Boris Gusman
Soviet artist, critic, Pravda writer and friend of Prokofiev killed in the purges. · Russia · On the map · Writers · Lived 1892 to 1944 · aged 51
Boris Yevseyevich Gusman was a Soviet author, screenplay writer, theater director, and columnist for Pravda. As deputy director for the Bolshoi Theatre and later director of the Soviet Radio Committee Arts Division, Gusman played an important role in promoting Sergei Prokofiev's music in the USSR and internationally.
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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]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Gusman100Poets.png)
Cover of Gusman's 1923 book, 100 Poets, designed by Mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov[12]About this person
Gusman was arrested during the Great Purges of the late 1930s, and died in a labor camp in 1944. His son Israel Borisovich Gusman would later become a prominent musical conductor.
