Boris Gusman

Boris Yevseyevich Gusman (16 December 1892 – 3 May 1944) was a Soviet author, screenplay writer, theater director, and columnist for Pravda.

[1] Prior to the Russian Revolution and during the First World War, Gusman associated with intellectuals and critics around the Enchanted Wanderer magazine, including Dimitri Kruchkov and Victor Khovin, both members of the Ego-Futurist movement.

[4] In 1929 Gusman, as deputy director, led the State Bolshoi Academic Theater's effort to stage Prokofiev's Pas d'Acier with new cast and choreography.

[7] In 1937, Gusman lost his position as director of the Moscow Radio Orchestra,[8] and was assigned a smaller post at a Tchaikovsky museum in Klin.

[1] That same year, Gusman and his wife adopted Svetlana and Yuri Larin, the infant children of Anna Larina and Nikolai Bukharin, who had been arrested.

[9] Arrested in one of a series of purges targeting Soviet artists and cultural leaders in 1937–38, Gusman was accused of having written ideologically unsound scripts in the past.

Soviet cultural figure Boris Gusman with his son Israel Borisovich Gusman , c.1918-1920.
In his work with the Bolshoi Theatre and Soviet Radio, Gusman promoted Prokofiev's musical score for Lieutenant Kijé (1934), a poster for which is shown above.
Cover of Gusman's 1923 book, 100 Poets , designed by Mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov [ 12 ]