Mikhail
Vasilyevich Murzin

Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR.
Born Michael in 1938 in a peasant family in the Middle Urals. The son of a collective farmer and a front-line soldier, who went through the war from October 1941 from the Urals to Poland.
His father went off to war, leaving his wife Maria, little Misha, and Valentina, who had just been born.
In his youth, Mikhail was a diligent student and an excellent student, and in high school he even sometimes taught classes in the village school, substituting for absent teachers. After completing his military service at the Baikonurthe first flight into space by Yuri A. Gagarin, where he witnessed the first spaceflight, was enrolled in the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography for the course Nikolai Akimov.


At the stage of pre-graduation practice, which he underwent in the Petrozavodsk Musical Theaterthe young professional was immediately offered the position of head of the staging department. So M. V. Murzin remained in the theater and did not even return to the institute for the graduation ceremony. In the family archive of the artist instead of the diploma of the institute is stored credit book.

In 1969, a theater director В. Bortko invited Murzin to the Gorky Volgograd Theater for the production of "Don't Shoot the White Swans", which was successful and became the beginning of M. Murzin's theatrical career, who later became the main artist of the theater. Over the years, he has designed productions of "The Age of Reckoning", "I Came to Give You a Will" by V. Shukshin, "Nora" by Ibsen, "Rush Hour", "The Hour of Reckoning" and "The Hour of Reckoning"The other"Everything Remains to the People" by S. Alyoshin, "The End of the Hit Market", "The Old House", "The Don Story", "From Lopatin's Notes", "Interview in Buenos Aires", "Between downpours"A. Stein, "Mad money", "Television Interference", "Ten days in jail for love" and others.
After the opening of the Volgograd Theater of Young Spectators, he worked with the theater for many years. Murzin designed such productions as "And Still It Turns!" A. Khmelik, "Stop Malakhov! V. Agranovsky, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "The Great Frog," "Defender Ulyanov" and others.

Later M. Murzin worked for several years as chief designer in the Lugansk Drama Theater.
The artist has designed plays in Kursk, Shakhty, Krivoy Rog, Orenburg, Pyatigorsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Lugansk, in the Volgograd Theatre for Young People and in the Volgograd Musical Theatre, where he was invited in 1996 for staging Verdi's opera "Rigoletto". This performance staged by the honored worker of arts of Kazakhstan Boris Ryabikin and the art design by M. Murzin was named the "Premiere of the season" in 1997-1998.
Murzin's daughter made her debut as costume designer in Rigoletto Ilona Boxer. In the Volgograd Musical Theater, Murzin designed productions of Strauss's Die Fledermaus, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, M. Samoilov's Le Favorit, the production in honor of the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, The Great Deed of Stalingrad, and others.

Many of her father's theatrical sketches Ilona Boxer published in her livejournal.

During his lifetime, M. Murzin designed more than 300 productions.
Died in 2011.

Mikhail Murzin was a participant of many All-Union and All-Russian exhibitions of artists of theater and cinema.
Murzin's works were presented as part of 2 collective exhibitions, organized by the Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts and devoted to the history of theatrical work of Volgograd artists: the first exhibition "The first exhibition"A Theatrical History. Selected.."The second one, titled "In the World of Operetta," was held in October-November 2012, after the artist's death.
In the project "School of Folk Restoration" Mikhail Vasilievich's granddaughter Sophia Boxer talks about his grandfather's work.