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- Birth nameBoris Aleksandrovich Pokrovskiy
- Boris Pokrovskiy was born on January 23, 1912 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a producer, known for Nos (1979), Eugene Onegin (2000) and Boris Pokrovskiy. Revelations (2005). He was married to Anna Nekrasova and Irina Maslennikova. He died on June 5, 2009 in Moscow, Russia.
- SpousesAnna Nekrasova (divorced, 2 children)Irina Maslennikova(? - June 5, 2009) (his death)
- Children
- Founder of the Moscow Chamber Opera Theater.
- He and his first wife, director Anna Alekseevna Nekrasova, had one son, concertmaster Aleksandr Pokrovskiy, and one daughter, actress Alla Pokrovskaya. Alla, in turn, is the mother of his grandson, actor Mikhail Efremov. He was survived at his death in 2009 by grandson Mikhail and five great-grandchildren, Mikhail's children, actors Nikita Efremov and Nikolay Efremov, and daughters Anna-Mariya, Vera, and Nadezhda.
- He was associated with the Gorky Opera and the Ballet Theater before joining the Bolshoi Opera in 1943.
- He graduated from the State Institute of Theatrical Arts.
- He was named the People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1961.
- Unless one has learned the ropes of this science...one had better leave opera alone.
- Imagine: You are a businessman intent on pocketing someone's money. You have failed and you are going home, crestfallen, through a park, and there's a band playing a Strauss waltz there. And at once, you being to feel better. Opera has much the same effect.
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