Publicist Alexander Timofeevsky Jr. has died. He was Kommersant's internal critic in the 1990s

Publicist and film critic Alexander Timofeevsky Jr. has died. Writer Tatyana Tolstaya wrote about this on Facebook.

She did not specify the cause of death. Timofeevsky was 61 years old.

• Alexander Timofeevsky Jr. is the son of the writer and poet, author of the lyrics to “The Song of Crocodile Gena,” Alexander Timofeevsky.
• Timofeevsky graduated from the film studies department of VGIK and began his career as a film critic. In the 1990s, he became an advisor to the owner of the Kommersant publishing house, Vladimir Yakovlev. Timofeevsky reviewed the publishing house's projects and was involved in developing the concept of the Kommersant-Daily newspaper. He was called the main ideologist of Kommersant-Daily and the creator of a new language of Russian cultural journalism.
• In the late nineties and early 2000s, Timofeevsky, together with Tatyana Tolstaya and Avdotya Smirnova, worked as a speechwriter for Sergei Kiriyenko and Anatoly Chubais. Timofeevsky was also one of the founders of the newspaper "Russian Telegraph" and editor-in-chief of the magazine "Russian Life".