Since November 1, 2015, a wonderful program about gifted children has been released on the television channel Russia 1. It is called the Blue Bird. The permanent leader of this show is Daria Zlatopolskaya.
This elegant young woman, perfectly educated, with the aristocratic manners, has become a true decoration of the project. She creates a cozy atmosphere at the competition, is responsible for the mood, takes care of children, tries to find a common language with everyone.
Biographical Information
The future TV star Daria Erikovna Zlatopolskaya was born on April 24 in 1977 in an intelligent family.
Mom, Galina Dmitrievna Galimova, is a theater expert, and Dasha’s dad, Eric Mikhailovich Galimov, is a chemical scientist, for twenty-three years he led the Institute of Geochemistry.
Dasha and her younger sister Alexandra were late children - they were born when their parents were about forty years old.
From the biography of Daria Zlatopolskaya it becomes clear that in such a highly intelligent family, children simply could not study poorly and remain uneducated. Daria's sister also works as a journalist.
Raising noble maidens
Parents tried to give their daughters an excellent comprehensive education: sports, music, intellectual and spiritual.
Daria Zlatopolskaya seriously studied ballet, professionally swam, mastered playing the guitar. Dasha studied at a specialized school with in-depth study of foreign languages. The girl studied English, French, while she was an excellent pupil.
From childhood Daria was a theater, she gladly organized and participated in home theater productions herself, attracting her sister to this.
And Dasha loves to read from childhood. She has put together an excellent library, which she plans to pass on to her son. In the family of Daria's parents, it is customary to give books to each other on holidays. She transferred this beautiful tradition to her family, as she also thinks that the book is the best gift.
In high school, Daria Zlatopolskaya flew to the United States through a student exchange program to study and consolidate the English language among its native speakers.
All the knowledge and skills gained were very useful to her in her brilliant career as a TV presenter.
TV career
After graduating from school, Daria entered the faculty of journalism at Moscow State University. She dreamed of becoming a journalist since childhood. Daria Zlatopolskaya defended her thesis on the topic “Non-standard approaches to interviewing” at the Department of Television. I received a diploma in the specialty "Television".
As a student, in 2002, Daria tried to work on television. She successfully made her debut in the Gordon program as an editor, gained enormous experience, and coped with her duties perfectly. She was invited to work in the program "Morning on NTV".
Having received a diploma, Daria began working as the host of the program “Good Morning, Russia!” And also “News. Interview ”, where she showed her outstanding talent to beautifully ask interesting questions, carefully and tactfully listen to the answers. The ability to listen is a very important quality of any person, and especially for a journalist.
"Dancing with the Stars"
Since 2009, Daria Zlatopolskaya has been broadcasting "Dancing with the Stars." Initially, her companion was Maxim Galkin, later - Garik Martirosyan.
Here, Daria’s talent as a TV presenter revealed even deeper and sparkled with other facets. In this program, she showed herself on the other hand: Dasha appeared in front of the audience as a cheerful, mischievous girl. Danced, throwing off her high heel shoes. Daria loves to dance. It follows from this that Daria is not afraid to look a little ridiculous or stupid, and this is a very good quality for everyone, not just artists.
Daria is generally a unique occurrence on Russian television - such an intelligent, witty, incredibly kind presenter can simply not be found anywhere else.
"White Studio"
Daria is a very versatile person. She is also the host of the program "White Studio", which invites famous artists, necessarily male. Daria believes that men invent processes, and women stabilize them.
As a TV presenter, Daria Zlatopolskaya shows her most wonderful qualities: sincere interest in each interlocutor, intelligence, amazing delicacy, tact, erudition.
The program received such a telling name just because all the conversations take place in the studio with a white floor, ceiling and walls. Even the chairs on which the guest and the host sit are also white. The person is visible to the viewer in full view.
Very smart, educated, talented, successful men come to Daria. The girl is not inferior to anyone in erudition and wit.
A lot of philosophical questions are being discussed, but Daria always asks about her childhood favorite books and films that influenced the interlocutor’s worldview.
The Blue Bird Project
Daria is the author and inspirer of the program about talented children. She planned this contest when she had her own child. Watching the parents, who, with pleasure and enthusiasm, help develop the talents of their children, Daria decided that such a program should be done on television, where the children showed what they were capable of, and the jury and the audience would choose the best of the best. But at the same time, so that no one would be offended, so the vote takes place in a very tactful form.
There are no analogues to this competition anywhere in the world, as it presents the types of art that Russia has traditionally been famous for. This is ballet, academic singing, rhythmic gymnastics. In recent seasons, oratory has also been added.
This project received incredible popularity deservedly. The skill level of children in this competition is very high. Daria believes that to develop talent, you need to work day and night to break through and get a well-deserved reward. That is, talent is work, first of all, huge work.
Daria received awards and prizes for her cultural activities.
Personal life: family, husband, children
Daria Zlatopolskaya, like a true lady, does not like to spread on the topic of personal and family life. Moreover, she doesn’t want to introduce well-known media personalities into the world ahead of time. Parents try to protect him from unnecessary information and fame.
Daria herself does not open accounts on social networks and believes that uploading photos of her child on the Internet is not necessary. About the personal life of Daria Zlatopolskaya it is known that she is married for the second time. In the first marriage, which lasted about ten years, there were no children.
Since 2011, the girl has been married to the general director of the television channel "Russia -1" —Anton Zlatopolsky. Her husband is a media manager, public figure, producer.
Beloved son
The couple had a son, who was named Leo. The boy, like his mother once in his childhood, is engaged in many sports, tries himself in different areas, chooses what he likes best.
Leo is taught music, dancing, singing - he has a large selection of classes.
As for the participation in the Blue Bird contest, the boy seriously says that he is not ready yet, he needs to learn a little. Mom also does not want to use her official position, she and her son understand that in this contest children should receive a prize deservedly, and not because mom is the host of the project.
Daria uses the same principles and methods that raised her and her sister in raising her son. She does everything so that her child grows up as smart, kind, talented and educated as his parents.