Daniil Kotsyubinsky is a rather versatile person who has managed to establish himself as a historian, journalist, poet, and politician. In society, this person is treated ambiguously, depending on political views. Let's find out in detail who Daniil Kotsyubinsky is. The biography and creative activity of this person will be the subject of this article.
Youth
Kotsyubinsky Daniil Alexandrovich was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in January 1965 in the family of a famous psychiatrist, who was a doctor of medical sciences and a professor, Alexander Petrovich Kotsyubinsky.
Danya graduated from the local Leningrad school in 1983, where he studied quite well. After receiving secondary education, he did not immediately go to college, as many of his peers did, but decided to pay his debt to the Motherland in the ranks of the armed forces. He served in the Group of Soviet Forces in the GDR. Demobilized in 1985.
After completing military service, Daniil Kotsyubinsky immediately entered the history department of the Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute. In 1989, he successfully graduated from this university with a degree in History.
Beginning of professional career
But Daniil Kotsiubinsky did not become a teacher of history or a researcher, as he decided to start his career in journalism, but, however, taking into account his professional specialization. Since 1990, he has been working as an editor of the history section of the Smena magazine.
Kotsiubinsky coped with his duties quite well, as evidenced by the fact that he worked at this workplace for three years.
In 1993, our hero goes to work in a weekly, where he becomes a political observer. Here he worked until 1999 inclusive. At the same time, in 1998, he, Daniil Aleksandrovich, became one of the chief editors of the Komar publication. In 1999, he became a political columnist for the Delo newspaper. Kotsiubinsky worked in the last two editions until 2000.
Scientific activity
At the same time, Daniil Kotsiubinsky does not break with scientific activity either. In 1992, he became an assistant at the Department of Russian History at the university where he received his higher education. Only now it is not called the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (LGPI), but the Russian State Pedagogical University named after Herzen. Kotsiubinsky taught at this educational institution until 1998.
In the same 1998 he became a candidate of historical sciences, having defended his dissertation on the topic of the All-Russian National Union 1907–1917gg. Kotsiubinsky decides to concentrate on journalism and therefore leaves his job at the university.
After a long break in teaching, in 2009 Daniil Alexandrovich goes to work at the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which has the status of a faculty of St. Petersburg State University, at the Department of Problems of Interdisciplinary Synthesis. There Kotsiubinsky works as a senior lecturer at the present time.
Continued journalism
In parallel with his scientific work, Daniil Alexandrovich continued to engage in journalism. In 2000, he works in the magazine "Expert - North-West", as a political observer. At the same time, he is the host and author of some analytical programs on the TRK Petersburg TV channel. He hosted such well-known programs in St. Petersburg at the time as “The Right of Veto”, “The History of a City”, “Inform-TV”, “A Hard Day's Evening”. In the same 2000, Daniil Alexandrovich became the best journalist and the winner of the largest St. Petersburg award "Golden Pen", presented by the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg, of which he was a member.
In 2003, Kotsiubinsky moved to the post of editor of the well-known newspaper "Peterburgskaya Liniya". However, he did not work there for long, since already in 2004 he returned to the newspaper Delo, in which he worked back in the late 90s, but this time as a deputy editor-in-chief.
In 2007, Daniil Alexandrovich was elected a member of the board of the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg.
At the very end of 2008year Kotsyubinsky leaves the publication "Delo", since, as mentioned above, he begins to work at the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Nevertheless, he continues to be a member of the board of the Union of Journalists. He leaves this organization in 2010 due to disagreement with the actions of its leader Andrei Konstantinov.
In addition, Kotsiubinsky is the author of radio plays that are dedicated to Russian history at the beginning of the 20th century.
Political activities
Daniil Kotsyubinsky's social activities began with the fact that he became the head of the Association of Small and Medium Business Representatives in St. Petersburg. He held this post from 2005 to 2008. In this public position, Kotsyubinsky, according to him, faced a mass of cases of injustice of the authorities in relation to private business. This prompted him, who had previously had oppositional views, to become active in politics.
Kotsyubinsky becomes a member of various Marches of Dissenters, which were held by the opposition in St. Petersburg. During one of these events, he was even detained by the Interior Ministry in November 2007.
In 2007, our hero becomes a member of the opposition Yabloko party, headed by Grigory Yavlinsky. In the 2007 State Duma elections, Kotsyubinsky even ran under the second number in the regional lists from the party in St. Petersburg. However, Yabloko did not get the required number of votes.
But soon Kotsiubinsky's relationship withthe leadership of the party went wrong. Already in March 2008, he addressed an open letter to members of the Yabloko organization, in which he accused Grigory Yavlinsky of making agreements with Vladimir Putin. Daniil Alexandrovich asked his party colleagues: “Do we need such a chairman?”, and demanded from Yavlinsky to reveal the essence of negotiations with the president. The last straw for Kotsiubynsky was the statement by the party's press secretary that oppositionist Maxim Reznik could be expelled from Yabloko. After that, at the end of March, Daniil Aleksandrovich announced his withdrawal from this political organization.
Activities after leaving Apple
But Kotsyubinsky did not leave opposition activities even after leaving Yabloko. In 2010, Daniil Aleksandrovich became one of those who signed the opposition's public appeal under the slogan "Putin must go."
Kotsyubinsky as a historian took the initiative to hold an anniversary celebration in 2011 of the 400th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg. He motivated this by the fact that in fact the city was founded not by Peter I, but by the Swedes in 1611 as the Nienschanz fortress at the mouth of the Okhta River. In addition, he created an initiative group that called on the public to revise the history of the region.
In 2012, Kotsyubinsky made an even sharper statement in the article “What will happen after Russia?”, Expressing the opinion that St. Petersburg with its environs will become an independent state and join the European Union. This statement caused a flurry of indignation among significant sections of the public. A group of opponents of Kotsiubinsky's ideaspicketed the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, where he works, and also sent a statement to the prosecutor's office with a request to consider the statements of Daniil Alexandrovich on the subject of separatism.
Kotsiubinsky has a blog on the Internet, where you can get acquainted with the political views of this person. Daniil Kotsyubinsky expresses his opinion there. LJ (LiveJournal), where this public figure maintains his column, will be of interest to those people who want to know more about his position.
Book editions
Daniil Kotsiubinsky has been published since 2001. Books have become one of the forms through which he conveys his historical and political views to the public, and also simply reveals the facets of his work. His first published book was a popular science work on Russian nationalism at the beginning of the 20th century.
He became the compiler of the book "Petersburg without Russia", and also wrote a work about Grigory Rasputin. Kotsiubinsky was one of the authors of the essays included in the collection "From Rasputin to Putin: 50 Petersburgers of the 20th century", which was published in 2003. Later, he wrote essays on the recent history of St. Petersburg, a book about Moscow Petersburgers, as well as the work "It's high time!".
Poetry
But Daniil Kotsyubinsky writes not only prose. Poems also occupy a significant place in his work. Especially often he began to publish poetic works recently.
In 2009 it was releasedcollection of poems co-authored with Tatyana Matveeva "69". The newest poetry of Daniil Kotsyubinsky from the collection "St. Petersburg has long been ridiculous …", published already in 2016.
Family
Little is known about Daniil Kotsiubinsky's family. His father, Alexander Petrovich, is a famous psychiatrist who is still alive today.
It should also be said that Daniil Kotsiubinsky is in a registered marriage. The family still remains the darkest spot in the biography of this man, especially since he himself does not seek to advertise this information too much.
General characteristics
As you can see, Daniil Kotsiubinsky is both an ambiguous and versatile person. He managed to work both in science and in journalism, he tried himself in political activity. He had some success in all these areas. However, outstanding achievements have not yet been achieved. It is difficult to call him a patriot in the traditional Russian sense of the word. At the same time, it can be said for sure that Kotsiubynsky defends his true convictions, which in itself inspires respect.
Daniil Kotsiubinsky is such a person. You can see a photo of this well-known person in St. Petersburg above. Let's hope that in the future he will be able to reveal his talents even more and bring significant benefits to the Motherland.
