Alexander Vasiliev

Alexander Vasiliev - a world famous theater artist, interiors designer, as well as art critic and fashion historian.
Alexander Vasiliev was born on December 8, 1958 in Moscow in a famous theater family. His father, People's Artist of Russia, Alexander Vasiliev Senior (1911 - 1990), corresponding member of the Academy of Arts, the creator of scenery and costumes for more than 300 productions on the domestic and foreign stage. Mother, Tatyana Vasilieva - Gulevich (1924 - 2003), dramatic actress, professor, one of the first graduates of the Moscow Art Theater School.

Since childhood, Alexander Vasiliev was brought up in the theater environment. At the age of five, Alexander created his first costumes and scenery for the puppet theater, at the same time took part in the filming of children's programs on Soviet television “Theater Bell” and “Alarm Polk”. He designed his first performance “Wizard of the Emerald City” at the age of 12, showing extraordinary abilities for theatrical design and creation of costumes.
A special influence on the young artist was had an example of a father, not only a classic decorator, but also the creator of stage costumes for Lyubov Orlova, Faina Ranevskaya, Igor Ilyinsky. At 22, A. Vasiliev graduated from the production faculty of the Moscow Art Theater Studio. Then he worked as a costume designer at the Moscow Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. In 1982 he moved to Paris, where Rond Pointe on the Champs Elysees immediately began working for the French theater, in the studio of Bastille opera, Lucerner, Kartusheri, the Avignon Festival, Ball Du Nor, the young Ballet of France and the Royal Opera Versailles.
Alexander Vasiliev - the creator of the scenery for operas, theatrical productions, films and ballets for many famous theaters and troupe. For example, the National Theater in London, the Scottish ballet in Glasgow, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Oyya Masako Ballet in Osami Ballet in Tokyo, Nevada Ballet, Opera and Ballet of Santiago and many others can be found out more about this face of this face of A. Vasiliev’s work in the section “Performances”.

Alexander Vasiliev gives lectures in 4 languages ​​in many colleges and universities in the world as an invited professor on fashion history and stage design. Alexander Vasiliev is the owner of one of the largest private collections of costumes of the Russian period. Alexander showed this collection in many countries of the world - in Australia, Chile, Turkey, Hong Kong, Belgium, Great Britain, France and other countries. He was awarded for the promotion of Russian art by the medal S.P. Diaghilev, the medal of V. Nizhinsky, the Order of the Patron and the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts of Russia. Twice winner of the Tobab Award in Turkey.
Alexander Vasiliev is the author of the book “Beauty in Exile”, which has withstood more than six editions - in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008. - And translated into English in New York in 2000. In 1998, the book “Beauty in Exile” was called the best illustrated book of the year. He is the author of the book “Russian Fashion. 50 years in photographs” (Publishing House “Word”, 2004), in which more than 2000 photographs dedicated to the history of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet fashion, starting from the 50s of the XIX century and ending with the beginning of the XXI century. The book gives texts from fashion magazines of different eras, fragments of interviews with fashion models, famous people, film actresses, fashion designers. As social, political and economic reasons, the nature of the clothes of a Russian person influenced the nature of the clothing of a Russian man, how the silhouette and fabrics were modified, how the canons of beauty were formed, posture, facial expression and gleam in the eyes were changed - this is the circle of issues considered in the book. According to the author, he intends to publish this work in New York later, "since they know nothing about Russian fashion not only in Russia, but also abroad."

Alexander Vasiliev - co -author of the book “Lyudmila Lopato. Magic Mirror of Memories”. Zakharov, Moscow, 2003. Alexander Vasiliev worked for Russian publications of magazines Vogue and Harper's Bazaar as a special correspondent in Paris.
Since 2002, Alexander Vasiliev has been present on the TV channel “Culture” as the author and the host of the program “Blood of the Century”. This cycle is filmed on the basis of the book “Beauty in Exile”. In 2005, the Culture television channel began broadcasting the new 10-episode television series “Bucket of the Century-22”, taken based on the book “Russian Fashion. 15 years in photographs.” Since 1994, Alexander Vasiliev has devotes a lot of time to master classes and lecture courses at Russian universities and colleges. Since 2000, under the leadership of Alexander Vasiliev in Samara "Volga seasons of Alexander Vasiliev."

In October 2003, the design studio “Interiors of Alexander Vasiliev” opened in Moscow. The goal of the new project is to present a rich Russian tradition in Parisian gloss. In Russia, Alexander Vasiliev gives lectures at the faculty “Management and Fashion Theory” at Moscow State University, in the lecture halls of Samara, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Ufa, Perm, Barnaul, Murmansk and many other cities.
In the near future, Alexander Vasiliev plans to start work on another book-the memoirs of the 82-year-old great-grandson of the writer Nikolai Leskov-Tatyana, Prima-Balerin of the Russian ballet in Monte Carlo, and then for 25 years held the post of director of Brazil’s ballet in Rio de Janeiro.

In February 2004, an exhibition “Russian Interior in photographs” was held, in which Alexander Vasiliev presented 55 rare photographs that were previously never published or exhibited dedicated to the topic of the Russian interior of the XVIII, XIX and early XX centuries. The plans of this prolific author include the creation of a book about a Russian interior.

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