Why was Evelina Khromchenko sentenced? Natasha Barbier: “Material culture was burned, sawn and thrown out Who is Natasha Barbier from an ideal renovation.

- Usually a pseudonym is taken when real name not too euphonious or too ordinary. But you have your own beautiful - Troepolskaya ...

- I like her too. I didn't intend to change it. When I was 29 years old, I worked as an art critic in Ogonyok - and then they began to publish the first glossy magazine in Russia, Domovoy. I was invited there to write a column about interiors. In order not to be offended at the main place of work, in the "Domovoy" I began to sign my grandmother's surname - Barbier. After leaving six months later from Ogonyok, I said in Domovoy: “Guys, now you can sign me with Natalia Troepolskaya!” And I heard: “Sorry, but now you will always be Natasha Barbier. Readers are already used to it.

- Is your grandmother French?

- Probably, my distant great-great-grandfather was brought to Russia after the war of 1812, but my grandmother Nina Konstantinovna is Russian. True, in her passport the last name with an “R” at the end is “Barbier”. But in fact, of course, in Russian this "R" should not be written and read. My beautiful grandmother turned 102 on January 25th. As a family, we admire her genetics and hope that something has passed on to us.

It seems that in 1918, during the Civil War, there was a terrible epidemic of Asiatic cholera in Saratov. Healthy man could go outside, get infected, fall and die on the spot. Probably, their bodies were taken somewhere and burned ... So, one day my grandmother's mother left the house - and did not return. And then grandma's dad went out into the street healthy, and returned already sick. And his three children looked after him until his death. None of them got infected! When the father died, the children were assigned to an orphanage.

- Terrible…

- Yes. But grandmother's stories about the orphanage are just memories of happiness! A good mansion was given as an orphanage, it was run by former Narodnaya Volya - revolutionaries from the nobility. Sick, malnourished children came to them, and they nursed them all, treated their teeth, taught them how to brush, read Tolstoy to them, and got them

milk even in the most difficult years. For grandmother, the main delicacy is still a glass of milk with kalach. Granny left the orphanage as a healthy, cheerful, well-read girl and met my future grandfather. They decided to live together, but since they were Komsomol members, they believed that signing was very bourgeois. Even the birth of two children did not become a reason for going to the registry office. Only in 1941, when the war began, did my grandmother think that it would be nice to register a marriage - you never know why the documents would be needed. Friends advised: "You should take your husband's surname - Osipov." And she, naive, asked: “Why is mine bad?” But she lived without landings with this surname.

As a child, I spent all summer in the country, and my grandmother taught me to swim, climb trees and fences, fight off goats. After retirement, her asthma worsened, but she said: "Nonsense, I will be treated with yoga." I remember that we were sitting on the banks of the Volga together in the lotus position. I’m small, flexible, I learned easily, but it was harder for my grandmother. But in general she was athletic, she swam until she was 80 years old.

- Do you look like her?

- Character. She is cheerful, determined, independent - and so am I. My first words were "I myself." I wanted to do everything myself! Mom recently recalled: “You only went to first grade. I say: “Daughter, let me wash your collars.” - "Not!" And you stand over the sink, wash them, rub them, hang them up. It always seemed to me that I could handle any business better than others, and if I did something wrong, then there would be no one to blame.

- And the interest in interiors, the ability to make the house beautiful and cozy, too, from your grandmother?

- This is from my mother. She ran home from school (my mother was the head teacher at an English special school) and cooked dinner. We had a tradition of having dinner together, and no matter how simple the food was, my mother always set the table, poured juice into a beautiful jug, lit a candle. And even on the yacht it was clean and beautiful.

- A photo from the gloss immediately appears: a luxurious ship, and on it - beauties and millionaires ...

- My dad is a retired captain of the 2nd rank and a master of sports international class. He was a member of the first yachting team of the USSR and founded the first yacht clubs on the Volga. And my mother, as befits a fighting friend, went with him to all regattas. And they always took me and my older brother with them.

Sports childhood gave me an excellent hardening - and not even physical, but spiritual. I know that you can't panic, you have to work as a team, and that the captain's word is law. It came in handy in my adult life. Most often I slept on the bow on spare sails, and the best sleeping pill for me so far is the measured beat of the wave against the side.

The first time I was taken on a yacht at the age of two - to a regatta in the Baltic. During a severe storm, my mother tied me and herself to the mast so as not to be washed overboard. But my brother was washed away, I had to return for him! And in such difficult field conditions, my mother, a terrible neat woman, managed to create comfort. Our beds, which in slang are called “coffins”, were always covered with the cleanest linen, and delicious food was in our plates, although it was not easy to cook in the absence of a refrigerator and in the presence of pitching.

- Did you yourself learn how to create comfort in adverse conditions when you entered Moscow State University and began to live in a hostel?

- When I entered the Faculty of Journalism, my individualism did not allow me to live in a hostel. I received an increased scholarship, worked part-time at the Zarya company either as a Snow Maiden or as a window cleaner and first rented rooms, then apartments. In which she didn’t live - both with bedbugs and cockroaches ... But she tried to clear her corner.

In my first or second year, I rented a tiny room on the outskirts of Moscow with a bed and a bureau instead of a desk. I was very uncomfortable there, but I figured out how to fix the situation: I covered the coffee table with an old Pavlovo Posad shawl that my grandmother gave me, and attached a reproduction of Brueghel the Elder's Hunters in the Snow cut out from the Young Artist magazine - my favorite painting by my favorite artist. There was little money, but I bought one large yellow golden apple and put it next to the picture. Falling asleep, I admired the still life: a wonderful scarf, a wonderful picture and a beautiful apple. On the fifth or sixth day it shrank, I ate it and bought a new one. I need my own corner, and I will always find a way to make it comfortable and cozy. That's probably why I started doing interiors.

- I can imagine how you turned around by buying your apartment!

— My first apartment was a one-room apartment, on the first floor, but I renovated it very stylishly for those times. White walls, minimal furniture, and along the empty wall I placed ten pots of cyclamen on the floor. Below were bright flowers, and paintings by familiar artists hung above them - it was beautiful. When Sasha and I (Natalia's husband, the famous literary historian Alexander Galushkin. He died last year. - Approx. "TN") got married, bought a kopeck piece, but also on the first floor. There, the main challenge was to use every centimeter for bookshelves and shelves.

- My husband and I studied together at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University at the Department of Literary Criticism, Sasha then studied the history of literature all his life. With husband Alexander Galushkin at a dacha in Montenegro. Photo from the personal archive of Natasha Barbier

In both apartments, the transformation did not require too much effort and money. But in order to make them, you had to sit down, think, turn on your imagination ... We moved from a two-room apartment about fifteen years ago to the current one, settling in a communal apartment. Nothing much was changed to preserve the aura of the place. After all, it happens that the interior is successful, but not for this house - and disharmony arises. It is foolish to make a minimalist interior in an old house with ceilings decorated with stucco or in a five-story panel building - a pseudo-empire.

- What else should not be done? What mistakes do people make most often during renovations?

“People often start unbearable repairs. Their first mistake is an overestimation of their strength, and the second is a misconception of what is necessary.

- What is it like?

Let's say you have a budget for two pairs of winter boots. You need to imagine your lifestyle, your work, the way you move around the city, and don't forget about the climate. Will be

It's a mistake to buy two pairs of high-heeled boots. And two pairs of boots or uggs too. You should probably get one pair of stiletto boots for going out, and one with low, stable heels to walk in snow and mud. It’s the same with renovation: you need to remember your budget and lifestyle and not try to make everything the most beautiful or trendy. It is better to take into account the main trends, but adapt them so that it is convenient and pleasant for you. I am not a supporter of perfectionism: it torments people, destroys their nerves.

- You understand this, looking at the situation from the outside. And when it comes to you personally?

- In my apartment, the walls are crooked - and I don't think they need to be leveled. Well, the wall “mowed down” a little - this is how we have been “mowed down” from time immemorial. And the parquet is very old, it creaks. I have money for a new one, and the old one is not too expensive to cycle, but I feel sorry for touching it - I think: let the old man still creak.

There are not many expensive things in my house. I bought a part for very little money at flea markets in Izmailovo or abroad. The lamp in the dining room in a past life was a yard lantern and hung over the porch of an Italian house - my friend brought it from a trip. The round table that stands under it, my husband and I found

at the dump. This is a sturdy Soviet folding table. Of course, there are scratches and notches on it, but they are not visible under the tablecloth. And the sofa near the table is actually a Belgian garden bench bought at a sale. To emphasize the texture of the tree, Sasha and I rubbed it with sunflower oil - then we had only it, special means not sold yet. Chairs are perhaps the most expensive furniture in the house, but I bought them at a discount. The sofa in the living room was purchased at IKEA and upholstered in dark velvet - after which it looks different. In the hallway there is a wonderful old armchair, which was presented to me by friends - an antiquary and an architect. When it was restored, a treasure was found.

- I was sure that only Ilf and Petrov had treasures in chairs!

- As you can see, not only. The “treasure”—Soviet 25-ruble bills and the 1968 newspaper they were wrapped in—was laid out by the restorer under transparent plastic on the back of the chair back. I use an elephant saddle and an old chest as coffee tables. The saddle was brought from India by a friend. An American travel chest was gathering dust in the attic of an old house where the editors of the Mezzanine magazine rented an office. It was found by the workers who were doing the repairs and wanted to throw it in the trash, but I took it and washed it. Apparently, abandoned, forgotten old things are drawn to people like me, who are always ready to take them on board.

“Before we got far from the Mezzanine editors, I wanted to ask: why did you, after graduating from the faculty of journalism, begin to write about painting, and then about interiors?

- At first I wrote about literature: I graduated from the department of literary criticism. My husband and I studied together with the outstanding literary critic Galina Andreevna Belaya, but my husband

life was engaged in the history of literature, and after university I went as a correspondent for the so-called pregnant rate in the newspaper Literaturnaya Rossiya. From there I had to leave because of my views. Then Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate began to be published, and I published Grossman's diaries and Galich's poems, which had not yet been published at that time, in the newspaper. And then an interview with the rector of the Historical and Archival Institute, Afanasiev, in which he spoke, among other things, about the negative role of the Communist Party in the fate of the country.

Some time after the publication of these articles, I was walking along Tverskoy Boulevard in winter - and along it then there were billboards on which the latest issues of the Pravda newspaper were hung out - and in the next issue of Pravda, on the right side, I saw a column in which they smashed and branded my posts! Stepping past the shields, I realized that I was fired. But perestroika began, so it was not very scary. I thought: fired - well, to hell with them. She left for the freer Literaturnaya Gazeta, and from there a year later to Ogonyok, where she began to work with color tabs in the art department. And only then - in "Domovoy", to write about interiors. A few years later, my friend Anna Fadeeva and I were invited to make the first interior magazine in Russia.

- Was it hard to create your own magazine, and even be a pioneer?

— Of course. This is not only a creative process, but also an organizational one. There have been three crises in the time that Mezzanine is being published, and every time you need to save the magazine

and employees, somewhere to make compromises, somewhere to tighten up, somewhere, on the contrary, to make an unexpected breakthrough - cheerful and impudent. I remember every person I had to fire! The first issue of the magazine came out in August 1998, just in those days when the crisis hit. And we had a cheerful beautiful cover with a large headline: “Autumn, life is good!” Our cheerful magazine lay in kiosks and shops, and two days later, on the third, they took me to the hospital with a heart attack. I worked, worked, then came home and sobbed, sobbed, until it became bad. But they broke through.

- The audience of Ideal Remont on Channel One is much wider than that of the magazine. What changed in your life when you started to host a TV program?

— She began to paint her nails with red varnish. I realized that hands often end up in the frame: I constantly show something, which means I need to focus on them.

- I thought you would tell how you began to be recognized on the street ...

- Yes, it's funny. The program is filmed not only in the studio, we make stories in different countries ah at all sorts of flea markets. And then for half a day you shoot material in Istanbul, in the bazaar, rummage through the rubble and look for carpets. Heat, fatigue, hunger. You see that around the corner they sell watermelons in pieces, you run to the tray covered in dust, the makeup is flowing,

the transmitter dangles - and the sellers say to you in Russian: “Oh, you are Natasha Barbier! And we are from Kazakhstan, we love your program so much.” Or you drag bags of food from the supermarket - and the one with meat is torn and dripping from it - and someone asks for an autograph. I almost dropped my bag in surprise. On the one hand, it is pleasant and touching when they say that they are watching your program, but on the other hand, recognition does not excite me, without it it is easier and freer. I can’t imagine how the heroes of our program live - they are recognized a hundred times more often.

- In the two years of its existence, you have made repairs to dozens of stars. Have you made friends with any of them?

- I fell in love with all the heroes of "Idealnoye Remont" during my work, and I think that they also treat me well. I have developed a glorious relationship with Valentina Titova, Larisa Golubkina, I communicate with Alena Sviridova. Several times we went to visit the Etush: during the filming, my team became friends with them. Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova greeted us like family and treated us to cakes and tea. It was not only pleasant, but also really necessary: ​​we shoot several stories a day, by the evening I sometimes cannot stand on my feet from hunger. And they came to Shatilova in the evening, hungry and tired, but during the filming of her story they rested.

- I fell in love with all the heroes of "Idealnoye Remont" during my work, and I think that they also treat me well. On the set of the program with Alisa Freindlich. To the left of the actress is her granddaughter Anya, to the right is her daughter Varvara. Photo from the personal archive of Natasha Barbier

Sometimes the heroes of the program have to turn on their acting skills. Once we did not have time to hang a chandelier, which had to be assembled for a long time, and it is impossible to postpone the shooting. We got out. I said, pointing to the ceiling: “What a wonderful crystal chandelier you have now!” And Lolita Milyavskaya, looking at the hook in the ceiling, gasped: “God, what a beauty!” And the beauty lay in the corner - then the operator filmed it separately.

I have to play too. We made a living room for Inna Makarova and Natalia Bondarchuk in country house- started the project in the fall, and finished in the winter. In that part of the house where the renovation was going on, no one lived, and it was not heated for filming. The cold was brutal, but I had to take off in a dress. I say: “How beautiful, comfortable it is!” I tell how we did what, and the fireplace is burning behind me, and with each phrase I move closer to it, then I put one foot on the fireplace, change my foot - and my face is inspired!

Or we are filming the finale with Zinaida Kiriyenko, I am telling something to the camera, and suddenly there is a terrible roar - some very heavy and probably valuable object falls behind

my back. But I, without turning around and without changing my face, say: “We continue to work.” Turns out it was the monitor. Incidents like this keep us on our toes. Like all work at Ideal Renovation: I sometimes need to remember something from a variety of areas - about technology, furniture styles, national crafts, textiles, to solve a bunch of issues from different areas. Do not relax - and that's great. I am friends with the son of Natalya Petrovna Bekhtereva, Svyatoslav Medvedev, director of the Institute of the Brain of the Academy of Sciences, and I learned from him that we do not age if we think and solve some problems all the time. So “Perfect Renovation” is not just a refurbishment of the living rooms and kitchens of the stars, but also in some way a permanent “repair” of myself.

Natasha Barbier

Real name: Natalia Troepolskaya

A family: mother - Natalia Vladimirovna, teacher of English language; father - Vladimir Borisovich, retired captain of the 2nd rank

Education: Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University

Career: worked in the newspapers "Literaturnaya Rossiya" and "Literaturnaya Gazeta", magazines "Spark" and "Domovoy". In 1998, she became the editor-in-chief of the first interior magazine in Russia, Mezzanine. Created exhibition projects "Week of decor", "Week of gardens". She led the program "House with a mezzanine" (Home). Since 2013 - the host of the program "Idealny Remont" (Channel One)

Restraint, intelligence and a high intellectual component - that's it, Natasha Barbier. Journalist, publisher of Mezzanine magazine and TV presenter. Real name - Natalya Vladimirovna Troepolskaya. Nickname Natalya chose the name of her grandmother ... She has the right. She is a Woman with a capital letter, from her comes an aura of charm, softness and homeliness, but at the same time a deep mind and thoughtfulness in everything. And such a lady surname Barbier is more suitable than Troepolskaya.

Childhood

Natasha Barbier is a Russian designer and her sense of style is her way of life. Barbier was born in Kronstadt, then the family moved to Saratov. The third of September is the date of her birth. According to the horoscope, Virgo is soft, gentle, pure, but firm in her intentions and knows how to achieve her goals. Natasha's dad, Vladimir Borisovich Troepolsky, is a sailor, and therefore she calls herself none other than " Captain's daughter". Natalia's mother is a teacher, she taught English, and Natasha owes her perfect pronunciation to her. She often recalls her childhood, which, according to Barbier, was happy. Therefore, she says that it is almost impossible to offend or anger her. Natasha Barbier, whose biography began in a seaside town, connected her life by no means with navigation or anything related to it.She went on a completely different path and, it seems, did not lose. She loves her job and is not shy about talking about it.

Education

Our heroine graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. Then she acquired the specialty "art critic". Then Natasha trained on the BBC channel.

Career

First there was "Literary Russia", where the future celebrity worked as a correspondent, then - the magazines "Spark" and "Domovoy". Apparently, the passion for home and interiors began with the latter ... Russian magazine about the decor, and from these heights does not fall anywhere. She was often invited and invited to television. For example, Natasha Barbier has long been a host, and part-time expert in the programs "Interiors", "Ideal Repair" and "House with a Mezzanine". So she found her calling - interior decor and everything connected with it. Ms. Barbier became the co-founder and president of the "Association of Interior Decorators" and regularly, every year, she organizes and holds exhibitions "Decor Week", "Garden Week" and "Table Decor". Before her, in fact, no one had dealt with this topic so deeply. Natalya was literally the ancestor of interior journalism in Russia, so Barbier has mastered her niche very tightly, and today few people can compete with her. She is thoroughly and a lot ready to tell her viewer about everything that she understands and what she is sure of, she gladly shares her experience with her audience and gives valuable advice.

Character

Natasha Barbier stood at the origins of the so-called interior journalism, trying to systematize the aspirations of housewives for home improvement. All those who are not indifferent to the arrangement of their internal space and those who like to embellish and modernize it will not remain indifferent to the person of Natasha Barbier.

Live with soul

She is well versed in what is good and what is bad in terms of the interior. For herself, she decided a long time ago that it is not necessary to make repairs at home every year. You just need to throw out the excess (or put it away) and put things in order, and Natasha does this regularly. And it's true - the interior will sparkle with new colors, it will change! After all, things bear the imprint of a person’s personality, and it would be criminal to throw them away or change them (after all, they don’t part with husbands, parents and children, they are unchanged).

Preferences

Natasha Barbier hides her year of birth with female coquettishness, but she was born around 1960 - in the photo, young Natasha is in the first grade of a Saratov school, and this is 1967.

But biological years are not the main thing for a woman, the most important thing is the age of her soul, which is always young when she has something to want. So, she is the editor-in-chief of the Mezzanine magazine, she considers designer Alexander Rodchenko, artists Tatlin, Malevich and Lissitzky to be great masters. Natasha complains very much about the still not obsolete “industry” of design in Russia (or maybe this is a Russian stereotype), that we can’t break out of these shackles, from the perimeter of provinciality. But all this, according to her, is due to history, and no one is to blame. She stands up for the art of decor and hopes that someday the elegant decorations of both the interior and the dining table will be naturally perceived by Russian people and will no longer be taken from the mezzanine on holidays, but will constantly accompany the inhabitants of an apartment or house. Natasha Barbier, whose personal life is covered with a veil of secrecy (she really does not like to talk about this topic in the press), is sincerely offended by everything that is unaesthetic and not done with love. She believes that it's beautiful - it's not when you put on Gucci and Louboutins in public, and eat from plastic tableware. Beauty for Natasha Barbier is a state of mind that constantly and does not change under the influence of circumstances ... A person of high art - nothing can be done, she is like that! Moreover, items do not have to be very expensive, the main thing is that they must be flawlessly assembled together and look harmonious. And this is real art, Natalia believes. She has at home old set copper ladle from the flea market in Amsterdam and silver fish utensils that once belonged to the Dorchester Hotel in London, and an old chandelier moved to it from the Izmailovsky flea market for permanent residence. And there is a time and a place for all of this.

Personal life and beloved spouse

The question of a house by the sea has long been decided for herself by Natasha Barbier. Her husband, Alexander Galushkin, fully supported her, and together with their friends they got housing in Montenegro in the city of Ulcinj. This is an inexpensive and not inhabited by Russian city. They bought the first house for 14 thousand euros, and it was inexpensive compared to neighboring Italy. Their house at one time laid the foundation for a whole Russian settlement located in Ulcinj, so many representatives of Russian bohemia live here. Small star Russia in Montenegro - that's how this area is correctly called! Stars prudently bought real estate back when it was inexpensive, and now they can enjoy the wonderful climate and the sea all year round! They have been living with their husband for a very long time, they love each other, support and understand. Love reigns in their family. They enjoy coming to their home. This, Natalya believes, is the key to a strong and happy married life, this is how she sees an ideal family.

Flowers of life on someone else's window sills?

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The popular Russian presenter Natalya Barbier, although she heads a rather authoritative and first appeared in her niche printed edition, in life is a very cheerful, cheerful and friendly woman. At the same time, she is a very active, active and incredibly inquisitive person who is alien to snobbery and arrogance.

The first steps of Natalia Barbier

She hides her year of birth like a real woman. Comes from an intelligent Soviet family. Father - soldier Vladimir Troepolsky, sailor, captain of the 2nd rank; mother is an English teacher. She was born in where her father served at that time. However, he connects his first conscious memories with Saratov, where he spent his school years. She really liked this city, which combined different styles architecture, which became a haven for the intelligentsia in war and post-war times. The girl often walked home from school, enjoying the views and the peculiar spirit of the city.

and character

Natalia Barbie's childhood was very happy. She was brought up in an atmosphere of love and care, always felt the support of her family. Thanks to this, as she herself admits, she always feels happy and does not give in to despondency.

Natalya Barbier's grandfather was the dean of the Faculty of History at Saratov University, and he probably instilled in the girl with early age love for books. Mom was in constant search new apartment, loved to change the place and environment. Most likely, it was from her mother that Natalya inherited good taste and sense of style, becoming an expert in the field of interiors as a result.

Education and internship

After graduating from school, Natalya Barbier left Saratov for Moscow, where she entered the Moscow State University, at the Faculty of Journalism. After graduating from the same university, she also entered graduate school with a degree in art criticism. Upon graduation, there was an opportunity to do an internship on the BBC channel, which the girl took advantage of with pleasure.

and professional activity

Natalia Barbier, whose biography interests us, took this pseudonym when she began to develop her career. Barbier is the surname of her grandmother, and the presenter's real surname is Troepolskaya. For the first time, the pseudonym was used to sign articles in the Domovoy magazine.

The first place of work after the internship was the position of a correspondent in the Literaturnaya Rossiya newspaper, later - in the Literaturnaya Gazeta and the Ogonyok magazine. Then she tried her hand at editing in the Domovoy magazine.

Since 1998, when she generated the idea for the Mezzanine magazine, she has been the editor-in-chief of this publication. At that time it was the first magazine popularizing the ideas of creating individual interiors and decor. Interior design has just started to come into fashion.

On television, Natalia Barbier's different time took part in the projects "House with a mezzanine", "Interiors", "Idealny remont".

In addition to working on television and in print journalism, this active woman is the president of the Association of Interior Decorators, the president of the annual exhibition events "Decor Week" and "Garden Week", successfully supervises her author's project "Table Decor". Since 2008, she has participated in the Snob project.

Perfect repair

The main idea of ​​the First Channel project “Idealniy Remont”, hosted by Barbier, is not just to replace the old furnishings or re-equip the interior into some other, new, fashionable, but, perhaps, completely uninhabitable. The project team is working primarily to ensure that the future interior suits its owner as best as possible. Therefore, they study the old furnishings, get to know the owners, select such a layout, materials and decor that the residents of the apartment would like. As the presenter herself says, in order to make the interior “rich and fashionable”, you should turn to other specialists. This project has different goals.

Personal life

which is also not put on public display, married to Alexander Galushkin. According to the stories of Natalia herself, she is happily married, since her husband is her like-minded person. Together they were engaged in the restoration of their apartment, converted from an old communal apartment in a Stalinist house. Together they built and furnished a dacha in the Moscow region, and then in Montenegro. The husband supports and shares the woman's love for books, travel, gatherings with friends and outdoor activities.

My home is my castle

Despite the fact that Natalia Barbier is a well-known and authoritative expert in the field of interiors and decor, she herself does not like showing off and does not understand why repairs are made every season. Although she likes to change curtains regularly and rearrange furniture from time to time. She tried to furnish her apartment in Moscow, which she loves very much, in the spirit of the Russian intelligentsia. Although it is not very large in area, only 72 m 2, however, it is equipped in such a way that it is convenient to live in it. Barbier loves to read very much, in her house there are a lot of books on the shelves almost to the ceiling, as well as a lot of all kinds of souvenirs and postcards brought from different countries, family photos and other little things dear to the heart. In this interior, everything is in its place.

But in the Mediterranean house in Montenegro, bought back in 2002, a completely different interior. This apartment was one of the first in the whole Russian settlement famous people. And she attracted Natalya and her husband with her low cost and the silence of the town.

According to Natalia's professional beliefs, each interior reflects the personality of its owner. From it you can get an idea of ​​the character and preferences of a person. All the activities of this journalist are aimed at instilling in the population good taste in the interior, the desire to convey that it is not at all necessary to spend a lot of money to equip an apartment and create comfort. It is enough to show imagination, walk around flea markets, search, and the right piece of the “mosaic” - an interior detail - will definitely be found.

The presenter is convinced that the interior, among other things, is also dictated by the location of the housing. For example, the European interior is fundamentally different from the Russian one, due to weather conditions first of all, as well as the traditions of each particular country, the available materials, the environment. As well as within the same country, the atmosphere of a city house will be radically different from a village one.

Thus, Natalia Barbier became one of the first people who brought the ideas of decorating art and interior design to the public, created a new professional branch of interior journalism.

- and it turned out that it was not only about skates, but also about the city of Saratov, where I spent my happy childhood.

So, I suggest to everyone who wants and can write about their hometown, as they remember it in their school years. There are many of us and we are from different places - wonderful stories will be collected, maybe with old photographs, and you will get such a geographically nostalgic cut of the country where we grew up, which, in spite of everything, is important and dear to us.

The blog will continue to be called "Cities of Childhood". I start from Saratov. And you write to me in the mail or leave applications in the comments - to YOUR city ...

In my childhood, of course, the sky was clear and blue, the stars were crazy, the winters were long, the heat was like this summer, the river was big, the grass was taller than my head, and in general there was happiness. Although I was born in the only maternity hospital of the Kronstadt fortress, since my father served there, I grew up - and already clearly realized myself - in the city of Saratov, where I physically strengthened after the tuberculosis Baltic drizzle and, therefore, matured spiritually. This city is my home. I had a very good childhood. It has become my backbone in all difficult life situations. I think it's easier for me to pass tests because I was loved, I had friends and I had a good city. At least he was like that 40 years ago. I explored the city in increasing order: I still remember the first years on the very outskirts, behind the railway station, in dusty gardens, which the inhabitants had already left, moved to new Khrushchev houses in the neighborhood, and where unnecessary apples still fell abundantly and nightshade thickets hid eternal fuss wild cats and tame chickens. It always smelled of creosote, it always smelled of hemp. Voronya settlement of Soviet times, but we did not live there for long, because my mother was actively changing the apartment. And I was often given to my grandparents, and it was already another Saratov, as if eternal, as if the tram had not yet traveled outside the yard, and maybe even the carriages, in the production of which my great-grandfather went bankrupt, the owner of the carriage workshop, who did not guess how quickly in the bread, rich, German-advanced Saratov, they will start up the horse-drawn carriage ...

My grandfather was the dean of the history department of the university - and Saratov University was famous for the waves of metropolitan scientists who migrated here from civil war, from World War II, from hunger, from repression ... The cultural environment of the bouillon fortress, the neo-Gothic conservatory, again German construction, the mansions of Art Nouveau and even the early Shekhtel, he is also ours, Saratov, but still more strong merchant houses with false semi-columns and sometimes dashing squiggles of the beginning of the 20th century... So, my grandfather lived on the entire second floor of a private house, a long staircase led to rooms, all united around a Dutch stove, isn’t this where my pyrotechnic passion for fireplaces and bonfires comes from? There was no hot water and no bathroom, I remember well the trough and the cold pot that always stuck to my thoughtful bottom, but there was a cellar. Or a cellar? Pots of pickled apples and tomatoes, masterfully harvested by my grandfather, who, despite the presence of a real study with real bookcases and a real huge table, like a real scientist, in a peasant way adored doing everything himself and, it seems, knew how to sew boots and bird boots. making cages... And there was a housekeeper, which was perceived as completely normal, she was often borrowed money before her salary, and she skillfully cooked buckwheat porridge, which I still love. Meanwhile, while in this wonderful house, in a large green courtyard, in a quiet center, beyond the red line of Kirov Street - the former German street and now it is again - I made pyramids and complex figures out of colored crystal grandmother's glasses, to the constant detriment of their number, my an energetic mother made a chain of 15, no less, apartments and exchanged our modest “kopeck piece” for a “three-ruble note” in the most beautiful and, as they would say now, most prestigious area of ​​​​the city - on the embankment. Indeed, the embankment of Saratov, built by Stalin, straight, geometric in French and sweeping according to VDNKh, was good in my childhood! Flower gardens and fir trees, strict moorings for large ships, an utter expanse - from my window I could see the Volga for 60 kilometers, along and slightly obliquely. Here my mature childhood passed, along these alleys I walked until last call, and at home, a striped cloth suitcase was assembled ahead of time, with which I left the next morning to enter Moscow State University and never returned. Seriously, I mean.

Photo courtesy of the author Saratov Conservatory on Nemetskaya Street. Postcard from the beginning of the 20th century.

So, starting from the outskirts of the railway station, having played the inevitable and boring (for my taste) “daughters-mothers” in the courtyards of the old center, I became a “girl from the embankment”. Ironically, the special school with in-depth English was located near the station, and every day I drove through the whole city, narrow in the center and long along the river, on a trolley bus in the morning and walked back after classes. The topography of the central streets still haunts me. What is left of them? My architect friends say: "You'd better not come." And then my path was exactly from west to east, to the river, and rare Stalinist houses and no less rare post-Stalinist buildings were interspersed with real private buildings: two-, maximum three-story stone mansions and wooden houses, whose architectural excesses or, conversely, modesty allowed me then one can already guess the character of the merchants, lawyers, small industrialists who built them ... Provincial halls mercilessly cut by partitions, facade windows with curtains according to the number of families settled here, wooden gates and yards, yards as separate worlds with sheds, swings, apple trees ... In winter, the passage at each gate was traumatic, snowdrifts rose like a wall to the very windows, icicles were unrealistically huge, and it was creepy and fun to knock them down. I walked past the Radishchev Art Museum - the real pride of the city, a wonderful red mansion specially built by the fathers of the city to house the picturesque collection of Bogolyubov, a good, subtle landscape painter, guardian of his grandfather's memory. The museum was a point of attraction for me, I went there almost every weekend, I dreamed of becoming an art critic, in fact, I almost did. If not a museum, then the Youth Theater: the Saratov Youth Theater was then directed by director Kiselev, and it was interesting, and there were performances at which I burst into hot tears, such as “Do not shoot at white swans”, as I remember now. Apparently, having outlived what was supposed to be with all the impressionability of a provincial romantic girl, I fell out of love with the theater later, in my university years, vindictively affirming the priority of the intimacy of the book word ... And there were almost a dozen theaters and studios, but they were not remembered, except perhaps as Yankovsky's drama cradle, and there was the Palace of Pioneers, where my mother once studied in the same theater circle with Tabakov and where they sent me to a ballet studio, but what's the point? And thank God. My parents wisely took me to visit always and everywhere, I listened to adult conversations from the corner, as usual, rummaging through the shelves: good books were in short supply. I was allowed to read whatever I could find. I just had a disease: I could not help but read all the time. Another grandmother also had a huge yard with secret corners not fully explored, also an old house and a stove - only Lope de Vega remained unread, having nothing to do, the turn came to him, and for a couple of years I scribbled quotes from the Sheep Spring "to the amazement of classmates ...

Photo courtesy of the author Old trolleybus on Moskovskaya street. Mid 20th century

And there was a river, just great river- I still can’t sing “From afar for a long time without slight excitement ...” It is for me like the Mississippi for Mark Twain - a whole life with its own rules, a whole world of adventures and dangers, secret sorties, the first May swims in icy water, ice drifts and spills, shoals and whirlpools, fishing and more fishing. We mastered everything that floated on the water: well, boats by itself (we picked up the old ones - one, with a broken bottom, did not live to the other side, but we swam), rafts, knocked together boards, pieces of foam plastic ... Matches wrapped in a T-shirt, salt , a couple of potatoes - everyone knew how to swim with one hand raised up so as not to soak a strategic reserve, a fire on the other side, scary stories of experienced fishermen about "that catfish that last year dragged a child from the shallows ..." and poor happy parents, who seriously thought that at a quiet hour the child was lying in a crib, while I had already climbed out the window a long time ago and fled with vegetable gardens and burdocks ... However, this is already far from the city, but the river and the city rhymed so much, everything rushed to the river, it seemed , the streets flow down to it, and we rolled on briefcases along long, half a block, rolled ice paths - down to the embankment. My wind rose has always been adventurous. Two directions attracted me: to the station, from where trains left for Moscow, and to the river port, from where steamboats sailed to Moscow. About the airport somehow did not come to mind. When I left forever, I did not yet know that I would take this city with me entirely. In my memory, he is so good that, perhaps, there really is no need to return ...

The popular Russian presenter Natalya Barbier, although she heads a rather authoritative and the very first printed edition that appeared in her niche, is a very cheerful, cheerful and friendly woman in life. At the same time, she is a very active, active and incredibly inquisitive person who is alien to snobbery and arrogance.

The first steps of Natalia Barbier

Barbier Natalya hides her year of birth like a real woman. Comes from an intelligent Soviet family. Father - soldier Vladimir Troepolsky, sailor, captain of the 2nd rank; mother is an English teacher. She was born in the fortress of Kronstadt, where her father served at that time. However, he connects his first conscious memories with Saratov, where he spent his school years. She really liked this city, which combined different styles of architecture, which became a haven for the intelligentsia in war and post-war times. The girl often walked home from school, enjoying the views and the peculiar spirit of the city.

The formation of personality and character

Natalia Barbie's childhood was very happy. She was brought up in an atmosphere of love and care, always felt the support of her family. Thanks to this, as she herself admits, she always feels happy and does not give in to despondency.

Natalia Barbier's grandfather was the dean of the Faculty of History at Saratov University, and he probably instilled in the girl a love of books from an early age. Mom was constantly looking for a new apartment, she liked to change the place and environment. Most likely, it was from her mother that Natalya inherited good taste and sense of style, becoming an expert in the field of interiors as a result.

Education and internship

After graduating from school, Natalya Barbier left Saratov for Moscow, where she entered the Moscow State University, at the Faculty of Journalism. After graduating from the same university, she also entered graduate school with a degree in art criticism. Upon graduation, there was an opportunity to do an internship on the BBC channel, which the girl took advantage of with pleasure.

Career growth and professional activity

Natalia Barbier, whose biography interests us, took this pseudonym when she began to develop her career. Barbier is the surname of her grandmother, and the presenter's real surname is Troepolskaya. For the first time, the pseudonym was used to sign articles in the Domovoy magazine.

The first place of work after the internship was the position of a correspondent in the Literaturnaya Rossiya newspaper, later - in the Literaturnaya Gazeta and the Ogonyok magazine. Then she tried her hand at editing in the Domovoy magazine.

Since 1998, when she generated the idea for the Mezzanine magazine, she has been the editor-in-chief of this publication. At that time it was the first magazine popularizing the ideas of creating individual interiors and decor. Interior design has just started to come into fashion.

On television, Natalia Barbier at various times took part in the projects "House with a Mezzanine", "Interiors", "Ideal Renovation".

In addition to working on television and in print journalism, this active woman is the president of the Association of Interior Decorators, the president of the annual exhibition events "Decor Week" and "Garden Week", successfully supervises her author's project "Table Decor". Since 2008, she has participated in the Snob project.

Perfect repair

The main idea of ​​the First Channel project “Idealniy Remont”, hosted by Barbier, is not just to replace the old furnishings or re-equip the interior into some other, new, fashionable, but, perhaps, completely uninhabitable.

The team of the project is primarily working to ensure that the future interior suits its owner as best as possible. Therefore, they study the old furnishings, get to know the owners, select such a layout, materials and decor that the residents of the apartment would like. As the presenter herself says, in order to make the interior “rich and fashionable”, you should turn to other specialists. This project has different goals.

Personal life

Natalya Barbier, whose personal life is also not exposed to the public, is married to Alexander Galushkin. According to the stories of Natalia herself, she is happily married, since her husband is her like-minded person. Together they were engaged in the restoration of their apartment, converted from an old communal apartment in a Stalinist house. Together they built and furnished a dacha in the Moscow region, and then in Montenegro. The husband supports and shares the woman's love for books, travel, gatherings with friends and outdoor activities.

My home is my castle

Despite the fact that Natalia Barbier is a well-known and authoritative expert in the field of interiors and decor, she herself does not like showing off and does not understand why repairs are made every season.

she likes to change the curtains regularly and rearrange the furniture from time to time. She tried to furnish her apartment in Moscow, which she loves very much, in the spirit of the Russian intelligentsia. Although it is not very large in area, only 72 m 2, however, it is equipped in such a way that it is convenient to live in it. Barbier loves to read very much, in her house there are a lot of books on the shelves almost to the ceiling, as well as a lot of all kinds of souvenirs and postcards brought from different countries, family photos and other little things dear to the heart. In this interior, everything is in its place.

But in the Mediterranean house in Montenegro, bought back in 2002, a completely different interior. This apartment became one of the first famous people in the whole Russian settlement. And she attracted Natalya and her husband with her low cost and the silence of the town.

According to Natalia's professional beliefs, each interior reflects the personality of its owner. From it you can get an idea of ​​the character and preferences of a person. All the activities of this journalist are aimed at instilling in the population good taste in the interior, the desire to convey that it is not at all necessary to spend a lot of money to equip an apartment and create comfort. It is enough to show imagination, walk around flea markets, search, and the right piece of the "mosaic" - an interior detail - will definitely be found.

The presenter is convinced that the interior, among other things, is also dictated by the location of the housing. For example, the European interior is fundamentally different from the Russian, due to weather conditions in the first place, as well as the traditions of each particular country, available materials, and the environment. As well as within the same country, the atmosphere of a city house will be radically different from a village one.

Thus, Natalia Barbier became one of the first people who brought the ideas of decorating art and interior design to the public, created a new professional branch of interior journalism.

Natalia Barbier: biography

Natalya Barbier is known to Russians as the host of the Perfect Repair program. Journalist and art historian, magazine editor and TV presenter, expert in interior design and decor Barbier can speak in simple words about complex concepts. Natalia sees the beauty of simple things and reveals it to others.

Childhood and youth

Natalya Vladimirovna Troepolskaya was born on September 3 in Kronstadt. But the exact year of this event is difficult to establish. Based on a photo of first-grader Natasha, dated 1967, it can be assumed that Natalya was born in 1960. The girl went to school in Saratov, which she remembers with warmth and love.

Father Vladimir Borisovich Troepolsky, retired captain of the 2nd rank, master of sports of international class, traveled with his family on his own yacht. Participation in regattas with her parents and older brother taught the future TV presenter to work in a team and not to panic in emergency situations.

Mother Natalya Vladimirovna Troepolskaya (daughter - mother's full namesake) is an English teacher who has the ability to create comfort in any room. This talent was fully inherited by amateur designer Natalia Barbier. The pseudonym Barbier appeared from the surname of the grandmother Nina Konstantinovna Barbier. The granddaughter dropped the last letter and returned the French surname to its original sound.

Grandfather Vladimir Alekseevich Osipov was the dean of the Faculty of History of Saratov University and instilled in his granddaughter a love for the history of cities and the peculiarities of architectural styles. Natasha studied ballet at the Palace of Pioneers, dreamed of working in an art museum or theater. After graduating from school in Saratov, Natasha moved to Moscow and entered the journalism department of Moscow State University.

An independent girl did not want to live in a hostel and rented a house. Life at the rent taught Natalya to turn someone else's room into a cozy one. For this, it was not necessary to change the wallpaper or furniture, sometimes a couple of details were enough: an old patterned scarf instead of a tablecloth, a reproduction from a magazine on the wall. In graduate school at Moscow State University, the journalist received the specialty of art criticism, and trained on the BBC channel.

Journalism and television

Natalia's journalistic career began in " Literary Russia”, but the discrepancy between the views of the young journalist and the general line of the party forced her to leave for the more democratic Literaturnaya Gazeta. A year later, Natalia went to the Ogonyok magazine, where she selected paintings for color inserts. In parallel with her work at Ogonyok, she began writing articles about interiors for the Domovoy magazine.

Then a pseudonym was needed. Articles signed by Troepolskaya were published in Ogonyok, and Barbier's publications were published in Domovoy. In this first glossy magazine in Russia, the biography of Natalya Barbier, familiar to viewers, began - a person who clearly and captivatingly talks about the beauty of the home, architectural styles, colors and draperies.

In 1998, the Mezzanine magazine appeared, and the journalist became its editor-in-chief. The team of the first Russian magazine devoted entirely to interior design wanted to make a publication for professionals. Chief Editor made sure that the authors did not get carried away fashion trends. In the late nineties, Mezzanine covered all the major global trends in design and decor.

Now the magazine publishes mainly projects of Russian architects. Not without the efforts of the authors of Mezzanine, a generation of young designers with a developed artistic taste, who know the history of styles and decorative arts, has grown up in the country. Natalia and her team created a new direction in journalism. As an interior observer, Barbier was invited to television.

She hosted the programs “House with a Mezzanine”, “Interiors with Natasha Barbier”, and in 2013 she came to the project “Ideal Renovation”, which is produced by Ilya Krivitsky. A team of experts - designers, architects and builders - comes to the apartments of artists and show business stars and transforms their living space beyond recognition. final version perfect repair developed jointly, taking into account the desires and needs of the customer.

Natalia Barbier notes that the title of the project does not exactly match the content. Repair is, first of all, the replacement of outdated pipes, wires, ceilings and the like. But the “Ideal Renovation” team does not do this, but only brings beauty. The show requires, first of all, to be able to speak. Often you need to quickly recall information about styles, national crafts, and answer unexpected questions.

The team is supported by the customers. At the request of the film crew, they are surprised and rejoice at the changes, even if the repair is not actually completed. First of all, to work in a new project, Natalya needed to change her image. For example, start painting your nails with red polish. Manicure seems like a trifle, but the TV presenter's hands regularly fall into the frame and draw attention to the subject they are pointing to.

The appearance of the popular TV presenter is discussed by the audience. After each new release of the program on Instagram, comments appear under the photo of Natalia. Fans are interested in the style of the dress and hairstyle, jewelry and makeup of the presenter. Natalia Barbier is smart, intelligent, well-groomed and talented. Therefore, the project "Idealny Remont" continues to interest viewers even now.

Personal life

For more than twenty years, Natalya has been married to Alexander Galushkin, a well-known literary critic. The couple met as students - at the Department of Literary Criticism, they studied together with the literary critic Galina Andreevna Belaya. Together with her husband, Natalia created the interiors of Moscow apartments. The first family nest was a compact kopeck piece, in which it was not easy to find a place for books. The second apartment, located in the center of Moscow, was rebuilt from a communal apartment.

Love for the sea brought the couple to the outskirts of the town of Ulcinj in Montenegro. In 2002, they became the first Russians there to buy a dacha by the Adriatic Sea. The journalist so vividly described the beauty of Ulcinj to her friends that she accidentally became the founder of a Russian-speaking dacha colony on the Montenegrin coast. July 22, 2014 Alexander Yurievich Galushkin died. The couple had no children.

Natalia Barbier now

In December 2017, the film crew of Ideal Renovation, together with Natalya Barbier, visited Christina Orbakaite twice. The apartment, which had seen many celebrities, changed, and the audience learned the details of the personal life and creative plans of the famous singer.

In 2018, the team renovated the home of actress Lyubov Polekhina and installed a fireplace in the city apartment of Leonid Yakubovich.

Projects

• 1998 - Mezzanine magazine
• 1999 - annual exhibition "Decor Week"
• 2006 - "House with a mezzanine"
• 2012 - "Interiors with Natasha Barbier"
• 2013 - "Ideal Renovation"