Who is Padva Mr. P. Padva Heinrich Pavlovich: biography, career, personal life. "To be a good lawyer, you need to understand life"

Born February 20, 1931 in Moscow. Father - Padva Pavel Yulievich. Mother - Rappoport Eva Iosifovna. The first wife is Noskova Albina Mikhailovna (died in 1974). Wife - Mamontova Oksana Sergeevna. Daughter - Padva Irina Genrikhovna, photo artist. Granddaughter - Albina.

Heinrich Padva was born into an intelligent Moscow family. His father, a major planning engineer, held senior positions in organizations of such magnitude and significance as the Northern Sea Route. He worked under the legendary Schmidt and Papanin. He went through the entire Great Patriotic War, was shell-shocked. In 1945 he was appointed commandant of one of the German cities, he solved reparations issues; met with the rank of captain. The mother was a ballerina, who, by all accounts, had a figure of amazing beauty. After the birth of her son, she decides to leave the stage, but Terpsichore does not change - she gives dance lessons.

Before the war, Heinrich studied at the prestigious metropolitan school No. 110, where there were many children among his classmates. high-ranking officials, prominent scientists, popular artists. Largely thanks to high level teaching at the school, many of its graduates subsequently achieved outstanding success in various fields professional activity.

With the outbreak of war, Heinrich, along with his mother, grandfather and other family members, was evacuated to Kuibyshev (Samara). Shelter was found with distant relatives, where ten of them had to live in one room, sleep on chests and just on the floor. In the evacuation, despite all its hardships, there were also pleasant events, interesting meetings took place: for example, the wonderful playwright and writer Nikolai Erdman stayed in their apartment for several days, returning to Moscow after serving his term in the Stalinist camp. He left a mark in my memory as a person of remarkable personal qualities, extremely interesting in communication. The boy's imagination, among other things, was struck by Erdman's ability to show amazing charades.

When German troops were thrown far away from Moscow, Heinrich and his mother returned home, renovated their room in a communal apartment, heated by a makeshift brick stove. He continued his studies at the same 110th school, which he successfully completed in 1948. I decided to enter the Moscow Law Institute, but on the first attempt I did not get points. (It should be noted that when entering a university in those years, the presence of a Komsomol ticket was taken into account, which Heinrich was in no hurry to acquire, as well as an entry in the "nationality" column.)

A year later - a new, this time more successful attempt at admission: a "semi-passing" score was scored. Unfortunately, after confidently passing the Russian language and literature and history in the geography exam, Henry received "satisfactory": the rivers of Great Britain became the question "for backfilling". From the examination room, the young man brought out the feeling of an injustice that had happened: practically everyone to whom he subsequently asked this question - even professional geographers - could not remember anything except the Thames ...

At the end of the entrance exams, Genrikh Padva receives an invitation from representatives of the Minsk Law Institute to study at this university and accepts it. Having moved to Minsk, he starts his studies, and very successfully: the first-year student Padva passes both sessions with excellent marks. Here he found an opportunity not only to gain knowledge from highly professional teachers, but also to actively go in for sports, became interested in student amateur performances.

After studying for 2 semesters, Heinrich is transferred to the Moscow Law Institute, which he successfully graduates in 1953. According to the distribution, he ends up in Kalinin (now Tver), is placed at the disposal of the Kalinin Department of Justice. The career of a young lawyer began with a six-month internship in the ancient city of Rzhev. After completing an internship, Padva goes to work in the small district center Pogoreloye Gorodishche to become the only lawyer here.

A native Muscovite, Padva plunged into the exoticism of rural life: housing - a corner in a wooden house, behind a wall - barnyard, under the windows - lilac, and from the edge of the forest comes the singing of nightingales. A lot of vivid impressions related to this period of life remained in my memory: participation in hunting for wolves and real fishing, pleasure from a full basket of mushrooms and a simple walk through the forest ... But perhaps the greatest experience and the most valuable experience was a close acquaintance with ordinary people, their difficult life, horrendous poverty and lack of rights.

The defendants in the first cases, in which Padva acted as a lawyer, were just such ordinary villagers: front-line soldiers who were tried for a hot word against the authorities, young workers who were threatened with prison for being late for work for several minutes. Of course, such processes under the then justice, when a person was given 10-15 years for the slightest violation, rarely ended successfully for a lawyer and his client. But over time, the authority of G. Padva grew - not only in the courtroom, but also in the eyes of fellow villagers. His opinion and arguments acquired everything more weight, the district prosecutor began to listen to the arguments more often - an honest and decent person, but who did not have a higher education.

A year and a half later, Padva continues his legal career in Torzhok. Here he improves his skills, reads exceptionally a lot - fortunately, provincial life, not rich in entertainment, left enough free time. Here he meets his future wife. Soon he moves to Kalinin, where his chosen one studies at the medical institute. Some time later they got married. In parallel with the practice of law, G. Padva graduated in absentia from the Faculty of History of Kalininsky Pedagogical Institute- one of the reasons for this decision (get a second higher education) there was an unwillingness to "voluntarily-compulsorily" study at the party school.

The professional authority of Heinrich Pavlovich is constantly growing, but only in 1971 he returns to Moscow. At first, his hometown, the city of his childhood, met him unkindly: an acute shortage of humanity prevented him from adapting, but bureaucracy, on the contrary, turned out to be in abundance. Colleagues helped to cope with difficulties at first, the support of the Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Moscow City Bar Association I.I. Sklyarsky. The efforts and talent of Padva himself did not go unnoticed: he began to be highly valued, first in professional circles, and then among the public.

Wide famous name G.P. Padva began after a case initiated by an American businessman against the Izvestia newspaper: the businessman accused the publication of slandering him. The plaintiff won a court in his homeland, which ordered to recover from the newspaper many thousands of compensation for the moral damage caused. Soviet official structures long time ignored the events that took place within the framework of this case, nodding to the fact that the American side is limited in its ability to enforce the decisions of its court. Then the Americans turned to active actions: the property of the Izvestia bureau in the United States was seized, and the process began to threaten complications at the diplomatic level. I had to mobilize all legal resources. As a result of the actions taken by domestic lawyers headed by G. Padva, it was possible to achieve the annulment of the decision of the American court. (Let us add that a few years later G. Padva met with the same injured businessman, who by that time had already retired; all these years he did not hold a grudge against his "offender", who demonstrated high professionalism in his field.) After this history, the mention of the name of G. Padva in the press often began to be accompanied by the epithets "famous", "eminent", "venerable", etc.

Throughout his many years of law practice, G.P. Padva successfully participates in lawsuits, a significant part of which was in the focus of media attention and had a great socio-political resonance.

The 1990s were special years in the career of the lawyer Heinrich Padva. His dossier contains resounding successes that have strengthened the authority of the master of human rights.

During the days of the August putsch of 1991, G.P. Padva, being vice-president of the USSR Union of Lawyers, was in the United States and made an appeal to the international legal community, in which he spoke about the illegality of the actions of the State Emergency Committee. He returned to Moscow when the putsch had not yet been defeated, with understandable fears of being arrested. Soon, as you know, everything was over, and a few days after the arrest of the putschists, Henry Pavlovich received a call from the daughter of A.I. Lukyanov with a request to protect her father. After personal communication with Anatoly Ivanovich G.P. Padva agreed, emphasizing that he would not change his assessment of the recent dramatic events and would only undertake to defend Lukyanov personally, but not to speak out in any way in support of the political phenomenon as a whole.

The lawyer began by speaking on television with a statement about the inadmissibility of accusations against Lukyanov as the ideologist of the putsch: each person can have his own political views, and it is unacceptable to persecute him for dissent alone. These arguments were accepted, and the flow of such accusations came to naught. The unacceptability of the accusations of treason brought against members of the State Emergency Committee was also substantiated. As for A. Lukyanov himself, it is generally difficult to talk about his direct participation in the putsch - therefore, in 1994, a fundamental question arose before him and G. Padva: should they accept the amnesty announced by the State Duma in the case of the State Emergency Committee? Unfortunately, the unrest experienced worsened Lukyanov's health, and it was decided to agree with this decision, since the continuation of the struggle could cost too much, the victory could become pyrrhic.

In 1996, the case of P. Karpov, Deputy General Director of the Federal Office for the Insolvency of Enterprises, who, after several years, was accused of taking a bribe while staying at one of the Saratov enterprises, had a wide resonance. Karpov was arrested twice - in Saratov and Moscow, and yet, after a long trial that stretched for 2 years, G.P. Padva was eventually rehabilitated.

In the mid-1990s, Genrikh Pavlovich defended a major businessman L. Weinberg, who was accused of giving a bribe (the businessman presented a gold chain to an employee of the customs committee). The case was investigated by the General Prosecutor's Office and proceeded with violations of the rights of the accused. The lawyer managed to achieve the release of his client from custody, and some time later the case was completely dismissed.

Significant and successful was the participation of G. Padva and his colleague at the law office "Padva and Partners" E. Sergeeva in a high-profile epic with the detention in the United States at the Kennedy airport of the former business manager of the Presidential Administration P. Borodin, who was accused by the Swiss prosecutor's office of money laundering and participation in a criminal organization. Lawyers had to work in different directions: assistance to Russian political government agencies, appeals to legal authorities in the United States, interaction with investigating authorities in Switzerland. As a result, in April 2001, the charge of participation in a criminal organization was dropped from Borodin, and in March 2002, the prosecutor of the canton of Geneva, B. Bertossa, dismissed the criminal case against the former manager.

In 2003, G. Padva, together with his colleague A. Gofshtein, defended the Azerbaijani politician and businessman with the sonorous surname Elkaponi, who was accused of storing and transporting drugs. The head of the People's Patriotic Union "Azerbaijan-XXI" and businessman F. Elkaponi were detained in Moscow with a kilogram of pure heroin in June 2001. Part of the potion was taken from under the detainee's jacket by the officers of the Department for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow, the other - in his apartment. Lawyers managed to prove that Elkaponi's drugs were planted, and in March 2003, the Golovinsky Inter-Municipal Court of Moscow acquitted the Azerbaijani businessman, releasing him from custody after months in prison.

G. Padva's client for several years has also been the former chairman of the board of directors of the Krasnoyarsk aluminum plant A. Bykov, whose name has few competitors in terms of frequency of appearance in modern court chronicles. In 1999, the first attempt was made to prosecute Bykov for involvement in the murder and money laundering - he was detained in Hungary and transported to a pre-trial detention center in the city of Krasnoyarsk. In the autumn of 2000, the businessman was released by the decision of the court of the Central District of Krasnoyarsk, but after some time he was again detained on charges of organizing an attempted murder of Krasnoyarsk businessman V. Struganov. Strong arguments of G. Padva spoke in favor of Bykov's innocence, but the Meshchansky Court of Moscow issued a half-hearted decision: he found Anatoly Bykov guilty, while imposing a suspended sentence of 6.5 years on him. The Moscow City Court upheld this decision. Since Genrikh Padva, on the one hand, is sure of the innocence of his principal, and on the other hand, claims numerous human rights violations during the trial, he does not stop making efforts to appeal the verdict, including in the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights.

Since March 2003, Padva participated in the consideration in the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court of a new criminal case on charges of Anatoly Bykov - this time with involvement in the murder of local businessman O. Gubin. On July 1, 2003, the court found Bykov and his accomplices not involved in this murder. Bykov was found guilty under another article - 316 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (concealment of a murder committed without aggravating circumstances), sentenced to a year in prison and immediately amnestied.

G. Padva is not one of the lawyers who speak openly only about successful trials with their participation. In his profession, Genrikh Pavlovich finds a lot in common with medicine: a doctor cannot always help, and a lawyer is not omnipotent either. With great regret, he recalls the failure in a civil case to return part of the legacy of B. Pasternak to his muse and beloved Olga Ivinskaya, who was arrested after his death on charges of smuggling and later rehabilitated. In his defense of the truth, G. Padva reached Supreme Court Russian Federation, however, it was not possible to return the archives of the great poet (which had to be done both in accordance with legal and universal norms). It reached the point of absurdity and mockery of the memory of a genius: officials demanded documents on donating O. Ivinskaya with a manuscript of a poem dedicated to herself!

Now G.P. Padva is the head of the Padva & Partners law office, under whose auspices about 20 lawyers work. Genrikh Pavlovich - Honored Lawyer Russian Federation, was elected a member of the Council of the Moscow City Bar Association, Vice-President of the International Union of Lawyers. Awarded with the gold medal named after F.N. Plevako (1998). Cavalier of the Badge of Honor of the Russian National Fund "Public Recognition".

For many years he has been fond of painting, favorite artists: El Greco, Utrillo. From modern masters prefers the work of Natalia Nesterova. Collects antique porcelain. Appreciates beautiful football, tennis.

It is customary to think that high-profile cases and famous clients create a lawyer's fame. On the other hand, how do you get a high-profile case and a famous client without being a famous lawyer? Go figure out what's first and what's next.

Among Padva's clients were major media outlets (publishing house "Kommersant", "Spark", "Izvestia"), eminent Russian and foreign companies("PepsiCo", "Renaissance Capital", "Cambridge Capital"), well-known banks (Citibank, "MENATEP") ... He represented the interests of Boris Pasternak's girlfriend Olga Ivinskaya, the families of Academician Sakharov and Vladimir Vysotsky ... He defended members of the State Emergency Committee, financial tycoon Lev Weinberg, criminal authority Vyacheslav Ivankov, former manager of the President of the Russian Federation Pavel Borodin ... But recently he published a book of memoirs full of unknown characters - those unfortunate people who, forty or fifty years ago, rightly or not very, fell under the rink of the judicial machine and whom he, at that time a provincial lawyer, defended in the courts of Rzhev, Torzhok, Pogorely Gorodishche. And now he writes: “Why is it so sad to remember, turning back to the past decades, one’s deeds, one’s work, to which all passion, all strength, thoughts and hopes are given? Where does this pain, this aching longing come from? "helpful" memory more and more often slips out of the experienced terrible moments of waiting for sentences, when naive hope is still barely glimmering, still a little trembling in the heart and ... ruthlessly, senselessly cruelly, mercilessly collapses by the proclaimed verdict. What despair from one's helplessness, what resentment from misunderstanding , what anguish from impotence to change anything, to fix it!"

"I consider the Tver province my second homeland"

Why are you reminiscing?

It didn't happen all of a sudden. For many years, publishers and journalists told me: "We need to write a book. You have such rich material, you have done so many interesting things!" I refused every time. First, there was no time to write memoirs. Secondly, it was necessary to tune the brains to this. And what kind of writer am I? I once wrote a story in the spirit of Chekhov's "Vanka Zhukov", gave it to my friend Volodya Gelman, he read it and said: "Well, what can I say? Chekhov wrote better." And I thought, yes, he's right. But such conversations do not go unnoticed, and when another representative of the publishing house told me: "Write, I guarantee you that we will publish," I decided to try. And off we go...

Did you write or dictate?

I dictated to journalist Oksana Rustamova. She deciphered the note. Then I corrected the text with my own hand, and we printed it out again. Then I edited again. This is how this book was made.

- It is painted in nostalgic tones. Do you remember your work in Torzhok, Burnt Gorodishche as best period of your life. But you are a native Muscovite. How did you end up in the province? And why were they stuck there for eighteen years?

I went to the Kalinin (now Tver) region for distribution. First, my friend Yura Yurbursky received a ticket there, and he persuaded me to ask to join him. Yes, I am characterized by nostalgia, attachment to my native ashes, fatherly coffins. I consider Tver province to be my second homeland.

- You started practicing as a lawyer in the year of Stalin's death. Tell me, in the mid-1950s and in later Soviet times, it was easier to seek justice than now?

I understand that the comparison suggests itself, but it is not quite correct. The USSR and modern Russia are different countries, and they have different justice. In a way, it's easier now. Still, acquittals began to be handed down and, thank God, a jury trial appeared. There is also a Constitutional Court, before which the question of the constitutionality of certain decisions can be raised. I appealed to the Constitutional Court about the death penalty and am satisfied with the verdict that its existence in Russia is unconstitutional. It is impossible to imagine that such a body existed in Soviet times and that such decisions were made by it. But, on the other hand, before judicial practice there were more fig leaves, which gave the appearance of legality, and thanks to this, in some cases it was sometimes possible to obtain a fair sentence. Whereas now they frankly spit on the observance of at least minimal formalities. Previously, it used to be that a judge was caught neglecting some procedure - and immediately the lawyer filed a cassation, the prosecutor brought a protest: it was impossible, rights were violated! And although the Constitution spoke least of all about human rights, nevertheless, obvious outrages were not allowed. There were almost no acquittals, but the dismissal of the case, the annulment of verdicts by higher courts - all this was possible. There was the Supreme Court of the USSR, and if you get there, you could get justice. The decisions of the Supreme Court of the USSR and its plenums were very good and gave the right direction. Unfortunately, all this was shattered by party omnipotence. I remember, in Pogorely Gorodishche, suddenly - once, the bureau of the district committee: "Hooligans have divorced us - there is nowhere else! Prosecutors, judges, where are you looking ?!" And tomorrow, let's take revenge on everyone and judge for hooliganism. Now, fortunately, there is no such thing, but ... Now they will shout to me: "Retrograde! How can you!" But I will still say: on the other hand, the fear of the district committee of the party, the threat to apply to the party body - this kept both the court and the prosecutor's office in check a little. Above them was ... no, not the law, of course, but - the power. Today, no one is afraid of anything. Today, frankly, they take it and, in general, what the hell are they doing.

If you take too much from a client, he will either hope too much, or even think that you are taking not only yourself, but you will share with someone

Was the level of judicial corruption in those days lower?

What are you talking about, it's completely incomparable! In the Burnt Settlement, I was with the judge on you and, as they say, by the hand. We drank together and walked together, and the prosecutor and the investigator were with us. We were one company. But me in nightmare I could not imagine that I was giving a bribe from my client to the prosecutor or the judge. In those days, no one had money, so what kind of bribes are there. I then defended the investigator in Torzhok, who took. But what did he take? A dozen eggs, a jar of mushrooms. There was no systemic corruption then.

"To be a good lawyer, you need to understand life"

- In your book, you cite the text of one of your speeches at the trial. This is without any discount. literary work. Every phrase is perfected in it. Do you write your speeches before you deliver them?

For the first twenty years in my legal practice, I did just that - I wrote my speeches from and to. Everything in them was thought over, carefully verified. Right down to the punctuation marks: I weighed for a long time what to put at the end - a dot, an ellipsis, an exclamation point or question mark. I could, for example, end like this: "After everything that you have heard here, dear comrades of the judge, what other sentence can be passed, except for an acquittal?"

- Today you are no longer doing a written preparation?

Complete - no.

- Improvisation?

Abstracts. I speak for them. Although I write a lot. After all, a lawyer has the right to state in writing his proposals on those issues that the court will have to study in the deliberation room. This becomes the basis of my speech. All the main postulates and arguments are formulated there. In general, a pre-written speech is a dangerous thing. Lawyers who write well, but do not know how to properly use writing, dry up their speeches. They read, and it is badly perceived. One must be able to write, then make what is written as if someone else's, and then again appropriate and tell this someone else's. Sometimes it seems that he is ready for a speech, that there is complete clarity in his head. And you try to put your thought on paper - there are not enough words. So, in fact, there is a fog in my head. And to dispel it, you need to compose a speech.

- A lawyer must have a literary talent?

We need to be specific here. There is a criminal lawyer, there is a civil lawyer, and there is, for example, a corporate lawyer. And depending on the profile, you need to have one or another talent and the corresponding temperament. For example, to be a good corporate lawyer, one does not need to have an artistic temperament. And to be a trial lawyer in civil and criminal cases, it is necessary, of course, to master the art of oratory, which is especially required in a jury trial. In turn, in order to successfully orate, you need to be a highly educated person, know music, literature, painting. It is necessary to visit port taverns, jostle among the public near the railway station, observe the life of the inhabitants of the social bottom, know the varieties of street and apartment hooliganism. Maybe sometimes you need to fight. In a word, you need to understand life, to feel it.

"Don't take too much from the client"

- You are called the highest paid lawyer in Russia. It's true?

This is a lie. This is pure lies. For some reason, we believe that the most expensive is the best. But this is not always the case. I am a man of the old school. I worked at a time when lawyers' fees were like alms to a beggar. Of course, I won’t work at such a rate now, but I can’t get used to the fact that you can easily take hundreds of thousands, millions from a client ... I’m not the most expensive lawyer. Besides, I have my own theory about this. It consists in the fact that it is not necessary to take as much from the client as possible. Because if you take too much, he will either hope too much, or even think that you are taking not only for yourself, but you will share with someone. Eventually you will end up in psychological dependence From him. He can demand from you what you do not consider possible. It’s better to get a little short from him, let him think that he owes you, let him say to relatives and friends: “I thought Padva would take a million, but he took it like a god.” I then build other relationships with him, and this is more comfortable for me than an extra thousand or ten thousand.

- Is it difficult to get Heinrich Padva to be your lawyer?

Now yes. I sometimes already physical strength lacks.

- In what cases do you refuse?

That's it in such - when there is not enough physical strength. Or when things are not mine. That is, when I am offered cases in which I do not feel competent enough. For example, violation of safety regulations in construction. There are many specifics, you need to delve into it, it requires scrupulous study. In addition, I do not take on cases that are not interesting to me. I also don’t take on small, simple things. They can be conducted by my assistants. My mother recalled how she once had appendicitis, and her parents said: Herzen should operate. There was such a great surgeon at the beginning of the last century. He refused, saying: "I have not operated on appendicitis for many years, but my residents perform several such operations every day, they will do better." No, only Herzen! He did. There were terrible complications, my mother almost died. He then honestly said: "My hand is not stuffed with appendicitis." When I am now approached with cases of petty theft or drugs, I refuse. I even forgot what articles provide for punishment for these crimes.

"I work for free in exceptional cases"

- Do you calculate the chances of success before agreeing to protect someone? Does it happen that if the chances are low, you refuse to pursue the case?

Nothing can be calculated. Sometimes I was absolutely sure that I would win the case - and lost miserably. And it happened the other way around: the case is hopeless, but the client begs: "Take it!" Okay, you take it reluctantly - and suddenly a brilliant result. In our judicial system calculating something is a thankless task. Because sometimes everything is decided not according to the law, but under the influence of some incidental circumstances that I may not know about. I am sometimes told: you can not take up the case, but give us at least a legally correct position - they say, there is no such corpus delicti, but there is such and such. When I feel that something is not clean in the case, I try not to participate in it.

- You have protected many famous people. What determined the choice here - the eminence of clients, the fee, public attention to the process?

Most of all I am driven by professional passion. Imagine you are a surgeon. Aren't you interested in trying a heart transplant someday, instead of digging around in panaritiums all your life? I am not always sure of the result, but I am interested in such cases where I can show all my experience, all my knowledge and abilities. For example, I defended Anatoly Lukyanov in the GKChP case. His daughter Lena came to me: “Well, what a betrayal of the Motherland? This is absurd.” And I proved during the trial that power and the Motherland are not identical concepts. To change the authorities does not mean to change the Motherland. In general, I am fascinated by the legal plot. Sometimes it fascinates me so much that I can get down to business for free. For example, I conducted the Pasternak case in the interests of Olga Ivinskaya practically without a fee. And sometimes poor people turn to me, from whom there is nothing to take, but I want to help. It happened several times. Journalists told about this, and now pensioners are overwhelmed by me: “I heard that you are doing business for free ...” Yes, it happens. But I can not engage in advocacy on a charitable basis. I work for free in exceptional cases. When it's very interesting. Or when I see that blatant injustice is happening.

- Are there legal victories that you are proud of?

Of course there is. For example, in the late 70s there was a case of a dentist G., who was kept in prison for several years, accused of killing his wife and child. He was twice sentenced to a very long prison term, and on the third time he was nevertheless fully acquitted and rehabilitated. The rarest thing. I must say that for many years I have not been doing business alone, but always with someone. So I dealt with G. with the lawyer Anna Bochko.

- And the most difficult defeat?

Do you think it's nice to remember that?

- Well, anyway...

I had a case after which I wanted to quit the profession. Two accused. There is a demonstration process in the club. The prosecutor asked my client for ten years, the other - execution. I gave a bright, inspirational speech. Storm of applause. The judge, through the secretary, gives me a note that he has never heard such a brilliant speech in his life. The court goes to judgment. I go gogol along the corridors of the club, catching admiring glances. The court returns, reads the verdict. And "mine" is shot, and the other one is ten years old. How I didn't have a heart attack, I don't know. Then, after many years, that judge - a good, strong judge - left his profession, became a lawyer and ended up in a legal clinic, where I was the head. I could not resist and asked: "Pavel Nikolaevich, why did you write me a complimentary note then? Did you want to sweeten the pill in this way?" He says: "Genrikh Pavlovich, I really admired your speech, but as a judge I wanted to rise to your level of professionalism. And my professionalism told me that the main culprit was your client." I think the judge was not far from the truth. Of course, it is difficult for me to fully agree with him, but he had reasons for such a decision. Do you understand what psychological interesting thing? There was a fight. Not even a fight, but two beat one - and killed. Beat mostly second, not "mine". "My" at some point shouted: "Enough!" And the second one immediately stopped beating. I said at the trial: you see, he came to his senses first, stopped the beating, although this, unfortunately, did not save the man's life. But the judge interpreted it differently: it means that the one who shouted "enough!" was the main one. As long as he allowed, he beat. And as soon as he shouted "enough!", he stopped beating. One cry - and how differently it can be regarded!

"I wouldn't trust myself to protect me"

- Have you had to act in court not as a lawyer, but, for example, to be a witness, a defendant?

Yes, I had to. My dad was suing in a stupid case and asked me to represent him. They demanded that he allow some kind of pipe to be run through his room. I begged him: "Don't, dad." He said, "Shame on you, I beg you." As a defendant, I felt terribly embarrassed at this trial. I didn't know where to stand, how to hold on. And this is after a long for long years work in courts.

- To whom would you entrust your protection?

In a criminal case?

- Let's say it's criminal.

Sasha Gofshtein.

- Civil?

Depending on which one. Civilian has many categories. I would probably entrust the family to Alla Zhivina.

- And who would you ask to represent your interests in a corporate dispute?

Perhaps Eleanor Sergeev.

- Can't a lawyer defend himself?

Maybe. But it is very difficult. After all, sometimes you need to praise the client - but how will I praise myself? A lawyer must be, on the one hand, biased and act only in favor of his client, and on the other hand, be able to see and soberly evaluate all the evidence, which is very difficult with excessive interest and excitement. Many surgeons do not undertake to operate on their loved ones. That's how I am close, native person I will not defend. And even more so yourself.

- Is being famous or even slightly famous one of the conditions for a successful existence in the legal profession?

It's not obligatory. I knew and know a lot of lawyers, completely unfamous, but first-class lawyers. These are mostly civil lawyers, acting on civil affairs. And in the criminal process - yes, there is more oratory, more opportunities to become famous.

- Is cynicism part of the profession of a lawyer?

Must not enter. If a person is a cynic, he will be a cynic in any profession.

- But all the same, after all, probably, a "corn on the heart" is being developed, as your colleague Henry Reznik says.

Everything depends on the individual. For some, this "corn" is thick, for others it is thinner. In my first decade as a lawyer, I received terrible slaps from various judgments, even wrote letters of resignation from the bar. Now, too, sometimes I give up, my mood deteriorates for a long time, but I no longer fall into terrible despair from failures. Another case is heard - and you go, put all your passion into it, all your professional experience, all your understanding of life and people.

Heinrich Pavlovich Padva is a highly paid lawyer who conducts high-profile cases involving famous people. But in special situations, he provides his legal assistance absolutely free of charge. According to Padva's colleague and friend, Genrikh Pavlovich has a rare quality, which is called a high legal culture.

Childhood

Genrikh Padva was born on February 20, 1931 in Moscow into an intelligent family. Parents sought to give their son a good education, so the boy studied at the prestigious 110th metropolitan school. Henry's classmates were the children of well-known metropolitan officials, public figures, and scientists.

As soon as Henry was 10 years old, the war began. The family was evacuated to Kuibyshev, where mother, son and grandfather took shelter with distant relatives. They lived in close quarters, but together and, as far as possible, war time, fun. Here Heinrich met the playwright Nikolai Erdman, who was on his way to Moscow after being imprisoned in Stalin's camps.

Parents

My father was known in the Union as a well-known planning engineer, he worked with such famous Soviet figures as Schmidt and Papanin. In 1941 he went to the front, went through the entire Great Patriotic War, was shell-shocked. In 1945 he received the rank of captain, was appointed chief commandant in the occupied German city.

Mother, Eva Iosifovna Rappoport, was a ballerina. After the birth of Heinrich, he decides to quit the big ballet, but still does not forget the art of choreography and constantly keeps himself in shape.

Education

After the success of the Soviet troops and the elimination of the threat of the capture of Moscow, Henry and his mother returned to the capital. The boy resumed his studies at the capital's school, and in 1948 he decided to enter the law school. But he could not score the required number of points, and the lack of a Komsomol ticket and Jewish nationality also became the applicant's weaknesses.

The attempt to enter the university was more successful: Heinrich received good grades in history and Russian, but failed in geography. The question of the examiners about the rivers of Great Britain drove the young man to a standstill: apart from the legendary Thames, he could not remember anything.

By the way, many eminent geographers also could not answer such a simple, but such a tricky question.

But Heinrich was noticed and invited to study at the Minsk Law Institute. The young man accepts the invitation and begins his studies in the capital of Belarus. After studying for a year and passing all the sessions perfectly, Heinrich manages to transfer to the capital's law institute. In 1953 he completed his studies at the Moscow Law Institute.

The beginning of the practice of law

In 1953, Genrikh Padva received distribution to the Kalinin region, namely, to the ancient town of Rzhev. Further, the young lawyer is distributed to the Pogoreleye Settlement, where he became the only lawyer in the entire district.

In the outback, Padva is faced not only with an unusual rural life for him, but also with the lack of rights of the common people. Stealing a bicycle from a neighbor here could easily land you in jail for 10-15 years. Padva's attempts to mitigate such sentences rarely ended in success, because it was not possible for one person to fight the justice system of that time.

But Heinrich honed his oratorical skills, the ability to select and correctly present facts, to convince judges. Padva enjoyed prestige among the villagers and local officials due to his honesty and analytical mindset.

Return to Moscow

In 1971, Genrikh Padva moved to Moscow, the capital unpleasantly surprised him. Here there was an acute shortage of humanity, to which Padva was so accustomed in the villages, but the bureaucracy simply flourished. Received legal practice in the Russian outback helped Padva to get a high assessment of his professional activities in the eyes of I. I. Sklyarsky, who held the position of chairman of the Moscow City Bar Association.

First big win

The name of Padva became associated with an experienced and venerable lawyer after winning a difficult case on a lawsuit. American businessman to the editorial office of the Izvestia newspaper. The American was outraged by the article in Russian newspaper and he filed a lawsuit in his homeland. The case was won, but it turned out to be very difficult to recover compensation, since Soviet side fundamentally kept silent and did not want to admit defeat.

The Americans did not let up and achieved the seizure of the property of the editorial office of Izvestia in the United States. The case went to the interstate governmental level and threatened with a diplomatic scandal. Experienced Soviet lawyers were involved in resolving the issue, among whom was Padva. Thanks to the professionalism of Padva and the team of lawyers, it was possible to annul the decision of the American court and close the high-profile case.

sensational cases

The heyday of Padva's career came in the 90s. In 1991-1994, he defended Anatoly Lukyanov and managed to secure the release of his client in the framework of the court proceedings on the State Emergency Committee.

The following businessmen and celebrities were Padva's clients: Lev Vayberg, Pavel Borodin, Anatoly Bykov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladislav Galkin, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Petr Karpov, the Vysotsky and Sakharov family.

Personal life

Padva met his first wife Albina in Kalinin, she studied at medical college. They did not live long, Albina died in 1974. From this marriage, Heinrich had a daughter, Irina.

The second wife of Padva is Mamontova Oksana. She is 40 years younger than the eminent lawyer, has a son Gleb from a previous marriage. Concluded with her marriage contract, according to which, in the event of a divorce, she will receive nothing but her personal belongings. Heinrich Padva, as the press notes, regularly gives his young wife such expensive gifts as cars, antique jewelry, etc.

Character

Despite his "star" status and all-Russian fame, Heinrich Padva remains a simple and pleasant person to talk to. He is self-critical, ironic to himself and his actions. Henry Reznik, a well-known lawyer, said he had a lot to learn from Padva. Reznik greatly values ​​his friendship with Heinrich Padva.

Interests and hobbies

In addition to jurisprudence and eloquence, Heinrich Padva is fond of fine arts. Collects a collection of antique porcelain, watches football and tennis.

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Heinrich Padva is the founder and managing partner of Padva & Partners. He became a lawyer when he graduated from university in 1953. His career began in the provinces, and then he became one of the main symbols of the legal profession in the Russian Federation.

Merits

Lawyer Genrikh Padva often and willingly took on the most difficult of the available cases. It was he who made a great contribution to ensuring that the death penalty in our country was recognized as contrary to the Constitution. Genrikh Padva was engaged in the protection of the chairman of the USSR Armed Forces, the manager of the Presidential Administration, Pavel Borodin. He also led the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, connected with Yukos.

Lawyer Heinrich Pavlovich Padva has an active life position in professional activities, as well as in leisure. He is passionate about motor sports, football. For many years he has been a Spartak fan. He has participated in the Snob project since 2009.

Genrikh Padva became an Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, a laureate of the gold medal named after F. N. Plevako.

Family

The lawyer was born on February 20, 1931 in Moscow. His father's name was Pavel Yurievich. The mother of Padva Heinrich Pavlovich is Rapopport Eva Iosifovna. His first wife was Noskova A.M., she died in 1974. current spouse name is Mamontova O.S. The couple has a daughter and a granddaughter.

Biography

Genrikh Pavlovich Padva was born in a family of representatives of the Moscow intelligentsia. His father was a major engineer and held one of the responsible positions in large-scale projects. So, the father of Padva Heinrich Pavlovich, Pavel Yuryevich Padva, participated in the design of the Northern sea ​​way. Its leaders were the legendary Schmidt and Papanin. He received a shell shock while participating in the Great Patriotic war. Since 1945 he was the commandant of the German city, he was engaged in reparation issues. At the time of the victory he was the captain. The mother of Padva Heinrich Pavlovich was a ballerina who had wonderful external data. Having given birth to a son, she leaves the stage, but becomes a dance teacher.

Before the start of the war, their son was a student of the prestigious school No. 110, and the children of high-ranking statesmen, scientists, and artists grew up next to him. Graduates of the school have achieved many successes in a variety of professions. And the level of teaching in the school was very high.

War

At the beginning of the war, Genrikh Padva and his family members were evacuated to the city of Kuibyshev (Samara). They began to live with their distant relatives: 10 people in one room slept on the floor and on chests. Nevertheless, it was during this period of time that many wonderful events and new meetings took place. For example, the playwright, who was returning to the capital, lived in this room for several days, after serving his term in the camp where Stalin exiled him. Heinrich Padva had the most wonderful memories of him: he was an unusually interesting person in communication, who also had strong qualities. He showed fascinating charades, which was also deposited in the memory of a little boy.

As soon as the Germans were driven back from the capital, mother, Eva Iosifovna Rapopport, and Padva Genrikh Pavlovich were able to return home, repair a room in a communal apartment, which was heated with a makeshift brick stove.

After the war

The boy continued to study at the same school and graduated by 1948. He did not enter the Moscow Law Institute the first time: the future lawyer Genrikh Padva did not score the required number of points. It should be noted that in those years they took into account whether the applicant was a member of the Komsomol, and the young man did not particularly want to be one, the “nationality” column was also important.

The second attempt, a year later, turned out to be more successful - the future lawyer Padva scored points that pulled him to pass.

Having confidently passed the Russian language, literature and history, in matters of geography he was not so strong. The question of the rivers of Great Britain turned out to be overwhelming, and he received "satisfactory". The future lawyer Heinrich immediately felt a blatant injustice and, leaving the audience, asked the same question to many. However, most of those to whom he addressed it, even geographers by training, did not remember anything but the Thames.

University years

When the entrance exams were over, the future lawyer Genrikh Pavlovich Padva was invited to the Minsk Law Institute. He began his studies there, moving to Minsk. He studied very well: he passed the first sessions with excellent marks.

According to reviews of the lawyer Padva from his associates of those years, Heinrich found time for both sports and amateur student activities. He appreciated the highly qualified teachers who worked in the educational institution. After 2 semesters, he is transferred to the Moscow Law Institute.

First independent steps

Heinrich is released from it in 1953. He was assigned to work in Kalinin, which is now called Tver. There he becomes an employee of the local department of justice. Padva began his career as a lawyer with a six-month internship in Rzhev. It was a beautiful old city. After completing the internship, Heinrich went to the regional center Pogoreloe Gorodishche. It was a small settlement where he becomes the only lawyer.

Being a native Muscovite, Heinrich was surprised at the exoticism of provincial life: he lived in the corner of a wooden house, there was a barnyard nearby, lilacs were blooming in the front garden, and trills of birds were heard from the nearby forest edge.

He retained in his memory many pleasant memories associated with this particular period of his life: he managed to hunt wolves, go on a real fishing trip, collect a full basket of mushrooms and take long walks through the forests. But the most grandiose experience was the acquaintance with the life of the common people, who lived in the most difficult conditions, in poverty and total lack of rights.

The first cases of Heinrich Padva were litigations between ordinary front-line soldiers convicted of hot words against the USSR and the state. These were the most ordinary local settlers, young workers who were preparing to be imprisoned for being a couple of minutes late for work.

The then justice was often too cruel and unfair. In those conditions when for the smallest offenses a person could be imprisoned for a long time - for 10, 15 years - with an unenviable rarity, cases ended successfully for Heinrich's clients.

But nevertheless, little by little, the authority of the lawyer gained momentum both in the courtroom and among local residents. His opinion, his arguments became more and more convincing, they were already listened to by the district prosecutor, who was an honest and decent person, although he did not have a higher education.

After 1.5 years, Heinrich continued his career in Torzhok. Here he again hones his skills, constantly growing, reading many books. This was largely facilitated by the peculiarities of provincial life, in which there was not much entertainment. She gave him a lot of free time. It was during this time period that he met his future wife.

Soon the lawyer moves to Kalinin, where his soulmate studied. Soon the couple is getting married. Engaged in law practice, Heinrich enters the history department of the local pedagogical institute. Among the main reasons for this act was that he did not want to be forced to study in a party school. It was the way to avoid it.

Return to Moscow

Gaining more and more professional authority, Heinrich returned to the capital in 1971. At first, the small homeland met Padva completely unfriendly, it was difficult for him to adapt, since after the province a certain inhumanity was especially striking big city. Everywhere here flourished bureaucracy, which was extremely abundant.

Padva's colleagues helped to overcome many difficulties. In many ways, during this period, I. Sklyarsky, Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Moscow City Bar Association, influenced the life of Heinrich. As a lawyer, both professionals and the public began to appreciate Padva. His extraordinary talent became visible to everyone.

Padva gained great fame in the course of the case of an American businessman and the Izvestia newspaper. The businessman sued her for slandering him. He won the case in his homeland, and it was decided to recover from the publication a large compensation for the moral damage that it caused him. However, the incident was ignored for a long time by official Soviet structures, who knew that the Americans were limited in the issue of enforcing the decision of their court in cases relating to the Soviet Union.

But US representatives began to act actively, seizing the property of the Izvestia office located in the United States. Then this matter became the most real threat diplomatic relations between the two countries. It took the mobilization of all major legal resources. As a result of the response actions that were taken by a number of domestic lawyers under the leadership of G. Padva, the decision of the American court was canceled. It was a brilliant victory.

It is important that a couple of years later Padva met with the injured person who initiated this proceedings. At that time, the entrepreneur had already retired and noted that he did not hold a grudge against Padva, who demonstrated many valuable professional qualities in that process.

First fame

Starting from that period of time, the name Padva acquired the epithets "famous", "venerable" wherever it was found in the press. He became known to everyone: the photo of Heinrich Padva often appeared in the press.

In the course of many years of subsequent practice, he managed to participate in a variety of proceedings, in which the media turned out to be involved, which caused violent reactions and protests from the society, and were widely publicized.

Russia

The 1990s turned out to be a unique experience for Padva, during which he won many victories that cemented his success and great authority in the professional field.

During the putsch in August 1991, Genrikh Padva was vice-president of the Union of Lawyers of the USSR and, while in the United States, made statements to lawyers different countries, proclaiming the illegality of the events taking place in his native country. So, he emphasized that the actions of the State Emergency Committee were illegal.

He returned to the capital at a time when the putsch had not yet been defeated, and could have been arrested. The likelihood of this was high. However, the events soon came to an end, and a couple of days after the arrests of the putschists, Padva received a call from the daughter of A. Lukyanov, asking to speak in defense of her father.

After reviewing the details of the case, Heinrich emphasized that he was not going to evaluate the dramatic events that unfolded in the country differently, but agreed to defend Anatoly Ivanovich. However, he did not support the actions taken by the putschists.

First of all, Padva made a statement on TV that accusations against his ward are unacceptable, even if he is the ideologist of the putsch. The thing is that everyone has their own political views and has the right to them. People should not be persecuted just for their dissent. The argument was accepted, the streams of accusations gradually faded away.

The lawyer argued that the accusations of high treason against Lukyanov were unacceptable, however, as well as against the other members of the State Emergency Committee. As for the defendant personally, his direct participation in the putsch was all controversial. It was for this reason that the question arose before Lukyanov and Padva: is it worth accepting the amnesty of the State Duma in the case of the State Emergency Committee? At that time, due to the many experiences that befell the client, he was not in the best state of health. Then it was decided to accept an amnesty. Further struggle for justice would have cost many losses and risks to the life of the client Padva.

In 1996, the case of P. Karpov thundered throughout the country. He was deputy director general of the Federal Office for Business Insolvency. He was charged with accepting a bribe while at a Saratov enterprise. Karpov was arrested twice - both in Saratov and in the capital. The proceedings in his case were extremely protracted, but thanks to the efforts and assistance of Padva, he was rehabilitated.

In the midst of the 1990s, Genrikh Padva took up the defense of the influential businessman L. Weinberg, who was also accused of giving bribes. A high-profile case was the case when he handed over a piece of jewelry to one of the employees of the customs committee.

An investigation into the case by the Prosecutor General's Office began. Numerous violations of the rights of the accused were revealed. Padva achieved that he was soon released, and then the case against Weinberg was completely stopped.

Soon, the law office of Heinrich Padva began to operate, in which, together with his colleagues, the lawyer achieved success in many cases. Thus, one of the famous cases was the saga associated with the arrest of P. Borodin, whom the Swiss prosecutor's office accused of money laundering and joining an organized crime group. Together with E. Sergeeva, Padva came to the defense of the ex-managing director of the Presidential Administration.

Heinrich Padva's bureau worked simultaneously with Russian political government bodies and with US legal authorities. It also interacted with Swiss investigators.

By April 2001, all charges against their client were dropped. He was no longer accused of complicity in an organized criminal group, already in March 2002, the Geneva prosecutor also stopped the prosecution of the former business manager.

The trial involving Elkaponi also became loud. It started in 2003. Then G. Padva, together with Gofshtein, defended a politician and a businessman from Azerbaijan. He was charged with possession and transportation of illegal drugs. Elkaponi was the head of the People's Patriotic Union "Azerbaijan-XXI" when, in June 2001, he was arrested with 1 kg of heroin. Some of the banned substance was seized from the businessman's clothes, and some was found in his home. The discovery was made by employees of the Department for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow.

Lawyers proved that the heroin could not belong to their client and was planted. In March 2003, the Azerbaijani was acquitted by a Moscow court. Elkaponi was released from custody. He spent more than one month in prison.

One of Heinrich's clients was the ex-chairman of the board of directors at the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant. For many years, A. Bykov was a frequent hero of many articles in the media, as his case was given the widest possible publicity. Court chronicles were full of references to him.

In 1999, the first attempt was made to convict him for being involved in the murder and money laundering. Bykov was detained in Hungary and brought to the Krasnoyarsk pre-trial detention center. However, in the autumn of 2000 he was released. So the court of the Central District of Krasnoyarsk ruled. After some period of time, he was again detained, accusing him of organizing an assassination attempt on businessman V. Struganov in Krasnoyarsk.

Padva stood up to defend him, citing a weighty argument that clearly showed that Bykov was innocent. However, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow issued a peculiar decision. Bykov's guilt was recognized, but as a punishment he was given a suspended sentence of 6.5 years. The Moscow City Court upheld this decision.

Since the lawyer himself knows for sure that his client is innocent, and also notes the presence of many violations of the rights of his client, which manifested themselves during the trial, he is still seeking an appeal against the verdict. He even reached the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights.

In March 2003, Genrikh Padva took part in the trial in a new criminal case against A. Bykov. It proved his involvement in the murder of businessman O. Gubin.

However, already in July 2003, Bykov and his accomplices were found not guilty. Nevertheless, Bykov was found guilty under Article 316 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (covering up a murder that was committed without aggravating circumstances). The defendant Padva was sentenced to 1 year in prison, but was quickly amnestied.

G. Padva never advertises only those cases in which excellent results have been achieved. So, in his portfolio there are different results. Padva compares his profession with a medical specialty: not in all cases a doctor can provide assistance, and a lawyer sometimes does not have unlimited power.

To this day, the failure that ended the civil case related to the return of part of the legacy of Boris Pasternak to his beloved causes great regret in his heart. Immediately after his death, she was arrested. She was accused of smuggling, but then rehabilitated.

Padva, defending her, managed to reach the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, but still the legacy of the greatest writer was not returned. Although this should have been done, in accordance with both legal and universal norms. It came to absurd events and a real mockery of Pasternak's memory: the state demanded documents from Ivinskaya stating that Pasternak gave her his manuscripts. This despite the fact that the poems were dedicated to her personally.

It is a well-known fact that Genrikh Pavlovich Padva, a lawyer whose salary is considered one of the highest in the Russian Federation, in special situations can provide his high-quality legal assistance absolutely free of charge. His equally famous colleague Henry Reznik argues that Padva has a rather rare quality, which is called the highest legal culture.

Heinrich Pavlovich Padva: biography, education

The birthplace of the future Honored Lawyer of Russia is the capital of our country. Date - 02/20/1931. Parents - Padva Pavel Yurievich and Rapoport Eva Iosifovna.

In 1953, Padva Genrikh Pavlovich graduated from the Moscow Law Institute. As a result of the distribution, he ended up in the Kalinin region.
In 1961 in in absentia graduated from the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute, history department.

From 1953 to 1971, his place of work was the Kalinin Regional Bar Association. For six months he trained in Rzhev, and later for more than a year he led a singular lawyer's practice in the district center, which is called Pogorely Gorodische. Later he worked as a lawyer in the cities of Torzhok and Kalinin.

Since 1971, the biography of Heinrich Pavlovich Padva has been associated with the capital, he entered the Moscow City Bar Association. In 1985, he became a member of its presidium and at the same time director of the Scientific Research Institute of the Bar, established by the Moscow Bar Associations.

In 1989, Padva Genrikh was elected vice-president of the USSR Bar Union, and later in 1990 to a similar post in the International Bar Association (Union).

In 2002, he began working as a lawyer in the Moscow Chamber of Lawyers, establishing and leading as a managing partner a law firm called Padva and Partners.

Awards and regalia

Taking into account the contribution made to the development of the practice of law in Russia, Padva Genrikh Pavlovich was awarded the Gold Medal. Plevako in 1998

Significant personal contribution to the improvement of the existing legislative structure, many years of advocacy practice in defense civil law and freedom of a particular individual led to the awarding of him in 1999 with the honorary badge "Public Recognition".

Padva Heinrich Pavlovich: reviews, biography

Padva Heinrich in 1991-1994, within the framework of the "GKChP case", managed to obtain an amnesty for his client, who was the former chairman of the USSR Armed Forces Anatoly Lukyanov.

With the help of Padva, Lev Weinberg, a major businessman, was released in 1996, and later his criminal prosecution was stopped.

In 1996-97, the defendant of the lawyer was Petr Karpov, accused of bribery, who held the position of deputy director at the Federal Insolvency Office. He was taken into custody twice and released on a subscription the same number of times. Ultimately, the criminal case was dropped due to an amnesty.

The former head of Rosdragmet Evg. Bychkov in 2001 also came under an amnesty. Some of the charges were dropped from him.

Pavel Borodin, the manager of the Russian President's affairs, was a client of Padva in 2000-2002. He was arrested in the Mabetex case. Ultimately, the case against Borodin was dropped.

The head of the board of directors of KrAZ, Anatoly Bykov, was a defendant of a lawyer in 2000 and 2003. He was given a suspended sentence.

Entrepreneur Frank Elkaponi (Mamedov), who was accused of storing and transporting drugs, was acquitted by Pavda's efforts.

Pavda's clients were also Yukos organizer M. Khodorkovsky, actor Vladislav Galkin, ex-minister Anatoly Serdyukov, criminal authority Vyacheslav Ivankov.

Business failures

The biography of Heinrich Padva includes not entirely successful moments. In the period from 1994 to 2001, the lawyer had to represent the side of Olga Ivinskaya, who was a friend of B. Pasternak, for a long litigation associated with the fate of the Pasternak archives.

This civil case ended unsuccessfully for the defendant Pavda. He, recalling this process, says that some moments were often absurd. Sometimes the memory of a brilliant writer was simply mocked. For example, on the part of officials, demands were made for the provision of documents confirming the fact that Ivinskaya had been donated handwritten poems dedicated to her. The side of the writer's daughter-in-law was defended by the lawyer Lyubarskaya.

When defending the ex-head of Yukos, M. Khodorkovsky, the lawyer also did not achieve an acquittal. Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev each received eight years in prison. Andrey Krainov (the head of the Volna company), who is involved in the same case, was sentenced to four and a half years probation.

High profile clients

Padva Genrikh defended the interests of the ex-head of the Russian government Mikhail Kasyanov, who was involved as a witness in a case concerning property complex"Sosnovka" (former state dachas), sold to him and M. Fridman (head of Alfa Group) in violation of existing legislation. For quite a long time, there were many rumors that Kasyanov would be brought to criminal punishment in connection with this, but they even left him a dacha in his possession.

As a lawyer, Pavda acted for N. Lugovsky (former co-founder and general director of the Sibneft joint venture), who tried in 2003 to return the money in the amount of eight hundred thousand dollars, which the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation seized from him at the end of 1994 as material evidence. Until December 2008, it was not possible to return the money, while it was established that some of them had disappeared.

In November 2010, Pavda defended M. Beketov, who previously worked as the editor-in-chief of the Khimkinskaya Pravda newspaper, who received a disability after an attack by unidentified persons.

Marital status of Padva

Pavda's first wife was called Albina, she died in 1974. They had a joint daughter.

For the second time, the lawyer married an art critic and assistant notary Oksana Mamontova, born in 1971, who was forty years younger than him. She previously studied at the Moscow law academy, had a son named Gleb from a previous marriage. Gleb's attitude to Heinrich Pavlovich is very good, as to his own father.

A marriage contract has been concluded between the spouses, which provides that in the event of a divorce proceeding, only personal belongings belonging to her, as well as property recorded on her, will remain with the spouse.

As noted in the press, quite expensive gifts are presented to the wife from Padva: cars, antique jewelry in the form of rings and earrings.

Interests and hobbies

Among Padva's hobbies, his love for fine arts is noted. Among his favorite artists are Utrillo and El Greco.

He is also interested in the work of contemporary artists. In particular, he prefers the work of N. Nesterova.