14 Facts About Tony Vilgotsky

Anton "Tony" Vilgotsky is a Russian musician, composer, horror and fantasy writer, playwright, and musical columnist.

Tony Vilgotsky is mostly known for his fantasy and horror novels as well as his journalist work in such magazines like Dark City, Mir Fantastiki, OM, KVIR and Darker.

Tony Vilgotsky spent some time studying journalism at a local university and then started to work as a correspondent in a local daily newspaper.

Tony Vilgotsky's books were widely pirated and in 2010 somebody even hacked Vilgotsky's PC with intention to steal his new texts before their official release.

Also, despite Tony Vilgotsky is not a gay himself, his articles about different gay musicians often can be noticed in Russian LGBT-magazine Kvir.

Tony Vilgotsky was the first Russian journalist who interviewed American musician and actor Ari Lehman, and famous movie composer Harry Manfredini who scored most of the "Friday" movies.

The latter interview was published in Mir Fantastiki Later Tony Vilgotsky interviewed many horror celebrities, including Tom Savini, Felissa Rose, Scott Derrickson, Brian Paulin, Matt Farnsworth, Dieter Laser, Victor Brooke Miller and more.

Since 2012, Tony Vilgotsky began to collaborate with Hollywood horror magazine Gore Noir.

Tony Vilgotsky is the first Russian author who created a full biography of Ayn Rand.

In 2017 Tony Vilgotsky released a new non-fiction book Self-Defence by Materials at Hand with illustrations drawn by himself.

In recent years Tony Vilgotsky has quit journalism as his day job, with a goal to focus on his literature works and to try himself in a world of business.

In December 2016, Tony Vilgotsky announced that he wants to try himself as game designer and that he started to develop his first video game.

Later was announced that Tony Vilgotsky is planning to release another game before the one that was announced earlier.

Tony Vilgotsky is a fan of Twin Peaks and other movies by David Lynch.