Edvard Radzinsky, a historian and playright, was born on September 23, 1936. He has been famous as a writer in Russia since the 1960s after Anatoly Efros staged his "104 Pages about Love." Radzinsky wrote play after play among which are "Lunin," "Theater in the Time of Nero and Seneca,'' ''Conversations With Socrates,'' ''An Old Actress in the Role of Dostoyevsky's Wife," "Sporting Scenes 1981," "A Film is Being Shot." All these plays were staged in many world theaters, including Russia. Edvard Radzinsky wrote such historic books as "Lord, Save and Pacify Russia!," "The Life and Death of Nicholas II," "Rasputin: the Life and Death," "Stalin," the novel "Puzzles Beaumarchais," and is the author of a series of historic shows.
