Maria Ivanovna Gavrilina was born on July 17, 1957 in the city of Moore. Shortly after the birth of Mary, her family moved to the capital. Already in the school of the future writer surprised classmates extravagant antics. In particular, she never joined the Komsomol, saying that it is contrary to its principles of life. In high school, Maria worked in parallel in the school young journalist journalism at Moscow State University.
Received girl still in the Philosophy Faculty of Moscow State University, but studying there for long. According to Mary herself, she was faced with the excessive influence of ideology on the minds of students, and decided to leave in order to avoid conflicts. Then she met her first husband, Alexander, by whom she had two sons, Peter and Paul. Raising children is not too happy about Mary, and she boredom began to write plays and was fascinated by the secular life, taking on a new name - Maria Arbatov. In 1984 she graduated from Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, parallel studying psychoanalysis.
Since 1991, Maria had psychological rehabilitation center for women "Harmony". In the same year she won a gold medal at Cambridge bibliotsentra for achievements in the field of drama. Two years later, Maria won the award, established by the newspaper "Literary News". In the same 1993 was followed by a divorce from her husband.
A year later, the writer remarried, her choice became a political scientist Oleg Vite. In 1996, Maria becomes a full advising specialist in psychoanalysis. At the same time, her performance of "mock interviews on the topic of freedom" is placed on the stage of Bonn, and soon became the winner of the Bonn Biennale.
In 1999 Maria officially changed his name to Arbatov, so as not to create unnecessary confusion. In 2002, playwright divorced again, this time the reason for the divorce she called the State Duma elections. Arbatov's head went to work - was a journalist "General Newspaper", then TV talk show "I myself," led to human rights radio program "The right to be yourself."
To date, Maria Arbatov - author of two dozen books, 14 plays, as well as a large number of journalistic works. In addition, Arbatov is a leading women's non-governmental organization that is committed to interfere in politics, and have a positive impact on it.