2023-05-21 05:00:34
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77-year-old Kira Proshutinskaya came to the funeral with her current partner, a 50-year-old Orthodox priest
The 76-year-old father of modern television, Eduard Sagalaev, was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. Over the years, he led the Youth Edition of the Central Television, the Vremya program, as well as the VGTRK and TV-6 holdings. And in old age he completely stopped drinking, took up yoga and hit the esoteric.
He led the Mystical Journey program on TNT, where he said that from now on he practices holotropic breathing, goes into the astral plane and communicates with his deceased mother. And then he headed the cable TV channel “Psychology21”, where, among other things, he broadcast his documentaries regarding the battle between God and the devil and the miracles of religious India.
A native of Samarkand, Sagalaev took his first steps up the career ladder in his native Uzbekistan – he worked as an announcer on the radio, and later headed the local committee on television and radio broadcasting. And having moved to Moscow in 1973, he soon took high positions on Central TV.
Sagalaev borrowed the idea of creating his calling card – the Vzglyad perestroika program from the night program “In our kitchen following eleven”, which was planned to be launched on the Central Television back in the 1970s, but changed his mind.
Recalling in an interview regarding “freedom of speech” in the “holy 90s”, Eduard Mikhailovich did not particularly hide the fact that he often carried out someone else’s will – influential politicians and oligarchs, the true owners of TV channels.
One day, Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Poltoranin, Yeltsin’s right hand in ideology, called Sagalaev. Poltoranin was infuriated by the plot in the Vremya program regarding how the new government was tearing up the property of the Central Committee of the CPSU and endowing each other with luxurious apartments.
– Splashing saliva through the tube … he yelled at me: “What are you doing? Why did you show this story? I say: “Misha, but it’s true, we don’t want to hide something from the people on the new television now …” To which he told me: “Shut up, remember, now there is a new government and new orders.”
And when Boris Berezovsky became the owner of ORT and TV-6, he, according to the memoirs of Eduard Mikhailovich, even allowed himself extravagant acts.
– Once Berezovsky called me and said: “Kiss me quick”. I didn’t understand: “What, Borya?” “Kiss me quick,” he says. “Do you want me to kiss you?” – “No,” he says, “there is a song like this – Kiss me quick, put it on the air immediately.” Well, I asked Vanya Demidov, we found this song, moved the program apart, put on the song. Then I meet with him: “Bor, what are you doing at all ?!”
“You see,” he says, “I had a chick there, whom I wanted to show that I manage television. And she said: “Prove it, put me the song Kiss me quick on the sixth channel.”
At the funeral of Sagalaev, famous TV journalists and media managers asked each other if anyone had read the memoirs of the deceased “When Journalists Were Free”. For this book, filled with vivid revelations, he was recently awarded the Union of Journalists award – the Golden Shelf.
– We were able to persuade Eduard Mikhailovich to come to the awards, although he was already walking with difficulty. They helped him up onto the stage, and the whole audience stood up and applauded. Of course, this is a unique person, – Vladimir Solovyov noted at the memorial service and advised all television people to read the memoirs of the patriarch.
Painful story
To say goodbye to Sagalaev, his numerous former subordinates and students came to Troekurovskoye, including the general directors of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Oleg Dobrodeev and the First Channel Konstantin Ernst:
– Everyone who is something of himself on television came out of two alma maters – from the youth team and from the editorial office of news broadcasting. Eduard Mikhailovich led them as well, ”Konstantin Lvovich remarked, taking the floor at the coffin.
He was attentively listened to by the classics of Russian TV – the former spouses Kira Proshutinskaya and Anatoly Malkin, who, following 30 years of marriage, divorced in 2010.
“We met as adults, both had experience in family life,” Proshutinskaya told Express Gazeta then. – I left my ex-husband. Painful story, I don’t want to remember. Tolya and I love and, most importantly, respect each other. The husband is a bright person, despite the complexity of his character. We do not have common children, but we are very respectful of the sons from previous marriages.
We then received information regarding their divorce from one of the employees of the ATV television company, the creators of which were the couple. He said that Kira Alexandrovna left Anatoly Grigorievich for a priest, who at that time was regarding 40 years old.
They have known each other for more than a year. As you know, an Orthodox priest cannot be single. It turns out that he also left the family! But the offended Anatoly Grigorievich blocked the pass of his ex-wife to the studio and cut off the oxygen wherever he might, – our informant was dumbfounded.
At the memorial service, the 77-year-old telediva was accompanied by a man with a bushy beard. Most likely, this was the same father. Seeing Malkin, his ex-wife greeted him with joy and kissed him. It turns out that their grievances are long in the past.
Photo source: Boris Kudryavov
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