Marina Azizyan “Needlework”

Marina Azizyan about herself:

I was born in St. Petersburg on February 28, 1938. My mother, Anastasia Ivanova Sokolova, was an art critic and worked in the Hermitage as a research officer. My father, Tsolak Levonovich Azizyan, was an artist; he lived and worked in Erevan.

I graduated from Leningrad Theatre Institute (class of N.P. Akimov) as a master of the theater.

Performances which I made were presented and are still presented in different cities of the country. I will mention some of them: “Swan Lake” staged by V. Vasiliev (the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow), “Bohemia” (the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow), “The Nutcracker” staged by V. Silimbaev (the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre named after P.I. Tchaikovsky), “Twelfth Night” (the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg), “An Ardent Heart” of A.N. Ostrovsky (the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg), “A Flat of Columbine” of L.S. Petrushevskaya (the Maly Drama Theatre - the Theatre of Europe in St. Petersburg), “Little Princess” (the Komissarjevsky Theatre in St. Petersburg), “Twelfth Night” (the St. Petersburg Comedy Theatre) and others.

I have been constantly participating in exhibitions in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities of the country and abroad since 1959.

One-man exhibitions:

1972 - the House of St. Petersburg’s Writers;

1975 - the Union of St. Petersburg’s Cinematographers;

1995 - the Akhmatova Museum (St. Petersburg);

1997 - the Union of Russian Artists in Moscow;

1996 - the Union of Russian Artists in Moscow;

1996 - Verona (Italy);

1997 - the Akhmatova Museum (St. Petersburg);

1997 - Freiburg (Germany).

My works are kept in the collections of the St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music, the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Museum of Music Art of Russia (Moscow), the P.I. Tchaikovsky Museum (Klin), the N. Goncharov Museum (Nizhny Novgorod), the Museum of Children’s Theatres (Moscow), and also in private collections of our country and abroad.