Background
Boris Ilyich Bentovin was born on May 12, 1865, in Novoaleksandrovsk, Stavropol' region, Russian Federation in a family of Jews from Spain. Since 1867, the Bentovin family lived in Saint Petersburg.
The S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy
journalist playwright theater critic
Boris Ilyich Bentovin was born on May 12, 1865, in Novoaleksandrovsk, Stavropol' region, Russian Federation in a family of Jews from Spain. Since 1867, the Bentovin family lived in Saint Petersburg.
Boris Ilyich was one of the main employees of the magazine "Theater and Art" edited by A. R. Kugel. On the side, it was published in a number of other newspapers and magazines (short stories, feuilletons, articles). Since 1904, he was a member of the board, permanent secretary of the Union of Dramatic and Musical Writers. Also, he was the initiator of the Union of Theater and Drama Critics. Boris Ilyich is the author of numerous social and everyday comedies with elements of satire on the morals and bureaucracy of pre-revolutionary Russia
Boris Ilyich translated and remade the farces of French authors. In 1919-1920, a member of the repertoire committee of the political department of the 7th Army. For the army troupe, he wrote the play Tsar the Provocateur (Nicholas I and the Decembrists) (1920). In 1920, the newspaper "Life of Art" published a series of articles "Provincial Essays" - on village and workers 'and peasants' theaters, on theatrical and literary district periodicals. In 1922-1924 he led the theatrical chronicles of Petrograd in a number of magazines.