Vyazemsky Yuri Pavlovich: biography, activities and personal life

Vyazemsky Yuri Pavlovich is one of the most prominent representatives of the Russian intelligentsia. He is known to a wide audience as the leading intellectual program for schoolchildren called "Clever and clever". However, this remarkable person has many different hypostases - he is quite a well-known writer, professor, religious philosopher, and also the head of the department of the most prestigious university in the country. We will talk about this interesting person in this article.

Origin

Vyazemsky Yuri Pavlovich comes from a famous and ancient noble family. Several of his closest relatives have become famous in various fields of activity. About the history of this man's family, you can write more than one entertaining novel. The grandfather of the TV presenter wore the surname Stankevich, went through the Tukhachevsky case and was convicted. After that, the grandmother Yuri Pavlovich in an attempt to protect his son from the persecution of the authorities married a man of low birth. She herself belonged to an ancient Swedish family. This fact became decisive in her fate - soon after the marriage, she was exiled and shot.

Little Pasha was lucky - he got into a foster family. He was adopted by Vasily Simonov (sculptor), who gave the boy his own surname and patronymic. Subsequently, Pavel Simonov became an academician, a famous biophysicist and psychologist.

The second grandfather of George - Sergei Vyazemsky - was the largest historian, the creator of a huge archive containing information about the history of St. Petersburg. This remarkable scientist throughout his life was forced to abandon his noble roots.

Yuri's mother - Olga Sergeevna - worked as a teacher of foreign languages. The future TV presenter was born in 1951 on June 5, in Leningrad. He was born in the clinic of the Military Medical Academy, where his father, Pavel Vasilievich, was studying at that time. Three years later, Yuri's parents had a second child, Yevgenia Simonova, a future movie star.

Strange illness

Vyazemsky Yuri (by the father - Simonov) grew up in difficult conditions. In the early years, he was seriously ill, so he lived in the care of grandfather and grandmother Vyazemsky. The nature of this strange disease could not be recognized by the famous Leningrad professors. The fact is that the boy suddenly fainted while maintaining all the motor functions. In this state, he could suddenly fall off the bridge or run out onto the roadway. Everyone expected that the illness would pass by itself. One day it happened. The day came when the seizures literally exhausted the weakened boy. Probably, it was a crisis, because after that they completely stopped. And Yuri, finally, was able to move to the capital to his parents.

Childhood

All this time the father and mother of the boy together with his younger sister lived in Moscow. The father of the future TV presenter joined the hospital. Burdenko, who was in the capital. After recovering, Yura left his grandparents and moved to his parents. The boy attended a music school at the Leningrad Conservatory, learned to play the violin.

At school, the future celebrity studied poorly. The boy hardly mastered the exact sciences, felt like a humanist and did not come to the final choice of his profession. As a child Vyazemsky Yuri raved about the stage - he dreamed about the career of a dancer or an opera singer. At the end of the music school, he asked his mother to give him English lessons. In this field, he was waiting for success - the boy comprehended the basic program in just six months and went on to study at an English special school. Now Yuri Pavlovich in different degrees speaks five languages - French, German, English, Swedish and Spanish.

Education

Vyazemsky Yuri Pavlovich, whose biography is interesting, received a certificate in 1968. Then he entered the faculty of international journalism at MGIMO and successfully graduated from it. After that, the future TV presenter began to work as a journalist in the publication "International Life", as well as moonlighting translators in various international organizations. By that time, Yuri Pavlovich had already married a former classmate.

Extravagant act

A year after receiving the MGIMO diploma, Vyazemsky committed, without exaggeration, the most extravagant act in his life. The guy argued with a friend that he could act as a free listener in the famous Shchukin school. Sister Yuri Vyazemsky at this time made the first steps on the stage. At this time she was a student of "Pike" and was in a very bright and interesting company. In the circle of her communication there were such eminent actors as Yarmolnik Leonid, Vasilyev Yury, Zhdanko Stas. Yuri was so imbued with the successes of his sister that he won his unusual dispute and entered an artistic college. It was not easy - Vyazemsky passed the first two rounds relatively calmly. But on the third, the card "r" almost did not disappoint him. Particularly amused over him Vladimir Etush. This led the guy into a rage, and he so convincingly performed before the commission the monologue of Shakespeare's Mark Antony, which was immediately adopted. However, after studying for six months and getting rid of the speech defect, the guy realized that he made a mistake. Probably, the birth of his eldest daughter, Anastasia, also played a role. Four years later she had a little sister, Xenia.

The first literary experiments

Further Vyazemsky Yuri directed his creative aspirations in the field of literature. As a pseudonym, he chose the mother's maiden name and from now on he became for the general public not Simonov, but Vyazemsky. A talented writer wrote several works. Among them - the story "Cannons brought," the hero of which became an actor. In 1982, the first book of Yuri Pavlovich was published. In it were published stories and a psychological story "The Jester", in which a gifted teenager cruelly avenges his abusers. The story became very popular, and an approving review in the Literary Gazette was published. In 1988, "The Jester" was filmed. The script was written by Vyazemsky himself. The film was watched by seven million people. Despite the noisy success, Yuri Pavlovich changed his creative direction and began to decline to philosophy. As a result, in 1989 a fundamental study was published titled "On the Origin of Spirituality. His Vyazemsky Yuri wrote together with his father - Pavel Simonov.

Work on TV

Then, in 1989, the hero of our article began to work on Central Television. First, he led the youth program "Image", built in the form of a quiz on literature. Subsequently, in connection with new political trends, this project was closed. Then Yuri Viazemsky, whose biography is very rich, went to work in Ostankino on the ORT television channel. Here he created a program of enlightening direction "Clever and clever". This project has no analogues on any television channel in the world. Intellectual show for schoolchildren, the victory in which provided the seven participants with admission to MGIMO, quickly became popular. He was awarded the "Teffi" award three times, and in 2003 the program reached the final of the TV festival held in New York. Leading "Clever and clever" Yuri Vyazemsky proved to be a brilliant showman, a great artist who knows how to create intrigue in an academic intellectual show. Work on the program he was helped by his second wife - Tatyana Smirnova. In the past she worked as a teacher of the French language, and then she became the chief editor of the project and the executive director of the TV-image TV studio created by Yuri Pavlovich. Nobody, including the creator, could not even think that "Clever and clever" will stay on television for 22 years. Vyazemsky still does not consider himself primarily a writer, not a well-known media person.

Scientific activity

He has an energetic energy, Yuri Vyazemsky. "Smart and clever" is a project in which its potential is not fully revealed. In 1993, Yuri Pavlovich, without leaving television, took up another serious and responsible affair - he took the post of the head of the Department of World Literature of MGIMO. Now he reads several disciplines of cultural and religious character in this university in Russian and English. His scientific publications include the following:

• "The Armament of Odysseus."
• "And on earth peace."
• "An open letter to Ivan Karamazov."

Literary works

Yury Viazemsky also has time to do literary work. The books of this author come out with an enviable popularity. In 2008, the writer offered the reader a series of "Sweet spring bakurots", in which there is a mixture of genres - historical research, artistic prose, philosophical essay. In it, in addition to the main work, included the story "Childhood of Pontius Pilate" (2010), "The Poor Parrot, or the Youth of Pilate" (2012), "The Great Lover, or the Youth of Pontius Pilate" (2013). In addition, since 2010, the writer has produced a series of books on the materials of the program "Clever and clever". They are collections of questions and answers in various fields of knowledge. The last book to date in this series is "From Dante Alighieri to Astrid Erickson" (2014).

Personal life

Yuri Vyazemsky married twice. First wife - classmate Irina - was the school's love of the TV presenter. He remembers that he managed to interest the girl only after the ninth grade, when he, having gone to Sverdlovsk, learned to drink, smoke and play the songs of Vysotsky with a guitar. Lovers were enamored at the age of nineteen. In this marriage there were two girls: Xenia and Nastya. The eldest daughter of Vyazemsky graduated from the Literary Institute and became an interpreter, the youngest went in the footsteps of her father and completed her studies at MGIMO. Both women live abroad. The youngest (Xenia) is in London, she has a son George and daughter Olga. And the eldest (Nastya) married three times, and in each of these marriages she gave birth to a child: in Switzerland, in Holland and in Iran. Thus, Yuri Pavlovich has five grandchildren from his first marriage. Secondary TV host married Tatyana Alexandrovna Smirnova. In this marriage he has no native children, but he brought up Sergei's stepson.

Yuri Vyazemsky's children rarely meet their famous father. He sadly notes that he is more likely to see his clever and clever men than with close relatives.

Relation to religion

As a highly intelligent and educated man, Yuri Pavlovich came to faith by various inferences. He grew up in an atheist family and never thought of God. His movement towards faith began through art and literature. At first Vyazemsky was impressed by watching the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar". The father of America brought him this masterpiece. The TV presenter thought a lot about it when he first read "The Masters and Margarita". So the arrival to the faith of Yuri Pavlovich was specific. He committed many nonsense in life, often on the verge of life and death, but he invariably overcame all obstacles. Once he thought about who to say thank you for the fact that he is still alive and unharmed. And I realized that I needed to thank God. Now the TV presenter is sure that there is no death, and he tells his students about this at the lectures. In addition, Vyazemsky owns the phrase that an absolute atheist is close in his attitude to the animal. However, he immediately notes that there are few such people in the world. The majority still believe in some higher power that protects them.

Nowadays

Now Yuri Pavlovich is still very busy. He acts in television, teaches at the university, writes new literary works. His main environment is the books that fill the huge working room of the TV presenter. This room is really impressive in size. The fact is that Vyazemsky made the study a separate one-room apartment, where he lived with his wife Tatyana for twenty years. By a fluke, the couple managed to buy a house nearby. Therefore, at the time of his work, Yuri Pavlovich leaves his wife and leaves for the next apartment. Now Vyazemsky is working on another work about the life of Christ (all of them conceived 7). This work makes him truly happy.