Ksenia Sobchak is a well-known Russian TV presenter, journalist, public figure. Her statements and sharp tongue often served as a disservice to Xenia herself. However, she never apologized to anyone. For he believes that we live in a free country, and everyone is free to express their opinion.
Many were openly afraid of the TV presenter, and did not want to go to her television studio when she hosted the Debate program, and someone simply openly dislikes her. But Ksenia never turns around to the opinions of others. Perhaps that is why she has so many fans today who love her straightforwardness.
A popular TV presenter often hears unflattering reviews addressed to her. We can say that life itself and the public hardened her. After all, a girl, because of her not quite standard appearance, often hears offensive nicknames, the “horse” of which, by the way, is the most harmless.
With her success, Ksenia proves that you can make a career and become famous not only for long legs and beautiful eyes. It is quite possible to achieve everything with your steel character and inner core. Despite the fact that the girl has a crowd of haters, she also has an army of fans. Who believe that she, like the heroine of the film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears", has a strong character, and "it stands on that."
Very frequent requests on the network are height, weight, age, how old is Ksenia Sobchak. Today, the journalist is 36, and last year she tried a new experience for herself: she plunged into politics, and even swung at the post of President of Russia.
Biography and personal life of Ksenia Sobchak
The journalist was born in 1981 in Leningrad. Sobchak's character was tempered since childhood, since while studying in an ordinary city high school, she was still not an ordinary child. Ksyusha's father was the mayor of St. Petersburg for six years, and all this time the girl came to school in a car with bodyguards. Of course, the fact that Sobchak was not an ordinary schoolgirl interfered with her in building relationships with other children, and already from school she was a loner. It cannot be said that Ksenia was an outcast, no, rather, she herself was not particularly impressed with communicating with ordinary children, which of course the rest felt, and during her childhood, this present arrogance probably developed in the future TV presenter.
Parents tried in every possible way to develop the girl, and instill in her a love of art. Ksenia went to ballet school, studied music, studied foreign languages, and everything except the last one was boring for her. With such opportunities, she perfectly understood that she could choose any creative profession. Dad will be able to make sure that Ksyusha will sing without a voice, and if she wants to, without the ability to dance, others can, why not. But Sobchak was never interested in these creative research, she chose for herself a more mundane and concrete profession - a journalist. At the same time, her father really wanted the girl to become a lawyer and enter the legal academy, so Sobchak went against him, and decided that if she didn’t want it, then it wouldn’t be according to her father’s plan either. The girl applied to the Faculty of International Relations, but in the end she liked this direction.
After the death of her father, Sobchak left St. Petersburg for Moscow, and so she began to write a scientific work on the institutions of the Presidency. This topic has always interested Sobchak, perhaps that is why in 2018 she decided to run for President.
After moving to the capital, the girl was faced with the fact that here they knew her loud last name. She could have worked in the Foreign Office, but that seemed petty to her. Being in Moscow, she understood that it was here that one could become not only successful, but also famous, and decided to try her hand at television. At first, she auditioned for the host of information programs, loudly declaring her last name, and then she realized that they didn’t take such programs without experience, or she simply didn’t fit, and then she went to the casting for the just-opening show on the TNT channel. "Dom-2" was Sobchak's first work on television. Together with Ksenia Borodina, they became the hosts of the project, where the participants built their relationships and the house itself, which was then supposed to go to the winners of the project.
The caustic and caustic presenter immediately attracted the audience, as she could calm down the raging participants in time and had authority over them. Soon the program had colossally high ratings, and Sobchak herself became famous. What the haters said about her is another matter, Xenia didn’t care at all, the main thing is that she finally got her way, and without the help of her father. The presenter aroused antipathy not only among the audience, even in the Moscow Duma a bill was introduced to postpone the program to a later time. Sobchak was the host of the project for 8 years, and during this time her fees increased greatly.
The biography and personal life of Ksenia Sobchak developed insanely successfully, thanks to her constant barbs and antics. After leaving House-2, the girl became the host of her own reality show, which was called "Chocolate Blonde". The project was a show about Xenia's personal life, where she revealed the details of her private life from waking up to the evening. This format was only called reality, but in fact there were many staged scenes in it, but despite this, the program still had a lot of viewers. After that, Sobchak began to invite other channels. She hosted programs on Channel One, NTV, STS, and the Ukrainian channel. TV formats were also different. From informational, to musical or stellar. The presenter worked not only on TV, but also on radio, published her own books, and at one time became the most popular presenter on television.
Family and children of Ksenia Sobchak
Frankly, for the family of an intelligent politician, Ksenia grew up too harsh and assertive. No matter how hard her mother, a history teacher, tried to instill in the girl a love of music and art, no matter how much she took her to the Hermitage and did not send her to the ballet, Ksyusha was still a “fan” from Kurt Cobain, she started smoking early, lined her eyes with a black pencil and dreamed " live fast and die young." When the girl's parents took up a political career, her father became the mayor of St. Petersburg, and her mother became a deputy, Ksyusha was generally left to herself, so she learned to be rude to her parents and always dreamed of fleeing from her native city to the capital.
The first years on television, Sobchak really was a tearaway, did God knows what, allowed herself caustic comments towards everyone and everything, and was never ashamed of herself, and the family and children of Ksenia Sobchak were generally something unreal. Ksyusha declared that she would never marry and would not have children. Perhaps the presenter simply dragged on her teenage period until she was 30, because today, when she is 36, Ksenia has changed a lot.
In 2013, the TV star fell in love and got married, and three years later the media trumpeted that the star was pregnant. the couple had a son. Today, the journalist is more like a diligent mother and wife and, apparently, has come to follow in her father's footsteps into politics.
The son of Ksenia Sobchak - Platon Vitorgan
Probably, love changes a woman, because when Ksenia met her current husband, Maxim Vitorgan, she changed a lot internally, and was even ready to give birth to her husband's child, which she never expected from herself. For six months, the media wrote that the girl walks in spacious dresses, and is possibly in a position, but the presenter herself did not admit that she was in an interesting position. When it was no longer possible to hide the stomach, users found out that the couple was expecting a baby, and soon Ksyusha would become a mother.
In November 2016, the son of Ksenia Sobchak, Platon Vitorgan, was born, and immediately users began to congratulate the newly-made parents. For a while, the presenter did not show the child to the public, but then she began to publish touching videos with her son. The couple's fans have already divided into two camps: those who say that Plato looks like a mother, and those who say that the boy is the spitting image of Maxim Vitorgan. In the profile of the star on Instagram, you can see pictures where Ksenia carries her son on a sled, as well as a photo from the christening of the baby.
Husband of Ksenia Sobchak - Maxim Vitorgan
The husband of Ksenia Sobchak is Maxim Vitorgan, director and actor. Maxim Vitorgan plays a lot in the theater, acts in films and directs. The greatest fame brought him roles in films from the Quartet I. They had known each other before, but started dating in 2013. Very quickly, they realized that they were insanely comfortable with each other. Ksenia found support and an amazing sense of humor in a man. And Maxim suddenly discovered that behind the external image of the “characteristic Ksenia Sobchak” hides the real sensual and very subtle soul of a woman. Before marriage with Sobchak, the man was already married twice. He has two children from his first marriage.
On his Instagram, Maxim once admitted that he was madly in love with his wife. Vitorgan called her a devoted friend, a purposeful person, a good mother, and a very caring wife, and reminded everyone that we are constantly forced to comply with the rules of society. “Sobchak does not correspond, and we can only admire,” the man summed up.
Last year, there was a lot of gossip on the network that the couple was getting a divorce, but all this is another canard of haters. In the marriage of Maxim and Ksenia, everything is fine, they are happy, and they are raising a wonderful son.
Hot photos of Ksenia Sobchak in a swimsuit
During her career, Sobchak did different antics, and this is what made her the favorite of many. Being completely unbeautiful, she never complexed about her appearance, wearing fashionable clothes and showing off a good figure. In the years of youth, the host often appeared hot photos of Ksenia Sobchak in a swimsuit, lingerie or erotic outfits on the network.
She starred for men's magazines, where she posed in a swimsuit on the beach, exhibited candid photos from photo shoots, and also appeared many times on the air of the Blonde in Chocolate program in glamorous looks, which, as she herself admitted much later, she simply hates.
The network does not really like the TV presenter, so you can find many photo collages where she is completely naked. However, fans of the girl know for sure that this is Photoshop. After all, you are welcome to star in a beautiful photo session in underwear, but Sobchak will definitely not pose completely naked or act in adult films.
Instagram and Wikipedia Ksenia Sobchak
During her career, the TV presenter has changed. From a glamorous blonde in the image, she has turned into a stylish media personality, a journalist and now even an oppositionist. Deciding to become the President of Russia, Sobchak launched a PR company during which she participated in debates, gave interviews and talked in every possible way about the life of the new Russia under Sobchak's rule. During the campaign, the host also met with the current President Vladimir Putin.
There are TV presenter pages on the Internet that contain a lot of interesting information. You can learn about her plans and life on Instagram and Wikipedia Ksenia Sobchak.
What path to female happiness did the famous TV presenter go through, who recently gave birth to her son Plato and decided to change her last name to Vitorgan (photo)
Ksenia was born in the family of the first St. Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak and historian Lyudmila Narusova. She was the only child in the family, but from her father's previous marriage, Xenia has an older sister, Maria, with whom they do not communicate after the death of Anatoly Alexandrovich.
As a child, the girl was restless and wayward, but inquisitive and thoughtful. Comprehensively develop Ksyusha Lyudmila Borisovna sent to the ballet school at the Mariinsky Theater and to the art school at the Hermitage.
The girl was really born in golden swaddling clothes, grew up in high society, and gradually became a part of it herself.
Ksenia did not find her calling right away. The girl received her secondary education at a school where she studied English in depth, and after graduation she entered the faculty of international relations at the main university of her native St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg State University. However, after quite a bit of time, circumstances developed in such a way that Ksenia had to move to Moscow, which means to transfer to MGIMO.
She completed her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of International Relations, having studied Spanish, French and English, and after that she decided to continue her education and applied for a master's degree. Here, her goal was already more specific: Ksenia decided to follow in her father's footsteps and became involved in political science. The girl graduated from the magistracy with honors.
Terrible Zhenya
Despite good grades at school, Sobchak has never been an angel. And during her growing up, she completely surprised her mother with such tricks, which are now hard to believe. It was, of course, in the first, most young love.
Ksyusha was the soul of the company and her classmates often gathered. Six people, three boys and three girls. They played, like any other schoolchildren, in the "bottle" and, of course, kissed. At such gatherings, Ksyusha fell in love with her most disadvantaged classmate - Zhenya.
A charming and cheerful blond boy was a repeater and a bully
In one of the interviews, Zhenya recalls that with Ksenia they often sat on a bench in the yard, and Lyudmila Narusova is indignant: “The trouble was with this terrible Zhenya!”
Once, at one of the St. Petersburg traffic lights, not far from the Sobchak yard, Narusova saw teenagers who were moonlighting by washing car windows. Lyudmila Borisovna took a closer look: “I brought such a coat to Ksyusha from Paris. Well, there cannot be such a second in St. Petersburg!
It turned out that it really couldn't.
Together with her beloved Zhenya, Ksyusha soap cars - in person
Anatoly Sobchak was already the mayor then, but none of the children should have understood this seriousness. Ksenia and Zhenya ran away from their father's bodyguards with passion and wandered around the solemn city, proud of their independence, reveling in their love. Now Sobchak will say that from that time she had the brightest impressions.
However, as it happens at such a young age, love quickly passed, and having matured a little, the guys realized that they belonged to completely different environments.
runaway Bride
Yes, between school naive love and a serious step that she almost took, Ksenia had other novels. For each of her romantic experiences, she thanks the men who were with her: each of them gave invaluable knowledge that influenced the development of Sobchak as a person. But one of the most significant novels was the relationship with the billionaire Alexander Shusterovich.
It is with this big businessman that Sobchak will meet for three years before he makes her an official offer. The wedding was thought out to the smallest detail: the script was written by Ksenia herself, and the whole of St. Petersburg was supposed to be involved in the celebration.
The whole palace was rented for the ceremony, it was planned to take a boat trip on a yacht with scarlet sails to the Konstantinovsky Palace
Narusova undertook to negotiate with the authorities so that on this day the bridges would be allowed to open in a special way. A wonderful wedding dress was sewn by Valentin Yudashkin, the happy bride was talking with might and main about the preparations in the media, when suddenly, a week before the wedding, she told her mother: “There will be no wedding.”
Various sources name the most unexpected reasons for what happened. Ksenia herself stated that she was not ready to become a family man, someone said that Shusterovich cheated on her on the eve of her marriage.
Tina Kandelaki in her blog once explained the gap by the fact that relatives forbade the eccentric Sobchak Shusterovich to marry ...
In some places there is even a mention that, on the contrary, it was Sobchak who apologized to the groom for the upset wedding and expressed the hope that at least now he could forgive her. In any case, we will never know the truth about that parting, but we can only assume how difficult this decision was made on the eve of Xenia's wedding.
Married
Sobchak's first famous novel after a thwarted wedding was a relationship with political figure Sergei Kapkov, who at the time of his acquaintance with Ksenia was married and had two children.
Later in his interview, Sobchak will say that a relationship in which a married man longs to be with you, but does not leave the family at the same time, is dishonest. Having gained an experience that turned out to be rather bitter, Ksenia will notice that a married man must make a fatal decision on the first or second date: either he is ready to change his life and build a new family, or not.
Starting to communicate with Kapkov, she still did not know how to be so categorical, so she allowed a situation in which she actually lived with a married man.
She was extremely offended to understand that she would again have to get out alone for the next secular exit because Sergey simply could not keep her company.
A little later, she nevertheless pulled the blanket over herself: Kapkov left his wife for Sobchak and even began to appear often with his girlfriend, but now - was Sobchak really necessary?
They parted not beautifully: sometimes they threw claims to each other in the press. Either Kapkov called Sobchak an offended woman, or she said that she would not say hello to her former lover because of his insults and inability to take a hit.
Wife
After the break with Kapkov, Ksenia was again walked in the press: either she allegedly plays tricks with Eduard Boyakov, the famous director of the Praktika theater, or at one of the rallies she fell under the spell of a young politician Ilya Yashin ...
But the information that at the protests she was next to not only Yashin, but also Maxim Vitorgan, somehow disappeared from the press
For the media, this was a real break in the pattern: not just another gossip about the romantic life of a socialite, but a real legal marriage! Moreover, the famous extraordinary Sobchak is not marrying an oligarch or a politician, but a favorite of the public, an intelligent actor from a wonderful St. Petersburg family.
Vitorgan Sr. now recalls that a couple of weeks before the wedding, Maxim called his parents in the evening and asked permission to come in, warning that he wanted to introduce his family to someone. Maxim came with Xenia. Emmanuil Gedeonovich, of course, knew both the girl and her family.
But now Ksenia was presented in a different capacity
Even the closest friends of the couple did not know about the marriage. Invited to the premiere of the film, they suddenly found themselves in the chamber atmosphere of a small cozy wedding, where Ksenia was in a charming designer dress. Without pomp, but with great love and mutual respect, Vitorgan introduced Sobchak into a new world of family peace for her.
Now both admit that, if you look from the outside, they live a boring life, because real family happiness is actually not full of exciting events. But here the couple is a little cunning, because soon an event will happen in their life that will change a lot. Ksenia, as you know, is expecting a baby.
Vista News.ru , 12/11/16, "Ksenia Sobchak changes her last name"
Ksenia Sobchak and Maxim Vitorgan recently became young parents. They named their firstborn Plato, despite the fact that Ksenia Sobchak's mother Lyudmila Narusova asked to name her grandson Anatoly, the name of her late husband.
But the parents choose the last name for the child longer. According to the laws Russian Federation, the child is allowed to be under the name of the mother or father. Then Maxim Vitorgan and his wife compromised. Ksenia switches to her husband's surname and has already collected the necessary documents to officially become Vitorgan-Sobchak. And Plato will bear the surname Sobchak, and at the age of 16 he will be able to change it to a double Vitorgan-Sobchak.
"Tatler", 12/05/16, "Ksenia Sobchak - about pregnancy, childbirth and raising the first child"
Most of all, I get lost when strangers run at me shouting “God, congratulations!” and start stroking her belly. In my mind, it's like after the wedding to run to the groom to stroke his cock. I don’t want to offend anyone, because many do it completely sincerely, and not with a desire to convey dark power - I just don’t believe in it at all. But isn't it strange to touch another person for some places?
I don't touch. I'm holding on with all my might. But I always want to cover a pregnant woman with a blanket. In a new, completely uninhabited apartment in the Smolensky Boulevard area, it is fresh, and even very fresh. And the hostess complains that it's hot. In this sense, she and Maxim Vitorgan have complete harmony of sensations. The same boiling point, according to Sobchak, is the key to family happiness, and it did not coincide with all men in this. Some wanted it to be heated, like in a Russian bath.
Ksenia is sitting in front of me in a long beige sweater and with her bare legs frivolous for the future. Instead of slippers - pink pedicure spacers: the country's most long-awaited pregnant woman has just returned from the White Garden beauty salon. Fresh, blush, procedural and already managed to post morning yoga on her head on Instagram. In response, the media burst into headlines: "Neurologists are convinced that Sobchak has an unhealthy passion for yoga." I don't know what's wrong with yoga, but there isn't an ounce of swelling on her face, not the slightest sign of ill health.
Ksenia Anatolyevna suffered a rather big apartment on Sadovoe. At first, she saved up for it for a long time, moving between corporate parties and weddings at Safis. I was looking for a house for a long time - so that a new one, with properly working communications (living at a solid address, with a heavy communal past, Moyka, 31-33 forever beat off her craving for antiquity). Then she bought for a long time, with all the strength of her temperament, persuading trustworthy and tactful people to become neighbors - the same as she, Ivan Urgant from St. Petersburg and Nikita Mikhalkov, a noble Muscovite. Then she repaired, personally approving each doorknob.
I bought a Liebherr refrigerator for a cream in the bathroom. Equipped a dressing room, which, according to my modest estimates, occupies sixty meters and, in terms of design, will give odds to the best shops of Montenapoleone. She wrapped the family library in the same photogenic bindings - by the way, this is a rare house where elegant books have been opened at least once for the purpose of reading. I went to St. Petersburg to the artist Tatyana Podmarkova for a diptych in the living room. She personally directed the “scenes of light” - this is how Sobchak calls the control system for numerous lamps, chandeliers and sconces, which turned out to be so progressive that it is now absolutely impossible to cope with it.
Now we will test you on your knowledge of the beauty industry. Do you know what a tangent is? - Xenia asks me, pointing to a low white cabinet in the bathroom. I only know Tannhäuser and timidly assume that this thing is the latest modification of the changing table. But no, it turns out that the tangentor is an apparatus for home massage with a jet of water, and Sobchak, in a repair fervor, even acquired this essential item.
In retaliation, I begin to examine Xenia about the wonderful abbreviations that enter a woman's life along with motherhood and childhood.
What is GW?
Breast-feeding. SS?
I have no idea, but it has a double meaning.
Shared sleep.
Xenia is lost at the mention of CS (caesarean section) and EP (natural childbirth). We laugh: there is so much more to learn... For example, Sobchak sincerely wondered why she suddenly had such thick, shiny hair, and sincerely advertised Shiseido shampoo to her friends. When the baby was not yet in the project, the girl with the reputation of child free equipped the children's room in a completely unchildish way: a comfortable double bed, an algebra table, a sofa. Except that the colors are brighter than in the rest, beige-brown, in the style of the Italian brand Promemoria, part of the apartment.
Maxim asked me: “Why buy furniture now?” To which I replied: “Well, will the nursery stand without furniture?” - "Well, it's like not quite childish." I argued that no, this is the perfect nursery. It never occurred to me that a child would write Dedar's wallpaper with a felt-tip pen.
As a result, an uninhabited, but still very beautiful apartment is used for our interview, and Ksenia lives with Maxim and household assistants outside the city, not far from Lyudmila Borisovna Narusova. In the townhouse, which Sobchak once acquired “as an investment” (“The Jewish grandfather spoke in me”) and modestly renovated. Apparently, the family will remain outside the Moscow Ring Road even after the day, about which everyone asks: well, when?
I am generally a city person, but life, as they say, has made its own adjustments. I understand that a child outside the city will be more comfortable, there is fresh air. It’s not fun to walk with a stroller along the Garden Ring, ”Ksenia authoritatively declares. I sympathize: in our Moscow antenatal clinic, everyone has the same problems.
However, ignorance of the term GV is nothing compared to the incompetence in sexual matters that is striking for a girl with an MGIMO diploma.
I skipped biology in school for nothing. It sounds funny, but I accidentally learned about what ovulation is from a friend, the mother of three children, Yana Raskovalova. In my mind, it has always been like this: there is, sorry, menstruation. Then - four or five days, when you can arrange a sex party. And then you have to carefully protect yourself. And it seemed to me that there was a risk of getting pregnant on any of these “thoughtful” days. Yana opened a new world for me, and as soon as this information was conveyed to me, everything quickly happened.
The husband was the first to know that “everything happened”. It was evening. The TV was loud. Ksenia successfully “passed the test”, left the bathroom and climbed under the covers with “eyes that big.”
Maxim asked: “What is wrong with your eyes? Why are you huddled like a mouse? And somehow I understood everything at once. There was a very touching moment.
Remembering him, Sobchak smiles thoughtfully and tenderly, as if embarrassed by his weakness. For once, she does not ironize and does not make fun of herself. Does not violate the sacredness of the moment with a toothy joke. And that makes me want to cover her bare legs with a blanket even more.
Everything in my life happened naturally. Even legitimate. I can’t say that Maxim and I talked about children before. For some reason he was just sure that they would be. Rather, this conversation took place after. Having already learned that I was pregnant, I decided to clarify some circumstances: “Listen, Maxim. Here is a normal man living with some girl a la Ksenia Sobchak. She has "little bastards". With friends burdened with offspring, she does not go on vacation. Birthdays of children of girlfriends do not remember. On the plane, screaming babies are not very friendly. All this is open, public. And nothing happens to you. You already have two, you don’t seem to need it, but your aunt is not young, thirty-five years are at stake. Has it really never occurred to a peasant that a person has some kind of health problem? And that these problems are replaced by dislike? By the way, I always felt great pleasure when I read comments to myself: “Well, of course, she is sick, she cannot give birth, therefore such a reaction.” Why do people sincerely believe that if you don’t want to, as they call it, “lyalechka” at the age of eighteen, then you can’t? So I asked my husband about it. And he is quite serious: “In general, there was no such thought.” Me: “Wait, it can’t be like that.” And he: “Yes, I swear, I always knew that everything would be fine with my children, you just need to calm down - to understand that this is a safe space.”
Many people think that the actor Maxim Vitorgan is a random choice. Many of these fools do not understand anything. He gave Sobchak something that her other men could not or did not want to give - rich and influential, charismatic and cynical, minstrels of the regime and burning oppositionists. He made me feel like she was loved for who she is. And everything immediately fell into place.
Ksenia never hid her passion for psychology, she joked that during these classes she received a second higher education, and her best simulator is her own mother. And it is necessary - no more psychologists. How cut.
Not always - one cannot be categorical in such matters - but often people who try to sort out their problems with a psychologist resemble kung fu theorists. This also happens in religion. All Orthodox people like that, in icons, will pray, jump into the hole, and at the same time demonstrate some incredible rancor and vindictiveness. And you think: “Well, how does all this fit in one person?” Now I understand that it is very easy to combine. You can read a thousand volumes of Eric Berne to help yourself, then it's scary to get dirty somewhere, make a scene and reproach yourself, understanding everything. But in fact, the main medicine is love. Only through warmth and love you become better.
A friend of Ksenia Sobchak, Alexander Mamut, once said that for a man, love is always a change of scenery: the scene is the same, but the costumes, music, actresses are different. And for a woman, the key is the request "Take me away from here." As in "Dowry". I ask where Maxim Vitorgan took Ksenia Sobchak. Answers:
Good question. I didn't think about it. Probably from the country of jokes, caustic phrases and endless competition of different egos. I liked it wildly - I didn’t understand at all how it was possible to communicate differently. A very St. Petersburg theme: everyone sit down and crap each other a little, but everything is nice and with love. We took such pride in being witty, funny and seeing the world through our sarcasm. But now I understand that it could be different. Yes, Maxim has a different social circle. It has its own laws and its own difficulties. But they do not communicate in such a "St. Petersburg" way, in principle they do not discuss anyone. He took me to another environment. And it's very cool.
But after all, Xenia also took Maxim to another world. For your ex's birthdays. At the Mafia game with Nadya Obolentseva and Denis Simachev at Sveta Bondarchuk's house. At Fashion's Night Out at Runway. I am tormented by curiosity: which of them is easier to integrate in the new world? ..
And Maxim did not integrate at all. He took what he liked. Here, after all, you can’t round off: in the world of glamor and big money, there are also sincere and sincere people. Maxim, as a choosy buyer in a supermarket, took a couple of rotten tomatoes, a quality watermelon. Checked - no nitrates. And I decided: "I will go here." But he doesn't go to others. There are people with whom he does not communicate at all. And I have to constantly tell them that Maxim is sick. Answer the questions: “Why are you always alone?” Not because people are bad, - Maxim simply chose those with whom he feels good and comfortable for various reasons. And this "good" for us is completely different. All my life I have chosen friends on the principle that they should be individuals. And for him, intellectual nourishment, brightness, and interestingness do not play a role at all. But what is important is human warmth, the ability to be cozy, natural, real.
I venture to ask: is Maxim really the first man from whom Xenia wanted a child?
I would like to give birth to a continuation of a loved one and experience the joy of the fact that he looks more like him than you. At least I dream about it, no matter how trite it sounds. And in this sense - yes, Maxim was the first.
And then Ksenia said that she had never seen such wonderful children as her husband had. Before that, only spoiled, capricious, Rublev children met. Not bad. It's just that wealth led them in the wrong direction. Often this is not even the fault of the parents - these are the introductory of today's life. But Maxim's children are simple and sincere.
Polina is a wonderful student at GITIS, she is on fire with the theater, she goes to all productions, she tells us where to go and where not to go. Danya just amazes me. I'm used to teenagers reacting only to Yeezy sneakers and the seventh iPhone. But recently we are driving in a car: I am in the front, because I get motion sickness, and Danya and dad are in the back. They chat. And I hear: “Well, I’ve read Dead Souls on your advice (not according to the program, mind you - he studies according to the English system). You know, to be honest, I'm disappointed with the end of this novel. Everything turned out so banal. I thought Chichikov had a big plan, a grandiose mission with these souls, and everything is about money there. It's cool that a boy of fifteen thinks so about it. I also want to prevent my own children from being spoiled, which was inherent in me as a child. Although it is difficult with my dressing room size, let's be realistic.
And she would like to become a close friend for her firstborn. So that the child can discuss anything with his mother, so that she does not press with authority. And again doubts. She herself knows that she is authoritarian and powerful. She calls herself a mentor. As soon as he feels that the situation is going the wrong way, he immediately begins to straighten it out. Although, like the same kung-fu theorist, he guesses that it is impossible to do so. That sometimes it's more important to make mistakes, to let the situation flow. So Xenia is waiting for a big test. But she likes to work on herself - such work is the most interesting.
Some of my friends who have reached great career heights do not hide the fact that they are bored with small children. Friendship is absolutely nothing. With teenagers, it's a different matter. Isn't it dreary for Sobchak to think about how she will change the diaper of a dumb creature every two hours?
Oh, you know, this is still a very difficult level for me. Now we are trying to learn how to close doors and cabinets behind us. I like to open a locker and leave it like that. But as a smart person, I understand that all our complaints about children come from the fact that children are a distorting mirror of their parents. There is no chance for a child to grow up not to be a slob if you throw things around yourself. And you can’t scold him - he perceives this as hypocrisy. To be honest, I'm used to someone cleaning up after me. And that's okay when you live alone. But the things I don't like about myself - the fact that I'm authoritarian, raising my voice, expressing my emotions too brightly - all this needs to be changed if you want to see a child different. Yes, a huge responsibility! But if you decide to take such a step, you will not be able to throw the child into the far corner. How it will turn out for me - I do not know. And God give me this strength.
I don't interrupt, I'm afraid to scare you away. Ksenia, in my memory, has never judged herself so strictly:
However, the other extreme is also unsympathetic to me - when a child is turned into a toy and dragged everywhere with them. This greatly affects his psyche. He receives undeserved attention and understands that it is light. I'm telling you as Sobchak's daughter. You get so addicted to this heroin that then you start looking for it in every possible way. And this leads to a huge number of errors.
The Internet loves meaningless clichés like: "Sobchak stopped hiding her pregnancy." Well, how can you hide it if the stomach has grown? - I did not hide anything! she is outraged. - It's just that I should write an ad about it? Notify the public by telegram? My closest friends have known for a long time, and those who took advantage of this to make themselves PR - well, it happens. I am learning not to judge people harshly.
At the beginning of June, at the Pushkin Museum at the Lev Bakst exhibition, the dress of Antonio Marras could not cope with the volume, and Kommersant published its observations in the gossip column. The next day, the Muz-TV award happened. Ksenia endlessly changed Tegin for Yanina Couture, Ulyana Sergeenko for Enteley. The people rushed in with congratulations. And in the morning she came down with a high temperature. Nothing hurt, the tests were excellent - but the fever could not be brought down. I lay at home for two days, then I got up and went. After that, the wise Lyudmila Borisovna persuaded her daughter to tie a “bracelet from the evil eye”: “You don’t believe, but you can still wear it. You are not sorry." And the daughter - a rare case, said: "Okay, mom."
I am not a religious or superstitious person. That is, I believe in God, but this has nothing to do with religion. I think that if you live in this energy, then it repels everything from you. And as soon as you think about such things, you begin to attract them. You can jinx only a person who is afraid of the evil eye.
Xenia is not afraid. That's why we shoot such a revealing cover - homage to the famous portrait of Demi Moore in Vanity Fair. Sobchak herself decided that she wanted to leave such a memory:
To be beautiful, not sleazy in a tracksuit at home when Maxim says: “Ha ha ha! What penguin are you? Let me take your picture!"
This is her only maternity photo session. Filming with a newborn is not planned. Although, of course, the fourteen million dollars that Jolie and Pitt received for the pictures of Vivienne and Knox could shake Sobchak: “In this case, the first-born will receive a better education and a larger nursery.” But fourteen won't pay, and she doesn't need less. So the child will be in the photo "lower abdomen" - and that's enough.
Every now and then we stumble over the strange word "child". Boy? Girl? A swift BMW convertible or a pink fox fur coat?
You see, we do not hide anything with Maxim, but we do not strive to be permanent participants in the discussion. We don’t answer questions about gender, weight, name and other tactlessness, we don’t want to feed ourselves all sorts of life news. And they are funny - every harmless Instagram photo is reprinted with the headline "Scandalous TV presenter endangered the health of a child by standing on her head." Or "Husband Sobchak went on a spree."
Exactly for the same reason, Ksenia does not tell where she will give birth. Tatler's editors were divided. The beauty department voted for Mount Sinai in Miami Beach. I suggested a state hospital in Munich - Ksenin's friend Polina Kitsenko gave birth there, and we all know the power of Polina's conviction. There was another option with Finland, in the footsteps of Yana Raskovalova - many St. Petersburg go there. But it is better to ask Sobchak herself.
I'm even ashamed to say that, because it sounds monstrously vulgar, but it's true. At some point I realized: I want my child to be born in Russia. A person has a connection with the place where he was born. Energy connection, - explains Xenia.
She is aware that it would be easier in Miami. That the paparazzi are already probably trying to get a job at Lapino or Pirogovka as obstetricians. And I really don’t want the birth to take place live, like Aiza Anokhina’s. But what to do - in extreme cases there is protection.
I don’t know about security, but Sobchak has already found a nanny. - I never understood my friends who complained about how difficult it is to choose a normal person. I thought: “What are the difficulties - to find an aunt?” It turned out that the nanny is a portal to hell.
But Mary Poppins is nevertheless hired and is waiting to go to work, and she also promised to help a woman who has been working with Xenia for many years.
After giving birth, Sobchak honestly intends to take a timeout for three months. Bezvylazno to live outside the city as a normal mother. Whether it will turn out, does not know:
I have long dreamed of not going anywhere, but I have everything from the series: “Give pills for greed, and more.” I think, now I will work for the last week, and then stop. I tell the assistant: “Kirill, don’t put any more meetings in the editorial office on the schedule, I won’t come. After all, I have a deputy.” And then it starts again: “So-and-so wants to meet with you, an advertising contract. Xenia, you are very needed. I can kind of say no, but I'm going anyway.
It is difficult for athletes, actors, ballerinas to find time for childbirth. You have to squeeze in between the World Championships and the debut on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater. I ask how much the pregnancy disrupted Ksenya's creative plans.
There was one journalism-related proposal that didn't happen. But I think the timing was very good. Calm in the country. Political journalism, which interests me, is absolutely meaningless now. And we must endure this stagnation with dignity. I've been thinking about learning a new language. And it turned out how. It’s even good for me to freeze now, take care of myself, my family.
Ksenia never hid her television ambitions and was terribly worried that she was not taken to a big channel. They know that Sobchak will double the rating of this channel, and still they don’t take it.
Well, of course, I miss the big airwaves. There are genres in which I am the best. Debate, political talk show. Or social. But since in Russia this is impossible at all, there is no jealousy. No regrets: "I could be in her place." There is only one program that I watch with pleasure - this is "Evening Urgant". But no one else can be in the place of Urgant, and I certainly am. This is such a story of broken love. The world I want in my head doesn't exist. No one is waiting for me on American television. And here you just have to wait and be in good shape. Time to do Botox and train the muscles of the brain.
Sobchak, Urgant, Malakhov - they are the last of the popular stars. Those who are able to be interesting throughout the country. Today it is impossible to achieve such a level of media coverage. An entire generation of people stopped watching TV altogether. Not only in Russia - the entire global industry has become small-segmented. Chiara Ferragni is a star for a certain audience. Mira Duma is also a kind of star. But in general, no one knows them.
Sobchak and I cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of talking about new heroes. They are great, these girl bloggers who became famous thanks to contouring lessons without having a springboard in the form of a dad or mom. Xenia grimaces:
I want to note that my springboard is still not a dad-mayor, but a television career. Three and a half million of my Instagram followers don't even know who our dad is. What is happening now is great and interesting. A person from scratch can make a career. When there are seventeen million and you are Sasha Clap, you do not need to look for a job - your whole modus vivendi changes. As a teenager, you make money on your own product. Whether we like it or not, we will all move in this direction. No other way.
Only the lazy one does not count the money of a happy pregnant woman. And she herself complains that the Ksenia Sobchak brand is monetized inadequately to its potential. To open it, you need a high degree of concentration on one thing, commercial. And she likes to do what she likes. Work on Rain. And being the editor-in-chief of L'Officiel - Ksenia really passionately loves fashion, hunting for top models, approval of moodboards, editorial boards and flat plans. She likes the role of a producer and manager, not just a cover star.
Today I have an ambitious goal - to once again bring L'Officiel to the market leaders. And TNS indicators, doubled only in the past year, show that we are on the right track with the team.
And there is also a cafe "Bublik". And the theatre. And shooting in clips from a friend of Shnurov. And a host of other things.
The same lazy one reproaches Xenia for being the many-headed Serpent Gorynych. Too much work. She needs it everywhere. It is imperative to be the first - even in those areas where this is in no way possible. The lazy one gloats that omnivorousness plays a cruel joke with Sobchak. She is not offended:
To say so is to misunderstand me. I just love tasting life. I generally love to live. I have an exact division: my profession is a journalist. I am the editor-in-chief and I am ready to compete for the first place in this. And the rest is just a desire to know different worlds and subcultures. Life is an experiment on oneself. I even think of giving up anesthesia during childbirth. Suddenly, this will not happen a second time, and I want to feel what kind of severe such pain that a person can endure anyway. Life time experience!
I believe - she really catches an incredible buzz that she has lived so many interesting, different lives. Even if not immediately, she learned to perceive events as an experience. Even the publication of her correspondence with friends. This is horror - another would have immediately thrown herself from the roof of the Central Department Store in her place. And she is not. I got up and went.
I do not understand where the topic for discussion is. There are two positions - to read or not to read text messages addressed not to you, letters or overheard private conversations about bastards. If a person chooses the second, he automatically loses in my eyes the right to any discussion of the behavior of others. Hear about morality from those who just doubled over, peeping through the keyhole? Dismiss me. And it's also a matter of upbringing, pedigree, no matter how snobbish it may sound. My husband didn't read it. My friend Sveta Shishkhanova did not read. I am a very ill-mannered person in some things, but there are basic principles of intelligent academic families. I can break loose, raise my voice at someone in anger, but rummaging through someone else's bag, reading a letter is unacceptable. Glad I'm not the only one. But the tactlessness of some is astounding. Here they directly approach each other or even me and begin to discuss: “Oh, what? But as? Can I send you a screenshot? It's like saying: “I've been looking at your tests here at my leisure. How are you going to get the worms out?" The psychology of the Sharikovs, who, for all their clumsily strained secularism, do not see the shamefulness of such discussions. Like Vysotsky: “I don’t like ... / When a stranger reads my letters, / Looking over my shoulder.”
But this is said by a person who used to feed on negativity and condemnation of society. He drew energy from a good scandal. No, of course, Sobchak in Ksenia is still not appeased, but she has become more attractive. Soft, almost like her cashmere sweater. She still resists:
I haven't changed radically yet. Love for negative energy is not something that goes away right away. But the flow is getting weaker and weaker. You know, I noticed: the brain itself pulls out what it needs. There are no random people in life - they come at your request and begin to shape you. I suddenly became uninterested in those companies where just yesterday I got incredible pleasure from endless caustic discussions of someone. But getting out of there completely is not a one-day process. Maybe it's just growing up or aging. In addition, I am a hostage of the situation: pregnant women receive love not because they are good, but because they cannot be offended. Everyone gives way, they say kind words: “you look great” and so on. Probably lying, but you bathe in it. Before, I couldn’t understand why people are afraid to say something wrong, why they are so tight when they come to me for an interview, they want to look wildly positive and this puts them in a case. And now I understand: they are afraid to disconnect from the flow of adoration. Suddenly they will be told: “You still be-e! Ugh! Bad!"
A day later, on our shoot, Ksenia Sobchak is basking in the rays of love. The photographer praises her fiercely trained back of the thigh, the hairdresser praises her really thickened hair against the background of pregnancy (and we had already prepared overhead strands). The stylist runs with a fur coat, believing that it is cold for the heroine to pose in one combination. The producer feeds fried potatoes with mushrooms. In response, she works for two. Not a word across, not a single whim. No "gave a star". Five hours without a break Sobchak dresses and undresses on demand. And only after making sure that everyone is happy, he allows himself to get tired. He quickly says "thank you" and, accompanied by two guards, flies to his Rublev distance.
As is customary for a fashion shoot, in the final we take a picture for memory. Ksenia is in the center, photographer Danila Golovkin and I are on the sides. And Sobchak herself asks:
Okay already, put your hands on my stomach - I can see in my eyes what you want! Since we've been talking about this so much...
Name: Ksenia Sobchak
Age: 34 years
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
Height: 167 cm
Weight: 58 kg
Activity: Presenter, journalist, public figure, actress
Family status: Married to Maxim Vitorgan
Ksenia Sobchak - biography
Ksenia Sobchak is a popular TV presenter in our country, who became famous in 2004, appearing daily on the air of the Dom 2 TV project. But now she is not only a well-known radio host, journalist, actress and politician, but also a versatile person who every day tries to express herself creatively. Therefore, her biography is always in the center of people's attention.
Ksenia Sobchak - Childhood
Ksenia was born in St. Petersburg on November 5, 1981. Her father is a famous person. for a long time he was the mayor of his hometown, and he is the creator of the constitution of the Russian Federation, which is in force in our country now. Ksenia's mother, Lyudmila Borisovna, is a historian by education, but in 2002 she became the mayor of Tuva and for some time was even a State Duma deputy.
Ksenia Sobchak grew up in a family where she was always surrounded by love, care and attention. Parents tried to introduce the girl to the beautiful, so visiting the Hermitage and the Maryinsky Theater was a common thing. By the way, she was then enrolled in classes there. But according to the memoirs of Xenia herself, she was never an obedient child: she often dared her parents and her behavior cannot be called exemplary. Parents tried to fight this, although education was given to them with difficulty.
Ksenia from childhood was familiar with many famous people who are now at the helm of power. So, in her childhood he was her father's adviser on foreign relations. Often she heard both conversations and disputes on a political topic, so she began to understand politics very early, and in the future this helped to shape her political views. But her current worldview does not always coincide with the fact that sometimes people, and especially officials in power, wanted to hear from Sobchak's lips. And this often leads to problems that she overcomes with great stamina.
Ksenia Sobchak - Education
Ksenia had to receive school education in several schools. She went to the first grade at school No. 185 in the city of St. Petersburg, where she had a specialized education. The main profile was English. But she did not study at this school for long and finished the 11th grade already at the Herzen RSPU school.
In 1998, Sobchak entered St. Petersburg State University at the Faculty of International Relations. But in 2001, Ksenia moved to Moscow and transferred to the same faculty, but already at MGIMO. Received in 2002, a bachelor's degree, gave her the opportunity to enter the magistracy at the Faculty of Political Science, which she graduated with a red diploma. Upon graduation, Ksenia entered graduate school.
Ksenia Sobchak - Career
In 2004, Ksenia Anatolyevna Sobchak begins her career as the host of the television show "House 2", where she worked with Ksenia Borodina. In 2012, Ksenia Anatolyevna decides to abandon this project and, without concluding another contract with the creators of the project, she gives up her place.
If you carefully study the biography of Ksenia Sobchak, you can understand that, despite the fact that this decision to leave the Dom 2 project was hard for her, it was right at that time, because she began to develop further and show all the facets of her creative potential . And she is talented in many areas.
Since 2007, Ksenia Sobchak has been trying to realize herself as a singer. She not only sang on her own, but even shot several videos with Timati, which immediately caused a lot of rumors about their difficult, but rather “warm” relationship.
In 2010, Ksenia became the host of several programs. So, on Channel Five, she becomes the host of the “Freedom of Thoughts” program, she also hosted the program “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” on TNT, and on Muz - TV program “Blonde in Chocolate”. It is worth noting that this list is large. But her scandalous reputation followed her everywhere, and Sobchak often had to change his next place of work.
In 2015, Sobchak became the host of the Battle of Restaurants program, which airs on the Friday channel. As a presenter, she was perfectly able to use both her impudence and her scandalous nature to correctly evaluate the work of restaurants.
Throughout her career, Ksenia Sobchak has starred in several films, and currently wants to continue her career as an artist. Since 2008, she has been writing and publishing her books, which reflect the worldview of Ksenia Anatolyevna.
Ksenia Sobchak - Biography of personal life
Xenia's personal life has always been held in front of the general public. So, everyone knows that in 2005 Sobchak was going to marry a businessman from America, Alexander Shusterovich, but suddenly, 5 days before the wedding ceremony itself, this event was canceled. It is believed that Ksenia Anatolyevna herself initiated the breakup.
In 2010, Ksenia begins dating Sergei Kapkov, who at that time was the head of the Moscow Department of Culture. He, being on the program "Let them talk", publicly confessed his love to Xenia. But this relationship could only last one more year.
Immediately after breaking up with Sergei Kapkov, Sobchak began dating Ilya Yashin, a politician. Together they appeared at events, and at secular parties, and on television programs. This relationship was destined to last only six months.
She never ceases to leave the TV screens, warming up the interest of the public of different ages.
Some love it, even more criticize it. Thanks to both the first and the second, she manages to constantly be in the spotlight. Having become acquainted with the main points of her, you may understand the reason for certain of her actions.
Childhood and education
Ksenia Sobchak was born on November 5, 1981 in the family of a famous politician. Her father was Anatoly Sobchak, who at that time was the mayor of St. Petersburg. Lyudmila Borisovna - Ksyusha's mother, was a history teacher.
Ksenia Sobchak
As a child, Ksenia Sobchak was given a lot of attention, but she had a very obstinate and capricious character. Later, the parents complained that it was very difficult for them to raise their daughter because of her tough temper.
Little Ksyusha was engaged in painting, and also attended a ballet club at the Mariinsky Theater. She studied at school with in-depth study in English.
Since Xenia's father held an important position, influential people were always present in their house, discussing political topics, which undoubtedly influenced Sobchak's further biography.
By the way, under the leadership of Anatoly Sobchak, they also worked at that time.
In 1998, Ksenia entered St. Petersburg State University at the Faculty of International Relations. After 2 years, she is transferred to MGIMO, due to moving to.
In 2004, Ksenia Sobchak graduated with honors, being fluent in French, Spanish and English.
Television and journalism
For the first time on television, Ksenia Sobchak appears in 2004, in the role of one of the hosts of the famous TV show "Dom-2". This project made her really popular throughout the country, although later it became more of a dark spot in her biography.
In parallel with this, she starred in videos with great artists, hosts various TV shows and communicates with the most influential people in Russia. It is interesting that no matter what show Ksenia took part in, they immediately began to rise in the rankings.
Films and scandals
Ksenia's first experience in cinema was the film "Thieves and Prostitutes", filmed in 2004. In the film "Hitler Kaput", she played the role of a mistress.
In 2012, she was invited to shoot the documentary "The Term", which showed the events in Russia after the 2012 elections.
Ksenia Sobchak repeatedly quarreled with Katya Gordon, Tina Kandelaki and ex-ballerina Anastasia Volochkova.
In 2015, another serious scandal on religious grounds occurred with her participation. Photos of Xenia dressed in a priest's costume appeared on the Internet. The secular lioness was immediately accused of insulting the feelings of believers.
Books
The biography of Ksenia Sobchak gives us every right to say that regardless of her human features, she is a pretty smart woman. Ksenia Anatolyevna is the author of 6 books covering a variety of topics.
The literary activity of the novice writer caused a storm of criticism. Some experts acknowledged that Ksenia has a good sense of humor, while others called for refusing to read her books. Whatever it was, but she once again managed to attract attention.
Political activity
According to the radio station "Echo of Moscow", in 2011 Ksenia was among the ten most influential women in Russia.
She often takes part in rallies, arguing that she has an oppositional attitude towards President Putin. However, these events, of course, have a negative impact on the career of a TV presenter.
On June 12, 2012, Sobchak's apartment is searched and a substantial amount of money is seized, which, after verification, are returned to her.
Personal life
The personal life of Ksenia Sobchak is closely watched by journalists and "paparazzi". Ksyusha's ill-wishers often reproach her for her appearance, calling the TV presenter a horse.
Constant gossip about herself and about her relationships with men does not in any way upset Xenia. Sobchak herself admits that her family life is far from ideal. This is not surprising, because according to her biography, at the age of 17 she left home and lived in a civil marriage with a man.
In 2005, Ksenia's wedding with businessman Alexander Shustrovich was to take place, but the bride suddenly changed her mind, and the ceremony did not take place.
In 2012, news began to appear in the press about a romance between Ksenia and politician Ilya Yashin. Later, the couple admitted that they were dating, but after six months their union broke up.
In 2013, unexpectedly for everyone, it became known that Ksenia was marrying actor Maxim Vitorgan. And although many ill-wishers said that their marriage would fail, the couple still remains together.
Ksenia Sobchak today
In 2016, Ksenia had a son, Plato. Gossip began to appear in the press as to who the real father of this child was. Despite all the attacks from his opponents, Sobchak still lives happily with her husband.
At the end of 2017, an important event took place in the biography of Ksenia Sobchak. She announced that she would run in the 2018 presidential election.
There are eight candidates in total: Vladimir Putin, Ksenia Sobchak, and.
Ksenia Sobchak said that she no longer wanted to be silent and publicly indicated her position "against everyone." She calls on the citizens of her country to vote for her in order to remove annoying faces from power.
Sobchak makes a special emphasis on the fact that she does not belong to any political party. Ksenia considers the fight against total theft within the state to be one of her main goals.
In his speeches, the presidential candidate does not call on the people to revolution, but offers a liberal approach to discussing certain burning issues.
At one of her video conferences, Sobchak said that she wants to release political prisoners. According to the politician himself, her past associated with television is a frequent reason for harassment by ill-wishers.
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The politician and mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Alexandrovich Sobchak, whose cause of death is still periodically the subject of publications in the media, lived an eventful and vibrant life. He was a model of decency and political integrity, he had a unique ability to see the potential of people and contribute to its realization. Sobchak's activities left a significant mark on Russian history, and his descendants will remember his name for a long time to come.
Origin and family
Anatoly Sobchak himself always defined his nationality as "Russian", but his family had a very complex ethnic origin. Paternal grandfather Anton Semenovich Sobchak was a Pole, came from an impoverished family. In his youth, he happened to fall passionately in love with a Czech girl named Anna from a rather wealthy bourgeois family. Her parents categorically did not want to see a poor nobleman as a son-in-law, and Anton had no choice but to steal the bride, especially since she herself did not mind. To hide from the chase, the couple leaves for an unknown country, Russia. The marriage turned out to be very happy, but Anna dreamed of starting her own business all her life, the couple saved up money for many years, when the goal was already close, Anton Semenovich lost the entire accumulated amount in a casino in one sitting. He was a very enthusiastic and passionate person. In addition to the passion for the game, he indulged in political activities with great fire - he was a member of the Cadets. Before his death, as the Sobchakov family legend says, the grandmother called Anatoly and ordered him to swear that he would never play in a casino and engage in politics. The little boy did not understand anything about politics, so he solemnly took an oath that he would not play, but kept silent about politics. And all his life he never sat down at the gambling table. But it did not work out with politics, he clearly surpassed his grandfather in political passion. Anatoly's maternal grandfather was Russian, and his grandmother was Ukrainian. Sobchak's father was a transport network engineer, and his mother was an accountant. The marriage was successful, but the times were difficult.
Childhood
Anatoly Sobchak was born in Chita on August 10, 1937, besides him, there were three more children in the family, one brother, however, died at the age of 2. The family lived in Kokand, the conditions were very difficult. In 1939, grandfather Anton was arrested. In 1941, Anatoly's father went to the front, and his mother alone pulled the family, which had three small children and two old grandmothers. At the same time, children were brought up strictly, but they were never punished or shouted at them. Sobchak recalled that they always called their parents on you, although this was alien to the environment in which they lived. But the origin made itself felt, the dignity and decency of the Sobchaks were in the blood. With the outbreak of war, an order came to their city to urgently send all Poles to Siberia. Neighbors and a friend, the head of the local administration, came to the head of the family and said that he had passport forms and he would help them change their nationality. So they became Russian. Although Anatoly Alexandrovich later always said that he considers himself Russian, and not only in language, but also in his love for this country. As a child, the boy read a lot, the benefit of the book was given to him by a professor evacuated from Leningrad, from whom he was imbued with a special love for the northern capital.
Education
Anatoly studied very well at school, he always participated in public life, obeyed teachers and parents. He had two nicknames. One is a professor due to the fact that he knew a lot and loved to read. The second is the judge, because from childhood he had a strong sense of justice. In the certificate at the end of school, he had only two fours: in geometry and Russian. After school, Anatoly Sobchak, whose biography began in Uzbekistan, enters the Tashkent University at the Faculty of Law. But later he decided to leave for Leningrad. And in 1956 he transferred to Leningrad University. Sobchak was an excellent student, he showed great diligence and received a Lenin scholarship. The professors loved Anatoly for his serious attitude to study and diligence.
Legal career
After the university, Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak, whose biography has been associated with jurisprudence for many years, leaves for the Stavropol Territory by distribution. Despite the fact that he studied well, he did not manage to be distributed to Leningrad. In the Stavropol Territory, Sobchak began working as a lawyer. He lived in a small village, he had to rent housing. Local grandmothers went to his trials with pleasure to listen to how he “pityfully” speaks. Later, he goes to work as the head of legal advice. But such work was clearly too small for such a strong lawyer.
Scientist career
In 1962 Anatoly Alexandrovich returned to Leningrad. He entered graduate school and in 1964 he defended his Ph.D. thesis in civil law. In parallel, he begins to work at the Police School, where he teaches legal disciplines. In 1968, he went to work at the Institute of the Pulp and Paper Industry, where he held the position of assistant professor. In 1973, he again changes his job, this time he returns to his native university. In the same year, he tries to defend his doctoral dissertation, but does not pass the approval procedure in the HAC. Later, Sobchak still becomes a doctor of law and a professor. He becomes the dean of the Faculty of Law, and later heads the Department of Economic Law. He has worked at LSU for over 20 years. All these years he was active in scientific work, supervised the writing of dissertations, published scientific articles and monographs. In 1997, Sobchak had to return to his scientific and teaching activities. He lived in Paris for almost two years, where he taught at the Sorbonne, wrote articles and memoirs, and published several scientific papers.
Political activity
In 1989, Anatoly Sobchak, whose biography makes a turn, is actively involved in the political changes taking place in the country. He participates in elections and becomes a people's deputy. During the First Congress of People's Deputies, he was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, where he was engaged in a familiar area - economic legislation. He was also a member of the inter-regional group of deputies representing the democratic opposition to the current party. In 1990, Sobchak became a deputy of the Leningrad City Council and at the very first meeting he was elected Chairman of the Leningrad City Council. He spoke a lot in the media, defending left-liberal views, and actively criticized the Soviet government and its forms of management. At that time, these were very popular slogans, and on this Sobchak began to quickly make a career. In 1991, he became one of the initiators of the creation of the Democratic Reform Movement.
Mayor of St. Petersburg
In 1991, Sobchak became the first mayor of Leningrad. Anatoly Aleksandrovich, as mayor, was very popular with the city's inhabitants. The surname of Anatoly Sobchak evoked positive associations among most Petersburgers, because he began positive transformations in the city, kept it from the chaos of lawlessness and poverty, which at that time struck many cities of the country. He attracted humanitarian aid from abroad to prevent famine, which really threatened the city. The mayor's activities did not delight everyone, he was reproached and accused of many things. Not everyone liked his personal character and management style, and he began to have conflicts with local legislators.
Team Sobchak
While working as the mayor, Anatoly Alexandrovich was able to gather around him a unique team of managers. He brought to power a whole galaxy of students, comrades-in-arms, who today make up the majority of the country's ruling elite. So, it was he who brought his former student Sobchak to the government of St. Petersburg, Dmitry Medvedev, who actively helped his supervisor to conduct an election campaign for people's deputies in 1989. Later, Anatoly Alexandrovich hired him to work at the mayor's office as an assistant to the deputy mayor for external relations. And this manager was none other than Vladimir Putin. Sobchak began to cooperate with him back in 1991 in the Leningrad City Council. Anatoly Alexandrovich also brought a young reformer to the government of St. Petersburg; he worked as an economic adviser to the mayor. Another graduate student of Sobchak, German Gref, also received a position in the mayor's office, he was engaged in property management. Also in the team of Anatoly Alexandrovich worked such now-famous characters as Alexei Miller, Vladimir Mutko, Alexei Kudrin, Viktor Zubkov, Sergei Naryshkin.
Political intrigues
Anatoly Sobchak, a biography whose personal history is full of ups, also knew big defeats. In 1996, mayoral elections were held in St. Petersburg, which were accompanied by a fierce struggle. Tons of compromising evidence were poured on Sobchak, he was accused of all kinds of sins: from diamonds and fur coats of his wife to the possession of some unprecedented real estate and receiving bribes. In those elections, Vladimir Putin was the head of Sobchak's campaign headquarters. Anatoly Alexandrovich lost the election to his colleague and deputy Vladimir Yakovlev. Immediately after this fiasco, a real war began against the Sobchak team. They began to really poison him, many former friends turned away from him. In 1997, he was first brought in as a witness in a bribery case at the mayor's office, and then he was charged with abuse of authority and taking bribes. Enemies called bribes what was help to the city from various organizations and businessmen.
Achievements
Anatoly Sobchak, whose political career is still of interest to the public, is remembered by many as the man who returned St. Petersburg to its historical name. But, besides this, he made a great contribution to the creation of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, did a lot for the formation of a democratic opposition in the country. He returned the status of the cultural capital to St. Petersburg, laid the foundation for the tradition of holding many city festivals and holidays, and brought the Goodwill Games to St. Petersburg.
Awards
Anatoly Sobchak, whose biography and life are an example of selfless service to his Fatherland, received many prizes and prizes, but he had no state awards, except for a medal for the 300th anniversary of the Russian fleet. He was an honorary professor of 9 universities of the world, an honorary citizen of 6 different territories of the world.
Death
Lost elections, unfair accusations led to the fact that Anatoly Sobchak had three heart attacks in a short period. This, apparently, allowed him to avoid arrest. In 1997, he leaves for Paris, where he improves his health, and then remains to work. In 1999, the criminal prosecution of Sobchak was terminated and he returned to Russia. He again ran for mayor, but again failed. In 2000, Anatoly Alexandrovich became a confidant of V. Putin, a candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation. He needed to go to Kaliningrad on business, but he did not have time to get there. On February 20, 2000, he died in the town of Svetlogorsk. There were many rumors and speculation about how Anatoly Sobchak died. But the investigation proved that there was no poisoning or intoxication, his heart simply could not stand it.
Memory
When Anatoly Alexandrovich Sobchak died, whose biography was full of trials and strong decisions, people realized what kind of person they had lost, and suddenly a wave of honors arose for him. The monument erected on his grave was created by Mikhail Shemyakin. In honor of Anatoly Alexandrovich, several memorial plaques are erected, a monument in St. Petersburg, a postage stamp is issued, a square in St. Petersburg is named after him.
Personal life
Anatoly Sobchak, a biography whose personal life still interests many people today, was married twice. He met his first wife Nonna back in Kokand. They got married when Sobchak was a student. His wife lived with him the most difficult years of formation, poverty, homelessness. They lived together for over 20 years. The second wife supported her husband in his political ambitions. She herself implemented several public projects in St. Petersburg, held several different positions at the mayor's office. Sobchak was so bright and charismatic that women were very drawn to him. Even when he worked as a teacher, students often wrote letters to him with declarations of love. Rumor attributed to him many novels, up to Claudia Schiffer. He himself only laughed in response.
Children of Anatoly Sobchak
Anatoly Sobchak, whose biography was filled with work and politics, was a good father. He had a daughter in each marriage. The eldest daughter Anna gave birth to his grandson Gleb, whom Sobchak adored. The youngest daughter Ksenia is now known to everyone as a TV presenter and journalist.
