Natalia Sazonova

Natalia Sazonova
Period: 2007-2008
Profession: Writer “The purpose of my novel project is to pursue a character from Russian emigration who played a major role in the European Romantic adventure, and much of it in Rome. Ever since I was born, I’ve participated in this legend by listening to it, as my grandmother was one of those white Russians. My attachment to cosmopolitan culture is reinforced by my dual Russian and French background. A graduate of Moscow University, I also hold a Master’s degree in History and Modern Literature from the Sorbonne. My thesis focused on the biographies of Russian writers who emigrated to France between the wars. These studies undoubtedly influenced the choice of subject for my novel, and modified my view of the choice of character. Even though more than a century separates the period I was studying from the one in which Princess Zenaïde Wolkonskaja lived, I see her, to the astonishment of some historians, as one of the pioneers of Russian immigration to Europe: she was the first Russian aristocrat to leave her country in 1830, rejecting the reality of slavery. In her countless letters to Tsar Nicholas I and others, now in the municipal archives of Rome, she openly criticizes his political system. Her father’s friendship with Voltaire may well have had something to do with it. Natalia Sazonova PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2000-2007 Cité de la Musique Documentaliste, Chargée de mission Stientitz   Public Relations Officer Fondation Cartier pour L’art contemporain Documentalist World City forum Documentalist L’OFFICIELE (Ukraine) Editor-in-chief 1988-2000 Gallery Communications Officer: Galerie Giter, Lucien Durand, Garnier&Nocera;Parc Avenue (Paris) FourWings (Rotterdam), Gallery 369 (Edinburgh) Centre d’Art Moderne de Moscou Documentaliste AMERIAGE Spectra Canada ” Le Jazz Rouge ” (2002) ON LINE for ARTE ” Loi de retour” ( 2001) KUIV PRODUCTION for ARTE ” Nijinski ” (2000) IDÉALE AUDIENCE for France 3 ” Jazzman de Goulag ” (1999) IDÉALE AUDIENCE for ARTE ” Richter insoumis ” (1999) VIVA Production for ARTE ” Chaliapine ” (1998) E& MM; Production for NTV “Meurtre près de Versailles” (1997) MJCOM for CANAL  “Mon prince charmant” (1997) ELMA PRODUCTION for ARTE Éthologie Soirée Théma NO SACRIFICE for CANAL   “L’œil du cyclone” (1996) TAL PRODUCTION for ARTE “Des animaux – soldats” (1996) MIRIS FILMS sous contrat (1996-1999)ARKEION FILMS sous contrat (1993-1996) Director FILMS D’ICI Paris Première “Écumes des villes : Moscow” (2000) IDEAL AUDIENCE for France 3 “Jazzman de Goulag” (1999) Ateliers VARAN “Zivoug” (1999) EDUCATION History (Maîtrise) Moscow University (1992) Literature (Maîtrise,DEA) Sorbonne Paris IV   (1994) Atelier VARAN (1999) OTHER REFERENCES Price   “Lumière” and the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs for “Adios Felicidad” (2002) Emmy Award, Prix Italia, Prix Barcelone France 3 for “Jazzman de Goulag” (1999) Author of the novel “Red Jazz” Edition Paragon (2004) Reader at the CNC (2001-2002 ; 2007) “33 sourires d’Anna Karenine” a project for the 5th edition of Nuit Blanche de Paris (2006) “Dina Vierny et l’avant-garde russe” an ongoing project.