Maria Arbatova: I am an excellent student. Maria Arbatova: “My children did not marry a bowl of soup, but beautiful, intelligent girls Biography of Maria Arbatova

"The purest charm of the purest example." In the same ranks with scum like Israel Shamir. And Dmitry Bykov there too. And there is only one solution: Russian "Christianity", meaningless and merciless - both to itself and to others ... I also had the sense to give a link to this article myself.

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acted rudely...
Vladimir Opendik, New York

Did I think, a simple Russian woman,
that I will live to see this happy day?
M. Arbatova, Diaries, 2011

IN last years Moscow writers frequented New York, and all, as if by magic, were from among Russian writers with Jewish blood in their veins, but who had converted to Orthodoxy or another religion. And another one common feature, which brings together overseas guests - all of them especially "distinguished themselves" at the 23rd International Book Fair in Jerusalem in February 2009 - with their openly anti-Israeli statements. For the Israelis, such a position of the guests was completely unexpected and unacceptable, and instead of discussing common literary topics, the guest performers declared, each in their own way, about their rejection of the Jewish state. The delegation of Russian writers included A. Kabakov, Dm. Bykov, M. Weller, Vl. Sorokin, Tatyana Ustinova, Dm. Prigov, Ludmila Ulitskaya, Maria Arbatova. As the Israeli writer and journalist A. Shoikhet wrote in the article "Orthodox Jews Russian literature"," here the representatives of Israel tried to build a "bridge" from their side. Unfortunately, Russian writers have not shown much zeal for the development of bilateral ties."

The most intolerant among them were the poet, journalist and writer D. Bykov, the writers L. Ulitskaya and A. Kabakov, and the feminist M. Arbatova. Thus, the previously mentioned Bykov argued that "the formation of Israel is a historical mistake." As Shoikhet wrote, “Dmitry Bykov and Alexander Kabakov immediately denied their Jewishness. Dmitry Bykov, who on the first day at the Jerusalem fair categorically stated that he was “a man of Russian culture, an Orthodox, a believing Christian,” behaved at the meeting defiantly, arrogantly chuckled at the questions addressed to him.

Having been beaten in Israel, Bykov did not hesitate to come to New York and, at a meeting with Jewish readers within the walls of the Brooklyn Central Library in March of this year, he again repeated the stupidity about the so-called historical mistake. He had no idea that in the American audience his speech was listened to by the same Jews whom he insulted in 2009.

Ms. Ulitskaya "with her characteristic frankness, declared to the enthusiastically listening public that" although she is a Jew, she is an Orthodox Christian by faith "that" it is morally very difficult for her in Israel "(?) and this is due to the fact that (according to according to her belief) there, in the homeland of Jesus Christ, the representatives of the Christian denominations "have a very hard life," and it is especially difficult for Arab Christians, since, "on the one hand, they are crushed (!) by Jews, and on the other, by Muslim Arabs." These words belong to Ulitskaya, who has been in Israel almost every year for the past 20 years - only blindfolded and deaf.

All these nonsense were absorbed by the Russian Jews-converts in Russia, where such a point of view is widespread among the intelligentsia, who have never heard a different point of view. This is for us, living in the free world, their opinion seems wild, as if this audience did not come from a civilized European country, but from Uganda or Lesotho.

Israeli scholar Alec Epstein, author of an article devoted to the landing of Russian writers in Israel ("Our hut from the other side: Anti-Israeli pathos of Russian-Jewish writers"), especially noted the ugly behavior of Maria Arbatova, who is going to New York at the invitation of the restless "Davidzon- radio". The author writes: “Maria Arbatova surpassed everyone – these are the words she herself summed up the trip to Jerusalem: “The Promised Land made the saddest impression on me. Nowhere in the world have I seen such a miserable emigration at meetings with writers.” Arbatova) described it as “an unpromising Western project.” “I didn’t understand before,” Arbatova confessed, “why my aunt, the daughter of Samuil Aizenshtat, who married a British intelligence officer and after that lived in London for 66 years, every time she came to Israel, says: "What a blessing that dad did not live to see this time. They have turned Israel into a Tishinsky market!” Now I have arrived, looked and understood: “This community is not strung on anything, and it is united by nothing but sausage and hatred of the Arabs. … I did not see the promised nature: solid backyards of the Crimea and the Mediterranean. Architecture, of course, never was and never will be. The population is motley and ugly. In hot countries, eyes usually hurt from beautiful faces. For Asia, too vicious and tense. For Europe, too bydlovaty and self-confident. … I travel a lot, but nowhere have I seen such permanently irritated and intolerant people.”

With considerable voluptuousness, Arabatova quoted a phrase from one of the heroines of L. Ulitskaya’s novel “Daniel Stein, Translator”: “What a terrible place Israel is - here war is coming inside every person, it has no rules, no boundaries, no meaning, no justification. There is no hope that it will ever end." “I arrived with the remnants of pro-Jewish zombies,” M. Arbatova reports, specifying: “Poor little people fights for the Jewish idea. But I did not see any Jewish idea, except for military and sausage. … This is not a country, but a military camp.”

I apologize to the readers for such an abundant quotation of the "pearls" of this 55-year-old lady from the Arbat, but without them it would not be entirely clear why the invitation of Arbatova to New York is yet another stupidity and unscrupulousness of Davidson Radio.

A few words about the origin of the writer. Maria Ivanovna Gavrilina was born in 1957 in the family of Ivan Gavriilovich Gavrilin and Lyudmila Ilyinichna Aizenshtadt. So it appears on Wikipedia, although a little lower the name of the mother is specified - Tsivya Ilyinichna. For some reason, an active figure in the feminist movement Gavrilina took a literary pseudonym - Arbatova, although the names of her husbands - Alexander Miroshnik, Oleg Witte and Shumit Datta Gupta - had nothing to do with choosing a pseudonym. Arbatova wrote about her origins as follows: “I’m also Jewish by my mother”, “my grandmother Hanna Iosifovna was born in Lublin, her father independently studied several languages, mathematics and gave lessons in the Torah and the Talmud. From 1890 to 1900, he stubbornly passed the exams for the title of "teacher" in the "secular" educational institutions and nine times he was refused "in view of the Jewish religion", on the tenth time he became one of the few Jews teaching in Polish public institutions". At the same time, Ms. Arbatova emphasized: “I have never identified myself through nationality.”

It's not about identification: Mary wants to be Russian Orthodox - and God bless her. This is her right. However, the excess of negativity and bias towards Israel turns her into an evil and primitive lady from the Tushino market, dissatisfied with neither her attitude, nor the weather, nor nature. Alien in a foreign state - like Prokhanov or Shevchenko.

Arbatova herself lives in a city where a huge part of the Russian population is engaged in trade - in markets, in shops, in numerous stalls, in subway underpasses. Calling Israelis "sausage immigrants", she blasphemes against people who live under the fire of Arab Qassams, but courageously endure war hardships and think about the future of their children and grandchildren. Arbatova and others like her point-blank do not notice and do not want to see the humane attitude that the Jews daily show towards their sworn enemies - the Arabs. On the face - misconceptions Russian public about Israel. Let this lady give at least one case when the Russian military would call the inhabitants of houses that were about to be bombed. Or imagine, reader, how Russia would react if any of its surrounding countries were to bombard Russian cities with rockets on a daily basis!

Israel is a stronghold of democracy in the Middle East, a state on the border with the Muslim world. Arbatova, however, did not notice anything of the kind, and did not want to see it. The vulgarity and primitivism of her aunt, who lived in London for 66 years with an English intelligence officer, Arbatova cites as some evidence of life in Israel. This aunt, obviously, except for the markets, did not see anything in Israel. Speaking about the "bydlovity" of the Israelis, the literary lady from Moscow forgot the environment in which she lives herself. Often you can see it on A. Malakhov's programs "Let them talk", where almost every day the most creepy stories from Russian life- about the murders and wild abuse of their own children by parents, about the rape of minors, about the wild indifference of medical workers to the fate of people who have fallen into a disaster, etc. etc. There are so many of these stories, their content is so terrible that it is not only dishonorable to talk about the “rubbishness” of citizens of another country, but also demonstrates the own rudeness of the speaker. You won’t hear anything sensible from Arbatova herself on these programs, and her excessive arrogance only confirms the opinion about her inadequacy in the perception of a foreign world.

In the New York Russian-language press, the statements of many literary figures in Russia received quite detailed coverage. Nevertheless, the Brooklyn Central Library, represented by A. Makeeva, continues to invite the writers mentioned above to meet with former Soviet Jews. This is not the first time this library has invited Bykov and Ulitskaya to its place, and TV presenter V. Topaller did not miss the opportunity to meet with Kabakov at RTVI, even calling him almost a Russian classic.

Recently it became known that the leaders of Davidson Radio invited the writer Arbatova to their living room, having no doubt that the unprincipled Jews from Brighton, radio listeners of this "office", would flock to this meeting, because they do not care about national feelings and dignity. Until recently, these leaders were confident that these same seniors would vote for City Councilman L. Fiedler in our State Senate. It is no coincidence that Senator David Storobin, being a candidate, insisted on the closure of this radio studio, since it does not protect the interests of the majority of our voters. Having lost the election, Davidzon and his supporters lost the remnants of their authority and found themselves on the sidelines of the political street. Today, the same studio again demonstrates indifference or complete misunderstanding national interests and invites to our city a literary lady who did not understand anything from her last trip to Israel and without hesitation goes to earn money with those Jews whom she so calmly and ugly offended.

Last week, the same Arbatova, on the eve of her trip to our city, did not hesitate to the public, in an interview with Davidson Radio host Vladimir Grzhonko, uttered even more absurdities. I will cite just a few of her "applications" from this interview: "Russia is increasingly threatened by American rudeness - all sorts of McDonald's, and ... American tourists are the most recognized goons in the world, there is no American culture, there is only something "fertilized" by Russian culture, Israel is a harmful illegitimate entity, a source of racism against the Arabs, created on a foreign land."

The question arises: does Mr. Davidson share the point of view of his guest? It is precisely such anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic statements in the spirit of Nazi propaganda on the American Davidson Radio - is it not meanness to the country of Davidson's residence and to the country that stands today on cutting edge fight against international terrorism? Or Grzhonko, Davidzon and others do not understand this?

I call on the Jewish community to boycott Arbatova’s visit to our city, not to take part in any events related to this rough lady who imagines herself to be a great connoisseur human souls. And once again let's express our contempt to Davidson Radio in response to its next provocation.

Maria Arbatova is a narrow specialist known in wide circles in: a) psychoanalysis, b) politics, c) dramaturgy, d) writing books ... But her main talent is thoroughly hidden under the thickness of years. After all, Masha became a mother when she had just turned 20, and a mother-heroine - a stork brought her two twins, Peter and Paul. It was a long time ago, now the children are already quite adults. Today, Maria Ivanovna decided to speak frankly about how she coped with the high duty of her mother.

— Your twin sons will turn 30 this year. Are you a grandmother?

- Not yet.

- And when will you be a grandmother?

- As soon as the sons make this decision. They do not consider themselves, like so many in their generation, ready for fatherhood. I can't tell if it makes me sad or happy, but it's their choice. I am a liberal mother... By the way, when the boys were only 7 years old, the terrible word "AIDS" appeared in the country. And in our family there is an old buffet, which was left to me by my maternal great-grandfather by the name of Aizenshtat, one of the founders of Zionism in Russia. There was a small box in this buffet, and when my children went to first grade, I put condoms there so that they always lay there, and explained what it was, why and how to use it.

You will say: “7 years is too early!”, but I think: “later” will be too late. In Russia sex life on average, it starts at fifteen, that is, for someone at 20, and for someone at 12. I did not want my grandchildren to become victims of abortion, so that my children would have an aerial marriage.

Of course, my children were already married. Now they have some new alliances.

“Oh, I feel like your sons have followed in your footsteps.

- When the children were born, I was very young and still quite infantile. They grew up with me, in many ways they teach me something.

- What?

- For example, to be in Russian contemporary culture. Peter first studied as a culturologist, then completed his postgraduate studies in philosophy, but did not defend his dissertation. And when he was twenty-seven years and one month old and the threat of the army had passed, his interest in science waned sharply. Long time he worked on all sorts of political projects, wrote programs for various parties and political leaders, was a speechwriter.

Both of my sons also worked in my elections in 1999, they helped, and I was pleased. Both of them are also musicians.

- They played in the same group "Incas"?

— Yes, but now their group is in a state of stagnation. They do not have a soloist, so now Petya is drumming in the group "Aisi Tumbrevas" ("Acid Umbrellas"). At least at the Emmaus Music Festival they played in front of Butusov on main stage. And although before that they performed on Red Square and I thought that there was the peak of their career, they told me: you don’t understand anything, Emmaus is cooler. And Pavel earns more money as a creative, designer and political strategist. But at the same time, he is now again educated as a psychoanalyst.

- When you children in such early age they said what and why lies in an old buffet, but your relationship should have changed dramatically. The boys then, probably, immediately became adults?

- Absolutely not. Most European countries sexuality education starts with kindergarten. So far, Russia has come out on top in the spread of AIDS. I'll say more. If the mother says: “You got out of the tummy, and they sewed up a hole there,” and the child sees what dogs and cats are doing to each other, then he begins to think: this is something terrible and shameful. Then the boys and girls grow up, they start having problems in their personal lives, and we, psychoanalysts, dig into it. And so you get into the depths of His or Her subconsciousness and there you find childhood traumas. Any lies of parents, especially in such a thin painful area, is always a colossal trauma ... A constant soviet story: oh-oh-oh, my girl is already twelve, I need to tell her everything; oh-oh-oh - my girl is already fourteen, it's time for her to tell everything; oh-oh-oh, my girl is already fifteen, where could she secretly have an abortion? The same with boys, only in venereology.

- You, as an advanced mother, have never reproached your sons for anything?

- There was a period (transitional age) when the sons were hung with kilograms of pins, walked in black leather jackets. But I thought: this is their body, and clothes are the language with which a person speaks with the world, and no one else dares to interfere there. All the sons passed on time, and growing up happened organically.

- But at least you forbade them something?

- Certainly. Any mentally healthy parent who does not want to solve the problems of his aggression at the expense of the child, forbids him only what is dangerous for his life and health, and nothing else. The child is always the way we want to see him. In this sense, my children may be less independent than I would like, but they are twins, and for twins, all processes occur later.

- Well, what has always been forbidden for your children?

- It was impossible to fight with your feet. Once I beat them for it with a belt. In general, parents bring up a child not with prohibitions, but with their own way of life, and the child still forbids himself only what his parents cannot.

It's pointless to tell kids to be honest if they know you're stealing. So a new Russian comes to me for a consultation and cries: I brought him up, brought him up, and he ... I told him: okay, let's see what kind of business you have. Well, how can you shout to a child: my plate after you if you don’t wash it yourself, or to change your socks twice a day if you don’t do it yourself. Useless.

- And what kind of mother were you, did you take care of children a lot?

“I have done quite a lot of them. As soon as my twins were born, I immediately felt very complex scheme Got fired. Then I became a feminist. When I wanted to get a job somewhere, they told me: are you crazy, you have twins. I sat at home, wrote plays, and my husband provided for me. And, of course, she raised children, worked social life so as not to turn into a homemade klush. In general, I am an excellent mother. I was a member of all the parent committees where the children studied ... That is, I am one of those mothers who should have the first, second, third and compote. And when they say to me: listen, your children look so young for their age, I answer: this is because I was engaged in them in my childhood.

“Are they your friends today?”

- Yes, sure. The closest friends.

- Do they share with you all the most secret or you do not require this from them?

- The word of any parent is very weighty, so I never voiced anything without asking. And all because I have my own mother, who is in her 86th year, God bless her. And her life is to climb into everything without asking. Therefore, I, observing this, try not to repeat such mistakes.

- Now it’s clear where your desire for freedom, including sexual freedom, comes from - from the constant mother’s edification.

- It's not my thing. Such was the time. What was called the sexual revolution was part of the protest behavior. We listened to the music of the Beatles, dressed like hippies and declared to everyone that our body belongs to us. And let the grandmothers on the bench say what they want ...

Maria Ivanovna Arbatova (1957), (surname at birth - Gavrilina; Arbatova - a pseudonym that has become the official surname since 1999) - Russian writer, playwright, publicist, active figure in the feminist movement, TV presenter. Member of the Writers' Union of Moscow and the Union of Theater Workers of Russia. Author of 14 plays staged in Russia and abroad, more than twenty books, as well as about 70 journalistic articles.

Family and childhood

She was born on July 17, 1957 in the city of Murom, Vladimir Region, in the family of Ivan Gavrilovich Gavrilin and Tsivya Ilyinichna Aizenshtadt. A year later, the family moved to Moscow. While studying at school, she did not join the Komsomol "for reasons of principle." In the 9th and 10th grades, she attended the School of Young Journalists at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. Then, according to her own statements, she became one of the activists of the Moscow hippie movement.

Father, Ivan Gavrilovich Gavrilin (1910, Kudashevo, Ryazan province - 1969), graduated from the history department of the Institute of Philosophy and Literature, and later - postgraduate studies at the Lenin Military-Political Academy, journalist and editor, was deputy editor-in-chief of the Red Star, taught Marxist philosophy in the military academies named after Lenin, named after Frunze, named after Dzerzhinsky. In 1950 he was appointed to Murom as a military teacher of Marxist philosophy, in 1958 the family returned to Moscow.

Mother, Tsivya Ilyinichna Aizenshtadt (1922, Moscow - 2017, Moscow), graduated from school with a gold medal, in 1940 she entered the 1st Moscow medical institute, then, in evacuation, she entered the Moscow Veterinary Institute, which was evacuated from Moscow, and graduated with honors with a diploma in microbiology. In the 1990s, she became actively interested in Reiki therapy and became a successful Reiki therapist.

Student years

Maria entered the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, but soon left it, because, according to her, "faced the strongest ideological pressure." In 1984 she graduated from the Drama Department of the Gorky Literary Institute. Privately trained in psychoanalytic counseling in the "psychoanalytic underground" of B. G. Kravtsov and S. G. Agrachev.

Political and social activities

Since 1991, she has led the club for the psychological rehabilitation of women "Harmony". Since 1996 he has been engaged in individual counseling as a psychoanalyst. Headed since 1996 public organization"Club of Women Interfering in Politics". Supports the idea of "positive discrimination". She repeatedly spoke out against the violation of the rights of sexual minorities, spoke out in support of the legalization of same-sex marriages and the possibility of adoption of children by gay couples.

For about five years she worked as a columnist for the Obshchaya Gazeta. For five years, she worked as a co-host in the women's talk show "I myself" on TV-6 channel. Author and presenter of the human rights program "The Right to Be Yourself" on the Mayak 24 radio station.

Worked in numerous PR projects and election campaigns different levels. As an expert, she took part in writing the presidential election program of Boris Yeltsin and the presidential election program of Ella Pamfilova.

In 1999, she was nominated to the State Duma in the University single-mandate district of Moscow from the Union of Right Forces, but after gaining 14.78% of the vote, she lost to the candidate from the Yabloko party, Mikhail Zadornov, who received 20.16%.

In 2001-2003 she was a candidate for the post of Commissioner for Human Rights in Russian Federation. She was co-chair of the Human Rights Party, which ceased to exist at the behest of investors.

She was a member of the leadership of the Free Russia party, renamed in February 2007 into the Civil Force party. She was second on the list of candidates from the Free Russia party in the elections to the Moscow City Duma on December 4, 2005, where the party received 2.22% of the vote.

In 2007, she was a candidate for the State Duma on the list of the Party social justice, which received 0.22% of the vote. Before the elections, the book “How I honestly tried to get into the Duma” was republished with the subtitle “A little artistic history of the elections”, which was first published in 2000 and described her attempt to run for the State Duma from the Union of Right Forces in 1999.

2007-2008 Member of the Supreme Council political party"Civil Force", according to the list of which was to be nominated to the Duma of the fifth convocation. She spoke harshly about the party and regretted that she had led to " civil force» its then leader Mikhail Barshchevsky, as well as a number of famous figures culture. “They were used just like me,” and “thrown,” Arbatova wrote. - "A day and a half before the congress, which approves the candidates for the districts, Barshchevsky, through the hands of the formal leader of the party, Ryavkin, unscrupulously kicks me out of the list."

Critically spoke about the verdict to the members of the group Pussy Riot and positions of the Russian Orthodox Church on this and other issues.

In January 2013, she supported the adoption of a law prohibiting the adoption of Russian orphans by US citizens.

On September 29, 2016, she took part in the TV show "Duel", dedicated to the topic of abortion, during which she repeatedly called radical opponents of abortion "shobla".

Personal life

Arbatova was married three times:

The first husband - Alexander Miroshnik (the marriage lasted 17 years) - is a classical singer. He studied at the Gnessin Musical College at the department musical comedy and at the Academic Musical College at the Conservatory. P. I. Tchaikovsky at the vocal department. He worked as a soloist in Moscow choirs and musical theaters; in a marriage with A. Miroshnik, Arbatova had twin sons:

Son - Pyotr Alexandrovich Miroshnik (born 1977) - graduated from the Russian State Humanitarian University with a degree in cultural studies. Wrote and edited the online almanac "The Fourth Rome", dedicated to the architecture and sociology of the city. Coordinator social movement"Archnadzor".

Son - Pavel Alexandrovich Miroshnik (born 1977) - graduated from the Russian State Humanitarian University with a degree in psychology, a psychotherapist. In their youth, Peter and Pavel participated in the Inki rock group.

The second husband is Oleg Vite (the marriage lasted 8 years) - a political expert. Graduated Faculty of Economics LSU and Institute practical psychology and psychoanalysis. He worked as a columnist for Moscow News, then on the 1st TV channel, in the Work Center economic reforms under the Government of the Russian Federation (1993-2000), in the expert group at the service of assistants to the President (1996), in the Effective Policy Foundation (2000-2004), since autumn 2004 - chief expert of the Legislative Initiatives Support Foundation. Biographer and researcher of the work of the Soviet historian and sociologist B. F. Porshnev. Author of several scientific and journalistic works in the field of economics, political sociology, history, etc.;

The third husband is Shumit Datta Gupta (current husband) is a financial analyst. Lives in Russia since 1985. Graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics and natural sciences Russian University Friendship between nations. Nephew of Puran Chand Joshi - 1st Secretary General Communist Party of India (1935-1947), as well as the nephew of Kalpana Datta (Kalpana Datta) - the national heroine of India, the wife of P. C. Joshi.

1991 - gold medal Cambridge Bibliographic Center "For Contribution to the Culture of the 20th Century" in the Drama nomination.
1991 - Laureate of the All-Union Competition of Radio Dramaturgy. Radio novella "Rite of Initiation" from the play "The Late Carriage".
1993 - Winner of the Literary News newspaper award for best work in prose. The story "Abortion from the unloved".
1996 - Winner of the Bonn Theater Biennale. The play "Trial Interview on Freedom" staged by the Bonn Drama Theatre.
1998 - Laureate of the radio dramaturgy competition "Prize of Europe" for a radio performance based on the play "Rite of Initiation" staged by Radio Russia.
2002 - Order "For Service to the Fatherland" (Saints Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy and Reverend Abbot Sergius of Radonezh) National charitable foundation « Eternal glory heroes."
2006 - "Order of the Peacemaker of the 2nd degree" of the World Charitable Alliance "Peacemaker".
2007 - "Order of the Peacemaker 1st degree" of the World Charitable Alliance "Peacemaker".
2008 - Award "MONE Beauty Awards" of the beauty salon "MONE" in the nomination "Muse of Literature" ("for the ability to combine feminine softness and independence in oneself and in one's works").
2010 - medal of the Kemerovo region "For Faith and Good".
2012 - National Literary Award "Golden Pen of Russia" for the work "Tasting India".

Name: Maria Arbatova (Maria Gavrilina)

Age: 61 years old

Activity: writer, TV presenter, screenwriter, journalist, public figure

Family status: married

Maria Arbatova: biography

Maria Arbatova manages to combine the roles of a writer, playwright, political and public figure, television and radio host. According to Maria, she is so sorely lacking in time that she even had to quit smoking.

Childhood and youth

Masha Gavrilina was born in Murom on July 17, 1957. Zodiac sign - Cancer. A year later, the family moved to the capital of Russia. The girl's parents are true intellectuals. Father is the deputy editor-in-chief of the Krasnaya Zvezda daily, a journalist and teacher of philosophy. Mother - Jewish by nationality - received the specialty of a microbiologist. In the 90s, a woman became interested in alternative medicine.

In addition to Maria, the older brother Sergei grew up in the family, about whom little is known in the press. The writer herself recalled that childhood can hardly be called easy. In an interview, the future feminist said that since childhood she suffered from lameness and received a disability group. The father died when the daughter was ten. Mother and older brother vigilantly controlled Masha, which caused an outright rebellion of a teenager.

The girl was distinguished by perseverance and a sharp disposition. She refused to join the Komsomol, because it was contrary to her views and life ideals.

A couple of years before graduation, the mother registered her daughter in two rooms on the Arbat, bought by her great-grandfather. There, the girl organized Masha's Salon from the Arbat, a meeting place for Soviet hippies, of which the girl quickly became the leader. Then the pseudonym Arbatov appeared, which would later become the official surname.

As a teenager, the future writer and feminist attended the School for Young Journalists at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. However, a girl entered the Faculty of Philosophy at the main university of the capital.

According to the student, due to the strongest ideological pressure, she changed plans for a career as a philosopher, enrolling and graduating from the Gorky Literary Institute. In addition to writing skills, the girl studied the wisdom of psychoanalysis with B. G. Kravtsov.

Career

According to the story of the writer, she was inspired to work maternity leave. In order not to go crazy from everyday life and routine, the young mother writes the first play "Envious". In total, Arbatova the playwright has 14 written plays. The last one was created in 1994. According to the author, the disappointment from dramaturgy is due to the fact that the male director does not understand its intention.

With the advent of the harsh 90s, Arbatova's knowledge of psychoanalysis came in handy. Since 1991, a woman has led the Harmony psychological rehabilitation club.

Later, the formation of the multifaceted Arbatova as a TV presenter and politician. For five years, she was a columnist for the socio-political publication Obshchaya Gazeta. Together with she hosted the popular talk show for women “I myself” on the TV-6 channel. On the air of this program, for the first time, she publicly announced the new concept of feminism for Russia and her belonging to the movement.

Maria Arbatova in the show "I myself"

Received an invitation to the role of an expert in writing the program of the presidential election campaign and the first female candidate for the post of head of the country.

In 1996, Arbatova and like-minded people opened the Club of Women Interfering in Politics. The organization performs an educational function and was created to increase the political literacy and importance of women. Since 2012, Maria Arbatova has been the president of the Women's Assistance Center, where support is provided for those who find themselves in a difficult life situation.

There were also attempts at direct political participation in the life of the country feminists and human rights activists. Several times Maria ran for deputies State Duma. Unfortunately, the rivals bypassed the candidate in the elections.

The development of the work of Arbatova the writer continues. The author's books are based on personal observations and are autobiographical. After a visit to India, the work “Tasting India” appeared with detailed description trips.

The novel A Week in Manhattan was published, where the writer shares her unflattering impressions. By the way, the feminist spoke negatively about America and the inhabitants of this country before. A quote from an interview with Pravda.ru in 2012 that this country is “a collection of stump people who can only be kept together on the financial side in order to fight with someone” frankly reflects the attitude of the human rights activist.

By the way, there is also an autobiography in the list of Arbatova's works. The book "I'm 46" amazes with the frankness of the realist author, who told the details of childhood, relationships with parents and husbands. Maria Ivanovna also tried her hand as a screenwriter. The film adaptation of the biography of the intelligence officer Zoya Voskresenskaya in the episode of the “Fights” project “The Two Lives of Colonel Rybkina” became one of such successful works by Arbatova.

Maria Arbatova and her book "Cinema, wine and dominoes"

The fighter for women's rights remains a bright media personality, whose judgments are heard from television screens. Sharply expresses himself in articles and posts in his personal LJ blog, as well as in his account Facebook. So, in 2017, Arbatova spoke unflatteringly about her political ambitions. The writer never had a high opinion of her daughter.

The human rights activist became a participant in a TV show with hot scandalous topics and heroines, where she was not shy in fair sarcasm and well-aimed attacks. Such were the programs "Live" about, "Let them talk" about and the scandal with adopted son actresses.

Maria Arbatova and Roza Syabitova "Let them talk"

Some of the shooting and phrases of the writer caused a real scandal. It happened on the site of the same "Let them talk." Maria Ivanovna allowed a sharp judgment about. The writer doubted that it was possible to be a successful matchmaker, having such a negative marital experience as a TV presenter. The main TV matchmaker was offended by the sharp sarcasm addressed to her, hastened to leave the studio, but, unable to stand on her high heels, fell on the steps.

For the public, and especially for feminist activists, Arbatova's sharp protest against the release of former Yukos lawyer Svetlana Bakhminova in 2008 was surprising. Maria Ivanovna unequivocally stated that the thief should be in prison.

Maria Arbatova in the program "To the Barrier"

The topic was developed in the program "To the Barrier", where she became Maria's opponent. , a writer and host of the "School of Scandal" (whose heroine once became Arbatova), said that the position of the human rights activist is nasty.

It can be concluded that, being a feminist, Arbatova does not hesitate to criticize women. The writer supports the position of some men, for example, she clearly impresses Mary with her vision of the socio-political situation.

Personal life

Despite the clearly non-model appearance, Arbatova does not complain about the lack of men in her life. The writer was officially married three times. From the first, twin sons were born. The children have long grown up, one of the sons is a psychologist, the second is a public figure.

Men in the life of a feminist succeeded each other, not allowing her to yearn alone. The writer met her second husband on the day of the divorce from the first. current spouse- born Indian prince, financial analyst, leader's nephew communist party India.

All three times the marriage was concluded quickly. As Arbatova says, a man who does not go into his hands without additional effort makes practically no sense. By her own admission, she simply does not have time for the bouquet period.

At the same time, the writer does not care about appearance, does not visit beauty salons, has no idea about own weight because she hasn't weighed herself since she was pregnant. She allows herself to eat whatever she wants, whenever she wants. Quoting Maria Ivanovna:

"If a girl is loved by her father, then men will love her later."

Arbatova recalls that her father adored her. Perhaps this is the success of the feminist with the opposite sex. The writer told about this and other details of her personal life on the air of the program "Wives. A Love Story".

Maria Arbatova now

Arbatova continues to work social activities and promotes feminist ideas. In 2018, on the Spas channel, Maria took part in the I Don't Believe program with her opponent, priest Pavel Ostrovsky. The broadcast raised issues of the rights and place of women in the church, the legality of abortion and the problems of domestic violence.

Maria Arbatova in the program "I do not believe"

Arbatova actively publishes on her blog, preferring LiveJournal to Instagram and Twitter. As a real writer and publicist, Maria Ivanovna prefers long posts and stories short quotes and photo. Besides, latest news, publications and works are posted on Arbatova's personal website.

Bibliography

1991 - "Plays for reading"
1998 - "My name is a woman"
2000 - "Mobile communications"
2002 - "The experience of social sculpture"
2004 - "I'm 46"
2004 - "Love for American cars"
2006 - "Tasting India"
2007 - "How I honestly tried to get into the Duma"
2009 - "Cinema, wine and dominoes"
2017 - "Week in Manhattan"

About family
I have perfect family. True, this is the third marriage, but I am friends with all my husbands. I am able to do almost everything myself, so for me, my beloved man, first of all, is a partner. We help each other develop, move forward.

About loneliness
I have been married three times. And naturally I had gaps when I took a break from the relationship. Then she woke up and sang a song by Alexander Vertinsky, performed by Grebenshchikov:

How good it is to wake up alone
In your cozy bachelor flat
And know that you don't owe anyone
Give an account to no one in the world.
I enjoyed being alone. But about 2-3 years passed, she again found her “ideal” man and married him.

About household chores
In our time, the position of men and women is leveling off. New generations are building better families, with a clear distribution of responsibilities and personal space. Increasingly popular in our country marriage contracts. They often stipulate that the husband should take over half of the household chores. I believe that this is correct. I gave my children the idea that there is no division of labor into “male” and “female”. Therefore, they did not marry a bowl of soup, but beautiful, intelligent girls.

About kids
I have amazing sons! They have a wonderful father, and I was able to explain that work is never divided between “male” and “female”, they are very independent. In general, I think that a boy and a girl should be brought up equally. Then they will be absolutely harmonious.

About relationships
I remember the words of Akhmatova: "You must live only with those without whom you cannot live." Now society is being rebuilt, a single woman is no longer an "old maid" or a "divorced woman". Everything more people they begin to understand that a man and a woman are equal and should live together if they love each other and they feel good together. Such couples are happy and the format of marriage is not at all important. I wish everyone such unions.

REFERENCE

Maria Ivanovna Arbatova was born on July 17, 1957 in the city of Murom, Vladimir Region. Author of 14 plays staged in Russia and abroad, including Envious (1979), Alekseev and Shadows (1984), more than 20 books, the first of which is Plays for Reading (1991). She is the author of more than 70 journalistic articles. Member of the Writers' Union of Moscow and the Union of Theater Workers of Russia, president of the Center for Assistance to Women.

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