Tigran Keosayan and Margarita Simonyan were introduced to social networks. Margarita Simonyan and her secret romance in full view of all the Open Door Hash

Maryasha and Bagrat already speak five languages, but I would not want them to study abroad and grow up as carriers of a culture alien to me Photo: Pavel Shchelkantsev

I lived in a small cozy house, bought with a mortgage, in a wonderful village, which had only one drawback - it was located sixty-three kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road.

When Tigran arrived for the first time, he asked why I didn't have curtains. She answered: “Because I haven’t saved up for the ones I want yet.” Keosayan was shocked. In his view, the head of the largest international media there could be no such problem. It was in this house without curtains that he moved to live with me.

“Why do you say that you live near Moscow? You live near Volokolamsk!” - Tigran joked, making his way into my hole in his luxurious Maserati.

Of course, he left the mansion in Barvikha to Alena and their common children. Having already moved in with me, every morning he went there before work to have breakfast with his youngest daughter Ksyusha, and only then went to Mosfilm. I strongly supported it. She even insisted if he was tired and wanted to sleep longer.

Tigran stopped going to Barvikha every morning only when Alena got a new one. civil husband, Sasha. To avoid embarrassment. Well, imagine that he wakes up, goes into the kitchen, and at the table - Alenin ex-husband. Ksyusha spends the weekend with us, she is friends with my children, and we all encourage this.

In the Krasnodar of my youth, lines were scrawled on the wall of our little Arbat: “Love has no guarantees, this is very bad, brothers. When leaving, leave the light - it's more than staying."

Difficult to demand from a partner eternal love. Another thing is whether a person remains a person. Tigran took from his house only portraits and books of his father. And after the divorce, Alena remains true friend and a dear person, and to his daughters - a loving father.

When I found out that I was pregnant, I was in shock, sobbed for three months. Motherhood happened despite precautions, but there was an almost one hundred percent threat of miscarriage. The doctors said: “If you want to endure, lie down for preservation, we will inject hormones.”

I decided that I would not fight either for my pregnancy or against it: as God pleases, it will happen. As a result, Maryasha took root, although at some point she almost left me, miraculously “stuck” back, my little shrimp. She slept at first in a crib, taking the pose of a shrimp.

Already five months after the first birth, I became pregnant with Bagrat. This time I didn't worry, I was happy. Pregnancy was very easy for me, both times I felt better than not pregnant: I slept little, worked hard and cheerfully, not a day of toxicosis, I gave birth the first time in two and a half hours, the second in one and a half. However, motherhood is still the most difficult thing I have ever done.

I spent a month with Maryasha on maternity leave - if you can call it that, because anyway, she sorted everything out by phone and mail. I did not sit with Bagrat at all. Having been discharged from the maternity hospital, I took my son home and went to work - I was just undergoing an audit by the Accounts Chamber.

In general, I am an anxious mother, but I try not to show this to my children. I call my grandparents several times a day. Although I know the schedule of my children every minute, and they have Spartan: swimming, languages, yoga, drawing by the hour, Mariasha dances, Bagrat has Thai boxing. And their food is Spartan, they still have not tried sweets and cakes, so they are absolutely indifferent to sweets and nibble celery with pleasure. Any cakes can lie on the table - children do not reach for them, because they do not perceive them as food, rather as decoration. They eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, cereals, meat, seafood. Every morning begins with Bagrat's question:

Mom, when will we eat crayfish?

No, not crayfish, but mussels! Mariasha answers.

Tigran is a much more strict parent than me. Raises children immediately as adults, especially only son. And he is three years old, he still does not understand the concept “I must apologize for throwing an apple on the floor”, looks at dad with surprised eyes and smiles. However, Tigran is also, in my opinion, strict with his daughters. But he also fools around with them, sings funny songs that he himself comes up with, tells fables.

The editor-in-chief of the Russia Today TV channel spoke frankly about her family

Elena LANKINA

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Once I read on Facebook: “Hello, Margarita! This is Tigran Keosayan. You have long been sympathetic to me as a journalist and fellow tribeswoman. Now I was driving in a car and listening to you being hounded on the radio, I could not stand it, I decided to support and write that I still remember your reports from Beslan ... "

That's how I found out that, firstly, I was being poisoned somewhere, and secondly, Tigran Keosayan himself was interested in my fate. At first I didn’t believe that it was really Keosayan - you never know fakes on the Internet. Why would a famous director write to me? We are strangers, I don’t act in films and I don’t shoot films. I saw him on TV in a cooking show, where he cooked scrambled eggs with tomatoes, putting a whole pod of hot red pepper in the center of the pan, just like Freud. I thought: "With humor, a man, like a father." I thought and forgot.

Keosayan was not a fake. I answered him, exchanged phone numbers, met, had lunch. We had lunch, apparently, so tasty that I wanted to have lunch again. Yes, and dinner. Gradually overgrown common themes, interests, friends, some projects. As often happens, unexpectedly and certainly uninvited, it suddenly turned out that it was impossible to live without each other - that you need to see each other every day, correspond every minute, hold hands, even when not nearby. In general, all the most beautiful things in my life literally fall from the sky. And what I work on for a long time and hard, either does not happen at all, or happens when it is no longer necessary. The sandwich will definitely fall down with oil if I buttered it myself. And if I didn’t even think about a sandwich, then it will be served to me on a silver platter and with caviar.

Purebred Russian Armenians

My parents - purebred Armenians, while we have absolutely Russian family. Father was born and raised in Sverdlovsk (then his parents moved to Krasnodar), mother - in Sochi. Even my great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers were born in Sochi. And paternal ancestors from the Crimea, where they fled at the beginning of the 20th century from the Turkish genocide. Actually, where the territory of modern Armenia is now, we have never lived. Most of I have relatives and now lives in Adler. A few years ago, I opened a restaurant there, fulfilling a family dream. It happened a couple of days before the start of the Sochi Olympics, and whoever didn’t dine with us in these fabulous two weeks: Dmitry Kozak, Konstantin Ernst, Oleg Deripaska, Mikhail Prokhorov, Andrey Malakhov, Yana Churikova ... But the Olympics were over, the guests left, but the restaurant remains. It was built against the main rule of this business - not where there is high traffic, but right in the courtyard of my grandmother's house, where my mother was born and raised, and now her sisters, nephews and, in fact, my grandmother live. The place is unfortunate - not in the mountains and not by the sea, on the old highway, which few people drive now. In general, the restaurant withered, we are now trying to rent the building.

My parents speak Armenian, but in different dialects. They are almost different languages. Tigran cannot communicate with my relatives, he does not understand them, although he knows Armenian quite well. But I don’t speak it at all, and before meeting Tigran I was in Armenia only once, on a two-day business trip as part of the presidential pool. However, I can cook an excellent khashlama, play a decent game of backgammon and dance tolerably to Armenian music.

“You live not near Moscow, but near Volokolamsk”

In general, since my early youth, I actually lived only for work. I never wanted to get married, I put off thinking about children until after thirty. When novels happened, I immediately honestly told the boyfriend that this was not serious and, most likely, not for long - I just had no time. Generally I have complex relationship to marriage: at the age of 12, I told my parents that I would never get married. Mom choked on her mint tea in amazement. Apparently, the fact is that in my childhood I did not see happy married couples. It seemed to me that married woman- an unfortunate and downtrodden creature: she was "made happy" with a white veil so that she cleaned, washed, cooked and endured her husband's betrayals. However, by the age of 30 I already had long and quite family relationships- with a common life, ficus and plans for the future, but even then I was not going to get married. Then a tsunami by the name of Keosayan burst into my ficuses and into my understandable life. Tigran and I tried many times to stop everything - no one wanted to hurt loved ones. But it didn't work out. The first time we "forever" parted for a whole day, the last - for 20 minutes.

I lived in a small cozy house, bought with a mortgage, in a wonderful village, which had only one drawback - it was located 63 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road. When Tigran arrived for the first time, he asked why I didn't have curtains. She answered: “Because I haven’t saved up for the ones I want yet.” Keosayan was shocked. In his view, the head of the largest international media outlet could not have such problems. It was in this house without curtains that he moved to live with me. “Why do you say that you live near Moscow? You live near Volokolamsk!” - Tigran joked, making his way into my hole in his luxurious Maserati. Of course, he left the mansion in Barvikha to Alena (actress Alena Khmelnitskaya, ex-wife. - Ed.) and their common children. Having already moved in with me, every morning he went there before work to have breakfast with his youngest daughter Ksyusha, and only then went to Mosfilm. I strongly supported it. She even insisted if he was tired and wanted to sleep longer. Tigran stopped going to Barvikha every morning only when Alena got a new common-law husband, Sasha. To avoid embarrassment. Well, imagine that he wakes up, goes into the kitchen, and at the table - Alenin's ex-husband.

Little shrimp Maryasha

When I found out that I was pregnant, I was in shock, sobbed for three months. Motherhood happened despite precautions, but there was an almost one hundred percent threat of miscarriage. The doctors said: “If you want to endure, lie down for preservation, we will inject hormones.” I decided that I would not fight either for my pregnancy or against it: as God pleases, it will happen. As a result, Maryasha took root, although at some point she almost left me, miraculously “stuck” back, my little shrimp. She slept at first in a crib, taking the pose of a shrimp. Already five months after the first birth, I became pregnant with Bagrat. This time I didn't worry, I was happy. Pregnancy was very easy for me, both times I felt better than not pregnant: I slept little, worked hard and cheerfully, not a day of toxicosis, I gave birth the first time in two and a half hours, the second in one and a half.

However, motherhood is still the most difficult thing I have ever done. I spent a month with Maryasha on maternity leave - if you can call it that, because anyway, she sorted everything out by phone and mail. I did not sit with Bagrat at all. Having been discharged from the maternity hospital, I took my son home and went to work - I was just undergoing an audit by the Accounts Chamber. In general, I am an anxious mother, but I try not to show this to my children. I call my grandparents several times a day. Although I know the schedule of my children every minute, and they have it Spartan: swimming, languages, yoga, drawing by the hour, Mariasha has dancing, Bagrat has Thai boxing. And their food is Spartan, they still have not tried sweets and cakes, so they are absolutely indifferent to sweets and nibble celery with pleasure. Any cakes can lie on the table - children do not reach for them, because they do not perceive them as food, rather as decoration. They eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, cereals, meat, seafood. Every morning begins with Bagrat’s question: “Mom, when will we eat crayfish?” “No, not crayfish, but mussels!” Mariasha answers. Tigran is a much more strict parent than me. Raises children immediately as adults, especially the only son. And he is three years old, he still does not understand the concept “I must apologize for throwing an apple on the floor”, looks at dad with surprised eyes and smiles.

Children speak five languages

I'm a fan preschool education, contracted this from Tatyana Yumasheva, Yeltsin's daughter. She told me a long time ago how her daughter had mastered several languages ​​effortlessly by the age of six. I immediately decided that I would try the same with mine. Maryasha and Bagrat speak five languages: Russian, Armenian, English, French and Chinese. Every day teachers come to them - native speakers. For children, it's just a game, they don't even know they're learning. They sculpt, draw, walk, sing, watch cartoons - it all just happens on different languages. And in the evening, that same uncle of mine, whom I moved with his wife long ago from their communal apartment to our house with Tigran, communicates with his grand-nephews in Armenian. I would not want my children to study abroad. For selfish reasons. They will already master the languages ​​by the first grade, and live with them in different countries I am not ready for them to grow up as carriers of a culture that is alien to me. I am not a person of the world, I am very attached to my native places and I want my children to be nearby too.

Tigran did not object eldest daughter when she wanted to study at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, but suffered terribly all those years. In the end, she and Alena were already very angry with themselves for sending their daughter to the other side of the world with their own hands. Luckily for them, she didn't stay there. Graduated and returned. Now the clever and beautiful Sasha is working with her father, she was the second director on his new film, the plot of which takes place against the backdrop of the construction of the Crimean bridge.

"Girls, that's enough! I want to go home!"

The summer before last, at Ksyusha's birthday party - she turned six - I met Alena. A few days before the holiday, Tigran said: "Alena invites us to come all together." - "Of course, take the children and go with them." - "You did not understand. She wants to see you too."

I thought that Tigran, in his directorial absent-mindedness, misunderstood something. She asked him for Alenin's number, wrote to her: “Alena, hello! Tigran said that you are waiting for us all together. This is true? I do not want to put anyone in an awkward position, especially on children's holiday". Alena replied: “Come on! Come! There won't be any problems. We'll have great fun."

There were forty guests. It was just wonderful. Alena and I both took a glass when the children had already been taken away, and sat together until the morning. Tigran could not stand it, fell asleep on the lawn, periodically woke up and whined: “Girls, maybe that's enough? Oh please! I want to go home!" We hissed: “Sleep! Let me talk!"

At the holiday made with Alena joint photo and posted on the Internet with the signature " high relations". She is charming, very kind, smart, open - not to mention that she is a phenomenal beauty. We have nothing to share: Alena is happy, I am happy, Tigran is happy. And thank God.

"Khash open doors»

On the first of January, we always have an “open door hash”. All night long, my mother and mother-in-law and I cook this famous Armenian anti-hangover dish from boiled beef hooves. Honestly, hash by by and large brews itself, but we keep an eye on it. All friends know that they can, without a special invitation, burrow into us starting at one in the afternoon ...

Tigran, of course, pampers me, accustoms me to expensive things and five-star hotels. When we met, I was already over thirty, I had long been a big boss with a good salary, but everything scattered into mortgages, loans, numerous relatives. I will never forget his first gift. I liked the bag famous brand, not prohibitively expensive, but still wastefully expensive for me. Passing by the boutique, I admired her in the window. Once Tigran caught my eye: “Do you like this bag?” - "No, I'm just looking around ..." He bought it on the sly and gave it to me. So I, as a child, slept with her for several days - I laid her on a pillow, I could not tear my eyes away. I still wear it. Anticipating the question of why we have not yet registered a relationship, I answer: our hands simply do not reach this point. Besides, I and my stubborn male character I still don't understand the girl's story about White dress and a veil. We recently joked about this at home - we decided that, probably, we will get married when the children grow up so that we can sit down at a common table with our parents, drink homemade wine from grapes planted by my grandfather, have a bite of dolma according to the recipe of Tigran's mother and say: “ What good fellows you are, ancestors, that you once decided on all this!

BEHIND THE SCENES

The series "Actress" was born from a nightmare

Thanks to Tigran, he taught me how to write scripts. I had never seen them before we met. Now, in traffic jams and at night, I write scripts for films, serials - sometimes under my own name, sometimes under a pseudonym. So I relax. Not to mention that they pay very well for this - definitely more than my salary on Russia Today.

I write not only for Tigran. Together with him we made three series and just made a movie. Our comedy "Sea. The mountains. Expanded clay "was a great success on Channel One.

This December, NTV hosted the premiere of the psychological thriller "Actress", another work that we created together with Tigran and Alena Khmelnitskaya. I wrote the script, Tigran filmed, and Alena played one of the main female roles. For our trio, the whole group watched warily and admiringly - how people manage to maintain good relations.

I had a dream about the plot of the detective - I woke up from a nightmare in a cold sweat and realized that I could not sleep until I wrote it down.

Tigran at first did not think to shoot it, he believed that this was absolutely not his genre. But, having read the script, I saw in it not only a detective, but also what he was interested in: a story about people who do not know how their neighbors and even their own children live, about how we close ourselves in cramped cases, and then we are surprised how much evil and vice is around.

Full text in the magazine "Caravan of stories" or on the website 7days.ru

Once Tigran Keosayan wrote on Facebook to Margarita Simonyan: “Hello, Margarita! This is Tigran Keosayan. You have long been sympathetic to me as a journalist and fellow tribeswoman. Now I was driving in a car and listening to you being hounded on the radio, I could not stand it, I decided to support and write.

Margarita Simonyan at first did not believe that it was really Keosayan. She saw him on TV in a cooking show where he cooked scrambled eggs and tomatoes. Margarita answered him, exchanged phone numbers, met, had lunch. We had lunch, apparently, so tasty that I wanted to have lunch again. Yes, and dinner. Gradually acquired common themes, interests, friends, some projects.

« And suddenly it turned out that it was impossible to live without each other - that you need to see each other every day, correspond every minute, hold hands, even when you are not around.”, recalls Simonyan.

« In general, all the most beautiful things in my life literally fall from the sky. And what I work on for a long time and diligently, either does not happen at all, or happens when it is no longer necessary”, adds the journalist. Her career is the position of editor-in-chief of an international television channel and chief news agency countries - also developed unexpectedly. She never aspired to become a big boss, quite the contrary. I have always wanted to write books, since childhood, for as long as I can remember.

Tigran Keosayan taught Margarita how to write scripts. Now, in traffic jams and at night, she writes scripts for films, serials - sometimes under her own name, sometimes under a pseudonym. So Simonyan relaxes. " Not to mention that they pay very well for this - definitely more than my salary on Russia Today”, specifies the chosen one of Keosayan.

She writes not only for Tigran. Together with him they made three series and just made a movie. Their comedy "Sea. The mountains. Expanded clay "was successfully broadcast on Channel One. This December on NTV - the premiere of the psychological thriller "Actress", another work that they created together with Tigran and Alena Khmelnitskaya.

Margarita wrote the script, Tigran filmed, and Alena played one of the main female roles. For their trio, the whole group watched warily and admiringly - how people manage to maintain good relations.

Margarita was born in Krasnodar, which in the eighties was an abandoned province. The family lived between the station and the market, they had such a hut without any amenities. " My parents are purebred Armenians, while we have an absolutely Russian family. Father was born and raised in Sverdlovsk, and mother - in Sochi Simonyan says. Most of her relatives still live in Adler.

Simonyan never dreamed of television. She was going to write beautiful articles in various magazines. In 1998, Margarita graduated from her first year, and she published a collection of poems, and her television company Krasnodar also took her on an internship. Leaving for Chechnya on the front lines in the bloody and crazy December 1999, when Grozny was just surrounded, for the first time in her life Simonyan deceived her parents.

After Chechnya, Margarita was noticed in Moscow. She became a freelance correspondent for several federal television channels. Her father bought her a tattered Oka, which was already ten years old, and she and the operator drove this car all over the south of Russia, the Crimea, Abkhazia, Kalmykia and Ossetia, getting their reports.

In the third year, when Simonyan was not yet twenty-one years old, the RTR channel - now it is called "Russia" - entrusted her to head his bureau. " I was twenty-two when Dobrodeev, the general director of the Rossiya TV channel, called and asked: “Choose, will you go to New York or Moscow?” I chose, of course, Moscow. I immediately got into the presidential pool - it was a real "dream come true”, recalls Simonyan.

At twenty-five, Margarita was appointed editor-in-chief of Russia Today, which did not exist then: she had to launch the first Russian international round-the-clock news channel from scratch on English language. Your first New Year in this capacity, she noted at work.

Simonyan, in general, from early youth actually lived only with work. She never wanted to get married, she put off thinking about children until after thirty. " When novels happened, I immediately honestly told the boyfriend that this was not serious and most likely not for long - I just had no time”, recalls the journalist.

« It seemed to me that a married woman was an unfortunate and downtrodden creature: she was “made happy” with a white veil so that she cleaned, washed, cooked and endured her husband’s betrayals. However, by thirty I already had a long and quite family relationship - with a common life, ficus and plans for the future, but even then I was not going to get married", adds Margarita.

Then a tsunami by the name of Keosayan broke into her "understandable life." " Tigran and I tried many times to stop everything - no one wanted to hurt loved ones. But it didn't work out. The first time we "forever" parted for a whole day, the last - for twenty minutes", says Margarita.

Simonyan lived in a small cozy house, bought with a mortgage, in a wonderful village, which had only one drawback - it was located sixty-three kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road. " When Tigran arrived for the first time, he asked why I didn't have curtains.. Margarita remembers. - She answered: “Because I haven’t saved up for the ones I want.". Keosayan was shocked. In his view, the head of the largest international media outlet could not have such problems. It was in this house without curtains that he moved to live with her.

« Why do you say that you live near Moscow? You live near Volokolamsk!" - Tigran joked, making his way to Margarita's house in his luxurious Maserati. Of course, he left the mansion in Barvikha to Alena and their common children. Having already moved to Simonyan, he went there every morning before work to have breakfast with his youngest daughter Ksyusha, and only then went to Mosfilm. Margarita categorically supported this. She even insisted if he was tired and wanted to sleep longer.

Tigran stopped going to Barvikha every morning only when Alena got a new common-law husband, Sasha. To avoid embarrassment. Ksyusha spends the weekend with them, she is friends with Margarita's children. Tigran took from his house only portraits and books of his father. And after the divorce, Alena remains a true friend and family person, and a loving father to her daughters.

« When I found out that I was pregnant, I was in shock, sobbed for three months. Motherhood happened despite precautions, but there was an almost one hundred percent threat of miscarriage. The doctors said: “If you want to endure, lie down for preservation, we will inject hormones Simonyan says.

Margarita decided that she would not fight either for her pregnancy or against it: as God pleases, it will happen. As a result, Maryasha took root. Five months after the first birth, Simonyan became pregnant with Bagrat. This time I didn't worry, I was happy. " Pregnancy was very easy for me, both times I felt better than not pregnant: I slept little, worked hard and cheerfully, not a day of toxicosis, I gave birth the first time in two and a half hours, the second in one and a half. However, motherhood is still the most difficult thing I have ever done.", admitted Margarita.

She spent a month with Maryasha Simonyan on maternity leave, but she still sorted everything out by phone and mail. I did not sit with Bagrat at all. After being discharged from the maternity hospital, the journalist took her son home and went to work - she was just undergoing an audit by the Accounts Chamber.

In general, the well-known journalist is also an anxious mother, but she tries not to show this to her children. Several times a day, be sure to call grandmothers at home. Although he knows the schedule of his children every minute, and they have Spartan one: swimming, languages, yoga, drawing by the hour, Mariasha dances, Bagrat has Thai boxing. And their food is Spartan, they still have not tried sweets and cakes, so they are absolutely indifferent to sweets and nibble celery with pleasure. Any cakes can lie on the table - children do not reach for them, because they do not perceive them as food, rather as decoration. They eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, cereals, meat, seafood.

Tigran is a much more strict parent than Margarita. Raises children immediately as adults, especially the only son. And he is three years old, he still does not understand when dad says that “we must apologize for throwing an apple on the floor”, looks at dad with surprised eyes and smiles. However, with his daughters, Tigran is also, in Margarita's opinion, strict. But he also fools around with them, sings funny songs that he himself comes up with, tells fables.

Simonyan says she is a fan of preschool education and got it from Tatyana Yumasheva, Yeltsin's daughter. Maryasha and Bagrat speak five languages: Russian, Armenian, English, French and Chinese. Every day teachers come to them - native speakers. For children, it's just a game, they don't even know they're learning. They sculpt, draw, walk, sing, watch cartoons - it all just happens in different languages.

« I would not want my children to study abroad. For selfish reasons. They will already have mastered the languages ​​by the first grade, and I am not ready to live with them in different countries so that they grow up as carriers of a culture that is alien to me. I am not a person of the world, I am very attached to my native places and I want my children to be nearby too. We have seen many families where parents are perplexed why their child grew up as a stranger, incomprehensible, some kind of arrogant English aristocrat or no less arrogant Swiss socialist. And the heir at the age of twelve was sent to London to college - how was he supposed to grow up?", says Margarita.

Tigran did not object to his eldest daughter when she wanted to study at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, but he suffered terribly all these years. In the end, she and Alena were already very angry with themselves for sending their daughter to the other side of the world with their own hands. Luckily for them, she didn't stay there. Graduated and returned. Now the clever and beautiful Sasha is working with her father, she was the second director on his new film, the plot of which takes place against the backdrop of the construction of the Crimean bridge.

The summer before last, at Ksyusha's birthday party - she turned six - Margarita met Alena. A few days before the holiday, Tigran said: Alena invites us to come all together. -Of course, take the children and go with them. - You did not understand. She wants to see you too».
Margarita thought that Tigran, in his directorial distraction, had misunderstood something. I asked him for Alenin’s number, wrote to her: “ Alena, hello! Tigran said that you are waiting for us all together. This is true? I do not want to put anyone in an awkward position, especially at a children's party". Alena replied: C'mon! Come! There won't be any problems. Let's have a great time».

There were forty guests. It was just wonderful. Margarita and Alena both took a glass when the children had already been taken away, and sat together until the morning. Tigran could not stand it, fell asleep on the lawn, periodically woke up and whined: “ Girls, is that enough? Oh please! I want to go home!»

At the celebration, Margarita and Alena took a joint photo and posted it on the Internet with the caption “High relations”. " She is charming, very kind, smart, open - not to mention that she is a phenomenal beauty. We have nothing to share: Alena is happy, I am happy, Tigran is happy. And thank God", admits Margarita.

Margarita and Tigran do not hang out and rarely go to premieres or events. And they almost don’t go to visit - they host friends at home. On Sundays, tables of fifteen courses are often rolled up, Margarita loves this very much. She, of course, is helped by her mothers and their au pair. Maryasha is also helping to cook. I learned how to cut cucumbers with a small children's knife, I'm terribly proud of it.

« Looking at my children, I am convinced that people are born with a certain set of traits. Mariana is as ambitious as I was. At four years old, she sobs for half a day if she fails to read a word or recite a rhyme by heart. And the three-year-old son is not worried at all. Here they sit down at the table, Maryasha shouts: “I am the first, because I was born first! - Okay, I'm second.", Bagrat smiles.

On the first of January, Keosayan and Simonyan always have an “open door khash”. All night Margarita with her mother and mother-in-law cooks this famous Armenian anti-hangover dish from boiled beef hooves. To be honest, khash is mostly brewed by itself, but they keep an eye on it. All friends know that they can come to them without special invitation, starting at one in the afternoon. So it was in the house of Margarita's parents, so it was in the house of Tigran's parents, now it's the same with them.

Tigran, of course, pampers his wife, accustoms her to expensive things and five-star hotels. When they met, Margarita was already over thirty, she had long been a big boss with a good salary, but everything scattered into mortgages, loans, numerous relatives.

« I will never forget his first gift. I liked the bag of a well-known brand, not prohibitively expensive, but still wastefully expensive for me. Passing by the boutique, I admired her in the window. Once Tigran caught my eye: - Do you like this bag?", says the journalist.

Tigran bought it on the sly and gave it to his wife. " So I, as a child, slept with her for several days - I laid her on a pillow, I could not tear my eyes away. I still wear it”, recalls Margarita.

Keosayan and Simonyan have not yet registered a relationship, they simply do not get around to it. " Recently joked about this topic at home tells Margarita "Caravan of stories" - we decided that we would probably get married when the children grow up so that we could sit down at a common table with our parents, drink homemade wine from grapes planted by my grandfather, have a bite of dolma according to the recipe of Tigran’s mother and say: “What good fellows you are, ancestors, what once decided on all this!»

Margarita Simonyan is a Russian journalist, Chief Editor TV channel Russia Today, the international news agency Rossiya Segodnya and Sputnik news agency.

Having started her career as an ordinary correspondent for a provincial television studio, she managed to take one of the leading places in Russian television journalism. Today, Simonyan is among the top 100 most influential women in the world according to Forbes.

Childhood and youth

Margarita Simonyan was born on April 6, 1980 in Russian city Krasnodar. The girl, along with her sister Alice, grew up in a poor family. Father Simon, an Armenian by nationality, made a living repairing refrigerators, and his mother Zinaida sold flowers in the market.

As the journalist later wrote from the pages of LiveJournal and "Instagram", together with their parents, the girls lived in an old house on Gogol Street, where rats constantly ran, there was no gas, water supply and sewerage. Difficult living conditions only increased the girl's desire to escape poverty and achieve comfortable living conditions. When Margarita was about 10 years old, the Simonyan family was given an apartment in a new microdistrict of the city.

IN kindergarten the future journalist quickly learned to read, so their teacher often left Rita with a book to entertain other children: the girl read fairy tales aloud. Simonyan later went to a Krasnodar school specializing in the study foreign languages, where she studied for one five, went to the olympiads. In the 9th grade, Simonyan had a chance to go to study abroad on an exchange program. The girl came to the USA: she lived in a family, to which she still treats with warmth and gratitude, and studied in the 12th grade of the school. At one time I wanted to stay in a distant country, but love for the motherland forced me to return to Russia.

Margarita Simonyan in her youth

After graduating from school with a gold medal, Margarita entered the Kuban State University at the Faculty of Journalism. The girl also studied at the new "School of theatrical skills" under the guidance of a Russian TV presenter and journalist in Moscow.

Journalism and career

In 1999, Simonyan began working as a correspondent for the Krasnodar TV and radio channel. She managed to get this job thanks to a collection of poems. own composition, which Margarita published a year earlier. The TV channel decided to shoot a story about a talented girl. Speaking with the film crew, Simonyan mentioned that she wanted to work as a journalist, and she was offered an internship on a TV channel. The choice of the first place of work determined the future professional biography Margaret.

Margarita Simonyan has been working on television for a long time

At the age of 19, the girl went to shoot a story in Chechnya. A miniature figure (her height was 160 cm) did not prevent her from showing masculinity and firmness of character. Margarita told her parents that she was going to the war zone only upon her return, after 10 days. A series of reports in one of the hot spots of the world brought Margarita Simonyan fame and a number of journalistic awards: "For Professional Courage", the first prize All-Russian competition regional television and radio companies and the Russian Order of Friendship.

In 2000, Simonyan became the chief editor of the Krasnodar TV channel, and a year later, a correspondent for the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company in Rostov-on-Don. She continued her career as a military journalist, visiting Abkhazia, covering the clash between militants and the state army in the Kodori Gorge.

In 2002, Margarita Simonyan was invited to Moscow as a correspondent for the TV program Vesti. The journalist accompanied the President of Russia, being among the presidential pool of journalists. In September 2004, she traveled to Beslan to cover the school hostage-taking. The tragedy affected the worldview and views of Margarita, in an interview she does not advise young journalists to start a career as war correspondents.

In 2005, the Russia Today TV channel was created, which broadcast in English and was intended to reflect Russia's position regarding international events. Margarita Simonyan was appointed editor-in-chief of the Russia Today TV channel.

The appointment of such a young person to such a position, the founders of RIA Novosti argued with the position that the project should have been led by a person who had not seen Soviet news, who had his own ideas about how to show Russian news foreign viewers. Later, Margarita also began to oversee the Arabic and Spanish versions of the channel.

In 2011, the girl became the TV presenter of the news project "What's going on?" on the REN-TV channel. During the program, she discussed the most significant events of the week, which for some reason were not adequately covered on federal channels. Margarita communicated with direct participants in the events and spectators.

In 2013, Simonyan became the TV presenter of the political show "Iron Ladies" on the NTV channel. Together with a colleague live the journalist asked not always convenient, but relevant questions to famous politicians and businessmen. In the same year, the channel's management decided to close the show.

At the end of 2013, Margarita Simonyan was appointed to the position of editor-in-chief of the international news agency Rossiya Segodnya.

Margarita s early childhood dreamed of becoming a writer and doing print journalism. At the age of 18 she published a collection of her own poems. In 2010 she published the book "To Moscow". Due to active journalism and editorial activities, the writing of the book took about 10 years. This novel tells about the generation of the 90s and hard destinies, unfulfilled dreams. In 2011, thanks to the novel, Simonyan won the prize for the best book journalist.

In 2012, on the pages of the Russian Pioneer magazine, Margarita published an excerpt from her new story The Train. The girl also writes culinary articles for this magazine.

Personal life

Little is known about Simonyan's personal life. In an interview in 2012, she mentioned that she had been in a civil marriage with journalist Andrei Blagodyrenko for 6 years. The woman claimed that official marriage and wedding preparations did not attract her at all, she was quite satisfied with this state of affairs.

Back in an interview in 2012, Simonyan said that, together with family members, she was opening the Zharko! restaurant. resort in Sochi. At the same time, the girl was increasingly noticed in the company of the famous director and actor, who at that time was still officially married to.

According to information that later appeared in the article " Komsomolskaya Pravda”, The romance between the journalist and the director began at the initiative of Tigran. He wrote the girl a message on the social network Facebook, where he expressed support to Margarita: at that time there was harassment against her on the radio. Initially, Simonyan did not pay attention to the letter, because she did not believe that the famous director would be interested in her person. But the correspondence ended with a joint dinner at a restaurant. Soon, a relationship began between the journalist and the cinematographer, which grew into civil marriage.

In September 2014, Margarita's son Bagrat was born. At the same time, on the page of one of the social networks, Keosayan confirmed that he had become a father. Later it turned out that this was the second child of the couple - in August 2013, Margarita gave birth to her husband's daughter Maryana. As the journalist said in an interview, she gratefully recalls the time when she was pregnant. Each time, Margarita experienced a surge of strength and never suffered from toxicosis, despite the fact that she survived the threat of miscarriage with Maryana.

Pregnant Margarita Simonyan

Simonyan is committed to early childhood education. IN game form linguists are working with Maryana and Bagrat, so already in this early age the kids speak five languages ​​- Russian, Armenian, English, French and Chinese.

Interestingly, between ex-wife Tigran Keosayan - Alena Khmelnitskaya and Margarita Simonyan established friendly relations. Women of steel best friends, and even together with the director created a project - the psychological thriller "Actress". In the creation of the film, which was successfully broadcast on the NTV channel, Margarita participated as a screenwriter.

Margarita Simonyan now

Margarita supports the policy of the existing political system in Russia. In 2018, she became a confidant of Vladimir Putin during the presidential election campaign. At the same time, the journalist published a post on Telegram about her friend's refusal of US citizenship. According to the editor-in-chief of RT, the girl supported the opposition and immigrated to the United States in 2013, but after 4 years she decided to return Russian citizenship. The TV journalist duplicated the information in