In 1976 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University.
In 1976-1988 he worked at the Novosti Press Agency.
In 1988-1990 - in the weekly Moscow News.
In 1990-2001 - editor-in-chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta (he was replaced by Tatyana Koshkareva).
Since 2001, the host of the program “What to do?” on the TV channel "Culture".
In 2006-2007 - editor-in-chief of the weekly Moscow News. General Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Independent Publishing Group NIG (since 2001).
In December 2007, Vitaly Tretyakov received an offer from the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Sergei Mironov to take the post of editor-in-chief of the Parliamentary Newspaper, to which he agreed, but in March 2008 the leadership of the State Duma refused to approve Tretyakov for this post.
Awards
- Winner of the Golden Pen award of the Union of Journalists of Russia (1997).
- Laureate of the Russian Biographical Institute Prize.
- Winner of the TEFI Prize (2003).
- Recipient of the Golden Badge of Honor “Public Recognition” (1999).
Books
- “Russian politics and politicians are normal and pathological. A look at Russian politics in 1990-2000." - M.: Ladomir, 2001. - 863 p. - ISBN 5-86218-410-4 - Prize of the Ministry of Press and Television and Radio Communications of Russia for the best book of 2001.
- “Scientific and educational notebooks of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. Notebook No. 2, January - June 2010”, Compiled by V.T. Tretyakov. - M.: Algorithm-Book, 2010. - 325 p. - ISBN 978-5-9265-0770-3
- "Philanthropy in Soviet society." - M.: Publishing House of the Novosti Press Agency, 1985. - 80 p. - Released in English, French, German and Spanish.
- “How to become a famous journalist. A course of lectures on the theory and practice of modern Russian journalism.” - M.: Algorithm, Eksmo, 2004. - 623 p. - ISBN 5-86218-451-1 - Prize of the Russian State Library and the Russian Biographical Institute for the best book of 2004 in the “Journalism” category.
- “The science of being Russia. Our national interests and ways to realize them." - M.: Russkiy Mir, 2007. - 766 p. - ISBN 978-5-89577-109-9 - Prize of the Russian Association of Political Science.
- “Do we need Putin after 2008?” - M.: IIC "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", 2005. - 184 p. - ISBN 5-94829-017-4
- “Gorbachev, Ligachev, Yeltsin. Political portraits against the backdrop of perestroika.” - M.: Book Museum "A-Z", 1990. - 69 p. - ISBN 5-85030-012-0
- "What to do?". - M.: Algorithm, Eksmo, 2009. - 304 p. - ISBN 978-5-699-34632-5
- "Spineless Russia". - M.: "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", "Moscow News", 2006. - 544 p. - ISBN 5-94829-018-2
- “Scientific and educational notebooks of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. Notebook No. 1, September – December 2009”, Compiled by V.T. Tretyakov. - M.: Algorithm-Book, 2010. - 256 p. - ISBN 978-5-9265-0767-3
- "Titus Sovietologists. Their struggle for power. Essays on the idiocy of Russian politics." - M.: Publishing house "Nezavisimaya Gazeta", 1996. - 192 p. - ISBN 5-86712-026-0
- “How to become a famous journalist. A course of lectures on the theory and practice of modern Russian journalism.” - M.: Algorithm, 2010. - 560 p. - ISBN 978-5-9265-0768-0.
A television
- Vitaly Tretyakov’s journalistic program “What to do? Philosophical Conversations” is shown on the “Culture” TV channel on Sundays. The program start time varies in each television season, but is usually somewhere from 14:45 to 15:15 Moscow time. The duration of the program is 45 minutes. As a rule, there is a break in the summer, as well as during the New Year holidays. Recordings of the program are regularly posted on the torrent tvtorrent.ru.
Family status
Married, has a son.
Interview
- Interview with Tbiliselebi magazine, August 2009, in Georgian Retrieved January 19, 2010
- Interview with the Rzeczpospolita newspaper, September 2009, in Polish Retrieved January 19, 2010.
- V. Tretyakov was introduced in the ironic detective stories of Lev Gursky under the name of the editor-in-chief of Svobodnaya Gazeta, Viktor Noevich Morozov.
- In modern television history, he is the only television presenter to appear on camera with a broken arm after a car accident that occurred in September 2009 in Abkhazia.
- Speaks French.
- Hobbies: Russian classical and world literature, Russian history, theater, collecting art albums.
The famous Russian political scientist, journalist and public figure is famous for his harsh statements on pressing issues of modern life and the history of the country. Vitaly Tretyakov is engaged in teaching at the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University. He is the owner and editor-in-chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta and the author and host of an interesting program on the Culture channel.
Origin
Vitaly Tovievich Tretyakov was born on January 2, 1953 in the capital of the country, Moscow. In a simple Soviet family. Father, Toviy Alekseevich Tretyakov, is an engineer, head of production at a pilot plant, and a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Mom, Nina Ivanovna Tretyakova, was a factory worker all her life. The journalist himself emphasizes that he is from a simple family - not an intellectual one. However, the ancestors on my father’s side were prosecutors and priests, and on my mother’s side they were mainly teachers and doctors. His grandfather, a village priest, was repressed and executed in 1937.
On his father's side he comes from among the Old Believers (according to family tradition). His grandfather Alexei Tretyakov worked in pre-revolutionary times as the personal driver of the famous millionaire Ryabushinsky. In Soviet times, he became the head of a workshop at ZIL (then the Stalin automobile plant, then Likhachev).
"I'm Russian and I'm proud of it"
Thanks to his unusual patronymic, Vitaly Tretyakov is often mistaken for a Jew. In his memoirs, he writes that the unusual middle name did not cause any particular trouble. Because I’m used to being constantly distorted. I met my patronymic in a variety of spellings: Tuvievich, Tofievich, Todievich, Dodievich, Iovlievich, Tolyevich and even the natural Anatolyevich...
According to family legends, my paternal grandmother Evdokia Mikhailovna gave birth to six boys, but always dreamed of a girl. During her seventh pregnancy, her dream reached its climax. She even came up with a name for the girl, and not a simple one, but a literary one - Zemfira, according to Pushkin. However, she again gave birth to a boy, whom she named out of disappointment after a little-known biblical saint - Tobias. So grandmother Evdokia protested against the injustice of fate. And in a purely Russian family a boy appeared with an ordinary Jewish name. According to another family legend, Evdokia Mikhailovna decided not to invent something herself, but simply found the most tricky name in the calendar.
early years
In his childhood, Vitaly Tretyakov loved to read; at an early age he read Don Quixote and almost all of Dreiser. He still has three books inherited from his father as a child - a biography of Joseph Stalin, his selected speeches and speeches during the Great Patriotic War, and a volume from the collected works of Gogol (selected correspondence).
Vitaly Tovievich studied at secondary school No. 477, which was located on Bolshaya Kommunisticheskaya (now Alexander Solzhenitsyn Street). On holidays, schoolchildren were taken on excursions to Red Square. One of the most memorable impressions of Tretyakov’s childhood was a visit to the Mausoleum; he saw Lenin alone (in civilian clothes), and together with Stalin (in a ceremonial jacket with many awards). The “mummies” of the leaders did not evoke any special emotions in the little boy.
The beginning of journalistic activity
After graduating from the prestigious Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University in 1976, he was assigned to the Novosti news agency. In 1988, he went to work at the editorial office of the Moscow News newspaper, where he worked until 1990. Worked his way up from columnist to deputy editor-in-chief.
With the beginning of perestroika, he created Nezavisimaya Gazeta, where he worked as editor-in-chief until 2001. In 1995, one of his deputies, Alexander Gagua, with the support of an oligarch from the “seven bankers” tried to take away the newspaper. Only thanks to the financial and forceful support of Boris Berezovsky did he manage to maintain control over the publication.
Vitaly Tretyakov noted in his “Political Diary” that he personally knew many of the reformers of the 90s, and was even friends with some. Therefore, the results of the reforms being carried out were a grave disappointment for him. Despite this, liberal values are still close to him, but Tretyakov now stipulates that they do not destroy natural values.
On the channel "Culture"
Since 2001, he moved to the position of General Director of the Independent Publishing Group NIG company, which he himself was the owner of. In the same year he began hosting the program “What to do?” on the "Culture" channel, which became one of the first political talk shows in the country. The main goal of the program was to introduce intellectualism, a discussion of current political problems free from the current situation.
One of Tretyakov’s first guests was Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, the current patriarch. Since then, the best Russian political scientists, scientists and famous specialists have taken part in the program. As viewers note, the program has become a genuine encyclopedia of Russian thought, in which many intellectuals of the country took part. In 2003, the project “What to do?” received the TEFI television award as the best journalistic program.
Television School
From 2005 to 2009, he published 60 issues of the Political Class magazine, where he was publisher and editor-in-chief. In 2008, he organized the Higher School (Faculty) of Television at Moscow State University, which he has headed since then to the present. He teaches journalism at various higher educational institutions. He considers it historically wrong that Russian universities focus only on Western journalism textbooks. He tells his students that they need to study not only classical Western theories of journalism, but also Marxist-Leninist ones.
In recent decades, he has been constantly and actively publishing on various social networks from LiveJournal (Political Diary of Vitaly Tretyakov) to Twitter. In his posts he expresses views on the most pressing problems. He has written several dozen books: from textbooks on the theory of journalism and television to political science works.
personal information
The private life of Vitaly Tretyakov has long been established and quite prosperous. He is married, his wife is Olga Tretyakova. The couple already has an adult son.
He considers Yevgeny Primakov and Orthodox Patriarch Kirill to be outstanding modern political thinkers. He greatly appreciates the work of the philosopher Alexander Dugin and the activities and works of the political scientist Andranik Migranyan.
The journalist’s immediate plans are to resume work on the third part of his memoirs, which will tell about his own life, as well as society and the country. He wants to record on paper and convey to the audience his thoughts and details of modern political life. He also plans to write a second book about Vladimir Putin (the first was published in 2005) and continue to keep the “Political Diary of Vitaly Tretyakov” on LiveJournal.
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Vitaly Tovievich Tretyakov (January 2 1953 , Moscow) - Russian journalist, political scientist, author and host of the television program “What to do? Philosophical Conversations" on the TV channel "Culture", Dean of the Higher School (Faculty) of Television of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosova, General Director-Editor-in-Chief of the Independent Publishing Group NIG, Editor-in-Chief of the Political Class magazine, General Director of the Medialogy Foundation for the Promotion of Education in the Field of Journalism.
Biography
WITH 2004- Honorary Professor of the Russian-Armenian (Slavic) State University in Yerevan, Armenia.
From to 2008 Member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for promoting the development of civil society institutions and human rights.
Member of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP), Moscow.
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of CIS Countries (Moscow).
WITH 2005 Member of the Editorial Board of the Journalist magazine.
Head of the Sociological Service “Vox populi-T”. Together with Professor Boris Grushin (d. 2007), he is the author and director of the long-term sociological projects “100 Most Influential Politicians in Russia” (monthly surveys from January 1993 to 2011) and “100 Experts of Russia” (quarterly surveys from May 2000 to 2005).
Many of V. Tretyakov’s texts are posted on the website of the Independent Publishing Group NIG, which belongs to him. There are also active links to the main sites with which V. Tretyakov works on the Internet.
Author of more than 2,500 articles in various collections, as well as in publications of the Novosti Press Agency, Moscow News, Nezavisimaya Gazeta and its supplements, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Izvestia, magazines “Political Class”, “World Energy Policy”, “Expert”, “Journalist”, “Profile”, “Strategy of Russia”, “Free Thought-XXI”, magazine “Limes” (Italy), newspaper “Figaro” (France) ) and other Russian and foreign media.
Awards
Bibliography
- "Philanthropy in Soviet society." - M.: Publishing house of the Novosti Press Agency, 1985. - 80 p.- Released in English, French, German and Spanish.
- “Gorbachev, Ligachev, Yeltsin. Political portraits against the backdrop of perestroika.” - M.: Book Museum "A-Z", 1990. - 69 p. - ISBN 5-85030-012-0
- "Titus Sovietologists. Their struggle for power. Essays on the idiocy of Russian politics." - M.: Publishing house "Nezavisimaya Gazeta", 1996. - 192 p. - ISBN 5-86712-026-0
- “Russian politics and politicians are normal and pathological. A look at Russian politics in 1990-2000." - M.: Ladomir, 2001. - 863 p. - ISBN 5-86218-410-4 - Prize of the Ministry of Press and Television and Radio Communications of Russia for the best book of 2001.
- “How to become a famous journalist. A course of lectures on the theory and practice of modern Russian journalism.” - M.: Algorithm, Eksmo, 2004. - 623 p. - ISBN 5-86218-451-1 - Prize of the Russian State Library and the Russian Biographical Institute for the best book of 2004 in the “Journalism” category.
- “Do we need Putin after 2008?” - M.: IIC "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", 2005. - 184 p. - ISBN 5-94829-017-4
- "Spineless Russia". - M.: "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", "Moscow News", 2006. - 544 p. - ISBN 5-94829-018-2
- “The science of being Russia. Our national interests and ways to realize them." - M.: Russkiy Mir, 2007. - 766 p. - ISBN 978-5-89577-109-9 - Prize of the Russian Association of Political Science.
- "What to do?". - M.: Algorithm, Eksmo, 2009. - 304 p. - ISBN 978-5-699-34632-5
- “Scientific and educational notebooks of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. Notebook No. 1, September – December 2009”, Compiled by V.T. Tretyakov. - M.: Algorithm-Book, 2010. - 256 p. - ISBN 978-5-9265-0767-3
- “How to become a famous journalist. A course of lectures on the theory and practice of modern Russian journalism.” - M.: Algorithm, 2010. - 560 p. - ISBN 978-5-9265-0768-0 .
- “Scientific and educational notebooks of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. Notebook No. 2, January - June 2010”, Compiled by V.T. Tretyakov. - M.: Algorithm-Book, 2010. - 325 p. - ISBN 978-5-9265-0770-3
Interview
- Interview with Tbiliselebi magazine, August 2009, in Georgian Retrieved January 19, 2010
- Interview with the Rzeczpospolita newspaper, September 2009, in Polish Retrieved January 19, 2010.
A television
- Vitaly Tretyakov’s journalistic program “What to do? Philosophical Conversations” is shown on the “Culture” TV channel on Sundays. The program start time varies in each television season, but is usually somewhere from 14:45 to 15:15 Moscow time. The duration of the program is 45 minutes. As a rule, there is a break in the summer, as well as during the New Year holidays. Recordings of the program are regularly posted on the torrent tvtorrent.ru. Since the end of 2011, also on the channel in YouTube.
Family status
Married, has a son.
Notes
Presence in virtual space
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), General Director of the Foundation for the Promotion of Education in the Field of Journalism “Medialogy” (from 2008 to the present).
Biography
Born in Moscow in the family of Toviy Alekseevich Tretyakov (born in 1926), an engineer, participant in the Great Patriotic War, and Nina Ivanovna Tretyakova (born in 1927), a worker.
Career
Other biographical facts
Some awards and prizes
The list is not complete.
| Year | Award or bonus |
|---|---|
| 1997 | Laureate of the “Golden Pen of Russia” award from the Union of Journalists of Russia |
| 1999 | Recipient of the Golden Badge of Honor "Public Recognition" |
| 2001 | Prize of the Ministry of Press and Television and Radio Communications of Russia for the best book of the year |
| 2003 | Winner of the TEFI Award for the best journalistic program of the year |
| 2004 | Laureate of the Russian Biographical Institute Prize for the best book of the year in the “Journalism” category |
| 2014 | Laureate of the national Telegrand award |
Bibliography
Books
- Vladimir Gurevich, Vitaly Tretyakov.“Seventieth anniversary of Soviet power. 1917-1987". - Belgrade, 1987.- The book was published in Serbo-Croatian.
- "Philanthropy in Soviet society." - M.: Publishing house of the Novosti Press Agency, 1989. - 80 p.- Released in English, French, German and Spanish.
- “Gorbachev, Ligachev, Yeltsin. Political portraits against the backdrop of perestroika.” - M.: Book Museum "A-Z", 1990. - 69 p. - ISBN 5-85030-012-0.
- "Titus Sovietologists. Their struggle for power. Essays on the idiocy of Russian politics." - M.: Publishing house "Nezavisimaya Gazeta", 1996. - 192 p. - ISBN 5-86712-026-0.
- “Russian politics and politicians are normal and pathological. A look at Russian politics in 1990-2000." - M.: Ladomir, 2001. - 863 p. - ISBN 5-86218-410-4.- Prize 2001.
- “How to become a famous journalist. A course of lectures on the theory and practice of modern Russian journalism.” - M.: Algorithm, Eksmo, 2004. - 623 p. - ISBN 5-86218-451-1.- Prize 2004.
- “Do we need Putin after 2008?” - M.: IIC "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", 2005. - 184 p. - ISBN 5-94829-017-4.
- "Spineless Russia". - M.: "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", "Moscow News", 2006. - 544 p. - ISBN 5-94829-018-2.
- “The science of being Russia. Our national interests and ways to realize them." - M.: Russkiy Mir, 2007. - 766 p. - ISBN 978-5-89577-109-9.- Prize of the Russian Association of Political Science.
- "What to do?". - M.: Algorithm, Eksmo, 2009. - 304 p. - ISBN 978-5-699-34632-5.
- “How to become a famous journalist. A course of lectures on the theory and practice of modern Russian journalism.” - M.: Algorithm, 2010. - 560 p. - ISBN 978-5-9265-0768-0.
- “Modern problems of Russian journalism. (Selected University Lectures; issue 121).” - St. Petersburg: Publishing house of the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions, 2011. - 56 p. - ISBN 978-5-7621-0599-6.
- “From the USSR to Russia and back. Memories. Childhood and adolescence. Part 1. Great Communist (1953-1964)". - M.: Ladomir, 2013. - 248 p. - ISBN 978-5-86218-509-6.
- “From the USSR to Russia and back. Memories. Childhood and adolescence. Part 2. Knyazhekozlovsky Lane (1964-1968). Part 3. Pioneer camp. Fluent vocabulary of the 50s and 60s of the XX century.)". - M.: Ladomir, 2014. - 614 p. - ISBN 978-5-86218-520-1.
- “Theory of television: TV as neo-paganism and as carnival. Lecture course". - M.: Ladomir, 2015. - 664 p. - ISBN 978-5-86218-530-0.
- “How to become famous on television. All the secrets of TV, including the worst ones." - M.: Ladomir, 2015. - 450 p. - ISBN 978-5-00000-000-0.– the book is planned for publication in the third quarter of 2015.
- “Conflict with the West. Lessons and consequences." - M.: Eksmo, 2015. - 256 p. - ISBN 978-5-906817-02-0.
- "Political aphorisms and maxims." - M., 2016. - 200 p. - ISBN 978-5-00000-000-0.- will be released in the second half of 2016.
Some articles in magazines and collections
The list is not complete.
- “Scientific and educational notebooks of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. Notebook No. 1, September – December 2009,” Compiled by V.T. Tretyakov. - M.: Algorithm-Book, 2010. - 256 p. - ISBN 978-5-9265-0767-3.
- “Scientific and educational notebooks of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. Notebook No. 2, January - June 2010,” Compiled by V.T. Tretyakov. - M.: Algorithm-Book, 2010. - 325 p. - ISBN 978-5-9265-0770-3.# “Future virtual communism and hypnovision: On mass television and mass politics” // Polis Magazine. Political Studies", 2014. No. 4. P. 9-20.
- “The specifics of television as an audiovisual media” // Journalist. Social communications". 2014. No. 2. P. 79-97.
- “The phenomenon of television, or What program is Bernard Shaw hosting? Excerpt from the monograph “Theory of Television” // Journalist Magazine. 2014. No. 5. P. 61-62.
- “The phenomenon of television-2, or What program is Bernard Shaw hosting? Excerpt from the monograph “Theory of Television” // Journalist Magazine. 2014. No. 6. P. 53-54.
- “What is television? Version of the answer" // Magazine "Art of Cinema". 2014. No. 4. P. 120-129.
Author of more than 2,500 articles in various Russian and foreign periodicals and collections, in the publications of the Novosti Press Agency, Moscow News, Nezavisimaya Gazeta and its supplements, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Komsomolskaya Pravda , “Izvestia”, magazines “Political Class”, “World Energy Policy”, “Expert”, “Journalist”, “Profile”, “Strategy of Russia”, “Free Thought-XXI”, magazine “Limes” (Italy), newspaper "Figaro" (France).
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Married, has a son Artemy.
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“The remedy is European equilibrium and droit des gens [international law],” said the abbot. – It is necessary for one powerful state, like Russia, glorified for barbarism, to become selflessly at the head of an alliance aimed at the balance of Europe – and it will save the world!– How do you find such a balance? - Pierre began; but at that time Anna Pavlovna approached and, looking sternly at Pierre, asked the Italian how he tolerated the local climate. The Italian's face suddenly changed and took on an offensively feigned sweet expression, which, apparently, was familiar to him in conversation with women.
“I am so fascinated by the charms of the mind and education of the society, especially the female one, into which I had the good fortune to be accepted that I have not yet had time to think about the climate,” he said.
Without letting the abbot and Pierre out, Anna Pavlovna, for ease of observation, added them to the general circle.
At this time, a new face entered the living room. The new face was the young Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, the husband of the little princess. Prince Bolkonsky was small in stature, a very handsome young man with definite and dry features. Everything about his figure, from his tired, bored look to his quiet, measured step, presented the sharpest contrast with his little, lively wife. Apparently, everyone in the living room was not only familiar to him, but he was so tired of it that he found it very boring to look at them and listen to them. Of all the faces that bored him, the face of his pretty wife seemed to bore him the most. With a grimace marring his handsome face, he turned away from her. He kissed Anna Pavlovna's hand and, squinting, looked around at the whole company.
– Vous vous enrolez pour la guerre, mon prince? [Are you going to war, prince?] - said Anna Pavlovna.
“Le general Koutouzoff,” said Bolkonsky, emphasizing the last syllable zoff, like a Frenchman, “a bien voulu de moi pour aide de camp... [General Kutuzov would like me to be his adjutant.]
- Et Lise, votre femme? [And Lisa, your wife?]
- She will go to the village.
- How is it not a sin for you to deprive us of your lovely wife?
“Andre, [Andrei,],” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same flirtatious tone in which she addressed strangers, “what a story the Viscount told us about m lle Georges and Bonaparte!”
Prince Andrei closed his eyes and turned away. Pierre, who had not taken his joyful, friendly eyes off him since Prince Andrey entered the living room, approached him and took him by the hand. Prince Andrei, without looking back, wrinkled his face into a grimace, expressing annoyance at the one who was touching his hand, but, seeing Pierre’s smiling face, he smiled with an unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile.
- That's how it is!... And you are in the big world! - he said to Pierre.
“I knew you would,” answered Pierre. “I’ll come to you for dinner,” he added quietly, so as not to disturb the Viscount, who continued his story. - Can?
“No, you can’t,” said Prince Andrei laughing, shaking his hand to let Pierre know that there was no need to ask this.
He wanted to say something else, but at that time Prince Vasily stood up with his daughter, and two young men stood up to give them way.
“Excuse me, my dear Viscount,” said Prince Vasily to the Frenchman, affectionately pulling him down by the sleeve to the chair so that he would not get up. “This unfortunate holiday at the envoy’s place deprives me of pleasure and interrupts you.” “I’m very sad to leave your delightful evening,” he said to Anna Pavlovna.
His daughter, Princess Helen, lightly holding the folds of her dress, walked between the chairs, and the smile shone even brighter on her beautiful face. Pierre looked with almost frightened, delighted eyes at this beauty as she passed by him.
“Very good,” said Prince Andrei.
“Very,” said Pierre.
Passing by, Prince Vasily grabbed Pierre's hand and turned to Anna Pavlovna.
“Give me this bear,” he said. “He’s been living with me for a month, and this is the first time I’ve seen him in the world.” A young man needs nothing more than the company of smart women.
Anna Pavlovna smiled and promised to take care of Pierre, who, she knew, was related to Prince Vasily on his father’s side. The elderly lady, who had previously been sitting ma tante, hastily stood up and caught up with Prince Vasily in the hallway. All the previous pretense of interest disappeared from her face. Her kind, tear-stained face expressed only anxiety and fear.
- What will you tell me, prince, about my Boris? – she said, catching up with him in the hallway. (She pronounced the name Boris with special emphasis on the o). – I can’t stay longer in St. Petersburg. Tell me, what news can I bring to my poor boy?
Despite the fact that Prince Vasily listened reluctantly and almost discourteously to the elderly lady and even showed impatience, she smiled tenderly and touchingly at him and, so that he would not leave, took his hand.
“What should you say to the sovereign, and he will be directly transferred to the guard,” she asked.
“Believe me, I will do everything I can, princess,” answered Prince Vasily, “but it’s difficult for me to ask the sovereign; I would advise you to contact Rumyantsev, through Prince Golitsyn: that would be smarter.
The elderly lady bore the name of Princess Drubetskaya, one of the best families in Russia, but she was poor, had long since left the world and had lost her previous connections. She has now come to secure a placement in the guard for her only son. Only then, in order to see Prince Vasily, did she introduce herself and come to Anna Pavlovna for the evening, only then did she listen to the Viscount’s story. She was frightened by the words of Prince Vasily; Once upon a time her beautiful face expressed anger, but this lasted only a minute. She smiled again and grabbed Prince Vasily’s hand more tightly.
“Listen, prince,” she said, “I never asked you, I will never ask you, I never reminded you of my father’s friendship for you.” But now, I conjure you by God, do this for my son, and I will consider you a benefactor,” she hastily added. - No, you are not angry, but you promise me. I asked Golitsyn, but he refused. Soyez le bon enfant que vous аvez ete, [Be the kind fellow you were,] she said, trying to smile, while there were tears in her eyes.
“Dad, we’ll be late,” said Princess Helen, who was waiting at the door, turning her beautiful head on her antique shoulders.
But influence in the world is capital, which must be protected so that it does not disappear. Prince Vasily knew this, and once he realized that if he began to ask for everyone who asked him, then soon he would not be able to ask for himself, he rarely used his influence. In the case of Princess Drubetskaya, however, after her new call, he felt something like a reproach of conscience. She reminded him of the truth: he owed his first steps in the service to her father. In addition, he saw from her methods that she was one of those women, especially mothers, who, once they have taken something into their heads, will not leave until their desires are fulfilled, and otherwise are ready for daily every minute harassment and even on stage. This last consideration shook him.
“Here Anna Mikhailovna,” he said with his usual familiarity and boredom in his voice, “it’s almost impossible for me to do what you want; but to prove to you how much I love you and honor the memory of your late father, I will do the impossible: your son will be transferred to the guard, here is my hand to you. Are you satisfied?
- My dear, you are a benefactor! I didn’t expect anything else from you; I knew how kind you were.
He wanted to leave.
- Wait, two words. Une fois passe aux gardes... [Once he joins the guard...] - She hesitated: - You are good with Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov, recommend Boris to him as an adjutant. Then I would be calm, and then I would...
Prince Vasily smiled.
- I don’t promise that. You don’t know how Kutuzov has been besieged since he was appointed commander-in-chief. He himself told me that all the Moscow ladies agreed to give him all their children as adjutants.
- No, promise me, I won’t let you in, my dear, my benefactor...
- Dad! - the beauty repeated again in the same tone, - we will be late.
- Well, au revoir, [goodbye,] goodbye. Do you see?
- So tomorrow you will report to the sovereign?
- Definitely, but I don’t promise Kutuzov.
“No, promise, promise, Basile, [Vasily,],” Anna Mikhailovna said after him, with the smile of a young coquette, which once must have been characteristic of her, but now did not suit her exhausted face.
She apparently forgot her years and, out of habit, used all the old feminine remedies. But as soon as he left, her face again took on the same cold, feigned expression that was on it before. She returned to the circle, in which the Viscount continued to talk, and again pretended to listen, waiting for the time to leave, since her work was done.
– But how do you find all this latest comedy du sacre de Milan? [Milan anointing?] - said Anna Pavlovna. Et la nouvelle comedie des peuples de Genes et de Lucques, qui viennent presenter leurs voeux a M. Buonaparte assis sur un throne, et exaucant les voeux des nations! Adorable! Non, mais c"est a en devenir folle! On dirait, que le monde entier a perdu la tete. [And here is a new comedy: the peoples of Genoa and Lucca express their desires to Mr. Bonaparte. And Mr. Bonaparte sits on the throne and fulfills the desires of the peoples. 0! this is amazing! No, you can go crazy from this. You will think that the whole world has lost its head.]
Prince Andrei grinned, looking straight into Anna Pavlovna’s face.
“Dieu me la donne, gare a qui la touche,” he said (the words Bonaparte said when laying on the crown). “On dit qu"il a ete tres beau en prononcant ces paroles, [God gave me the crown. Trouble is the one who touches it. “They say he was very good in saying these words,” he added and repeated these words again in Italian: “Dio mi la dona, guai a chi la tocca.”
“J"espere enfin," Anna Pavlovna continued, "que ca a ete la goutte d"eau qui fera deborder le verre. Les souverains ne peuvent plus supporter cet homme, qui menace tout. [I hope that this was finally the drop that overflows the glass. The sovereigns can no longer tolerate this man who threatens everything.]
– Les souverains? Je ne parle pas de la Russie,” said the Viscount politely and hopelessly: “Les souverains, madame!” Qu"ont ils fait pour Louis XVII, pour la reine, pour Madame Elisabeth? Rien,” he continued animatedly. “Et croyez moi, ils subissent la punition pour leur trahison de la cause des Bourbons. Les souverains? Ils envoient des ambassadeurs complimenter l"usurpateur. [Sirs! I'm not talking about Russia. Sirs! But what did they do for Louis XVII, for the queen, for Elizabeth? Nothing. And, believe me, they are being punished for their betrayal of the Bourbon cause. Sirs! They send envoys to greet the thief of the throne.]
And he, sighing contemptuously, changed his position again. Prince Hippolyte, who had been looking at the Viscount through his lorgnette for a long time, suddenly at these words turned his whole body to the little princess and, asking her for a needle, began to show her, drawing with a needle on the table, the coat of arms of Condé. He explained this coat of arms to her with such a significant air, as if the princess had asked him about it.
- Baton de gueules, engrele de gueules d "azur - maison Conde, [A phrase that is not translated literally, as it consists of conventional heraldic terms that are not used entirely accurately. The general meaning is this: The coat of arms of Conde represents a shield with red and blue narrow jagged stripes ,] - he said.
The princess listened, smiling.
“If Bonaparte remains on the throne of France for another year,” the Viscount continued the conversation that had begun, with the air of a man who does not listen to others, but in a matter that is best known to him, following only the course of his thoughts, “then things will go too far.” Through intrigue, violence, expulsions, executions, society, I mean good society, French, will be destroyed forever, and then...
He shrugged and spread his arms. Pierre wanted to say something: the conversation interested him, but Anna Pavlovna, who was watching him, interrupted.
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