Ask her how to become the first lady of television Anniversaries do not suit women. Round numbers scare and oblige. A rare woman can be free from age. And from time. To do this, one must be born in the USSR, in exile. And don't read until then...

Ask her how to become the first lady of television

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Women don't get anniversaries. Round numbers scare and oblige. A rare woman can be free from age. And from time.

To do this, one must be born in the USSR, in exile. And for the time being, do not read Akhmatova, Pasternak, Mandelstam. To be the granddaughter of a revolutionary, the daughter of a repressed man and the wife of a dissident.

To do this, you need to dream of becoming an actress, go through all the tours and appear before the great Sophia Pilyavskaya. To do this, you need to have your own, special voice and be rejected by the medical board of the acting school of the Moscow Art Theater because of the "non-professional", laryngeal throat.

To do this, you need to help your ex-husband all your life. And for a long time not to be mentioned in the credits because of him - "anti-Soviet" and emigrant Vladimir Maksimov.

For this, one day, on August 19, 1991, one must abandon this “community”. Mortgage the apartment and leave to do your thing. Private. As it is now obvious, successful.

Irena Stefanovna Lesnevskaya is the first lady of Russian television. The first and only woman in our country who created her own production company, and then the first private TV channel REN TV. It was Lesnevskaya who came up with the idea of ​​independent television in Russia. Back in 1987, long before Yeltsin's freedom of the media, she gathered an initiative group - Pozner, Sagalaev, Armen Medvedev (then Minister of Cinematography) to propose an independent television project to the leadership. Developed concepts, plans, justifications. They met secretly, outside the walls of Ostankino, in the editorial office of the Six Sotok newspaper ...

Lesnevskaya gathered on the TV channel the masters of the screen - Vladimir Molchanov, Eldar Ryazanov, persuaded Yuri Nikulin to host the "White Parrot Club", invited Yevgeny Yevtushenko to make the author's program "A Poet in Russia is More Than a Poet", invited Leonid Filatov to create a series of programs "To Remember" .

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Today REN TV is the largest private TV channel in Russia. Feature films, documentaries, animated films and television series are filmed here. In 1997, Irena Lesnevskaya was awarded the Russian national award "Golden Aries" in the "Discovery of the Year" nomination (97th year - the beginning of the broadcasting of the REN TV channel). In 1998, she received the title of "Woman of the Year", "whose leadership contributed to the enhancement of the role of a business woman, whose achievements have improved the quality of life of all women in Russia." In 2000 - the national award of Peter the Great as one of the best managers in Russia. And eight TEFI awards for 10 years of broadcasting an independent channel.

To be free from time, you have to be true to yourself. To do this, you need to be born Lesnevskaya. Novaya Gazeta congratulates Irena Stefanovna on the occasion. Friends and colleagues join our words.

Boris GROMOV, Governor of the Moscow Region:

- Congratulating Irena Stefanovna on her birthday, I would like to say warm words to this wonderful person and charming woman. Perhaps this is her little secret - with all her humanity, femininity and tenderness, to be an excellent organizer, leader of such a large creative team. And thanks to the fact that Irena Stefanovna is such a wonderful, talented person, she gathered so many talented people around her. I would like to wish her health, good luck in all endeavors and, of course, love.

Vladimir MOLCHANOV, host of the program "Before and after" on REN TV:

— Dear and sweet Irena! I am happy to have worked with you for many years. I have very rarely met such professional, courageous, strong and beautiful women in my life. I really want you to stay the same. I love you very much. I am sure that everything will be fine in your life. Congratulations! Your Vladimir Molchanov.

Ksenia LARINA, host of Ekho Moskvy radio, author of the Success program on REN TV:

— I am very glad to congratulate Irena Stefanovna on her birthday. She is a rare person in television and in general in the media. He does everything according to his heart and soul. Very addictive, very emotional, very impulsive, very amorous. And, oddly enough, all these qualities do not prevent her from being a great boss. I want to keep her emotional attitude to life and work, because, as one well-known character of one well-known book said, "only the heart is vigilant."

Alla SURIKOVA, director, friend:

- Irena, only last year we celebrated your anniversary ... I remember exactly, it was delicious and fun. And here it is again! In general, normal people do not have anniversaries so often. However, with your biography spreads, with your powerful presentation, with your “three in one”, it may well be so ... While others are only reaching for matches, you smoke a pack. While others are deciding whether or not to be, you are already building an empire called REN TV. While others only figure out where to get, you are already giving. Yes, yes, I remembered: last year was not exactly your anniversary - it was the anniversary of the company, although it is impossible to understand where the company ends and you begin, soberly. Sometimes they come up to me with the words: “Hello, Irena Stefanovna.” I don't mind - hello, so hello. And then, at a meeting, I begin to meticulously peer at what I like about you: yes, the first half of the second youth. Yes, bang. Yes, love for the moving image. What else? And here's the thing: you're a super-egoist! You like to help because you enjoy it. Oh, if we could also receive money from this, there would be no egoists equal to us in the world. Be well, dear Irena. It is very important. Gift for me. Your Alla Surikova.