Gennady Myasnikov won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for what film adaptation of an 1869 novel of the same name?
Gennady Myasnikov Gennady Myasnikov (Russian: Геннадий Алексеевич Мясников ; September 12, 1919 – 1989) was a Soviet production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work on the epic film "War and Peace" (1967). He was born in Sosnovka (now Perm Krai).
Masons (novel) Masons (Russian: Масоны ) is a novel by Alexey Pisemsky started in the late 1878 and first published in 1880 in "Ogonyok" magazine (Nos. 1-6, 8-43). Pisemsky who regarded the Freemasonry as a progressive force in Russia of the 1820s and 1830s based the narrative upon his personal childhood memories of the people he knew (among them his uncle Yury Bartenev) who belonged to the lodge.