Lenfilm

2024: Director General of the film studio Fedor Shcherbakov put on the wanted list

In February 2024 MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia , Fyodor Lenfilm Shcherbakov, the general director of the film studio, was put on the wanted list. The agency's website states that the cinematographer is wanted under a criminal article, but it does not specify which one. More. here

2020: Fedor Shcherbakov replaced Inessa Yurchenko as general director

In September 2020, Fedor Shcherbakov replaced Inessa Yurchenko as general director of Lenfilm.

1934: Chapter "Lenfilm" Adrian Piotrovsky offers Prokofiev the plot of "Romeo and Juliet" for ballet

The history of the creation of the ballet Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev-Lavrovsky linked the Bolshoi Theater and Mariinsky with an inextricable thread (at that time - GATOB and a little later the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theater). 1934. Sergei Radlov, then the head of the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater, invited his longtime acquaintance and chess partner Sergei Prokofiev to compose a ballet on the plot of the tragedy Romeo and Juliet. (Subsequently, Lavrovsky will write that although Radlov had nothing to do with the final version of the libretto, he nevertheless considered it necessary to keep his name in the list of authors, since it was Radlov who owned the idea of ​ ​ choosing this Shakespeare play as the literary source).

Meanwhile, in the composer's presentation of events, the authorship of the idea was "attributed" to another person - the playwright, critic, theater host and in addition to the artistic director of Lenfilm Adrian Piotrovsky: "At the end of December (1934) I returned to Leningrad specifically for negotiations with the Kirov Theater. I expressed my desire to find a lyrical plot for ballet... They began to sort through the plots: Piotrovsky called "Pelleas and Melisande '," Tristan and Isolde', "Romeo and Juliet '. In the last plot, I immediately "clung" - it's better not to find! " But in the premiere posters of 1940, Piotrovsky's name could not appear in any case: in the 37th he was repressed and shot.