example, main character story "Your Circle" (1988) abandons her only son: she knows about her incurable disease and tries with a heartless act to force ex-husband take care of the child. However, none of Petrushevskaya’s heroes is subjected to complete author’s condemnation. The basis of this attitude towards the characters is the writer’s inherent “democracy... as ethics, and aesthetics, and a way of thinking, and a type of beauty” (Borisova). Striving to create a diverse picture modern life, a complete image of Russia, Petrushevskaya turns not only to the dramatic and prosaic, but also to poetic creativity. The genre of the work written in free verse by Karamzin (1994), in which classical plots are refracted in a unique way (for example, in contrast to poor Lisa, the heroine named poor Rufa drowns in a barrel of water, trying to get out of it a hidden bottle of vodka), the writer defines it as a “village diary”. Karamzin's style is polyphonic, the author's reflections merge with the “songs of the meadow” and the conversations of the characters. In recent years, Petrushevskaya has turned to the genre modern fairy tale. Her Fairy Tales for the Whole Family (1993) and other works of this genre are written in an absurdist manner, making one recall the tradition of the Oberiuts and Alice in Wonderland by L. Carroll. Petrushevskaya's stories and plays have been translated into many languages of the world, her dramatic works are staged in Russia and abroad.
Petrushevskaya Lyudmila Stefanovna was born on May 26, 1938 in Moscow. She spent the war years in an Ufa orphanage and with relatives. After the end of the war, she continued her studies at the Faculty of Journalism in Moscow. IN student years the future writer composed poems and wrote scripts for student evenings. After graduating from university, I went to work as a correspondent and part-time employee of publishing houses. The year 1972 in the life of the poetess was marked by the position of editor of the Central Television Studio and her first published work.
The first play based on her work was staged by Roman Viktyuk in 1979. Due to the “shady sides of life” raised in subsequent works, the playwright could not publish for her readers for more than ten years, but continued to write joke plays. At the end of the 80s, there was a decline in censorship requirements and her prose began to be staged in theaters. The main theme of all Petrushevskaya’s works was the theme female destiny. Lyudmila Stefanovna became the founder of “truthful prose”, which showed the horrors of life, the inability to be happy, the dirt and anger of people. In 1991, the writer became a laureate Pushkin Prize. Only in recent years have her works become diametrically opposed in plot, and in them good began to triumph over evil.
Prose writer, playwright, poet Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya was born on May 26, 1938 in Moscow. Granddaughter of the Soviet linguist Nikolai Yakovlev, the creator of writing for a number of peoples of the USSR. During wartime she lived with relatives, and also in orphanage near Ufa.
In 1961 she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. She worked as a correspondent for Moscow newspapers, an employee of publishing houses, and an editor at the Central Television Studio.
In the mid-1960s, Petrushevskaya began writing poetry and stories. Her first published work was the story “Across the Fields,” which appeared in 1972 in Aurora magazine. After this, Petrushevskaya’s prose was not published for more than ten years.
The first plays were noticed by amateur theaters: the play “Music Lessons” (1973) was staged by Roman Viktyuk in 1979 at the studio theater of the Moskvorechye Palace of Culture and was almost immediately banned (published only in 1983). The play "Cinzano" was staged by the Gaudeamus Theater in Lviv.
Professional theaters began staging Petrushevskaya’s plays in the 1980s: one act play“Love” at the Taganka Theater, “Colombina’s Apartment” at Sovremennik, “Moscow Choir” at the Moscow Art Theater.
Only in the 1980s did the name of Petrushevskaya become known to a wide circle of readers. Since that time, collections of her plays and prose began to be published: “Immortal Love: Stories” (1988), “Songs of the 20th Century: Plays” (1988), “Three Girls in Blue: Plays” (1989), “On the Road of the God Eros: Prose" (1993), "Secrets of the House: Stories and Stories" (1995), "House of Girls: Stories and Stories" (1998), etc.
IN beginning of XXI century, Petrushevskaya publishes new collections of stories and fairy tales, among them: “Where have I been. Stories from another reality” (2002), “Goddess of the Park” (2004), “Wild animal tales. Sea garbage stories. Beaten pussies” (2004), "Stories of Love" (2011).
In 2003, the writer released her “Volume Nine” - a collection of articles, interviews, letters, and memoirs.
In 2010, Petrushevskaya published an alternative school textbook on literature "Literary Matrix. A textbook written by writers."
Petrushevskaya's stories and plays have been translated into many languages of the world, her dramatic works are staged in Russia and abroad.
A number of films and film-performances were staged based on her scripts: “Love” (1997), “Date” (2000), “Moscow Choir” (2009), etc.
Based on the scripts of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, the cartoons "Lyamzi-tyri-bondi, the evil wizard" (1976), "The Stolen Sun" (1978), "Tale of Tales" (1979), "Hare's Tail" (1984), "The Cat Who Could Sing" were created "(1988), "Where the animals go (from the anthology "Merry Carousel No. 34")" (2012).
She created a “Handmade Studio”, in which she independently draws cartoons using a mouse. The films “Conversations of K. Ivanov”, “Pince-nez”, “Horror”, “Ulysses: Here we go”, “Where are you” and “Mumu” were made in the studio.
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya writes and exhibits paintings, takes part in various art projects.
She created a small theater "Cabaret of one author", in which she performs with her orchestra best songs XX century own translations.
Having joined forces with the Moscow free jazz rock ensemble Inquisitorium, in 2003 Petrushevskaya released the album “No. 5. The Middle of Big Julius”, where she read and sang her poems to the accompaniment of whistling, the roar of the ocean or the barking of dogs. In 2010, Petrushevskaya “Don’t get used to the rain,” which was recorded for the “Snob” project.
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is a member of the USSR SP (1977), the Russian PEN Center. Academician of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
She is a laureate of the Russian State Prize in the field of literature and art (2002), awarded the Pushkin Prize of the Alfred Tepfer Foundation (1991), awards from the magazines "October" (1993, 1996, 2000), " New world"(1995), "Banner" (1996), "Moscow-Penne" awards (1996), "Star" (1999), "Triumph" (2002), "New Drama" festival award (2003), theater award named after Stanislavsky (2004).
In 2008 in Moscow, and in 2009 in St. Petersburg, the “Petrushevsky Festival” was held, timed to coincide with several anniversaries of the writer - 70 years since her birth, 20 years since the publication of the first book “Immortal Love”, publication 10- th volume entitled "Black Butterfly".
In 2010, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya - World Fantasy Award (WFA) - for best collection stories published in 2009. "There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby."
In 2013, she became Oleg Tabakov for achievements in the field of culture, receiving the award “For Contribution to Russian Drama.”
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is a widow, she has three children: sons Kirill Kharatyan and Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich are journalists, daughter Natalya Pavlova is engaged in music.
The material was prepared based on information from open sources
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya was born on May 26, 1938 in Moscow. The girl grew up in a family of students at the Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History. Granddaughter of linguist, professor of oriental studies Nikolai Yakovlev. Mom, Valentina Nikolaevna Yakovleva, later worked as an editor. I practically didn’t remember my father, Stefan Antonovich.
After school, which the girl graduated with a silver medal, Lyudmila entered the Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov.
After receiving her diploma, Petrushevskaya worked as a correspondent for " Latest news» All-Union Radio in Moscow. Then she got a job at the Krugozor record magazine, after which she moved to television in the reviewing department. Subsequently, Lyudmila Stefanovna ended up in the department forward planning, the only futuristic institution in the USSR where it was necessary to predict from 1972 Soviet television for the year two thousand. After working for one year, the woman quit and since that time has not worked anywhere else.
Petrushevskaya began writing early. She published notes in the newspapers Moskovsky Komsomolets, Moskovskaya Pravda, Krokodil magazine, and the Nedelya newspaper. The first published works were the stories “The Story of Clarissa” and “The Storyteller,” which appeared in the Aurora magazine and caused sharp criticism in the Literary Gazette. In 1974, the story “Nets and Traps” was published there, then “Across the Fields”.
The play “Music Lessons” was staged by Roman Viktyuk in 1979 at the Moscow State University Student Theater. However, after six performances it was banned, then the theater moved to the Moskvorechye Palace of Culture, and Lessons was banned again in the spring of 1980. The play was published in 1983 in the brochure “To help amateur artists.”
Lyudmila Stefanovna is generally recognized literary classic, author of many prose works, plays and books for children, including the famous “ linguistic tales» “Broken Pussy”, written in a non-existent language. Petrushevskaya's stories and plays have been translated into many languages of the world, her dramatic works are staged in Russia and abroad. Member of the Bavarian Academy of Arts
In 1996, her first collected works were published by the AST publishing house. She also wrote scripts for the animated films “Lyamzi-Tyri-Bondi, the evil wizard”, “All the dull ones”, “Stolen Sun”, “Tale of Tales”, “The Cat Who Could Sing”, “Hare’s Tail”, “Alone From You” tears”, “Peter the Pig” and the first part of the film “The Overcoat” co-authored with Yuri Norshtein.
Not limiting himself to literature, he plays in his own theater, draws cartoons, makes cardboard dolls and raps. Participant of the Snob project, a one-of-a-kind discussion, information and public space for people living in different countries, since December 2008.
In total, more than ten children's books by Petrushevskaya have been published. The following plays are staged: “He’s in Argentina” at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater; the plays “Love”, “Cinzano” and “Smirnova’s Birthday” are staged in Moscow and in different cities of Russia; graphic exhibitions are held in State Museum Fine Arts named after Pushkin, in the Literary Museum, in the Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg, in private galleries in Moscow and Yekaterinburg.
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya performs concert programs called “Lyudmila Petrushevskaya’s Cabaret” in Moscow, throughout Russia, abroad: in London, Paris, New York, Budapest, Pula, Rio de Janeiro, where she performs hits of the twentieth century in her translation , as well as songs of his own composition.
Petrushevskaya also created a “Manual Labor Studio”, in which she independently draws cartoons using a mouse. The films “Conversations of K. Ivanov” were made together with Anastasia Golovan, “Pince-nez”, “Horror”, “Ulysses: Here we go”, “Where are you” and “Mumu”.
At the same time, Lyudmila Stefanovna founded small theater“Cabaret of one author”, where he performs with his orchestra the best songs of the twentieth century in his own translations: “Lili Marlene”, “Fallen Leaves”, “Chattanooga”.
In 2008, the Northern Palmyra Foundation, together with international association « Living classics» organized the International Petrushevsky Festival, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of her birth and the 20th anniversary of the publication of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya’s first book.
IN free time Lyudmila Stefanovna enjoys reading books by the philosopher Merab Mamardashvili and the writer Marcel Proust.
In November 2015, Petrushevskaya became a guest of the III Far Eastern Theater Forum. The play “Smirnova’s Birthday” based on her play was staged on the stage of the Chekhov Center. Directly took part in children's concert"Peter Pig invites." To the accompaniment of the Jazz Time group, she sang children's songs and read fairy tales.
On February 4, 2019, the final debate and award ceremony took place in Moscow for the tenth time. literary prize"Nose". The “Critical Community Prize” was won by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya for her work “We were stolen. History of Crimes".
Awards and Prizes of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Laureate of the Pushkin Prize of the Tepfer Foundation (1991)
Magazine award winner:
"New World" (1995)
"October" (1993, 1996, 2000)
"Banner" (1996)
"Star" (1999)
Winner of the Triumph Prize (2002)
Laureate state prize Russia (2002)
Bunin Prize Laureate (2008)
Literary Prize named after N.V. Gogol in the “Overcoat” nomination for the best prose work: "The Little Girl from Metropolis", (2008)
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya received World Prize fantasy - World Fantasy Award (WFA) - for the best collection of short stories published in 2009. Petrushevskaya’s collection “Once upon a time there was a woman who wanted to kill her neighbor’s child: Scary stories"(There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby) shared the award with a book of selected short stories American writer Gene Wolfe).
Creativity of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Bibliography
Collected works in five volumes. - M.: AST; Kharkov: Folio. 1996.
Novels and stories
1992 - Time is night.
2004 - Number One, or In the gardens of other possibilities. - M.: Eksmo. - 335 s. - ISBN 5-699-05993-8.
2017 - We were stolen. History of crimes. - M.: Eksmo. - ISBN 978-5-04-090046-6
Plays
1973 - Music lessons.
1973 - Love.
1973 - Columbine's apartment.
2007 - Columbine’s Apartment: a collection of plays. - St. Petersburg: Amphora. - 415 s.
2007 - Moscow Choir: collection of plays. - St. Petersburg: Amphora. - 448 p.
Fairy tales
Wild Animals Tales.
Sea trash stories.
1984 - Puski Batye.
2008 - Book of Princesses. - M.: Rosman-Press. - 208 p.
A fairy tale with a difficult ending.
Collections of stories and novellas
Immortal love. - M.: Moscow worker, 1988, shooting gallery. 30,000, cover.
Ball last person. - M.: Lokid, 1996. 26,000 copies.
2008 - Border tales about kittens. - St. Petersburg: Amphora. - 296 s.
2008 - Black butterfly. - St. Petersburg: Amphora. - 304 s.
2009 - Two Kingdoms. - St. Petersburg: Amphora. - 400 s.
2009 - Stories from my own life. - St. Petersburg: Amphora. - 568 p.
Discography
2010 - solo album“Don’t get used to the rain” (as a supplement to the magazine “Snob”)
2012 - solo album “Dreams of Love” (as a supplement to the magazine “Snob”)
Filmography
Scenarios
1974 “Treatment of Vasily” Merry Carousel No. 6
1976 “Lamzi-tyri-bondi, the evil wizard”, dir. M. Novogrudskaya.
1976 “There are only tears from you” dir. Vladimir Samsonov
1978 “Stolen Sun”, dir. Nathan Lerner
1979 “Tale of Tales”, dir. Yuri Norshtein.
1981 “The Overcoat”, dir. Yuri Norshtein.
1984 “Bunny Tail”, dir. V. Kurchevsky.
1987 “All the Dumb” dir. Nathan Lerner
1988 “The Cat Who Could Sing”, dir. Nathan Lerner.
1997 “Battered Pussy” episode of the animated series “Fairy Tales” new Russia" - dir. Robert Sahakyants?
1997 “Love”, dir. Vladimir Mirzoev
2000 "Date"
2008 “Peter the Pig”
Family of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Widow, late husband - Boris Pavlov, director of the Solyanka Gallery
Three children:
Kirill Kharatyan (born August 29, 1964) - journalist. Worked as deputy chief editor at publishing house"Kommersant", deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Moscow News". Since 2005 - deputy editor-in-chief of the Vedomosti newspaper.
Natalya Pavlova (born 1982) - musician, founder of the Moscow funk band C.L.O.N.E.
Prose writer, playwright. Born into a family of an employee. She lived through a difficult, half-starved childhood during the war, wandered around visiting relatives, and lived in an orphanage near Ufa. After the war, she returned to Moscow and graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow University. She worked as a correspondent for Moscow newspapers, as an employee of publishing houses, and since 1972 as an editor at the Central Television Studio.
Erushevskaya began composing poetry early and writing scripts for student evenings, without seriously thinking about writing.
The very first plays were noticed by amateur theaters: the play “Music Lessons” (1973) was staged by R. Viktyuk in 1979 at the studio theater of the Moskvorechye House of Culture and was almost immediately banned (published only in 1983).
The production of "Cinzano" was carried out by the Gaudeamus Theater in Lviv. Professional theaters began staging Petrushevskaya’s plays in the 1980s: the one-act play “Love” at the Taganka Theater, “Colombina’s Apartment” at Sovremennik, “Moscow Choir” at the Moscow Art Theater. For a long time the writer had to work “on the table” - the editors could not publish stories and plays about the “shadow sides of life.” She did not stop working, creating joke plays ("Andante", "Columbine's Apartment"), dialogue plays ("Glass of Water", "Insulated Box"), a monologue play ("Songs of the 20th Century", which gave the name to the collection of her dramatic works ).
Petrushevskaya’s prose continues her dramaturgy in thematic terms and in use artistic techniques. Her works represent a kind of encyclopedia women's life from youth to old age: “The Adventures of Vera”, “The Story of Clarissa”, “Xenia’s Daughter”, “Country”, “Who Will Answer?”, “Mysticism”, “Hygiene” and many others. In 1990, the cycle “Songs” was written Eastern Slavs", in 1992 - the story "Time is Night". He writes fairy tales for both adults and children: "Once upon a time there was an alarm clock", "Well, mother, well!" - "Fairy tales told to children" (1993); "Little sorceress", "A Puppet Romance" (1996). L. Petrushevskaya lives and works in Moscow.
Materials used from the book: Russian writers and poets. Brief biographical dictionary. Moscow, 2000.
