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Svyatoslav Belza (Svyatoslav Igorevich Belza) was born on 26 April, 1942 in Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, is an A russian male journalist. Discover Svyatoslav Belza'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 72 years old?

Popular As Svyatoslav Igorevich Belza
Occupation journalist, critic, author, TV presenter,
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 26 April, 1942
Birthday 26 April
Birthplace Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Date of death 3 June, 2014
Died Place Munich, Germany
Nationality Russia

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1942

Svyatoslav Igorevich Belza (Святосла́в И́горевич Бэ́лза; 26 April 1942 – 3 June 2014) was a Soviet Russian literary and musical scholar, critic and essayist, and a prominent TV personality who's launched and hosted several TV programs aimed at popularizing classical music, theatre, and ballet, including Music on Air and Masterpieces of the World Music Theatre.

Belza has received high-profiled honors in three countries, among them the Russian Order of Merit for the Fatherland, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, and the Ukrainian Order of Saint Nicholas.

Svyatoslav Belza was born on 26 April 1942 in Chelyabinsk, to Igor Fyodorovich Belza (1904–1994), a Warsaw-born Soviet musician, composer, and art scholar, and Zoya Konstantinovna Belza-Doroshchuk ( Gulinskaya, 1921–1999).

1965

In 1965, after graduating the philological faculty at the Moscow University, Belza joined the Gorky Institute of the world literature at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Among his notable works are "Bryusov and Dante" (Dante and the Slavs anthology, 1965), "Bryusov and Poland" (1966), "Don Quixote in Russian Poetry" (1969), "The Polish Connections of P.A.Vyazemsky" (Polish-Russian Literary Relations anthology, 1970), "Graham Greene" (English Literature, 1945–1980, 1987), "Pushkin and the Slavic Nations Cultural Unity" (1988), "Dante e la poesia russa nel primo quarto del XX secolo" (from Dantismo russo e cornice europea, Firenze, 1989), "Rozanov and his Readership" (Vasilij Rozanov. Milano, 1993), and "The Slovak Literature" (The History of the World Literature, Vol. 8, 1991).

One of the foremost experts on Shakespeare in Russia, Belza compiled and edited the legacy of another important Russian Shakespearean scholar, Mikhail Morozov.

He provided forewords and prefaces for more than 100 publications of works by William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Alexandre Dumas, Honoré de Balzac, Jules Verne, Graham Greene, C. P. Snow, Edgar Allan Poe, Jan Parandowski, Stanisław Lem, Sławomir Mrożek, Teodor Parnicki, and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, among others.

1969

In 1969 Belza married Nina Kulagina, then a Kiev University student, later the teacher of English (also a swimmer, and the USSR backstroke champion); they had one son, Igor Belza (b. 1971), now a businessman, who is married to the artist Alexandra Otiyeva, based in Nice, France.

1979

In 1979 he started regularly contributing to Literaturnaya Gazeta, initially as a foreign literature reviewer.

Belza authored more than 300 essays, the majority of which focus on either the Western literature, or the Russian authors' links with European culture.

1981

After the divorce in 1981, Belza's partner was Olga Glebova, also teacher of English, and daughter of the actor Pyotr Glebov.

They had one son, Fyodor Belza (b. 1981), whose son Sergey is Svyatoslav Belza's grandson.

1987

In 1987, Belza debuted on the Soviet television as a reviewer; a year later he became the presenter of his own programme, Music on Air (Muzyka v efire, 1988–1996).

1988

In 1988, Belza received the Polish Cultural Merit award.

1990

In 1990, he compiled ''The Reading Man.

Homo Legens'', lauded as an innovative study of the fundamental intellectual abilities of the modern man.

1993

In 1993-1995 he was an art director of the Ostankino musical and entertainment department.

1994

In 1994, he was honoured with the People's Artist of Russia title.

Belza was a member of the Russian Television Academy (1994-2014), the Russian Academy of Arts (since 1998) and the Eurasian Academy of Television (since 2001).

1997

In 1997, Belza started working for Kultura TV.

Among his best known programmes there were Masterpieces of the World Theatre and In Your House.

He received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, as well as the Ukrainian Order of Saint Nicholas in 1997.

2000

In 2000, Belza was awarded the Russian Order of Friendship.

2002

Among his other accolades were the Moscow Prize (2002) and the State Prize of the Russian Federation for arts and literature (2011), as well as the Order of Merit for the Fatherland (2012) and the "Award of the Government of the Russian Federation" in the field of culture (2013).

2011

He co-hosted (with Maria Maksakova) the popular Romantika Romansa show and was a co-presenter (with Alla Sigalova) of The Bolshoi Opera (2011) and The Bolshoi Ballet (2012) competition shows.

2014

Svyatoslav Belza died of pancreatic cancer on 3 June 2014 in Munich, Germany at the age of 72.

During his life Belza was awarded many distinctions.