Konstantin Bogomolov, theater and film director, playwright. Biography

Konstantin Bogomolov — the early years

Konstantin Bogomolov was born in Moscow on July 23, 1975. His father, Yuri Alexandrovich Bogomolov, was a famous Soviet film critic and journalist. His mother, Olga Georgievna Ulyanova, also worked as a film critic. The director has an older sister, Olga, who, like her parents, chose the profession of a critic.

Bogomolov has been interested in poetry since childhood. At the age of 12, he was already writing his own poems, which were published in the school almanac "The Mirror". He also studied at the literary studio "Cypress Casket" under the guidance of poetess Olga Tatarinova. She saw talent in the young man and strengthened his self-confidence. Subsequently, the works of the 15-year-old Bogomolov were published in the magazine "We" and the poetry collection "The Seventeenth Echo".

After graduating from school, the future director entered the Faculty of Philology at Moscow State University. He was going to continue his studies at graduate school and study Russian Freemasonry of the XVIII century. However, soon after enrolling in graduate school, Bogomolov took his documents from Moscow State University and transferred to the directing department of GITIS.

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Konstantin Bogomolov — theatrical career

During his studies, Bogomolov began working with the Mayakovsky Theater. His first success came in 2002 after staging the play "A Lecture on the Benefits of Murder, or Six Corpses in Search of Action" based on the plays by Slawomir Mrozek and Fernando Arrabal.

After graduating from GITIS in 2003, Bogomolov got a job at the Gogol Theater, while simultaneously collaborating with other leading theaters in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Among his notable early works are "That Soldier, that Soldier" (Gogol Theater, 2003), "The Disinterested Killer" (RAMT, 2004), "Moomin and the Comet" (theater Center On Strastnoy, 2006).

Even then, he declared himself an innovative director, often taking a classic play as a basis in order to radically rethink it. Bogomolov's productions often feature a mix of different works, genres, and eras.

Bogomolov's landmark work was "Much Ado about Nothing" (2007) at the theater on Malaya Bronnaya, for which he received the Chaika Award. Oleg Tabakov saw the performance and invited the young director to his theater, giving him creative freedom and the opportunity to assemble his own team.

From 2007 to 2012, Bogomolov served at the Oleg Tabakov Theater, where he staged performances based on classics by Russian and foreign authors. His productions are "The Trial" (Franz Kafka), "The Eldest Son" (Alexander Vampilov), "Fathers and Children" (Ivan Turgenev), "Wolves and Sheep" (Alexander Ostrovsky), "The Seagull" (Anton Chekhov) and "Wonderland-80" (based on the "Reserve" by Sergey Dovlatov) — became bright events in cultural life.

From 2012 to 2018, Bogomolov served as assistant to the artistic director of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. His performances on this stage were very successful: "The Event" (Vladimir Nabokov), "The Ideal Husband. Comedy" (Oscar Wilde), "Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky), "350 Central Park West, New York, NY 10025" and "Husbands and Wives" (Woody Allen). At the same time, the director worked with Lenkom, RAMT, Theater of Nations, Tovstonogov BDT and other venues.

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In October 2016, the audience saw the experimental play "The Magic Mountain" based on the novel by Thomas Mann. Only two actors were employed in it — Bogomolov himself and the actress of the Stanislavsky Electrotheater, Elena Morozova. The director almost completely abandoned the text, leaving only a soundtrack like a cough.

In the summer of 2019, Bogomolov became the head of the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. His first major work in the new status was the play "Uncle Leva" based on Leonid Zorin's play "Pokrovsky Gate". Later, the repertoire included such productions as "The Seagull with the Sequel" (Chekhov), "Tanya" (Alexey Arbuzov), "Summer Residents in Bali, or "Assa" 30 years Later" (based on Maxim Gorky's "Summer Residents"), "One on One" and "Hamlet in Moscow" (William Shakespeare).

In early 2024, Bogomolov presented the Voices of the Country project, consisting of 12 one-man shows directed by young directors. According to him, it was an attempt to revive documentary theater in Russia and show that anyone who is ready to tell his story can become a hero of art.

In June 2024, Bogomolov took over the management of the Roman Viktyuk Theater. A month later, the director announced the renaming of the venue to the Melnikov Stage Theater in honor of its creator Konstantin Melnikov. In the process of reorganization, eight performances were withdrawn from the repertoire, as well as personnel changes.

In January 2026, Konstantin Bogomolov was appointed acting rector of the Moscow Art Theater Studio School.

During his career, the director has staged more than 50 performances in Russia and abroad. In 2025, President Vladimir Putin awarded him the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation "for his contribution to the development of Russian culture and art, and his many years of fruitful work."

Konstantin Bogomolov — a career in cinema

Bogomolov's first film appearance took place in 1987 — he played the cameo role of Ernest de Resto in Alexander Orlov's drama "Gobsek".

He disappeared from the screens for more than thirty years, only to return as a director. His debut TV series "Content Women" was released on the START platform in 2019. In this drama with detective elements, he also played the role of the medical examiner Semyon. The project received high critical acclaim. In March 2020, the Masterpeace brand, together with START, released a collection of clothes inspired by the series. Later, the second season was released.

In 2020, Fyodor Bondarchuk's blockbuster "Invasion" was released on big screens, where Bogomolov had a small role. In the same year, two more of his projects premiered at START: the drama "Safe Connections" and the detective series "The Good Man", based on the true story of the investigation of the case of the "Angarsk maniac" Mikhail Popkov.

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Soon after, Bogomolov reappeared on the screens — he played the main role of Oleg's psychotherapist in Bondarchuk's series "Psycho". His character, immersed in the world of his patients' deviations, begins to need help himself.

In 2023, the dramedy "Kesha must die" was released on the KION platform, where Bogomolov acted both as director and performer of the main role.

Konstantin Bogomolov — personal life

Konstantin Bogomolov was officially married twice. He met his first wife, actress Daria Moroz, in 2009 while working on the play "Wolves and Sheep" at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. They got married in 2010, and a year later the couple had a daughter, Anna. The marriage lasted eight years — in 2018, the couple divorced, but maintained a good relationship.

The media reported that the reason for the breakup was the director's affair with journalist Ksenia Sobchak, but Moroz denied these rumors. Nevertheless, already at the end of 2018, Bogomolov and Sobchak, who at that time was married to actor Maxim Vitorgan, began to appear together frequently in public.

In June 2019, Sobchak divorced Vitorgan, and in September she married Bogomolov. Their wedding became one of the most discussed events of the year. The newlyweds arrived at the registry office in a black hearse with the inscription "Until Death do us part," and after registration they boarded a carriage pulled by four black horses and went to be married at the Church of the Ascension of the Lord.