Alexander Nevzorov is a Soviet and Russian television journalist who, at the junction of eras, became a real reporter-idol, who united the country’s television audience with his evening broadcasts. As the “scoundrel” says about himself, he always needs to fight with someone. This justifies his interest in the military campaigns of the late 90s, as well as his irreconcilable struggle with the Russian Orthodox Church.
Childhood and youth
Alexander was born on August 3, 1958 in Leningrad. The boy’s mother was journalist Galina Georgievna Nevzorova, the daughter of MGB General Georgiy Vladimirovich, who fought banditry in Lithuania in the post-war period. According to the journalist, he has not seen his father and has no idea about him.
Alexander Nevzorov in his youthIn 1975, the young man entered the literary institute. To avoid being drafted into the army, he feigned mental illness. Subsequently, he studied at the Moscow Seminary for 4 years, but was expelled due to a scandal. In his youth, he began to get involved in equestrian sports, got a job as a horse trainer, and then as a stuntman. In the early 80s, he changed professions as a literary secretary, screenwriter, museum worker, and even a loader.
Personal life
In his youth, Alexander Nevzorov met Natalya, an employee of the scientific department of manuscripts of the Russian National Library. The girl, together with Alexander, was a singer in the temple. Soon the young people got married and a daughter was born. Due to Alexander’s constant business trips, the union did not last long, and soon the journalist left the family, breaking off all relations with his first wife and daughter.
Rumor attributes Nevzorov to a short marriage in the mid-80s with a then popular actress. But the artist herself, who has been living in Kaliningrad for a long time and is engaged in political activity, denied this information on the air of the program.
Journalism and television
In 1983 he came to television. At first, Alexander acted as a news program correspondent; in 1987, he became the host of the analytical program “600 Seconds” and participated in the filming of the “Vzglyad” program. In 1989, a photo of the popular TV presenter was placed on the cover of the “The Most Famous Leningraders in the World” calendar.
In the early 90s, Nevzorov was attacked: an unknown person shot the journalist in the heart, but the bullet did not hit any vital organs; Alexander remained alive. In 1991, Nevzorov made the first documentary film “Ours” about the events in Lithuania, whose government called on citizens to break away from the USSR. At the same time, the television company “600” began operating under the leadership of Nevzorov.
In the early 2000s, he became seriously involved in hippology. The journalist created his own horse breeding school, Nevzorov Haute École, where he began teaching the science of handling horses.
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In 2004, the journalist created the film “Horse Encyclopedia”. In 2006, the director released the following film, “Nevzorov Haute École Methodology: Basic Principles,” in which he outlined the methods of his method of raising an animal. In 2008, the premiere of the documentary “The Crucified and Resurrected Horse” took place on Channel One.
Alexander Glebovich Nevzorov(born August 3, Leningrad, USSR) - Soviet and Russian journalist, reporter, TV presenter, publicist. Director, screenwriter and producer of documentaries. Politician, deputy of the State Duma of four convocations (1993-2007). Hippologist, founder, “master and mentor” of the Nevzorov Haute École school. Advisor to the General Director of Channel One (since May 2016).
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In 1975 he graduated from high school with in-depth study of the French language. Since 1983 he worked at Leningrad Television. He was a stuntman. He gained fame in the late 1980s as a television journalist, author and host of the program “600 Seconds”. For the first time in this capacity, Nevzorov appeared on Leningrad TV in the story of the program “Vzglyad” by E. Yu. Dodolev.
On December 13, 1990, Nevzorov met in a vacant lot with an unknown informant, who two days earlier had offered dirt on the official. At the meeting, an unknown person approached the journalist and shot him in the heart area. In response, the journalist fired a gas pistol, but missed. Nevzorov did not receive significant injuries, since the shooter’s bullet passed near the left armpit, without hitting the heart and large vessels.
In January 1991, he made the film “Ours” about the January events in Vilnius, shown on the First Program of Central Television. The film heroized the soldiers of the Vilnius riot police, who remained loyal to the USSR at a time when Lithuania declared its independence. In November of the same year, at a rally in St. Petersburg, Nevzorov proclaimed the creation of the People's Liberation Movement “Nashi”. In the spring of the same year, at the Moscow Wax Theater, as part of the Time of Troubles sculptural group, a wax figure of Nevzorov was presented, dressed in a paratrooper costume and holding a machine gun in one hand and a microphone in the other, interviewing Catherine II, standing next to Gregory Rasputin.
After the collapse of the USSR
In 1992, he was elected as a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
Nevzorov was a member of the editorial board of Alexander Prokhanov's newspaper Den, a member of the Duma of the Russian National Cathedral, and a member of the organizing committee of the National Salvation Front. On September 23, 1993, he arrived at the besieged White House.
On September 30, 1993, in his program “600 seconds,” Nevzorov, referring to Mikhail Poltoranin, said: “On October 4, events will occur that should be accepted very calmly,” that is, they were talking about the upcoming storming of the building of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, which later happened . In 2013, in an interview with the NTV channel, Nevzorov spoke with regret about his support for the defenders of the House of Soviets and called the supporters of the Supreme Council “a crazy and possessed scum.” He believed that he had shown excessive “sincerity” then.
On December 12, 1993, he was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the first convocation in the Central single-mandate electoral district No. 210 (St. Petersburg). Four times (since 1993) he was nominated to the State Duma as an independent deputy from different electoral districts, and was a member of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building. He claims that in 4 terms he was in the State Duma exactly 4 times. According to the memoirs of Ekaterina Shulman, during all four convocations in a row, Nevzorov became famous for the fact that he did not sign a single bill and was never at a meeting. In 1994-1998 he was a consultant-analyst for Boris Berezovsky.
Participated in many local armed conflicts. In the early 1990s, he founded the independent television company (NTK) “600”. Created a series of reports “Ours” about Soviet and Russian soldiers in hot spots (Vilnius, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, etc.). Author of the book “Field of Honor” (1995) about modern Russian politics. He made two films about the First Chechen War: “Hell” (documentary, 1995) and “Purgatory” (fiction, 1997). The demonstration on Channel One of the television film “Hell” about the storming of Grozny by Russian troops caused a negative reaction from representatives of the liberal public, who accused the creator of the film of bias towards the Chechens. Subsequently, he assessed this conflict as unnecessary war, in which the authorities used patriotism in the most shameless and criminal manner. In 1995-1999 he was the host of the television programs “Wild Field”, “Days” and “Nevzorov”. In December 1995, he was elected to the State Duma in the Pskov single-mandate electoral district No. 144.
In December 1999, he ran for the State Duma in a single-mandate electoral district (St. Petersburg), but lost to the representative of the Union of Right Forces, Yuliy Rybakov.
2000 - present
In March 2000, he ran again for the State Duma of the third convocation in the Vsevolozhsk single-mandate electoral district No. 99 (Leningrad Region), since in this district in December 1999 the candidate “against all” took 1st place and by-elections were scheduled. Nevzorov took 1st place. In December 2003, he won elections to the State Duma of the 4th convocation in the 100th Vsevolozhsk district.
From November 2001 to December 2002, he was one of Mikhail Leontyev’s co-hosts in the analytical program “Another Time” on Channel One.
From July 2007 to January 2009, he wrote an author’s column in the magazine “Profile”; since September 2009, he wrote the same column (with the simple title “Nevzorov”) in the weekly magazine “However”: “In the summer of 2007 Chief Editor“Profile” Mikhail Leontyev persuaded Nevzorov to write a column in the magazine. The editor-in-chief did not think about its name for a long time: the column was called “Nevzorov”, because there was nothing to add to the sound of this surname, which became the Name.” Nevzorov’s latest material on the “However” website dates back to May 13, 2010.
On February 7, 2012, Alexander Nevzorov was added to the list proxies Vladimir Putin, which was perceived with some bewilderment, given that Putin is Orthodox, attends Easter and Christmas services, and also meets with the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church. After Nevzorov’s anti-Orthodox statements, the head of Putin’s campaign headquarters, Stanislav Govorukhin, said that it would be the right decision to deprive the journalist of the status of a trusted person. However, Nevzorov remained a confidant and even campaigned for Putin, calling him “the only one who can keep the empire, which is falling apart every second, from disaster.” In an interview with Ksenia Sobchak on the Dozhd TV channel, Nevzorov noted that he easily combines his critical attitude towards the Russian Orthodox Church and support for Putin.
Since November 2015, he has been one of the hosts of the Panopticon program on the Dozhd TV channel.
On May 24, 2016, information appeared that Nevzorov is an adviser to the general director of Channel One, Konstantin Ernst. Nevzorov himself confirmed this fact the next day on the air of the Ekho Moskvy radio station.
Views
Criticism
Igor Ilyin, who worked in 1992-1993 as the head of the press center for Nevzorov’s “600 seconds” program, and also led Nevzorov’s election campaign for elections to the State Duma, said in 2005:
A. G. Nevzorov’s book “The Origin of Personality and Human Intelligence,” published in 2012, was criticized by the authors of the portal Anthropogenesis.ru in the article “60 mistakes of Alexander Nevzorov: are ignorance and far-fetched arguments excusable?” . It analyzed a number of fragments of the book and identified factual errors. The authors of the article were the editor-in-chief of the portal Anthropogenesis.ru Alexander Sokolov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University. M.V.Lomonosov Stanislav Drobyshevsky, candidate of philological sciences, senior researcher Svetlana Burlak, doctor of biological sciences, leading researcher at the genome analysis laboratory Svetlana Borinskaya and archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences, leading researcher at the Department of Paleolithic Archeology Leonid Vishnyatsky. Nevzorov responded to the criticism in video format on his YouTube channel.
Candidate of Philosophy, senior researcher in the sector of social epistemology, associate professor of the department of theoretical sociology and epistemology of the Institute of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Service under the President of the Russian Federation O. E. Stolyarov in the article “How many coincidences does the Mickey Mouse Law have?” in the magazine “Gefter” she criticized Nevzorov’s publication “The Naked Patriarch, or the Law of Mickey Mouse” in the online publication “Snob.ru”. Stolyarova, relying on a review of historians of science, refuted Nevzorov’s statement that “scientists who had nothing in common with each other either in upbringing, education, or beliefs, who were in no way familiar with each other, at about the same time came to the same and the same conclusions on the most important issues of the universe,” noting that “upbringing, education, beliefs, common “epistemes,” “paradigms,” “styles of scientific thinking,” and “material-semiotic contexts” - all this made even those personally unfamiliar with each other a friend of researchers, members of one team, one communication system - a republic of scientists.” She also criticizes Nevzorov’s statement about the “disconnection of personality and discovery,” believing that it is caused by the fact that “it is partly explained by the confusion between personality and individuality, which confusion the author we are commenting on sins all the time” and that he “believes that the “disconnection of personality and discovery" indicates that necessary nature itself guides the intellect in its straightforward progress towards a single comprehensive science of the world." According to Stolyarova, this is all refuted by the example of Mowgli and socialization “in the process of which national, everyday, political, religious, material and symbolic features form what is commonly called personality,” because if “Mowgli really entered the history of science naked, then it is completely different This is the case with learned men who appear before us, some in a lab coat, some in a camisole, some in a cassock, precisely because clothing is a symbolic indication of culture, one of the aspects of which is the culture of scientific knowledge.”
Personal life
Nothing is known for sure about the father of Alexander Nevzorov. A number of sources call him the son of the St. Petersburg artist Gleb Sergeevich Bogomolov. However, the encyclopedic reference book contains a quote from the magazine “Sobaka.ru”: “My father is generally unknown. There are a lot of applicants, but believe me, these are all stories and fairy tales, and people who call themselves that or are even listed in this capacity in Wikipedia are not such.”
About his father, in an interview with the magazine “7 days,” Nevzorov said: “It so happened that no one steered my destiny. As for Papani, I have no idea who he is. There are a lot of versions. In the “Second” era, there were enough applicants for this place - a line of about one hundred and fifty people lined up from these same popes. But I still haven’t found a worthy candidate...” On June 26, 2015, on the radio program “Down Focus” on the Ekho Moskvy radio station, Nevzorov said that, according to the most likely version, his father is a representative of the North American Indian people Comanche, who was in Leningrad 9 months before his birth during the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. At a creative evening in Moscow that same year, Nevzorov said that after the Ukrainian events he “wrote a statement about leaving the Russians”:
In August 2016, on the air of Echo of Moscow, Nevzorov said that when he went to look for his father “to Oklahoma, to the reservation near Lawton, further to the Ouachita Mountains,” he found out that “he was a drug dealer, died in a shootout with the police " and came from the Comanche tribe.
Alexander Nevzorov previously positioned himself as a vegetarian, although at the moment he prefers not to talk about it.
Awards
Recipient of a number of state awards of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, as well as the Cossack cross of the Union of Cossacks of Russia “For the Defense of Transnistria” and a number of awards of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: medal “For strengthening the military commonwealth”, badge “For a participant in combat operations in Chechnya”, etc.
Awards of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
In July 2016, in an interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station, A. G. Nevzorov announced his decision to return the Order “For Personal Courage”, the Medal “Defender of Transnistria” and the Cossack Cross “For the Defense of Transnistria”, because, in his words, “ Transnistria has turned into a disgusting banana republic that passes laws punishing dissent. I didn’t fight for this and I don’t want to have anything in common, including even some common trinkets, with this area. Because we fought there for freedom and for the opportunity to breathe and think. But today’s reality, today’s Transnistria, judging by the adoption of this criminal liability for dissent, is something that has nothing in common even with my ideas.”
Movies
Bibliography
- Nevzorov A. G. Field of honor. - St. Petersburg. : International Publishing Corporation, 1995. - 320 p. - 51,000 copies. - ISBN 5-900740-12-9.
- Nevzorov A. G. Horse encyclopedia. - St. Petersburg. : AST, Astrel-SPb, 2005. - 358 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-17-033457-2.
- Nevzorov A. G. Treatise on School Landing. - St. Petersburg. : AST, Astrel-SPb, 2008. - 128 p. - ISBN 978-5-17-052660-4.
- Leontiev M. V., Nevzorov A. G. Fortress "Russia". - M.: Eksmo, 2008. - 319 p. - ISBN 978-5-699-25740-9.
- Nevzorov A. G. Selected from publications of 2007-2009. - St. Petersburg. : Nevzorov Haute École, 2009. - 288 p. - ISBN 978-5-7451-0154-7.
- Nevzorov A. G. Equestrian sport. Secrets of “mastery”. - St. Petersburg: AST, 2009. - 160 p. - 3,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-17-057820-7.
- Nevzorov A. G. Treatise on work "in the hands." - St. Petersburg. : AST, Astrel-SPb, 2010. - 128 p. - 3,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-17-068076-4.
- Nevzorov A. G. Short story cynicism. - M.:: AST, Astrel-SPb, Nevzorov Haute École, VKT, 2010. - 320 p. - ISBN 978-5-17-069686-4.
- Nevzorov A. G. L.E.P. Dressage horse reading. Film script. - St. Petersburg. : Nevzorov Haute École, 2010. - 144 p. - 3,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-904788-04-9.
- Nevzorov A.G. Horse encyclopedia. - AST, Astrel-SPb, 2010. - 384 pages - 1500 copies. - ISBN 5-17-035523-8, 5-9725-0244-5, 5-17-035523-5;
- Nevzorov A. G. The origin of human personality and intelligence. Experience in generalizing data from classical neurophysiology. - St. Petersburg. : Anatomy and Physiology, 2012. - 544 p. - ISBN 978-5-904788-15-5.
- Nevzorov A.G. Resignation of the Lord God. Why does Russia need Orthodoxy? - M.: Eksmo, 2015. - 224 p. - 4,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-699-77727-3; 3,000 copies - ISBN 978-5-699-78735-7;
- Nevzorov A. G. Lessons of atheism: book + CD (with the live voice of Alexander Nevzorov) - M.: Eksmo, 2016. - 352 p. + CD - 4,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-699-82339-0;
- Nevzorov A.G. The art of insulting. - AST, Astrel-SPb, 2016. - 320 pages - 3,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-17-097283-8;
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Notes
- Gordon D. I. Legendary television reporter Alexander Nevzorov: If tomorrow a Buddhist stands as the head of Russia, the official brother will immediately run to order orange saris for themselves and will start look for places for certain signs and will tongue-tiedly greet each other with the words: “Om mani padme hum.” Part II // Newspaper “Gordon Boulevard”, No. 16 (364), April 17, 2012
- Venediktov A., Ryabtseva L. Lost focus. Guest: Alexander Nevzorov (undefined) . Official website of Echo Moscow (June 26, 2015). - Audio recording and transcript of the interview. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
Nevzorov Alexander Glebovich (08/3/1958) - Russian journalist and TV presenter. Author of the formerly famous criminal and political program “600 Seconds” and the scandalous feature film “Purgatory”, which tells about the events of the Chechen War. He became a deputy of the State Duma four times. Currently, Nevzorov has organized his own horse training school - “Nevzorov Haute Ecole”.
“All my life I dreamed of working with horses. I went to television to be able to film them. Sometimes, however, I forgot about it and did something completely different. But the various twists of fate were too tempting. And no matter how much I seem to be a genius in the field of ideological wars, television or anything else, I am sure that my real talents lie in something completely different.”
Childhood
Alexander Glebovich Nevzorov was born in Leningrad on August 3, 1958. His father Gleb Sergeevich Bogomolov was an artist. And Nevzorov’s mother Galina Georgievna worked as a journalist. The father left the family very early, and the boy was raised by his mother and grandmother. That is why Alexander was given the surname Nevzorov.
From early childhood, young Sasha began to manifest a tough and decisive character. According to his relatives, he inherited these qualities from his grandfather Georgy Vladimirovich. He worked in the MGB and in post-war years headed the Lithuanian department for combating banditry. A sort of “Gleb Zheglov” from “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed” or “David Gotsman” from “Liquidation”.
IN school years Alexander attended a special institution with in-depth study of foreign languages. After 10th grade, he did not want to join the army and pretended to have a mental illness. He was not given a “white ticket”, but he was not given a military uniform either. After this, Nevzorov spent some time looking for what he wanted to do in life. For example, he worked as a horse trainer at a local state farm and acted as a stuntman. There was even a period when he studied at a theological seminary and sang in a church choir. But Nevzorov had no soul for religion at all, and he was successfully expelled from the educational institution.
And then he decided to enter Leningrad University at the Faculty of Philology. Studying was relatively easy for Alexander, but he very quickly lost interest in his future profession. And Nevzorov’s university also remained unfinished.
Career
Alexander Nevzorov began working on television in 1985. He was hired as a correspondent and screenwriter for the Leningrad channel. And in 1987, the young journalist had his first serious success. He began hosting the “600 Seconds” program, which very quickly became mega-popular. In just 10 minutes, Nevzorov talked about the most pressing events of that time: high-profile murders, political riots, incriminating materials on senior officials, and so on. Many criticized the program for its overly natural shots, but this did not stop Nevzorov. Moreover, the audience liked the program. The “600 Seconds” project was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest rated television program.
Along with his popularity, hatred towards Nevzorov also grew among those who became the “heroes” of his program. In 1990, there was even an attempt on the TV presenter’s life. While working on his next piece, Alexander personally decided to meet with the informant. But instead of compromising the official, he shot the TV presenter in the chest. He aimed for the heart, but by a lucky chance he missed. Nevzorov was seriously wounded, but managed to survive.
After this, Alexander Glebovich began making documentaries and feature films. Moreover, the choice each time fell on the most pressing and scandalous topics. For example, the painting “Ours” became especially famous. In it, the author talked about the Riga riot police and the events of August 1991. Moreover, Nevzorov himself never sat out in the “trenches.” He preferred to see events from the inside. That is why he was in Lithuania, participated in the August putsch in Moscow, was at the shooting of the White House and the storming of Ostankino in 1993, and went on business trips to Chechnya and Yugoslavia. And then very frank and harsh materials appeared on the screens, in which the journalist showed the whole truth, without hiding anything.
“How did I become an atheist? The starting point was probably Hospital Street in Grozny. Until then, I was an Imperial and enjoyed playing Orthodoxy. Until I saw the severed limbs of our soldiers and their scattered guts. There is no idea that would be worth the lives of ten thousand senselessly killed Russian boys."
The mass audience especially remembers the frank feature film “Purgatory”. It is dedicated to the war in Chechnya. Nevzorov showed combat and death as they are. Without any embellishment. Many people in Russia, when watching the film, involuntarily closed their eyes or turned away from the screen. And someone could not hold back their tears. The filming turned out to be so natural, it was more like a documentary.
Currently, Alexander Nevzorov is doing what he has always strived for. He opened his own horse handling school, “Nevzorov Haute Ecole”. And all his latest documentary works are also, in one way or another, connected with these animals. At the same time, Nevzorov regularly publishes in several magazines and newspapers. And he runs his own program on the Internet, “Lessons in Atheism.” In it, he harshly expresses his attitude towards the Russian Orthodox Church and religion in general.
From time to time, Alexander Nevzorov criticizes government authorities. For example, not long ago he spoke out on the events in Ukraine. In particular, he stated that he considers the annexation of Crimea to be ordinary looting and is entirely on the side of the army in the fight against rebels in the southeast of the country.
Nevzorov Alexander Glebovich is a native of the capital on the Neva, a journalist, TV show host, and deputy. Broadcasts on a video blog.
Family.
His date of birth is August 3, 1958. I never communicated with my father, Gleb Sergeevich Bogomolov. In all interviews he says that he does not know who his father really is. The boys were raised by the women of the family: mother and grandmother. The activities of his mother and grandfather significantly influenced his future career. Mom, Galina Georgievna, was a journalist for the Smena publication. Grandfather, Georgy Vladimirovich, worked in the MGB. He rose to the rank of general and fought against criminals in Lithuania. During his work, he repeatedly took his grandson for interrogations.
Alexander Glebovich was married three times. In his first marriage to Natalya Yakovleva, he had a daughter, Polina. Currently, he does not communicate with his daughter due to differences in views. The second time he married Alexandra Yakovleva and raised her son. His third wife Lydia is younger than him; they have lived together for more than 20 years.
Education, hobbies, career.
At school, Alexander Glebovich diligently studied French and sang in the church choir. In 1975, he began studying at the institute at the Faculty of Literature. In order to avoid the army, he created the appearance of psychological abnormalities, which is why he was placed for treatment in a psychiatric ward. After college, he devoted four years to theological seminary. From there he was expelled, in his personal opinion, due to a conflict based on differing views on sexual orientation.
During this period, he became interested in horse riding, which he made his profession and became a stuntman. His studio career includes acting in military battle scenes involving horses. Later, he founded the Ekol equestrian training school. The principle of its work is based on identifying the mental characteristics of horses applicable to their physical abilities. A strict ban on punishment has been introduced.
In the early 80s, Alexander went to work on television as a journalist.
In 1987, he began producing an analytical program “600 seconds”. She entered the Guinness Book of Records as the highest rated show. His workplace photo was featured on a 1989 calendar. By that time he had become one of the most famous people in Leningrad. While preparing one of the program's stories in 1990, he was wounded by an informant in the heart area, but was not seriously injured.
He took part in the State Emergency Committee, shootouts in Latvia, and stormed the Ministry of Internal Affairs building in Riga. At the same time, he began work on the film “Ours” about political events in Vilnius and riot police. After which his sculpture was installed in the Wax Museum. He is depicted as an airborne soldier, but with a microphone in his hands. In the story, he interviews Catherine II. The sculpture is located next to the figure of Grigory Rasputin. This is done as an emphasis on the strong character and protective spirit of the hero of the sculpture.
In 1993, Alexander Glebovich was in opposition to the attempt to seize the capital’s television center, and stood up to defend the White House during the Putsch. In 1995, he published a book about intrigues behind the scenes of power, in which the ruling ranks were involved. Until 1997, he made films about the Chechen company “Hell” and “Purgatory”, which caused a huge public outcry. His television career continued as the host of the television programs “Wild Field”, “Days”, “Nevzorov”.
In 1995 he was elected to the State Duma. In 1999, he did not pass the vote, but was re-elected in 2000 in the Vsevolzhsky constituency of the Leningrad region. By his own admission, he attended meetings only 9 times.
Until 2002, Alexander Nevzorov acted as the second host of the television project “Another Time”. In 2004, he wrote the book “Horse Encyclopedia” about the important role of horses in the field of historical events, and later made a film with the same name. During this period, active work is carried out in the development of equestrian sports and the education of horses. He makes films about how the animal training method works in his equestrian school and the film “The Horse Crucified and Resurrected,” which is a documentary work.
Later, he publishes a magazine about equestrian sports. Currently, Alexander Nevzorov acts as a confidant of the Head of State. His program “Panopticon” has been airing on the Dozhd TV channel since 2015, and since 2016 he has been working in tandem with the general director of Channel One.
Views of Alexander Nevzorov:
- Criticism of the Orthodox Church. Positions himself as an atheist. Accuses church ministers of child molestation and homosexuality.
- Supports human rights to abortion, euthanasia and suicide.
- I do not agree with the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation.
- Supports the Ukrainian army in the fight against the military forces of the country's East.
- The Immortal Regiment considers the action to be a manifestation of sectarian movements.
Alexander Nevzorov
Occupation: reporter, journalist, TV presenter, publicist
Date of birth: August 3, 1958
Place of birth: Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Citizenship: USSR → Russia
Alexander Glebovich Nevzorov(born August 3, 1958, Leningrad, USSR) - former Soviet and Russian reporter, TV presenter, deputy of the State Duma of four convocations. Now - publicist, founder, “master and mentor” of the Nevzorov Haute Ecole School. He hosts the online program “Lessons in Atheism” on YouTube.
Born on August 3, 1958 in Leningrad. He was raised by his mother. Grandfather - Georgy Vladimirovich Nevzorov- MGB employee - headed the department for combating banditry on the territory of the Lithuanian SSR in 1946-1955. Nevzorov's mother Galina Georgievna, journalist. In youth Alexander Nevzorov was a singer in the church choir. Since 1983 he worked at Leningrad Television. Was Alexander Nevzorov stuntman He studied at the Moscow Theological Seminary, but was expelled from the 4th year. He claims that he did not pursue a church career because he has a normal sexual orientation.
Became famous in the late 1980s Alexander Nevzorov as a television journalist, author and host of the “600 Seconds” program. The all-Union viewer first saw the host of the cult program of Leningrad TV in the story of the legendary program “Vzglyad”, filmed by journalist Evgeny Dodolev.
December 13, 1990 Alexander Nevzorov in a vacant lot, I met with an unknown informant, who two days earlier offered dirt on the official. At the meeting, an unknown person approached the journalist and shot him in the heart area. In response, the journalist fired a gas pistol, but missed. Alexander Nevzorov did not receive significant injuries, since the shooter’s bullet passed near the left armpit without hitting the heart and large vessels.
In January 1991 Alexander Nevzorov made the film “Ours” about the January events in Vilnius, shown on the First Program of Central Television. The film heroized the soldiers of the Vilnius riot police, who remained loyal to the USSR at a time when Lithuania declared its independence. In November of the same year, at a rally in St. Petersburg Nevzorov proclaimed the creation of the People's Liberation Movement "Nashi". Four times (since 1993) he was nominated to the State Duma as an independent deputy from different electoral districts, and was a member of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building. Alexander Nevzorov claims that in 4 terms he was in the State Duma exactly 4 times.
In 1993, he defended the White House and took part in the events at the Ostankino television center. In 1994-1998 he was a consultant-analyst for Boris Berezovsky. Participated in many local armed conflicts. In the early 1990s, he founded the independent television company (NTK) “600”. Created a series of reports “Ours” about Soviet and Russian soldiers in hot spots (Vilnius, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, etc.).
Author of the book “Field of Honor” (1995) about modern Russian politics. He made two films about the First Chechen War: “Hell” (documentary, 1995) and “Purgatory” (fiction, 1997). Demonstration on Channel One of the television film “Hell” about the assault Russian troops Grozny caused a negative reaction from representatives of the liberal public, who accused the creator of the film of bias towards the Chechens. In 1995-1999 he was the host of the television programs “Wild Field”, “Days” and “ Nevzorov».
In December 1999, he ran for the State Duma in the 206th electoral district of St. Petersburg, but lost to the representative of the Union of Right Forces, Yuliy Rybakov. In March 2000, he ran again for the State Duma of the 3rd convocation in the 99th Vsevolozhsk electoral district of the Leningrad region, since in this district in December 1999 the candidate “against all” took 1st place and by-elections were scheduled. Alexander Nevzorov took 1st place. In December 2003, he won elections to the State Duma of the 4th convocation in the 100th Vsevolozhsk district.
Author of the television film “Horse Encyclopedia” and the book “Horse Encyclopedia”. In these works, Alexander Nevzorov talks about the role of the horse in history, its use in different historical eras and the relationship of man to this animal. The main attention is paid to the contradictions between the biological nature of the horse and the way of life of horses, formed by man. The film “Nevzorov Haute Ecole Methodology: Basic Principles”, completed in 2006, presents to viewers the main conceptual points of training a horse according to the methods of the Nevzorov Haute Ecole School, while not being a teaching aid, but only for informational purposes. Besides, Alexander Nevzorov shot the feature-documentary film “The Horse Crucified and Resurrected,” which was shown on Channel One in early June 2008. In 2010, work on the new film “L.E.P.” was completed. (“Lectio Equaria Palaestra”, “Manege Horse Reading”), which caused a lot of controversy and extremely polarized reviews even before being shown on television. In 2007-2010 Alexander Nevzorov published the magazine “Nevzorov Haute École”. After losing a lawsuit over the illegal placement of photographs in the magazine, the magazine ceased publication. Protests against equestrian sport as a phenomenon. He is the founder, director and master of the Nevzorov Haute Ecole School.
From July 2007 to January 2009 Alexander Nevzorov led an author's column in the magazine "Profile", since September 2009 he has written the same column (with the simple title "Nevzorov") in the weekly magazine "However":
In the summer of 2007, Profile editor-in-chief Mikhail Leontyev persuaded Nevzorova write a column in a magazine. The editor-in-chief did not think about its name for a long time: the column was called “Nevzorov”, because there was nothing to add to the sound of this surname, which became the Name.
Alexander Nevzorov hosts the Internet program “Lessons of Atheism,” consisting of episodes with an average duration of 9 minutes. Criticizes the introduction of the “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” in schools. In the 1990s, he considered himself an Orthodox Christian, but later became an atheist and began to sharply criticize the Russian Orthodox Church. He claims that he is conducting a “peculiar dialogue” with the church. Indicates the involvement of many clergy in homosexuality and pedophilia. As evidence, he provides lists of those against whom a criminal case was opened in connection with illegal actions of a sexual nature. In the “Lessons of Atheism” program on his YouTube channel, in response to accusations of lying by Vsevolod Chaplin, he promised to release a book called “Pedophilia in the Russian Orthodox Church,” ironically emphasizing that “naturally, on the title page there will be a dedication to Chaplin as the inspirer of this work.” .
Criticism of Alexander Nevzorov
The program “600 Seconds” was sharply criticized for the fact that more and more stories began to appear in it with unprecedentedly frank naturalistic scenes of violence and destruction - fires, dead children, nudity, obscenities - for which the program itself Nevzorov have been criticized many times. The program repeatedly showed rotting food - both vegetables and animals - and these images, at a time of widespread food shortages, caused both disgust and indignation against the authorities who allowed this to happen. Besides Nevzorov began to openly promote in the program Political Views mainly of a Russian nationalist persuasion: the program often touched on Orthodox religious themes, the independence movements of the Baltic Soviet republics were covered extremely negatively, and the riot police fighting against separatism were exclusively positive heroes; in response to the question from TV viewers “How to vote in the referendum on preserving the USSR?” it was shown in slow motion how to vote against the collapse of the Union, and before the elections of the President of the RSFSR in 1991, Nevzorov expressed support for Albert Makashov in the program.
February 7, 2012 Alexander Nevzorov was included in the list of Putin’s confidants, which gave rise to critical reviews from some representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church in connection with the well-known anti-clerical position of the publicist. After Nevzorov’s anti-Orthodox statements, the head of Putin’s campaign headquarters, Stanislav Govorukhin, said that it would be the right decision to deprive the journalist of the status of a trusted person.
Criticism of Alexander Nevzorov
Personal life of Alexander Nevzorov
Alexander Nevzorov Married. Wife - Lydia Nevzorova, is also a hippologist. In 2007, the couple had a son, who, according to Alexander, will also train horses in the future. Alexander Nevzorov is a vegetarian.
Programs of Alexander Nevzorov
600 seconds program by Alexander Nevzorov
Policy. Petersburg style
Films by Alexander Nevzorov
Alexandra Nevzorova
1995 - Cook (about the cannibal Kuzikov)
1995 - Hell (about the Chechen war)
1997 - Purgatory - director, screenwriter, film producer
2005 - Horse Encyclopedia - director, screenwriter
2006 - Nevzorov Haute Ecole Methodology: basic principles - production “NEVZOROV HAUTE ECOLE”
2008 - The Crucified and Resurrected Horse - play, documentary film (Russia) director, screenwriter
2010 - Lectio Equaria Palaestra (Manege horse reading) - Russia, director
Bibliography of Alexander Nevzorov
Nevzorov A. G. Field of honor. - St. Petersburg: International Publishing Corporation, 1995. - 320 p. - ISBN 5900740129
Nevzorov A.G. Horse encyclopedia. - St. Petersburg: AST, Astrel-SPb, 2005. - 358 p. - ISBN 5-17-033457-2
Nevzorov A. G. Treatise on School Landing. - St. Petersburg: AST, Astrel-SPb, 2008. - 128 p. - ISBN 978-5-17-052660-4
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