Pyotr fomenko biography of albert einstein

The superlatives will flow. The death of director Pyotr Fomenko at the age of 80 on Thursday will unleash a torrent of beautiful, respectful, praiseful, loving words.

I cannot possibly do anything but join the chorus.

Fomenko was, perhaps, the most beloved theater director of his generation in Russia.

His best productions challenged those of us who wrote about them to find ever new ways of describing elegant perfection.

When I think of Fomenko I think of subtle smells and delicate sounds. Fomenko always challenged his audience to attune itself to subtleties, to the kinds of details that we ignore in everyday life.

It was one of many ways that his work lifted us above the mundane.

I can still recall the rich scent of fresh, peeled oranges in Olga Mukhina's "Tanya-Tanya" at Fomenko's