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- Birth nameNatalya Il'inichna Sats
- Natalya Sats was born on August 27, 1903 in Irkutsk, Irkutsk uyezd, Irkutsk Governorate, Russian Empire. She was a writer, known for Pokhozhdeniya Myunkhauzena (1929), ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (1953) and Rag Dolly in the U.S.S.R. (1986). She was married to Israel Yakovlevich Veytser, Nikolai Vasilyevich Popov and Sergei Rozanov. She died on December 18, 1993 in Moscow, Russia.
- SpousesIsrael Yakovlevich Veytser(? - May 7, 1938) (his death)Nikolai Vasilyevich Popov (divorced, 1 child)Sergei Rozanov (divorced, 1 child)
- Sats commissioned Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic fairy tale "Peter and the Wolf" (1936) for her Moscow children's theatre, and narrated its first performances. To celebrate its 50th anniversary in 1986, Sats took the piece on an international tour and performed it in German, Italian, French, and English.
- Founder-director of the Central Children's Theatre in Moscow (1919-1937) and the Moscow State Children's Music Theatre (1965-1993). The latter still exists and is named for her.
- After the American ambassador visited her theatre in 1937, Sats was arrested on false charges of espionage; she spent 21 years in a labor camp and exile in Siberia. Cleared of any wrongdoing in 1958, Sats then fought and won a seven-year battle with The Kremlin to get a new children's theatre in Moscow.
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