Petersburg by Evgeny Schwartz, the wise storyteller

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I hated acting and, like someone in love, dreamed of literature, but it kept turning to me with a hostile, unfamiliar face.

Jermaine

Playwright - Shadow and Dragon

Nevsky Ave., 56, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191011

Petersburg by Evgeny Schwartz, the wise storyteller

Performances based on Schwartz's plays "The Shadow" and "The Dragon" gave rise to a new theatrical genre – the philosophical fairy tale for adults.

Jermaine

Youth

Nevsky Ave., 59, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191025

Petersburg by Evgeny Schwartz, the wise storyteller

Schwartz did not want to take a job in his specialty, so he enrolled at Rostov University, while simultaneously working with the "Theatrical Workshop," whose actress he married in 1920.

Jermaine

Actor

Vladimirsky Ave., 12, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191025

Petersburg by Evgeny Schwartz, the wise storyteller

For example, I dreamed that the theater would burn down and the premiere would not take place. And how I dreamed! I spent a long time thinking about how to set fire to that multi-room and hated building.

Jermaine

The Beginning of the Playwright's Career

Nevsky Ave., 15, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186

Petersburg by Evgeny Schwartz, the wise storyteller

And in the year thirty, Olga Forsh's novel about the House of Arts and its inhabitants will be published – *The Mad Ship*, which she considered her best book and in which she "wanted to capture the entire journey and the end of the former 'Russian intelligentsia'." Yevgeny Shvarts appears in it under the name Geni Chorna.

Jermaine

Legends of Yevgeny Schwartz

Griboedov Canal Embankment, 9, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186

Petersburg by Evgeny Schwartz, the wise storyteller

How Yevgeny Shvarts Got Along with the Soviet Authorities

Jermaine

The First Play

Mokhovaya St., 33, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191028

Petersburg by Evgeny Schwartz, the wise storyteller

This is how Yevgeny Shvarts became a children's playwright.

Jermaine

The Last Address

Malaya Posadskaya St., 8, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197046

Petersburg by Evgeny Schwartz, the wise storyteller

On July 5th, 1955, Evgeny Lvovich moved into a new apartment on Malaya Posadskaya Street, on the second floor of building 8, apartment 3.

Jermaine