Gennadi Rozhdestvensky was born on May 4, 1931 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is known for his work on 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) and The Bolshoi Ballet (1957). He was married to Viktoria Postnikova and Nina Timofeyeva. He died on June 16, 2018 in Moscow, Russia.