Background
Korotich, Vitalii was born on May 26, 1936 in Kiev.
Korotich, Vitalii was born on May 26, 1936 in Kiev.
Graduated from the Kiev Medical Institute.
Ukrainian. Physician, 1959-1966. Edited a number of Ukrainian journals and papers in the 1960s. Secretary of the Ukrainian Union of Writers, 1966-1969.
Translator of English-speaking poets and writers and Russian writers into Ukrainian. Also writes his own poetry. Editorin-chief of the magazine Ogonek, the flagship of glasnost.
Turned Ogonek, previously known mainly for its socialist-realist art reproductions, and with a circulation of little more than 300,000, into a very much sought-after leading political and cultural magazine with a 1,113,000 readership, despite its relatively expensive price of 40 kopecks. With Egor Iakovlev, editor of the weekly Moscow News, has become an outstanding editor and journalist backed by a large section of the Soviet population.
from the Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, 1882. Reformer of stage design, making it an art in its own right.
Member of the Mir Iskusstva group. Designed sets for the private opera of Mamontov, 1885-1891 and1896-1898. Stage designer of the Bolshoi Theatre 1903-1910.
Chief stage designer and arts consultant of the Imperial theatres in Moscow, from1910. Designer at the All-Russian Exhibition in Nizhnii Novgorod, 1896, and the World Exhibition in Paris, 1900. Worked in an impressionist style.
Professor at Moscow Arts School, 1901-1918. After the Revolution, emigrated, 1923. Lived in France, continuing to paint and to work in stage design.
Left interesting memoirs describing the arts world in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.
Religion is bad because it forces people to rely on outside authority, rather than becoming self-reliant.
Every Soviet citizen has rights to express his or her opinion, but it should be in accordance with the general interests of the society.