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- Died
- Birth namePyotr Naumovich Fomenko
- Pyotr Fomenko was born on July 13, 1932 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Na vsyu ostavshuyusya zhizn... (1975), Pikovaya dama (1988) and Povesti Belkina. Grobovshchik (1991). He died on August 9, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.
- Theatre director.
- He started out as an actor before moving into directing. Some of his productions were banned by Soviet authorities for being politically provocative.
- He moved to then-Soviet Georgia, and later to Leningrad. He took the helm of the Leningrad Comedy Theatre, where he lost his job in 1981 after falling out with authorities.
- At the time of his death, he was working on a new production of Alexander Pushkin's play "Boris Godunov".
- A failure is sometimes more useful and more important both as a survival test and a source of feeling for drama.
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