Who is still the leading host of the program "In the world of animals", which has been broadcast on domestic television since 1968? Who made two round-the-world travels and was directly involved in hundreds of expeditions? Who wrote 20 books and over two hundred articles? Who works as one of the UN Secretary General 's environmental consultants? Well, dear readers, can you name this person? Of course, this is an intellectual and an erudite, a popular favorite of Nikolai Drozdov.
The birth of a legend
On June 20, 1937, a handsome boy was born in the family of a professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry Nikolai Sergeyevich Drozdov and a general practitioner Nadezhda Pavlovna Dreiling.
From childhood he absorbed the tender attention and reverent love of his parents for the environment, even kept a diary in which he made all notes in Latin. With dad, little Kolya often collected a herbarium, learned to make geo-excavations. It was thanks to his father that he learned to observe the natural, as it happens in nature, behavior of various wild animals and birds.
Family tree of family
Nikolai Drozdov inherited numerous positive qualities from his ancestors. This is nobility and kindness, a passionate heart and an endless craving for all life, an inquiring mind and health.
Unique can be called the genealogical roots of the genus. On the part of his father, who perfectly knew several languages (Greek, Latin, English, German), he studied botany, paleontology and astronomy, the path leads to the upper layers of the Russian clergy. Metropolitan of Moscow Filaret was his great-great-grandfather. Along the line of the mother, the ancestors are nobles (the great-great-grandfather participated in the Battle of Borodino, side by side with Kutuzov managed to get to Paris, the order bearer).
“Biogeography is my calling”
The fact that Nikolai Nikolaevich from the very childhood knew the world and devoted a great amount of time to nature, and served as an impetus for his future, being a determining factor in choosing a profession. The whole family was convinced that Kolya's profession should certainly be connected with nature. After all, being a student at a comprehensive school, he worked as a herder every summer during the holidays at a stud farm near Moscow.
After graduating from school, the future doctor of biological sciences becomes a student of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. But two years later, deciding to prove that he knows how to make money on his own, he left to work at a sewing factory, where over time he got the position of master of tailoring men's clothing. But in his heart he felt some discomfort, so he returned to study. Nikolai not only brilliantly graduated from the university, but also studied there in graduate school and defended his thesis on biogeography. He devoted his entire life to biological research.
By the way, Nikolai Drozdov gives lectures to students to this day, even being at such a venerable age and being an assistant professor of the Department of Biogeography.
"In the animal world"
The year 1968 has come. He was marked by the fact that Nikolai Drozdov took part in a popular television program as a speaker. “In the animal world” - that’s the name of this program, which gathers hundreds of thousands of viewers from TV screens. Initially, he combined the positions of a co-host (paired with Alexander Zguridi) and a scientific consultant for animal films. Only nine years passed, and Nikolai Nikolaevich became the author and host of the program.
This program has been aired for several decades, enabling viewers sitting at the screens to enjoy overseas countries and the diversity of flora and fauna from different continents. Nikolai Drozdov invited scientists, travelers? environmental activists. These were Tour Heyerdahl, Gerald Darrell, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, John Sparks. In 1995, the program was awarded the TEFI prize in the category of the best of educational programs.
Happiness is a family!
It is not in vain that it is believed that if a person is successful and happy, it extends to everything, no matter what he touches, no matter what he does, no matter what he plans. All this is confirmed by Nikolai Drozdov. The biography of this amazingly kind and sensitive, intelligent and hardy man would not be complete if she, Tatyana Petrovna Drozdova, had not appeared in his life. She is a biology teacher at the Palace of Children and Youth Creativity. In an interview, Nikolai Nikolayevich said that if in his fate there weren’t his girls - a wife and two daughters (Nadezhda - a biologist, and Elena - a veterinarian), it would simply be existence. With special tenderness, he often recalls their chance acquaintance in the elevator. As it turned out later, they lived in the same house, only on different floors.
When a free minute is given, Nikolai Drozdov, presenter one of the most beloved programs on Channel One, conducts it with his liveliness. Among his favorites are scorpions, snakes, spiders. For many years he does not eat meat. He enjoys riding (he respects horses and tries to communicate with them as often as possible), bathes in an ice hole, practices yoga, and rides skiing. He likes to play the guitar and sing romances and bard songs in different languages.