Boris P. Goldovskii - Oton Tomanić Award

24th September 2025, at 4 PM

Hotel Patria

Boris P. Goldovskii, b. December 7.12. 1948, Moscow (Russia). Doctor of Arts, historian and theatre theorist, theatre critic, playwright, and pedagogue. Artistic director of the S.V. Obraztsov State Academic Central Puppet Theatre (1989 - 2012). Artistic director of the State Moscow Puppet Theatre (begin 2014). Director of the Moscow International Festival of Puppet Theaters. Member of the Executive Committee of the Russian Center UNIMA (Chairman of the Research Commission), Member of the Russian Theatre Union (STD RF); Member of the PEN International Club.

Founder of the S.V. Obraztsov Memorial Apartment Museum, Founder of the S.V. Obraztsov International Puppet Festival (2001 – 2011), the International Moscow Puppet Festival (begin 2014) and the Russian puppeteer journal “Theatre of Miracles” (begin 2000).

Author of more than 30 books, including the encyclopedia Puppets (Moscow, 2004), the encyclopedia Artistic Dolls (Moscow, 2009), Annals of the Puppet Theatre of 15th-18th Century Russia (Moscow, 1988), The Puppet Theatre of Ukraine (S. Smelyansky, co-author, San-Fransisco, 1998), Memoirs of a Puppet Literary Director (Moscow, 1992), Chronik des Puppentheaters in Russland im 15-18 Jh. (Warschaw, 1994), Academy of Obraztsov (Moscow, 2006), The Puppet Theatre of Belarus (Moscow, 2013), History of Dramatists of the Moscow Puppet Theatre (Moscow, 2007), The Art of Directing in the Puppet Theatre of 20th Century Russia (Moscow, 2013), Children of Hephaestus: the history of the evolution of mechanical dolls from ancient times to the present day (Moscow, 2015), Sergey Obraztsov. Documentary novel, Puppet Theatre of Russia 15th - 21st Centuries and others. Author of about 200 articles in Russian encyclopedias, including VEPA.

Author of more than 100 articles in journals of Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus. Poland, Germany and other countries.

An honored Cultural Figure of the Russian Federation, Laureate of the Moscow City Prize, Cavalier of the Golden Badge of the Union of Theatre Workers of Russia, Laureate of the International Prize Little Prince. Resides in Moscow (Russia)