Karina Dobrotvorskaya: biography, personal life and career

Envy - this is a bad quality, able to eat its owner from the inside. That's only to envy someone else's success can be different. In addition, the emerging envy can always turn into an excellent motivation for achieving its success. Karina Dobrotvorskaya is just such a person that causes envy and at the same time makes you think about the prospects for the development of your career and personality. What is special about it? Who is this proud and successful woman?

A Brief History from Childhood

Karina was born in the family of engineers September 25, 1966 in Leningrad. In her environment, sincerity, purposefulness, naturalness and good manners were valued. That is why the parents of the little girl have done everything to ensure that their daughter received proper education, learned courtesy, punctuality and turned into a real aristocrat. They additionally hired teachers who taught ethics and aesthetics, taught art to keep themselves in company, and so on.

Where did the young Karina study?

Immediately after the school, Karina Dobrotvorskaya submitted the documents and easily entered the Academy of Theater Arts in the city on the Neva. There, at the Faculty of Theater Studies, she became acquainted with academic science, she studied the history of Western European theater and got a general idea about all the creative professions (actor, director, script writer).

After graduation from the academy, Karina entered postgraduate study at the Faculty of Art Criticism of LGITMiK, and later defended a candidate's degree in art criticism.

Teaching activities of Karina

Karina Dobrotvorskaya received her first job at LGITMiK, where she previously received training. Here she was offered a small position as a teacher of the history of the Western European theater. According to the heroine, she seemed very flattering proposal, and she agreed without hesitation.

Work and the beginning of a career in the editorial office

After a while, a girl with unusually developed leadership qualities was noticed in the editorial office of the newspaper Kommersant-daily. It was there that our heroine first began to work as a journalist and correspondent. Here she wrote and published a lot of entertaining articles about cinema and theater.

Seeing the prospects of a talented author, the editors of another newspaper called "Russian Telegraph" literally lured the girl, promising her the position of columnist and editor of the publication.

Even later, Dobrotvorskaya Karina Anatolyevna was invited to the place of deputy first editor at the then popular Russian publication on the film industry Premiere. In early 1998, the girl again changed jobs and took the post of deputy editor in chief of the Russian version of the glossy magazine Vogue.

In the middle of 2002, Karina again advanced on the career ladder and took up the vacant position of the editor-in-chief of the Russian representative office of the magazine Architectural Digest. And in early 2005, Dobrotvorskaya moved to the publishing house Condé Nast, where she was promised the place of the editorial director of the publishing house. Three years later, Karina Anatolyevna was promoted to the post of president of the same organization. At the moment she owns the main stake in the Russian representative office of Condé Nast.

In which editions did Karina publish her materials?

During the growing career, Karina Dobrotvorskaya wrote and published over 300 materials relating to her two favorite topics - theater and cinema. Among publishers and publications where the author's works were appreciated, the following journals can be distinguished:

• "Session";
• "The Art of Cinema";
• "The Moscow Observer";
• "Petersburg Theatrical Journal";
• "Om".

Also, the journalist's materials were noted in several collections of LGITMiK and publications Kommersant-daily, Russian Telegraph and Literaturnaya gazeta.

Books of Dobrotvorskaya

In addition to her journalistic activities, our heroine was engaged in literary creation. So, she wrote and published two books at once: "Blockade girls" and "Has anyone seen my girl? 100 letters to Serezha. "

In the first work the author raised a burning topic about the inhabitants of the besieged Leningrad, and in the second she described her romantic relationship with her first, recently departed husband. She is such a fully developed, sincere and unpredictable Karina Dobrotvorskaya. The book first and second tells about human values, love, friendship, betrayal and hatred. Suddenly, for the author himself, both works became real bestsellers.

Brief information about the book "Has anyone seen my girl? 100 letters to Serezha »

This book was a kind of confession for Karina, as it allowed to describe in literary language all those experiences that the heroine experienced while communicating with her ex-spouse. In the title of the work, it is no accident that letters are referred to, because the whole autobiographical novel is a kind of collection of love letters and notes addressed to the now-deceased husband of the author.

Relations between Sergei and Karina in reality

Sergei Dobrotvorsky and Karina - the main characters of the book, according to their mutual friends, were the most beautiful couple in the bohemian Petersburg of the 90s. He was a famous screenwriter, a film critic and an intellectual, and she just loved him.

And it would seem that everything they had was perfect: love, mutual respect, common interests, fame - but their relationship was never destined to grow into something long. For some reason, which, incidentally, the author tells in his book, they parted. As a result, Karina was forced in the literal sense of the word to flee from her adored spouse to a completely different city. Sergei remained in St. Petersburg and exactly a month later died suddenly.

In her book, Karina does not just describe her experiences. She gives answers to exciting questions and says something that she did not have time to tell her beloved during her lifetime. According to critics, the novel surpassed all expectations. He became an unexpected revelation of the iron businesswoman, with which so often was associated Dobrotvorskaya Karina. Biography, personal life, career of this strong woman are described in our article.

Personal life of Karina today

At the moment Karina is married to Alexei Tarkhanov and brings up two children: the daughter of Sofya and son Ivan. She is still interested in cinema, loves her work, is fond of painting and appreciates true friendship. A successful woman has many admirers, assistants and reliable partners.