Valery Sirovsky

Valery Borisovich Sirovsky was born in the Ukraine (Bakhmach) on 12 March 1939.

In 1959–1965 studied in the Institute of Foreign Languages (Moscow), specializing in Italian and English languages.

In 1967–1980 worked at Mosfilm as assistant director and actor (Mikhail Kalazotov’s “Red Tent”, Eldar Ryazanov’s “Phenomenal Adventures of Italians in Russia” and other films). Worked with Cesare Zavattini, Georgiy Danelia, Yuri Ozerov, Rodolfo Sonego, Federico Fellini, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, and others.

As simultaneous interpreter, worked with many Italian and Russian statesmen of the last four decades (Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Giovanni Leone, Boris Yeltsin, Enrico Berlinguer, Romano Prodi). Translated into Russian essays of Curzio Malaparte, Tonino Guerra’s poems, novels of Rodolfo Wilcock and Samuel Beckett, from Russian into Italian — letters of Pushkin and Akhmatova, Nabi Khazri’s poems, scripts, Nikolay Erdman’s play “Suiciders” etc.

As artist and photographer, took part in numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad (Moscow, Vladimir, Rome, Yasnaya Polyana, Padua, Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, Riga et c.); in 2001 exhibited his graphics at the Venice Biennial, in 2004 at “Golden Toscana” exhibition in Tretyakov Gallery, in 2005 displayed his scroll-drawing “Brenta River Iconography” in Atheneo Veneto in Venice.

In his free time he paints furniture, walls, suitcases, mirrors, works as interior designer.