The famous Russian political scientist, journalist and public figure is famous for his harsh statements on pressing issues of modern life and the country's history. 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 presenter of an interesting program on the Kultura 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, production manager at a pilot plant, a veteran of World War II. Mom, Nina Ivanovna Tretyakova, has been working at the plant all her life. The journalist himself emphasizes that he is from a simple family - not an intellectual one. However, the ancestors on the part of the father were prosecutors and priests, and on the part of the mother, mainly teachers and doctors. His grandfather, a village priest, was repressed and shot in 1937.
On the paternal side comes from the Old Believers (according to family tradition). His grandfather Alexei Tretyakov worked in pre-revolutionary times as a personal driver of the famous millionaire Ryabushinsky. In Soviet times, he became the head of the workshop at ZIL (then the automobile factory named after Stalin, then Likhachev).
"I am Russian and proud of it"
Thanks to the unusual middle name, Vitaly Tretyakov is often mistaken for a Jew. In his memoirs, he writes that the unusual middle name did not cause much trouble. Because I’m used to being constantly distorted. He met his patronymic in a variety of spellings: Tuvievich, Tofievich, Todievich, Dodievich, Iovlievich, Tolievich and even the natural Anatolyevich ...
According to family legends, the grandmother from the side of her father Evdokia Mikhailovna gave birth to six boys, but always dreamed of a girl. During the seventh pregnancy, her dream reached its climax. She even came up with a name for the girl, but not a simple one, but a literary one - Zemfira, according to Pushkin. However, she again gave birth to a boy, whom she named from disappointment after the name of a little-known biblical saint - Tobiah. So the grandmother Evdokia protested against the injustice of fate. And in a purely Russian family a boy appeared with the usual Jewish name. According to another family legend, Evdokia Mikhailovna decided not to invent something herself, but simply found the most intricate name in the holy calendar.
early years
In childhood, Vitaly Tretyakov was very fond of reading, at an early age he read Don Quixote and almost all of Dreiser. He still has three books that he inherited from his father as a child - a biography of Joseph Stalin, his own selected speeches and speeches during the Great Patriotic War, and that of Gogol’s collected works (selected correspondence).
Vitaly Tovievich studied at secondary school No. 477, which was located on the Great Communist Street (now Alexander Solzhenitsyn St.). On holidays, schoolchildren were taken on excursions to Red Square. One of the most memorable childhood impressions of Tretyakov was a visit to the Mausoleum, he saw Lenin alone (in civilian clothes), and together with Stalin (in a ceremonial tunic with many awards). The "mummy" leaders did not cause any special emotions in the little boy.
The beginning of journalistic activity
After graduating from the prestigious journalism faculty of Moscow State University in 1976, he was assigned to the Novosti news agency. In 1988, he joined the editorial office of the Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper, where he worked until 1990. He went from a browser to an assistant editor-in-chief.
With the beginning of perestroika, he created Nezavisimaya Gazeta, in which he worked as editor-in-chief until 2001. In 1995, one of his deputies, Alexander Gagua, with the support of an oligarch from the "Semibankirshchina", tried to select a newspaper. Only thanks to the financial and power support of Boris Berezovsky did he manage to maintain control over the publication.
Vitaly Tretyakov in his Political Diary noted that he personally knew many reformers of the 90s, and even made friends with some. Therefore, the results of the ongoing reforms were a serious disappointment for him. Despite this, liberal values ​​are still close to him, but Tretyakov now stipulates if they do not destroy the natural ones.
On the channel "Culture"
He joined the NIG Independent Publishing Group company, which he was the owner of since 2001. In the same year he began broadcasting “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 bring intellectualism, free from the current situation, discussion of pressing political problems.
One of the first guests of the Tretyakov was Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Cyril, the current patriarch. Since then, the program was attended by the best Russian political scientists, scientists and well-known experts. As the audience noted, the program has become a genuine encyclopedia of Russian thought, which was attended by many intellectuals of the country. In 2003, the project "What to do?" received the TEFI television award as the best journalistic program.
School of television
From 2005 to 2009, he published 60 issues of Political Class magazine, where he was the publisher and editor-in-chief. In 2008, he organized the Higher School (Faculty) of Television of Moscow State University, which he has led since then to the present. He teaches journalism in various higher educational institutions. He considers it historically incorrect that in Russian universities they focus only on Western journalism textbooks. He tells his students that it is necessary to study not only the classical Western theories of journalism, but also the Marxist-Leninist one.
In recent decades, constantly and actively published in various social networks from LiveJournal (Vitaly Tretyakov’s Political Diary) to Twitter. In his posts he sets out his views on the most pressing problems. He wrote dozens of 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 has an adult son.
Prominent contemporary political thinkers consider Yevgeny Primakov and the Orthodox Patriarch Kirill. He greatly appreciates the work of the philosopher Alexander Dugin and the activities and works of the political scientist Andranik Migranyan.
In the immediate plans of the journalist to resume work on the third part of the memoirs, which will tell about his own life, as well as society and the country. He wants to fix on paper and convey to the audience his thoughts and details of modern political life. She also plans to write a second book about Vladimir Putin (the first one was published in 2005) and continue to run Vitaly Tretyakov’s Political Diary in LiveJournal.