Russian and Soviet literature, drama and theater critic, Doctor of Philology (1937). In 1918 graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Kiev University (at the time - the Imperial University of St. Vladimir). His first work on linguistics, he published in 1916-1917, and in 1918 he made ​​his debut as a theater critic. He lived and worked in Leningrad, as the drama belonged to the "Leningrad School" A. Gvozdev. In the 30 years of the Literary Encyclopedia claimed that in his early works Mokulsky was "heavily influenced by the bourgeois science of theater," and in 1929, moving away from formalism, sinned nonetheless "a large zigzag toward LEF Litfronta and then toward uncritical assimilation of Plekhanov and Fritzsche". In 1943-1948 he was director of GITIS. According to M. Phalanx, GITIS in this period was one of the best universities in the country humanities, lectures are read P. Markov, A. Dzhivelegov, S. I. Radtsig, G. Gukovskii, B. W. Alpers, B. G. Sakhnovski and many other prominent art historians and linguists. He headed the theory and history of theater at the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the USSR , was the chief editor of the Theatre encyclopedia, but only managed to release the 1st volume. From 1923 he worked in Leningrad , read foreign literature courses in the University of Leningrad, and the Pedagogical Institute. He joined Herzen and foreign theater history courses at the University of Art courses at the Institute of History of Art and Theatre Institute, in 1937.
Works:
"Moliere. Creativity ", Leningrad, 1935
"The history of Western theater," 1936-1939
"Pierre Beaumarchais. Life and Work ", Moscow, 1957
"The Theatre." Collection, Moscow, 1963