A talented person Yastrzhembsky Sergey Vladimirovich, politician, diplomat, film director, surprises with the sharp turns of his biography and the ability to live and work with full dedication and for his own pleasure. Let's talk about how his professional and personal path developed, how he came from the spheres of supreme power to the creative world of cinema and what he does today.
Childhood and family
Yastrzhembsky Sergey Vladimirovich was born in Moscow on December 4, 1953. His father was a regular military man, a colonel, he headed the military representation in the MiG aircraft manufacturing company, together with Sergey's mother he lectured at the Central Museum. V. Lenin. By origin, the Yastrzhembskys descended from the Belarusian gentry who lived in the Brest Voivodeship. The ancestor of Sergei Vladimirovich lived in Grodno and was recognized as a Russian nobleman, as evidenced by the entry in the noble genealogical book. In an exemplarytranslated from Polish, the family surname means "Yastrebovskie".
From early childhood, Sergei showed humanitarian inclinations. He loved foreign languages, geography and history. The family had a dacha in Istra, where the boy spent a lot of time. In high school, Yastrzhembsky was a Komsomol activist, spent minutes of political information in the classroom. His father listened to Western radio stations, but he scolded his son harshly for telling political jokes. From an early age, Sergey understood the serious significance of official information and status.
Education
After graduating from school, Yastrzhembsky Sergey Vladimirovich enters the most prestigious Russian university, MGIMO, at the Faculty of International Law. Even in his college years, he stood out from his classmates, among whom was now the richest businessman Alisher Usmanov, MGIMO rector Anatoly Torkunov, and a major official Sergei Prikhodko. During his years of study, Yastrzhembsky was able to gain access to a special repository of the institute's library, where he could read books that were not available to the general public. Also, already during his studies, he began to regularly travel abroad, which was almost an unprecedented thing at that time. He was helped in this by the Committee of Youth Organizations, which secretly worked closely with the KGB. Despite this, Yastrzhembsky managed to bring banned literature from abroad, including thanks to him a book by dissident Andrei Amalrik came to Moscow. In his student years, Sergei worked as a lecturer in the field of political education. This allowed him to travel around the country and hone his public speaking skills.performances that would be very useful to him in the future. At the same time, Yastrzhembsky studied well and in 1976 graduated from MGIMO with honors. But he could not enter graduate school at his native university, as he refused to be assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Therefore, Sergei entered the graduate school of the Institute of the International Labor Movement, where he quickly wrote a Ph. D. thesis on Portugal.
The start of the journey
After graduating from graduate school, Yastrzhembsky Sergei Vladimirovich came to work at the Academy of Social Sciences as a junior researcher. But he did not want to go further in science, he dreamed of living work "in the field", i.e. Abroad. Therefore, he gladly accepted the offer to work in Prague. Here he served as a referent, deputy executive secretary of the journal "Problems of Peace and Socialism". He served in the Czech Republic for 7 years, during which time his communist worldview was greatly shaken. Yes, and the times favored free views.
Diplomatic activity
In 1989, Yastrzhembsky returned to Moscow and entered the service of the international department of the Central Committee of the CPSU as a senior assistant. It was another career step. The next step is work in embassies. But life has made its own adjustments to the plans of the future diplomat. The party was living its last days, the system began to collapse, and Yastrzhembsky went to work in the Megapolis magazine, then he also worked in the VIP magazine, in the Foundation for Socio-Political Research, in the Department of Information and Press at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But this whole kaleidoscope was just a search, these two years he was looking forthe opportunity to return to the diplomatic path. And when the post of ambassador to Brazil became vacant, he began to collect things for the move. But an old friend in Czechoslovakia, Alexander Ud altsov, dissuaded him, saying that the opportunity to travel to a new country would soon open up. So in 1993, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Slovakia, Sergey Yastrzhembsky, appeared. In this status, he worked for 3 years, during this period he organized an official visit to the country of the President of the Russian Federation B. N. Yeltsin, and this was the next step in his career.
Working in the Kremlin
In 1996, the newly elected President Yeltsin formed his team, A. Chubais proposed a new person for the post of press secretary - Yastrzhembsky. Boris Nikolaevich remembered him from Slovakia and gave his consent to the appointment. For two years Sergei Vladimirovich worked with Yeltsin. It was a very difficult time, the President was ill, made mistakes that needed to be leveled and smoothed out. Yastrzhembsky did it professionally and with dignity. After the default of 1998, there is a partial change of the presidential team and the press secretary is resigned.
But the former assistant to the President of the Russian Federation was not excluded from the retinue of the first person. He only went into the shadows for a while, for a while he moved to the Moscow Government, to Yuri Luzhkov.
After Vladimir Putin came to the Kremlin, Yastrzhembsky again returns to the highest echelons of power. He creates and heads the Office of Emergencyinformation situations. His share was the coverage of such emergencies as the tragedy with the Kursk, the capture by terrorists of Nord-Ost. He also worked in negotiations with the Americans on the fight against international terrorism. After the presidential elections in 2004, Yastrzhembsky became an assistant to the President of the Russian Federation and a representative of the Russian Federation in negotiations on the development of relations with the European Union. In 2008, D. Medvedev took the chair of the President of the Russian Federation; Yastrzhembsky did not see himself in his team. And he did not see other attractive positions for himself. The only place where he would like to work is the UN, but V. Churkin, a close friend of Sergei, worked as a representative there. Therefore, he did not start talking about this with Putin. He made a strong decision for himself and simply resigned from all positions to nowhere.
Trophy hunt
Since his service in Slovakia, Sergei Yastrzhembsky has been a passionate hunter. This hobby allowed him to escape from the problems of everyday life, to experience the excitement and pleasure of trophies. In the most difficult times, he always went on a safari. So after his resignation in 1998, he went to Africa, where he met his second wife. And in 2008, having resigned from all posts, he also took up hunting. But now he could make his hobby the main business of his life. In hunting, Yastrzhembsky is very successful. He has about 300 large animals on his account, his trophies are inscribed in the book of the international safari club. He is among the trophies of the African Big Five: buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros, lion and cheetah. Such a hunt is a matter for the we althyand strong people. As a member of the international safari club, Yastrzhembsky participates in big hunts all over the world. Starting with an African safari, he went hunting on all continents. He calls a bear hunt in Kamchatka his best hunt. Sergei Vladimirovich is an active supporter of reforming the practice of hunting in Russia, which is now being carried out with completely barbaric methods.
Cinema
Besides hunting, Yastrzhembsky was fond of photography and video filming, for 20 years he has been filming animals and hunters, he loves aerial photography. And he decided to combine two of his favorite things. And in 2009 he opened the film studio "Yastreb-Film", which specializes in shooting documentaries about animals and hunting, ethnic cultures. He conceived and shot the cycle "Out of Time". The series is dedicated to the endangered cultures of Africa, the author set himself the goal of creating a kind of Red Book of the black continent. Yastrzhembsky is making a movie, the purpose of which is to draw attention to the extermination of nature, animals, and peculiar cultures.
Filmography
Yastrzhembsky has more than 60 film projects to his credit, and now he is working on a new film. The film "Bloody Tusks" about the barbaric methods of hunting elephants in Africa, films about Russian Old Believers, about Siberian shamans, and the TV project "Magic of Adventures" stand out in his legacy.
Africa
Africa is a very important part of Yastrzhembsky's life. He has been hunting here for many years, loves African nature, knows a lotinteresting things about local life, he even met his wife here. The result of his passion for this continent was the film "Africa: Blood and Beauty." In it, Yastrzhembsky talks about the traditions and specifics of the life of the indigenous tribes of this part of the world. The film was the result of many years of expeditions and filming. And "Out of Time", an 8-part series, shows the peculiarities of the culture of the disappearing African peoples. The topic of interest to Sergei Vladimirovich is rare and small peoples.
Awards
Sergey Yastrzhembsky received many awards for his civil service: medals, gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, the French Legion of Honor.
As a documentary filmmaker, Sergei Vladimirovich has earned several prestigious awards: twice awarded the Golden Eagle, winner of international awards and prizes.
Private life
Yastrzhembsky Sergei Vladimirovich, whose personal life has always been stormy, married a second time. The first wife, Tatyana Viktorovna, is a philologist and translator by education, she worked with her husband in Czechoslovakia. Later she worked as the director of the Medikor medical center, collaborated with the Sistema charitable foundation. This marriage lasted 20 years, two sons grew up in it, Vladimir and Stanislav, both followed in the footsteps of their father and graduated from MGIMO. The eldest son, after graduating from a prestigious university, decided to become a DJ, and the youngest works as a lawyer.
The second wife was Anastasia Sirovskaya, daughter of the translator Valery Sirovsky. She met Yastrzhembsky in 1998year in Africa, where he hunted and she rested. Spouses, despite the 20-year age difference, have many common interests, first of all, this is a love for Africa. Two children were born in the marriage, son Milan and daughter Anisya.
Despite his numerous trips, Yastrzhembsky spends a lot of time with his children, he still cannot imagine his life without football, the Internet, news, friends. He speaks five languages, which helps a lot when traveling. The former diplomat published several books, some about politics, and some about travel. He has several photo exhibitions to his credit. When asked if he wants to return to politics, he replies that he has already reached the ceiling there and is not interested. Now he has a new happy life.
