Nikolai Uskov with his wife and son. Star "beauty and the beast" (photo)

It is interesting that the opinions of our gossips about him were divided, and at one time he even fell under the very sharp tongue of commentators.

What I want to say. Many blame him for ruining GQ. I don’t know, I didn’t read this magazine before him (I was 13 years old when he headed it, at that age I definitely didn’t read such magazines). Now I sometimes read this magazine, and I like it: to the extent of politics, fashion, interviews.

Someone says that he has an ugly wife, and in general he is gay. In my opinion, with whom to live and with whom to sleep is his purely personal matter. The concept of beauty is relative.

A little biography. Here is how Nicholas describes his life:

Born on August 25, 1970 in Moscow in a family of doctors. Father - a psychiatrist, then he was at the Institute of Biomedical Problems. Mother is a rheumatologist. Both work to this day, only the father is in the USA, where he moved in 1989 with his second wife, the artist Tatyana Loskutova, and the mother is in Moscow, in the city clinical hospital.

Under the influence of my stepmother, I became interested in painting in high school and entered the children's art school No. 2. I drew without much talent, and therefore prudently decided to choose another hobby of childhood - history - as a profession. Partly inspired by classical painting (Late Gothic, Renaissance, Classicism, Beardsley, World of Art), partly by my grandfather, an Air Force colonel who taught at the Gagarin Academy (Monino) military history. I entered the History Department of Moscow State University in 1987, when the competition was 16 people per place. And surprisingly I was able to score 14 points out of 15 possible. To this day, I consider this to be my most unrealistic act in my life, because at school I was a varmint, a threesome and even had drives to the police. At the university, on the contrary, I studied excellently and belonged to a small group of nerds, preferring libraries to everything else, that is, sex, drugs and discos (by the way, I never used drugs, except for marijuana, but this, as Schwarzenegger used to say, "just grass").

It is not surprising that after university, in 1992, I was offered to become a junior researcher at the department along with entering graduate school. At 22: I was younger than many of my students. Back in 1989, I became interested in medieval studies and began to specialize in the department of the history of the Middle Ages on the little-studied topic of church history in Western Europe. My guide was a brilliant, ironic and demanding scientist, Mikhail Anatolyevich Boytsov, then a young historian. The diploma was dedicated monasticism in Germany in the 10th-11th centuries, but later I went deeper into the early Middle Ages, and as a result of eight years of research, I wrote a dissertation "Christianity and monasticism in Western Europe in the early Middle Ages (II / III-mid-XI centuries). In a book published in 2001, 506 pages and not a single picture.Today, you can get acquainted with it only in the library.

"Christianity" literally took the soul out of me, so that at the end of my dissertation I fell into apathy. And soon decided to look for something new. Leaving was not easy. By 2000, I had already become an assistant professor in the Department of the Middle Ages, the author of chapters of a university textbook on church history, a special course and a seminar on church and medieval history, who read at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, the Department of Art History, at the Orthodox University of St. John the Theologian, oversaw the Latin edition of the Orthodox Encyclopedia (for which he was awarded a personal letter from Patriarch Alexy II), actively collaborated with the Catholic Encyclopedia, was a researcher in the medieval history sector of the IVI RAS , participated in various scientific institutions in Russia and abroad from the center for the study of private life to international congresses on paleography and canon law.

The most difficult thing was to part with the students, but I made the decision, and chance helped. One of my friends, a journalist, and now the editor-in-chief of Maxim, Sasha Malenkov, called me in 2000 asking if I would recommend one of my students to a new Internet project. I offered myself. A year later, from an amorphous online publication, I was invited to Men's Health magazine for the position of editor. In 2002 I became the editor-in-chief of Men's Health, and in 2003 I received an offer to head GQ magazine (Conde Nast Publishing House). In 2007, in cooperation with Arkady Novikov and his partners, we opened the GQ bar. Launched in 2007 new magazine GQ style. In 2008, my detective "Winter collection of death" was released, currently, while remaining the editor-in-chief of GQ and GQ Style, I am writing a sequel.

Married since 1992, has a son, Robert.

With wife Natalia and son Robert

About GQ magazine
I make such a coffee-table book, it is quite expensive. There are publications that need to be read in an appropriate setting, this is a moment of status. I try to make GQ look like such a publication in terms of the composition of authors and photographers. In each issue, I publish five or six of the best contemporary writers and three or four photographers, so that the reader understands that these are not “how to succeed in bed” articles written by a journalist with a salary of five hundred dollars.

The purpose of the magazine is not to encourage someone to do something, but to increase the number of normal thinking people, to help them navigate the world.

The magazine has both slang and swearing, because I am generally against bigotry and hypocrisy. I love it when we speak the language that is ours. Math is part of our language. Why do we use these words in real life, but we pretend that this is unacceptable in printed text? In addition, this is a live dialogue, and not a native textbook. speeches. I am in favor of calling a spade a spade: theft - theft, stupidity - stupidity, swearing. The reader is tired of lies modern life. Why is Doctor House so successful? Because political correctness sucks. And the phenomenon of the success of the Sobchak-Sokolova column is that people speak a language that for some reason is considered impossible to speak. But they were with them conflict situations. For example, I didn't like the way he and Andrei Kolesnikov talked in the October issue. Andrew didn't like it either. I asked them for permission to send him the text, he made some changes, but not very significant. This was the only case when I even quarreled with Sokolova, but then we made up, of course. Normal editorial.

About the heroes of the magazine "GQ"
These are heroes. Heroes of the time in one way or another. Heroes or anti-heroes. Hero is character. We need character. It must be large and interesting characters. Such a hero is very difficult to describe, because there are a lot of details. Firstly, this is a very young man, because, in principle, all Russian elite very young. This is a person who is used to climbing up. The person is very pragmatic and cynical. A man who at some point lost his breath, and he began to doubt whether he was crawling there. My characters are often short of breath - I can feel it. And looking back, they sometimes say very interesting things about themselves and their lives.

For example, an interview with Maniovich (at the time of his divorce). And the man was just in a state of this shortness of breath. A very sad story in which children suffer. He is quite successful businessman marries a young, attractive girl, they have a fairly successful marriage, children. They appear together in society, she is the heroine of the gossip column, she has a fashionable score, all this, of course, with the money of her husband. At some point, she decides to leave her husband, falling in love with a young official. But to leave, of course, not empty-handed. Blackmail begins with children, and all this is very sad and unpleasant. It seems to me that a person had such a straight beautiful Russian life successful in all respects. And suddenly, bam, everything changed. Not in the sense that he lost something, but in the sense that he realized that he lived not like that. It's very interesting and psychological, although I really sympathize with such stories. This is not the first story.

About the authors of "GQ"
I would dream that Konstantin Ernst, a very talented person, would work in every issue, but it is technically very difficult. Bozena Rynska wrote, but, unfortunately, this is not our author in spirit. Too fussy, too fond of things that boys are not very fond of. I'm not interested in what she writes about. I perfectly understand that she is a talented person, she just has a different audience.

About the working day
Every workday looks the same. 7 am - rise. Reading until 8. Breakfast. Shower. Not later than 10–10.30. Office. Until 11–11.30. Work with letters. Then the usual editorial routine, interrupted by a lunchtime meeting. And so on until 18.00. Gym 18.00-20.30. And home if there are no evening events. On weekends, the main thing for me is not to plan anything, everything should be spontaneous, according to my mood. The constant point is the gym.

About his book "The Winter Collection of Death"
I had no writing ambitions, just a desire to come up with a detective story. This is a low genre, designed for easy reading, so I do not claim a place in Russian classical literature. For me, writing is more of a hobby and entertainment. I was sitting in a cafe with my employee Ksenia Sokolova, and we thought of something else to do. And right during lunch, I jokingly came up with a killer character. Then he began to write some pieces. Immediately a publishing house appeared, which offered me a contract. And then I was already put within the deadline. That's all.

My book is sex, passion, fashion, reputation, masks, loneliness, Moscow, the Middle Ages, speed, doubt.

About his first literary work
It was school essay on the free theme. I wrote a text based on my grandmother's diary about feelings in military Moscow.

About my blog
For me, it's just another medium. The blog is as individual as possible and at the same time interactive. You consume information of your own choice, at the same time you create and distribute it yourself, and you can influence public opinion. In addition, for me, a blog, as well as for most citizens, is a means of overcoming intellectual loneliness, a tool for communication, creating my own environment, and searching for authors.

Before starting a blog, I researched Internet culture for a long time and realized that it has a very developed provocative component. People do not like it when they say simple smart things, they love it when they pour tubs of slops on them, when they call them names, when they shove them in every possible way. At the same time, there is normal people who understand that it is not addressed to them.

I respond to provocation. This is the law of the genre. If a person writes: "Thank you, great post," what do you say? Thank you for writing. And when a person provokes me himself, he gets a more adequate response, of course.

On the right to an individual lifestyle
I believe that a person has the right to the life he lives - of course, as long as his interests do not interfere with mine. Do Sergey Zverev's interests somehow collide with mine? No way. If I don't like it, I just turn off the TV and that's it. It is his right to live like this. And if you do not respect this right, then you are a boor and cattle. It seems to me that our fellow citizens need to learn a calm, tolerant attitude towards everything that they do not like. If they criticize Ksenia Sobchak, they should just not look at the “box” when she is there! Who prevents you from switching the channel and watching some Brahms concert on Kultura? But no, people continue to watch Sobchak and hate her at the same time. This amazes me in the Russian audience.

About money
Money is not needed for its own sake. Money is needed in order to feel freedom. When you start thinking about how you spend, it's a necessity, it's not a freedom.

About mistakes and sins
"One repentant sinner is worth more than a hundred righteous" is a useful observation for managers. I remember billionaire Friedman telling me that the Bible was enough to teach me how to run a business well.

Indeed, a person who has made a mistake, realized it, fearing punishment, works better than, relatively speaking, a righteous person. Yes, and it's cheaper. Translated into the language of HR specialists, the sinner is motivated.

AT inner harmony and independence
You need to control life and work with this life, with the environment, and at the same time maintain some inner independence from it, because if you become an organic part and you cannot be torn away from this environment in which you live, work, and so on, then, of course, , in any crisis situation, you will begin to suffer. And if you have something else in your life, no matter what - it can be love, it can be a family, it can be some kind of hobby, then it’s easier for you to endure temporary setbacks or temporary difficulties, because your life is balanced and you You understand perfectly well that something has fallen here, but this does not mean that your whole life has fallen.

About your success
I consider my life successful because it is interesting. In objective figures, if we take some business criterion, my personal business plan, then, of course, one cannot say that I am wildly successful person, but if we take the criterion of high, including intellectual, then I get it through the roof. My salary matters to me. This is the assessment of society. You see, if society needs you very much, you have a big salary. It is obvious. If you have convinced society that they need you, then that's fine. This is the highest achievement on the path of self-realization. It doesn't matter what. You can be a brilliant composer, you can be a divine surgeon, you can be a dentist, you can be a TV presenter - it doesn't matter.

Favorite topics of conversation
First of all, of course, politics. I have always been interested in her. And I think everyone will be more and more interested in politics now, because what was politics like if we had one actor in the political arena. And now the second face is also beginning to somehow manifest itself. And I think there will be new faces soon. Absolutely.

Also the economy. Naturally, the trends are public - what is fashionable, how fashionable to talk, think, what to watch, and so on. Naturally, the relationship between mutual acquaintances is always an interesting topic. Well, probably everything.

About metrosexuals
I do not count myself among them. In general, this is a stupid word and quite old. It must be understood that there is a given gender revolution: since the 80s, women have become like men, and men like women. Traditional gender roles are becoming a thing of the past. We are increasingly seeing women politicians, athletes, writers who have the same priorities as men - career, success, money. Motherhood is not their number one priority. Many women do not think of themselves at the stove, while a man is already quite capable of cooking something for himself. And that's okay. Do not think that if a man goes to get a manicure, then he is necessarily a homosexual. The world has changed. Women are now the same consumers of the male body as men are of the female. Often we see a situation where the wife earns several times more husband. Women are more likely to get acquainted themselves - if you have a page in Odnoklassniki, then you can observe this. For example, I receive hundreds of letters every day from single women with offers of everything in the world. Although in Pushkin this situation has become the subject of a whole conflict discussed in Russian criticism: Tatyana herself writes a love confession to Onegin - but how is this even possible ?! And now it's quite natural.

About your tastes and preferences
I have a lot of cars, but only Audi was bought of them - for some reason I fell for it. Cigarettes - Davidoff. Phone - iPhone. I am quite unpretentious in life, but I prefer champagne, which costs no less than $100. I like Moet Chandon to drink at a party, but if you choose champagne as an expensive wine, it is, of course, Dom Perignon. Here behind every bottle is a whole dramaturgy of life. Such champagne is not worth drinking at a reception, not because it is expensive, but because it is disrespectful to the product, because Dom Perignon is a work of culture, it should be consumed with respect and only in certain situations.

As for my style of dressing, it is rather conservative – I like to dress calmly. I have a lot of good clothes, because I'm part of this world and, of course, I can't just go to the market and buy something just to cover my nakedness. But I am very calm about brands. In my opinion, H&M created a unique fast-fashion concept. Do you think Karl Lagerfeld, one of the greatest snobs of our time, would agree to collaborate with this brand just for the money?! It's not a question of honorarium, it's a question of respect. But I am fundamentally against brands like Zara, because replicating the commercial success of other designers is theft.

However, quality is quality - if I want to buy a good coat, I will buy it for what it should cost. From my point of view, three brands make such coats - Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana and Armani. We are talking about those that suit me, although very many people do good things.

Photo exhibition "The Master and Margarita"

About teaching career
The students liked me. I loved it when they sent me notes. Sometimes he could put credits for beautiful eyes. It depended on the person. There were smart students who had to be demanded to the fullest so that they would not get discouraged and understand that they were getting a real grade, but there were also those who, if they come in a bra, then you put a three, and if without it, then five. Because you won’t get anything from them anyway. It is more difficult with boys - they can get into the army if they are expelled. And that responsibility is hard to take on. There was a fear that you would destroy a person's life.

Opening restaurant "Marusya"

About the 90s
Then it was interesting to live - it was a new free country with a huge number of opportunities, with faith in itself, without impossible tasks. Energy-charged era. At that time, anyone could start their own business, albeit with barbaric methods. The country is barbaric, of course, and the methods were barbaric. But back then, a person with a good education could start a jeans-making cooperative, earn money, then invest it in something else, bring, for example, equipment, and become a very rich person. Therefore, if we select some definitions, then the 90s were “cool”, but not “gangster” in any way. Maybe then they could kill for the cooperative, but can't they do it now? Only today, to open such a cooperative, you need a huge start-up capital, because you have to feed the army of officials who just won’t let you do their job.

Today there are certain rules games, they are more intelligible and prescribed, but the same rules are created in order to distribute money in the hands of certain people. I want to be able to open a bakery in our country without paying the price list extra people. So that, on the basis of some kind of judicial suspicion, businessmen are not kept for three years in prison until they sign everything that is needed, and then the court closes the case for lack of evidence. As long as all this exists, only the fiction of freedom remains without scope for self-realization.

On the 10th anniversary of the cafe "Pushnik"

0 2000s
Zeros weren't clear good time. People who do not think about the processes in the economy and politics did not understand that this era does nothing, does not reform - we just had a very good foreign policy situation. Since 2003, the government has generally ceased to engage in strategic reforms, except for the reform of RAO UES. All simple measures, such as the monetization of benefits or the reform of housing and communal services, remained on paper.

At the Armani show in Barvikha

On the priorities of society and democracy
We cannot jump into a beautiful tomorrow - we need to go all the way, and on this way grow, change, agree with many things. The source of corruption is not only in the system created by the authorities. Any citizen of Russia thinks: the laws apply to someone else, but I will agree. As long as we are ready to compromise, as long as a bribe is just a way for us to solve our personal issue, nothing will change. We must wean ourselves from special relationships. There is a law, it is common to all.

In addition, you need to become more civilized and believe in your own dignity. Do not bawl "Russia has risen from its knees" and do not assume that we are great because we have nuclear bomb(this is not greatness, this is insignificance), but to understand that we are great because we created an original culture, managed to overcome the most difficult political and economic crises, did something.

As for democracy, I don't believe in it at all. Our people should not make decisions concerning their fate, because they are far from the principles of a civilized civil society in its mass. The authorities should first of all think not about ensuring civil liberties, but about protecting property rights and the so-called basic personal rights - the ability to do what you want within the law, to move around, receive information, lead the lifestyle that you like.

About citizenship
I don’t go to elections - I don’t see the point - my vote, even in the most democratic elections in Russia, will not decide much, because there are very few people like me. These elections do not elect anyone - they simply fix that the government is within the framework of the current constitution, that it is still elected, although in fact it is not.

State censorship does not touch the gloss, because it is not interested in the circulation of the gloss, it is much more interested in television - this is really a huge force.

On the venality of the State Duma
There was material that for 5 million euros you can become a member of any party and resolve issues at the level of the prime minister. But so far there have been no consequences. Either it is not so important for them, or we play by some reasonable rules. Do you know why this article ends with me being a complete sucker? Because there is a certain value system in our society, and all those who do not accept it are suckers! There is even an interesting passage about United Russia, the essence of which is: you can deposit money, but it will not work, because they scam. " United Russia» does what it has to do Political Party– to take money for their struggle, to use people to achieve their goals. When she sees that a person will not bring her any benefit, she will throw him. This is the political position.

Fashion show by Denis Simachev

About Stalin
If the face of the tyrant Stalin appears on the streets of Moscow, I will destroy these portraits by all means at hand. I, as a Russian, bear personal responsibility for the atrocities of this bastard, and, for the sake of the future of myself, my children, and the country, I must do this good deed. I will do it.

We cannot throw out, unfortunately, this creature from our history, it will be present in it one way or another. Maybe as a reproach to all of us, maybe as a horror story, maybe as some kind of ideal, depending on the mental state of a particular citizen.

Whatever the role of certain characters, including in victory, it is obvious that everything else that Stalin did puts him in the ranks of terrible criminals, villains of world history. And of course, his image cannot be a symbol of Russia.

Putting up posters with his image is a political provocation started by Luzhkov in order to simply strengthen his position, which was shaken in last years, including strengthening his popularity in Moscow, after all these stories with Rechnik and others, he probably has something to worry about.

The Best Party of the Year

On Orthodoxy as a State Ideology
I believe this was one of the reasons October revolution, this forced Orthodoxization, the persecution of Jews. I don't see anything good in this. We are talking about the search for some new ideology that would be the opposite of nostalgia for Stalin.

But I think it's just a project. I am very surprised by the phrases about the fact that Orthodoxy can be the basis of patriotism. Christianity teaches us that there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither slave nor free. Christianity is an anti-state religion, it just postulates that we are, first of all, the servants of God, and not the slaves of the state. And many saints, who are worshiped in the Christian church, went to martyrdom, not wanting to listen to the state in the Roman Empire, in which they were crucified and killed, burned, and so on. They were required to serve, participate in the cult of the emperor's genius, or participate in military service. They refused and went to martyrdom.

About freedom of speech
There is freedom of the individual, freedom of speech. I believe that despite the fact that we exist in a less free society than even in the 90s, but nevertheless, I feel basic freedoms. That is, they are. Of course, in the presence of such a monstrous judicial machine, a punitive machine, it is impossible to say that we are all insured against what happened to Magnitsky, for example. At any moment a beautiful life can be destroyed. And this is very bad.

Hence the feeling of insecurity. I believe that the main blow to modernization is not delivered by non-entrepreneurial entrepreneurs and thieving officials. We do not own property, in fact we have conditional private property, we own the walls of our houses and apartments, but the land under them does not belong to us. The story of the Rechnik is one such case.

The second problem is the punitive security agencies, which often use their power and force to fail to establish the rule of law at all.

O secular life
In the 1990s, there was no secular life as such: the vice-premier of the government and some kind of prostitute could be met at the same social event. Now a different secular society - it has developed in the zero, it has a hierarchy, and this is very good. It was in the 2000s that social relations began to be conserved, reforms stopped and society just wanted to relax and have fun. Soon, this fun began to bore most of the people who make decisions, are engaged in some good projects. I wanted to search for the meaning of life - someone went to Orthodoxy, someone began to get involved in contemporary art. Everything became calmer, more concentrated around emotions and freedom from external conventions. This time is called differently - "glam-spirituality", "new sincerity", "renaissance", "downshifting".

I am a misanthrope, I don’t like parties very much and have always treated it as a tool for my work. For example, if I need to meet someone, I can spend the evening with a glass. Of course, when I was younger, I could go on some kind of spree, wake up on the beach in Saint-Tropez completely drunk and half-naked. Now it is more difficult for me physically to go on such feats.

About "Putin's" glamor
This phenomenon is the result of the coincidence of several trends. On the one hand, favorable energy prices, economic recovery, political stabilization. People got decent money, and they managed to feel its charm. On the other hand, the authorities for the first time allowed themselves to abandon textbook modesty. In fact, Putin made an unspoken deal with the people and business: live your life in joy, but do not meddle in politics. The president himself and other people from the top leadership of the country set a certain example. Very much in vogue expensive views sports: skiing, horseback riding, golf. Finally, the Russian rich man is a very young man. Average age the defendant of the "Golden Hundred" - 42 years. This one wants to consume and consume, everything is for the first time and there is still a lot to be done. For the first time in decades, Russians got a taste of money and the good life.
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Nikolai Uskov regularly writes columns for Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Slon.ru and the Dewarist LJ community, and, of course, for his own LJ. Here are his most interesting columns (in my subjective opinion):

Putin is right again

We need our Bruno

The platitudes of the day

Homeland bully

Evil everyone

Why nerds?

Zero is gone forever

Crisis of cynicism

Difficulties in translation

Half-life spa

Unwashed heads against glamour.

Scarecrow of the mind

mass grave

It was interesting to look at Uskov in the program "Gordon Quixote":

Nikolai also took part in the program "Education of Cruelty"

You can watch this release in full here.

Nikolai Feliksovich Uskov. Born August 25, 1970. Russian medievalist historian, journalist. In 2003-2012 editor-in-chief Russian version GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly). Heads the Russian version of Forbes magazine.

Father - a psychiatrist, an employee of the Institute of Biomedical Problems, since 1989 lives in the United States with his second wife, artist Tatyana Loskutova.

Mother is a rheumatologist at the Moscow City Clinical Hospital.

In high school, he became interested in painting and studied at the Moscow Children's Art School No. 2. However, he admits, he did not have any special inclinations for painting.

"Under the influence of my stepmother, I became interested in painting in high school and entered the children's art school No. 2. I drew without much talent, and therefore I prudently decided to choose another childhood hobby - history" as a profession., Uskov recalled.

In 1987 he entered the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, from which he graduated in 1992.

Since 1989, he became interested in medieval studies and began to specialize in the department of the history of the Middle Ages on such little-studied topics as the church history of Western Europe.

He did well at the university and, according to him, "belonged to a small group of nerds, preferring libraries to everything else, i.e. sex, drugs and discos".

After university in 1992, he was offered to become a junior research fellow at the department at the same time as entering graduate school - at 22, he was even younger than some of his students.

In 1999, as a senior lecturer at the Department of the History of the Middle Ages of Moscow State University, he defended his dissertation at the Faculty of History for the degree of Candidate historical sciences on the topic "Monasticism and monastic reforms in early medieval Germany". Received the post of assistant professor.

In 2001, he published a monograph in the St. Petersburg publishing house "Aleteyya" "Christianity and Monasticism in Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages" based on his thesis.

In 2000, Nikolai Uskov left the university for the publishing house Independent Media.

I got into journalism by accident.

“One of my friends, a journalist, and now the editor-in-chief of Maxim, Sasha Malenkov, called me in 2000 asking if I would recommend one of my students to a new Internet project. I offered myself. A year later, from the amorphous Internet -publications invited me to Men "s Health magazine for the position of editor", he said. And then the career went on the rise.

He edited the portal of the Estart.ru publishing house, since 2001 - the Men's Health magazine of the same publishing house (in 2002 he became the editor-in-chief of this magazine).

In 2003, he left for the position of editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the American magazine GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly) at the Conde Nast publishing house.

On November 6, 2008, the Eksmo publishing house in the series Fashion Books of GQ Editor-in-Chief Nikolai Uskov published Uskov's first detective - Winter collection of death. Fashion detective».

He became a writer, as well as a journalist, by accident, from nothing to do.

"I didn't have writing ambitions, I just had a desire to come up with a detective story. This is a low genre, designed for easy reading, so I don't claim a place in Russian classical literature. For me, writing is more of a hobby and entertainment. I was sitting in a cafe with my employee Ksenia Sokolova, and we thought of something else to do. And right during lunch, I jokingly came up with a killer character. Then I began to write some pieces "- said Uskov.

In February 2011, the same publishing house published a new detective by Nikolai Uskov called "Seven Angels", continuing to tell the story of the adventure of a hero familiar to readers from the first book - Innokenty Alekhin, editor-in-chief of the men's magazine "Gentleman".

Nikolai Uskov - Pozner

In 2012, he left GQ to head Mikhail Prokhorov's media group "Live!", which included the print media "Snob", F5, "Russian Pioneer", cable TV channel "Live!", sites snob.ru, f5.ru. In early 2013, the group broke up, and Uskov became the head of Snob.

Since January 2016, he has been the head of the Russian edition of the magazine Forbes.

Uskov is credited with neologism "Putin glamour".

Nikolai Uskov: “Politics is like football. Women and money - the basic value of a man "

Personal life of Nikolai Uskov:

Married since 1992. The wife's name is Natalia. She is much older than Nicholas.

The couple have a son, Robert.

Nikolai Uskov with his wife Natalia

Nikolai Uskov about his taste preferences says the following:

“I have a lot of cars, but only Audi was bought of them - for some reason I fell for it. Cigarettes - Davidoff. Phone - iPhone.

I am quite unpretentious in life, but I prefer champagne, which costs no less than $100.

I like Moet Chandon to drink at a party, but if you choose champagne as an expensive wine, this is, of course, Dom Perignon. Here behind every bottle is a whole dramaturgy of life. Such champagne is not worth drinking at a reception, not because it is expensive, but because it is disrespectful to the product, because Dom Perignon is a work of culture, it should be consumed with respect and only in certain situations.

As for my style of dressing, it is rather conservative - I like to dress calmly.

I have a lot of good clothes, because I'm part of this world and, of course, I can't just go to the market and buy something just to cover my nakedness.

But I am very calm about brands. In my opinion, H&M created a unique fast-fashion concept.

Do you think Karl Lagerfeld, one of the greatest snobs of our time, would agree to collaborate with this brand just for the money?! It's not a question of honorarium, it's a question of respect.

However, quality is quality - if I want to buy a good coat, I will buy it for what it should cost. From my point of view, three brands make such coats - Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana and Armani. We are talking about those that suit me, although very many people do good things."

Nikolai Uskov about swearing:

"There is both slang and swearing in the magazine, because I am generally against hypocrisy and hypocrisy. I love it when we speak the language that is ours. Part of our language is swearing. Why do we use these words in real life, but do look like it's unacceptable in print?"

Nikolai Uskov on political correctness:

"The reader is tired of the lies of modern life. Why is Doctor House so successful? Because political correctness is sick of it."

Nikolai Uskov on contemporary writers:

Nikolai Uskov on the right to individuality:

"I believe that a person has the right to the life he lives - of course, as long as his interests do not collide with mine. Do the interests of Sergei Zverev somehow collide with mine? No way. If I don't like him, I I just turn off the TV, and that's it. It's his right to live like this. And if you don't respect this right, then you're a boor and a redneck. It seems to me that our fellow citizens need to learn a calm, tolerant attitude towards everything that they don't like."

Nikolay Uskov about money:

"Money is not needed for its own sake. Money is needed in order to feel freedom. When you start thinking about how you spend, it is a necessity, it is not freedom."

Nikolai Uskov on the right to make a mistake:

"One repentant sinner is worth more than a hundred righteous" is a useful observation for managers. I remember billionaire Friedman telling me that the Bible was enough to teach me how to run a business well. Indeed, a person who has made a mistake, realized it, fearing punishment, works better than, relatively speaking, a righteous person. Yes, and it's cheaper. Translated into the language of HR professionals, the sinner is motivated."

Nikolay Uskov about bisexuality:

"A person is bisexual - this is a biological fact. Naturally, some part of people chooses a different form of sexual relations. This is their choice, their right. I don't see anything wrong with that. Everyone has the right to be themselves. And, it seems to me, that society certainly needs someone to explain it to him."

Nikolai Uskov about the institution of marriage:

“Each person, after all, has one life. Why breed hypocrisy, lies, bring things to some kind of endless scandals, when both of them torture each other? Although both of them can live another wonderful life. If people change their attitude towards marriage as something that is identical to love ... Yes, there is betrayal in love! But marriage is already an alliance, partnership, this is already a serious relationship, everything is grown-up here. There is no betrayal. , or I choose that. If people are responsible in an adult way about what happens between them, then there will be no situation of fatherlessness. "

Nikolai Uskov about "Putin's glamor"

"This phenomenon is the result of the coincidence of several trends. On the one hand, favorable energy prices, economic recovery, political stabilization. People have got decent money, and they have managed to feel its charm. On the other hand, for the first time, the authorities have allowed themselves to abandon textbook modesty. In fact, Putin made an unspoken deal with the people and business: live in joy, but don’t poke your head in politics.The president himself and other people from the country’s top leadership set a certain example.Very expensive sports have become fashionable: skiing, horseback riding, golf. Finally, the Russian rich man is a very young man. The average age of the “Golden Hundred” defendant is 42 years old. Such a person wants to consume and consume, everything is for the first time and there is still a lot to be done. For the first time in several decades, Russians have tasted money and a good life."

"The more time you can spend on yourself, the more successful you are" (c) Nikolai Uskov

Last Thursday, within the walls of our academy, a meeting was held with a person who is quite far from "the problems and concepts of the development of the banking sector in a crisis", that is, from those that have become traditional at meetings with famous people. Nikolai Uskov, editor-in-chief of GQ magazine, as a representative of the standard of male style, he came to tell us about him, as it is not difficult to guess - about the style of a successful person. Full room for 80-90% consisted of representatives female , many of which, I'm sure, prudently studied the Internet and found that Nikolai had a wife, and even a son. However, at the meeting, no ring was found on his hand, and Nikolai answered the question about his wife somehow evasively: "Love of course passed, but friendship and mutual respect remained." Nicholas shared with us the details of his student life, not disdaining to use rude words from the series "asshole" and "garbage", which aroused a sense of solidarity among the students, and a surge of indignation among the leadership. At the institute (MGU), the boy Kolya was a botanist, "however, over time, the sexual life began to improve." He considers something edible to be the best birthday present (in the first place, sausages). He got into the editorial business after teaching at Moscow State University, when his friend asked him to recommend a student, and he recommended himself :)

There were many interesting moments. For example, Nikolai shared a secret that in the GQ bar, salting food to buy more water which is quite expensive there. So in this institution now ask not to salt :)
I asked questions a couple of times. About social networks, for example. (he is registered in classmates)

After the meeting, I even took a picture with him, and twice managed to visit in his arms , hee hee. In the first photo, the "star" closed his eyes, but easily agreed to a second frame. Thanks for that :)
P.S. Cosmopolitan Magazine He called it stupid ... It's a shame, a shame, but I'll buy it :)))

Olya at the lecture was more interested in my person ...:)

How would the organizers give such a letter to Nikolai :)

Everyone is so radiant in this photo :)

In this photo, Nikolai with his family. I think you will agree that the wife looks older than her chosen one.

Peskov's career choice is believed to have been influenced by his father, a now-deceased prominent Russian diplomat who served in the diplomatic service in the Middle East, including the United Nations, from 1987 to 2013. United Arab Emirates, in Bahrain, in Pakistan, the Sultanate of Oman.

The beginning of the career of Dmitry Peskov

In 2008, as a professional high class, Peskov was appointed to the post of press secretary of the Prime Minister. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Council for the Development of Cinematography under the Government of the Russian Federation, whose activities include the consideration and development of decisions on state support production and display of Russian cinematographic works intended for demonstration to viewers inside Russia and abroad.

He supervised and assisted during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Northern capital in 2003, led the media coverage of the negotiations of the head of state during the G8 summit in St. Petersburg (2006) and the APEC forum in Vladivostok (2012).

Dmitry Peskov - press secretary

Since May 2012, Dmitry Peskov has been the press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the deputy head of his administration. An impeccable professional has earned the right to voice the official position of the head of the country and speak on his behalf during meetings with domestic and foreign journalists.

Political views of Dmitry Peskov

Peskov's categorical statements regarding the dispersal of multiple mass political protest actions of Russian citizens are also known. Of particular resonance were the words he said in 2012 that a wounded police officer should have “smeared the liver” of demonstrators on the asphalt, published by State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev after the capital’s “March of Millions”. Despite the large number of victims, Peskov expressed his official position regarding anti-Putin measures of this kind, saying that law enforcement in such cases, they must act even more harshly against protesting citizens and journalists covering these events, ensuring order.

In a recent interview with RT, the press secretary noted that, despite the attempts of Western politicians and the media to demonize the image of the Russian political leader, according to statistics and analysis of press materials, the current leader of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, is loved and respected not only in our country, but also abroad. And public support for his actions and decisions in the world is growing day by day.

Personal life of Dmitry Peskov

The second wife of Peskov was Ekaterina Solotsinskaya, the daughter of the ambassador and the granddaughter of diplomats. She was only fourteen years old when, after graduating from the institute, twenty-three-year-old Dmitry came to work at the Russian Embassy in Ankara. She married Peskov as soon as she was eighteen years old. In marriage, they had three children - daughter Lisa, sons Mika and Denis.

After divorce ex-wife press secretary of the head of state lives in Paris. According to the media, Dmitry and Ekaterina remained in good relations, excellent communication, often call up. Peskov devotes a lot of time to children who live with their mother, but often come to their father. Ekaterina also loves to visit Moscow and travel around her native country with her children. In 2013 they sailed on a ship to Yaroslavl and Myshkin, in 2014 they all visited Valaam, St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk together.

At the end of 2014, the couple Dmitry Peskov and Tatyana Navka stopped hiding their relationship. Doubts also disappeared as to who became the father of the child of a magnificent skater. Daughter Nadezhda was born in 2014.

On August 1, 2015, the solemn wedding ceremony of Tatyana Navka and Dmitry Peskov took place at the Rodina Grand Hotel & SPA in Sochi. This grandiose event became known in a month from an interview with the skater to Tatler magazine.

Dmitry Peskov now

The former editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the American magazine GQ has long arranged his personal life. More than twenty years ago he got married, and since then his status as a married person has not changed. Wife of Nikolai Uskov Natalia I met him thanks to their mutual friend Vita Weiner, who once prepared Nikolai for admission to the university.

In the photo - Nikolai Uskov with his wife

Uskov entered the Faculty of History of Moscow State University in 1987, and spent thirteen years within its walls - first as a student, and then as a teacher. Carried away by the theme of the Middle Ages, Nikolai specialized in the department of the history of the Middle Ages on the topic of church history in Western Europe. His media career began in 2000 when he took over as editor of the Estart.ru website at Independent Media. He later became an employee of Men's Health magazine and soon became its editor-in-chief.

At that time, he was already married, but the wife of Nikolai Uskov and their son Robert lived in America, so he had to live in two countries. Since 2003, Nikolai Feliksovich headed the Russian version of GQ magazine and worked as the editor-in-chief of the publication until 2012, until he was invited to head Mikhail Prokhorov's Zhivi! media group, which included the Snob and Russian Pioneer print media, cable TV channel "Live!" Sites snob.ru, f5.ru. After the collapse of the group, Nikolai Uskov headed the Snob publication.

Nikolai Uskov also acted as a writer - he has several books published by a number of publishing houses. In 2001, the Aletheia Publishing House published his monograph “Christianity and Monasticism in Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages”, which was based on the theme of his dissertation. A few years later, the Eksmo publishing house published Uskov's first detective, Winter Collection of Death. Fashion Detective, which was written while he was the editor-in-chief of GQ. Three years later, the next detective by Uskov, Seven Angels, saw the light, which became a logical continuation of the first. Creativity in general occupies a large place in the life of Nikolai Uskov, but he does it with great pleasure, despite being very busy in other areas.

In addition, all kinds of parties are part of his life, where he meets friends and the right people. The wife of Nikolai Uskov is not a big fan of such events, so Natalya attends them if her husband needs it, and he himself asks her about it.