Grigori Israelevich Gorin was a Soviet/Russian dramatist (playwright) and a prose writer.

Biography

Graduated from the Sechenov

Ivan Sechenov

Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov near Simbirsk, Russia – , Moscow), was a Russian physiologist, named by Ivan Pavlov as "The Father of Russian physiology"...

 1st Moscow Medical Institute in 1963, worked as an ambulance

Ambulance

An ambulance is a vehicle for transportation of sick or injured people to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury, and in some instances will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient...

man for some time.

First works were the sketches for the students' local KVN

KVN

KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961...

 club. Started to publish his satirical articles and sketches since 1960th. For some time worked as a Chief of the humour department of Yunost

Yunost

Yunost is a Russian language literary magazine created in 1955 in Moscow by Valentin Kataev, its first editor-in-chief, who was fired in 1961 for publishing Vasily Aksyonov's Ticket to the Stars...

magazine, used a pseudonym

Pseudonym

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 Galka Galkina

In 1966 first book was published - Four under one cover, made in coauthorship.

Many of his aphorism

Aphorism

An aphorism is an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic and memorable form.The term was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates...

s became popular among the Soviet people, e. g. piano in the bushes, which means painstaking preparations for a would-be impromptu. This particular one appeared in a humoresque

Humoresque

Humoresque is a genre of romantic music characterized by pieces with fanciful humor in the sense of mood rather than wit. The name refers to the German term Humoreske, which was given from the 1800s onward to humorous tales....

 called Quite accidentally by Arkanov and Gorin, published in that 1966 book.

In 1978 — 1990 Gorin was a regular participant in Vokrug Smekha (Around Laughter), the popular TV program.

Dramaturgy

• Til, 1970 — loosely based on Till Eulenspiegel
  Till Eulenspiegel
  Till Eulenspiegel was an impudent trickster figure originating in Middle Low German folklore. His tales were disseminated in popular printed editions narrating a string of lightly connected episodes that outlined his picaresque career, primarily in Germany, the Low Countries and France...
  
   and other national
  Middle Low German
  Middle Low German is a language that is the descendant of Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low German. It served as the international lingua franca of the Hanseatic League...
  
   folklore
  Folklore
  Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...
  
  
• Forget Herostratus
  Herostratus
  Herostratus was a young man and arsonist; seeking notoriety, he burned down the Temple of Artemis in ancient Greece.-Occurrence:On July 21, 356 BC, Herostratus set fire to the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in what is now Turkey...
  
  ! - tragic comedy, 1972
• The Very Truthful, 1974 - about Baron Münchhausen
  Baron Munchhausen
  Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen , usually known as Baron Münchhausen in English, was a German nobleman born in Bodenwerder and a famous recounter of tall tales....
  
  
• The House That Swift Built, 1980
• Phenomenons, 1984
• Good Bye, Compere!, 1985
• Cat Domestic of Average Downiness, 1989 - co-authorship with Vladimir Voynovich
• Memorial prayer, 1989 theatrical, 1993 televised version - loosely based on a Sholem Aleichem work
• Kean IV, 1991 — loosely based on Edmund Kean
  Edmund Kean
  Edmund Kean was an English actor, regarded in his time as the greatest ever.-Early life:Kean was born in London. His father was probably Edmund Kean, an architect’s clerk, and his mother was an actress, Anne Carey, daughter of the 18th century composer and playwright Henry Carey...
  
  's biography
• Plague on both your houses!, 1994 — a loose sequel to Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
  
  by William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
  
  
• Royal games, 1995
• Luckyman-Unluckyman (Schastlivtsev-Neschastlivtsev), 1997
• Balakirev The Buffoon, 1999 theatrical, 2002 televised version
  Balakirev the Buffoon
  Balakirev The Buffoon is a 2002 Russian televised version of 1999 Lenkom theatricalpresentation, written by Grigori Gorin.Genre - Tragic comedy. Produced by KinoMost and Winburgh Holdings Ltd. Runtime - 162 min...
  
  

Screenplays

• To Kill a Dragon, 1988
• My Tenderly Loved Detective, 1986
• Formula of Love, 1984
• The House That Swift Built, 1983
• Say a Word for the Poor Hussar, 1980
• Naked Kurentsov, 1980
• Case on a Factory No. 6, 1980
• That Very Munchausen, 1979
• Velvet Season, 1978
• 100 Gramme for Bravery, 1976
• You to Me, Me to You, 1976
• Small Comedies of a Big House, 1975
• Stop Potapov!, 1974

External links

Grigori Gorin at Lib.ru

Lib.ru

Lib.ru, also known as Maksim Moshkow's Library is the oldest electronic library in the Russian Internet segment.Founded and supported by Maksim Moshkow, it receives contributions mainly from users who send texts they scanned and processed...