page_title: Inna Solomonik
hierarchical_section_title: Inna Solomonik
caption_attribution_description: English: Inna Solomonik Russian scholar
context_page_description: Inna Naumovna Solomonik was a Soviet and Russian specialist on puppet theatre. She graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages in 1973 and got her PhD at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1981.
  Inna Solomonik has been studying the history of the puppet theatre for over 40 years. From 1961 till 1991 she was a research fellow with the Museum of Puppets under the State Academic Central Puppet Theatre led by Sergey Obraztsov. She began her research career by investigating folk puppet shows in pre-revolutionary Russia, then in Europe and the Americas.. By the late 1960s she prepared some volume of documents, descriptions, and so on on the history of the Russian folk puppet theatre. In 1993 a small part of this work was printed in the book Puppets come in the stage. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Inna Solomonik turned to studies of oriental puppet performances. In 1980 she was ready with her PhD thesis. The kernel of this research was a semiotic analysis of the silhouettes of Wayang Purwa figures. Later Inna Solomonik continued to study the Asian puppet theatre, and published two monographs on the subject.
context_section_description: Inna Naumovna Solomonik (7 August 1932, Moscow – 14 July 2009, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian specialist on puppet theatre. She graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages in 1973 (first degree, diploma of French teacher) and got her PhD at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow) in 1981 (thesis: Javanese Wayang Purwa performance as a semiotic system under the supervision of Dr. Vladimir I. Braginsky).
  Inna Solomonik has been studying the history of the puppet theatre for over 40 years. From 1961 till 1991 she was a research fellow with the Museum of Puppets under the State Academic Central Puppet Theatre led by Sergey Obraztsov. She began her research career by investigating folk puppet shows in pre-revolutionary Russia, then in Europe and the Americas.. By the late 1960s she prepared some volume of documents, descriptions, and so on (about 3000 typed pages) on the history of the Russian folk puppet theatre. In 1993 a small part of this work was printed in the book Puppets come in the stage. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Inna Solomonik turned to studies of oriental puppet performances. In 1980 she was ready with her PhD thesis. The kernel of this research was a semiotic analysis of the silhouettes of Wayang Purwa figures. Later Inna Solomonik continued to study the Asian puppet theatre, and published two monographs on the subject (1983, 1992). In 2001 she published the book-album on Javanese Wayang Beber. She was an active member of the Nusantara Society.
caption: Inna Solomonik at the International Conference "The Shadow Play as an Element in the Develipment of Civilization" at the University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, July, 2004)
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