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Nikolai Erdman was born on 16 November, 1900 in Moscow, Russian Empire, is a Soviet dramatist and screenwriter (1900–1970). Discover Nikolai Erdman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Occupation Playwright, screenwriter, poet
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 16 November 1900
Birthday 16 November
Birthplace Moscow, Russian Empire
Date of death 10 August, 1970
Died Place Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Russia

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1869

The play draws on the theme of the faked suicide, which had been introduced into Russian literature by Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin in The Death of Tarelkin (1869) and was explored by Leo Tolstoy in The Living Corpse (1900).

Erdman's masterpiece had a tortuous production history.

Meyerhold's attempts to stage the play were thwarted by Soviet authorities.

The Vakhtangov Theatre also failed to overcome censorship difficulties.

At last Konstantin Stanislavsky sent a letter to Joseph Stalin, in which he compared Erdman to Gogol and cited Maxim Gorky's enthusiasm for the play.

The permission to stage the play was granted, only to be revoked by Lazar Kaganovich's party commission on the very eve of the premiere.

His career in the theatre effectively stalled, and Erdman turned his attention to the cinema.

He wrote scripts for several silent films, the most famous being Boris Barnet's The House on Trubnaya.

After Stanislavsky's actor Vasily Kachalov thoughtlessly recited Erdman's satirical fables to Stalin during a night party in the Kremlin, their author's fate was sealed.

1899

His brother Boris Erdman (1899–1960) was a stage designer who introduced him to the literary and theatrical milieu of Moscow.

Young Erdman was particularly impressed by the grotesquely satirical poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky, which seemed to defy all poetical conventions.

At the outbreak of the Russian Civil War, he volunteered with the Red Army.

1900

Nikolai Robertovich Erdman (Николай Робертович Эрдман; 16 November 1900, Moscow – 10 August 1970) was a Soviet dramatist and screenwriter primarily remembered for his work with Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s.

1919

Erdman's first short poem was published in 1919.

1922

His longest and most original poetical work was Self-Portrait (1922).

As a poet, Erdman aligned himself with the Imaginists, a bohemian movement led by Sergei Yesenin.

1924

In 1924, Erdman acted as a "witness for the defense" in the mock Imaginist Process.

He also authored a number of witty parodies which were staged in the theatres of Moscow.

In 1924, Erdman submitted to Meyerhold his first major play, The Mandate.

The young playwright cleverly exploited the subject of the subverted wedding to produce a work brimming with tragic absurdity.

In his adaptation of the play, Meyerhold chose to emphasise the mannequin-like behaviour of Erdman's characters by introducing the tragic finale which revealed "the total and disastrous loss of identity" on the part of his characters.

1928

His plays, notably The Suicide (1928), form a link in Russian literary history between the satirical drama of Nikolai Gogol and the post-World War II Theatre of the Absurd.

Born to parents of Baltic German descent, Erdman was reared in Moscow.

Erdman's next collaboration with Meyerhold was The Suicide (1928), "a spectacular mixture of the ridiculous and the sublime", universally recognized as one of the finest plays written during the Soviet period.

1930

Although he was not allowed to appear in Moscow, Erdman would visit the city illegally in the 1930s.

During one of such visits, he read to Mikhail Bulgakov the first act of his new play The Hypnotist (never completed).

Bulgakov was so impressed by his talent that he petitioned Stalin to sanction Erdman's return to the capital.

1933

He was arrested when filming his first attempt at a musical, Jolly Fellows, and faced deportation to the town of Yeniseysk in Siberia (1933).

The following year he was permitted to move to Tomsk, where was able to secure a job in a local theatre.

1941

The petition was ignored, but Erdman's script for the comedy Volga-Volga was awarded the Stalin Prize for 1941.

At the outbreak of World War II, Erdman was in Ryazan with his friend and collaborator Mikhail Volpin, whom he had known since his time with Mayakovsky.

As both men had a history as political prisoners, they were unable to enlist in the army in the ordinary fashion.

Instead, they had to travel by foot to Tolyatti, a distance of 600 kilometers, in order to enlist in a special unit open to disenfranchised persons and former priests.

1942

In 1942, through Lavrentiy Beria's patronage, Erdman obtained a transfer to Moscow for himself and Volpin, and they spent the remainder of the war writing material for the Song and Dance Ensemble at the Central Club of the NKVD.

After the war he remained shut out of theatrical circles.

With no other means of livelihood but the cinema, he turned to the most apolitical activity available, contributing scripts for children's films such as Jack Frost and It Was I Who Drew the Little Man, often in collaboration with Mikhail Volpin.

Erdman's perfection of dialogues and compositions was crucial in adapting Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale to the Soviet film screens.

The film The Snow Queen was cowritten by director Lev Atamanov and Georgy Grebner(ru).

Of all the people in the world influenced by the movie, it would be the Japanese people that would greatly adore the film.

, children's literature critic of Japan stated the film adaptation is clear and coherent in context to Andersen's story: "Therefore, the story is much more consistent and clearer than the Andersen version."