Konstantin Yuryevich Bogomolov (; born July 23, 1975) is a Russian theater director, poet, and actor. He has served as the

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of the . He is the son of the film critic . He has been honoured with a

Golden Mask Award The Golden Mask (, ''Zolotaya maska'') is a Russian theatre festival and the main national theatre award, established in 1994 by the Theatre Union of Russia. The award is given to productions in all genres of theatre art: drama, opera, ballet, ope ...

Career

Poetry

In 1990, Bogomolov's poems were published in the literary magazine '' We'' and the poetry collection ''Seventeenth Echo'', in 1995 in the almanac ''Babylon''. In 2019, with the book ''Thus Spoke Bogomolov'' (

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), the author was included in the short-list of the

Andrei Bely Prize The Andrei Bely Prize () is the oldest independent literary prize awarded in Russia. It was established in 1978 by the staff of ''Hours'', the largest samizdat literary journal in Leningrad, to recognize excellence in three categories: prose, p ...

in the category ''poetry''.

Directing

Bogomolov was

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's student at the

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. Until November 2013, he served as Assistant Artistic Director of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. In 2014, he became a staff director of the Lenkom. Since 2012, he has been a teacher at the Moscow School of New Cinema. At the end of May 2019, it was announced that Konstantin Bogomolov would be appointed artistic director of the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. On June 25, 2019, he took up this position. In 2019, he directed the TV series '' Gold Diggers'', starring his ex-wife Darya Moroz.

Political views

In 2018, he was the confidant of the candidate for mayor of Moscow

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Rape of Europa 2.0

In February 2021, he published the ''Rape of Europe 2.0'' manifesto in ''

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'', in which he criticized the New Ethics, and stated that Europe was in a deep ethical crisis, urging Russia to stop focusing on European values. The author's text says that Europe is turning into a new ethical Reich, the standards of which are developed under the influence of queer activists, fem-fanatics and ecopsychopaths. Bogomolov urged the construction of a new right-wing ideology outside of radical orthodoxy, but strictly and irreconcilably defending the values of a complex world based on a complex person. The manifesto polarized the Russian public.

Personal life

Bogomolov's first wife was the actress

Darya Moroz Darya Yurievna Moroz (; born 1 September 1983) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, Honored Artist of Russia (2015). She is a two-time winner of the Nika Award (2009, 2015). She is best known for starring in the TV series '' Gold Dig ...

. The couple divorced in 2018. They have a daughter named Anna.Дарья Мороз: «Дочь мудрее меня — я была эгоисткой». — Актриса рассказала «ТН» о родителях, непростом характере, гармонии в семейных отношениях, воспитании дочери и грядущих премьерах.
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Ksenia Sobchak Ksenia Anatolyevna Sobchak (, ; born 5 November 1981) is a Russian public figure, TV anchor, journalist, socialite and actress who also holds Israeli citizenship. She is the younger daughter of the first democratically elected mayor of Saint P ...

.Собчак объяснила нарушение во время поездки на свадебном катафалке
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Bogomolov is the stepfather of Sobchak's only child, Platon, (born 2016).

References

External links

«Временно доступен», ТВЦ, гость — Константин Богомолов.

Блог Константина Богомолова на сайте «Эха Москвы»
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bogomolov, Konstantin 1975 births Living people Writers from Moscow Russian theatre directors Russian male poets Russian-language poets 20th-century Russian poets 21st-century Russian poets Russian Academy of Theatre Arts alumni Russian male film actors Russian male television actors Moscow State University alumni Russian music video directors Theatre people from Moscow Recipients of the Golden Mask