Lyudmila BoyadzhievaLyudmila Boyadzhieva is a Russian writer, arts critic and sociologist. She was born in 1946 in Kharkiv in the family of a well-known theater critic and since childhood got acquainted with the brightest theater performers. She graduated from the Russin University of Theatre Arts and defended her PhD thesis on the history of German theater.At the age of twenty-four Lyudmila Boyadzhieva published her first book about the famous German director Max Reinhardt. In the 1970-80s she gave lectures on history of the foreign theater and directing at the Russian University of Theatre Arts and Moscow Art Theater School. She worked as a consultant in the Soviet center of the International Theatre Institute of UNESCO and as a researcher at the State Institute of Art.Novels, tales and short stories written by Ludmila Boyadzhieva appeared nearly two decades ago under different pseudonyms. Almost two dozens diverse books synthesizing the detective genre, adventure and romance in the best artistic traditions of world literature, allow us to name their author the "classic of a new wave of entertainment." Read More Read Less