About Svyatoslav Belza
Svyatoslav Igorevich Belza was a Soviet Russian literary and musical scholar, critic and essayist, and a prominent TV personality who's launched and hosted several TV programs aimed at popularizing classical music, theatre, and ballet, including Music on Air and Masterpieces of the World Music Theatre. Belza has received high-profiled honors in three countries, among them the Russian Order of Merit for the Fatherland, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, and the Ukrainian Order of Saint Nicholas. During his life Belza was awarded many distinctions. Svyatoslav Belza died of pancreatic cancer on 3 June 2014 in Munich, Germany at the age of 72. They had one son, Fyodor Belza (born 1981), whose son Sergey is Svyatoslav Belza's grandson. In 1987, Belza debuted on the Soviet television as a reviewer; a year later he became the presenter of his own programme, Music on Air (Muzyka v efire, 1988–1996).
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