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Tell me about the men in your life

Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:49 am
This was the last year of Gusinsky's empire. A year later, the masked shows began. We were sitting in Ostankino, and we received our salaries in the office on Pereslavsky Lane. My colleague and I were walking, and we saw that all the colleagues for some reason had their noses out the windows of the canteen and were waving at us, laughing. It seemed like everyone had gone crazy. We approached the huge doors, pulled, but they were heavier than usual. We were stubborn - we opened them. Along with the door, a riot policeman fell on us: "Do you work here, girls?" We all said in chorus: "No! We wanted to go to the toilet", and ran - to call the central office about the seizure of the building.

The Internet came to Novosibirsk earlier than to Moscow, usa mobile phone numbers database freely, quickly, as an applied tool. We were eagerly invited to management positions. So a month later, at the suggestion of Sasha Arkhangelsky, I was already working at Izvestia, with [Mikhail] Kozhokin. Probably the best of the media teams of the 2000s.


The first two men are my grandfather and my father. In general, the influence and significance of close men in my life is very great: grandfather, father, father-in-law, son, husband, brothers, uncle and friends. I have real male friends, and this is also of great value. The first one who influenced and shaped me was my father. My mother gave me an aesthetic education. Paintings, theaters, music, books. Everything academic in me is from my mother and grandfather. My grandfather believed that any educated Russian-speaking person should know "Eugene Onegin" by heart. I honestly learned three or four chapters at school, now I remember one and a half, and that was by peeking. Thanks to my grandfather and mother, I love and understand painting, theater, speech, the skill of following speech was hammered into me.

Grandfather was an endless and impeccable authority. I was the eldest granddaughter and after me there were no other grandchildren for several years. I got so much from my grandfather: love, knowledge, time, conversations. And I still read