Boris Messerer

Boris Messerer
Born
Boris Asafovich Messerer

(1933-03-15) 15 March 1933 (age 91)
Moscow
NationalitySoviet, Russian, Jewish
Occupation(s)stage designer, teacher, theater artist
Spouse(s)Nina Chistova (1 child together)
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(m. 1974; died 2010)​
ChildrenAlexander Messerer
Parent(s)Asaf Messerer (father)
Anel Sudakevich (mother)
RelativesRachel Messerer (aunt)
Sulamith Messerer (aunt)
Maya Plisetskaya (cousin)
Alexander Plisetski (cousin)
Azari Plisetski (cousin)

Boris Asafovich Messerer (Russian: Бори́с Аса́фович Мессере́р; born March 15, 1933, in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian theater artist,[1] set designer and teacher. President of the association of artists of theater, cinema and television in Moscow.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (1997, Corresponding Member of 1990). People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1993). Winner of two State Prizes of the Russian Federation (1995, 2002). Member of the USSR Union of Artists in 1960, Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation and Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.[2] In 2016 he became a member of the Board of Trustees Fazil Iskander International Literary Award[3]

  1. ^ Культу. Ru!
  2. ^ Борис Мессерер. Биография
  3. ^ "Jury" Жюри [Jury]. Fazil Iskander International Literary Award (Iskander Prize) (in Russian). 5 April 2022. Retrieved April 5, 2022.