Daniil Kotsyubinsky - quite versatiledeveloped man, who managed to establish himself as a historian, journalist, poet, politician. In society, this person is treated ambiguously, depending on political views. Let's find out in detail who Daniil Kotsyubinsky is. The biography and creative activity of this person will be the subject of consideration in this article.
Youth
Kotsyubinsky Daniil Alexandrovich was born inLeningrad (present St. Petersburg) in January 1965 in the family of a well-known psychiatrist, who was a doctor of medical sciences and a professor, Alexander Petrovich Kotsyubinsky.
Даня в 1983 году окончил местную ленинградскую school, where he studied pretty well. After receiving secondary education, he did not immediately go to college, as many of his peers did, and decided to give a debt to the Motherland in the ranks of the armed forces. He served in the Group of Soviet Forces in the GDR. Demobilized in 1985.
After completing his military service, Daniel Kotsyubinsky immediately entered the history department of Herzen State Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad. In 1989, he successfully graduated from this university with a specialization in History.
Start a professional career
But Daniil Kotsyubinsky did not become a teacherhistory or researcher, as he decided to start his career in journalism, but, true, given his professional specialization. Since 1990, he has begun work as an editor for the history section of Smena magazine.
Kotsyubinsky coped with his duties quite well, as evidenced by the fact that he worked at this workplace for three years.
In 1993, our hero goes to work inweekly in which it becomes a political columnist. Here he worked until 1999, inclusive. At the same time, in 1998, he, Daniil Aleksandrovich, became one of the chief editors of the Komar publication. In 1999 he became a political columnist for the newspaper Delo. In the last two editions Kotsyubinsky worked until 2000.
Scientific activity
At the same time, Daniel Kotsyubinsky does not break even withscientific activities. In 1992, he became an assistant in the department of the history of Russia at the university where he graduated. Only now it is called not the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (LGPI), but the Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University. He taught Kotsyubinsky in this school until 1998.
Also in 1998, he becomes a candidate.History, defended his thesis on the topic of the All-Russian National Union of 1907–1917. Kotsyubinsky decides to concentrate on journalistic activities and therefore leaves the work at the university.
After a long break in teachingactivity in 2009, Daniel A. transferred to work at the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which has the status of the faculty of St. Petersburg State University, the department of problems of interdisciplinary synthesis. There Kotsyubinsky works as a senior teacher at the present.
Continuing journalism
In parallel with the scientific work of DanielAlexandrovich continued to engage in journalism. In 2000, he worked in Expert-North-West magazine as a political observer. At the same time, he is the presenter and author of some analytical programs on the TV channel Peterburg. He conducted such famous programs in St. Petersburg as “The Right of Veto”, “The Story of a City”, “Inform-TV”, “A Hard Day Evening”. In the same 2000, Daniel Alexandrovich became, as the best journalist, the winner of the largest St. Petersburg award “Golden Pen”, presented by the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg, of which he was a member.
In 2003, Kotsyubinsky moves to the posteditor of the famous newspaper "Petersburg Line". However, he worked there for a short time, since as early as 2004 he returned to the newspaper Delo, in which he worked as early as the late 90s, but this time as deputy editor-in-chief.
In 2007, Daniel Alexandrovich was elected a member of the board of the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg.
At the very end of 2008, Kotsyubinsky leavesthe publication Delo, since, as mentioned above, begins working at the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Nevertheless, he continues to be a member of the board of the Union of Journalists. He comes out of this organization in 2010 due to disagreement with the actions of its leader Andrei Konstantinov.
In addition, Kotsyubinsky is the author of radio plays, which are devoted to Russian history of the early XX century.
Political activity
Social activities of Daniil Kotsyubinskystarted with the fact that he became the head of the Association of Representatives of Small and Medium Businesses in St. Petersburg. He held this post from 2005 to 2008. In this public position, Kotsyubinsky, he said, ran into a mass of cases of injustice of the authorities in relation to private enterprise. This prompted him, and so different opposition views, to active political activity.
Kotsyubinsky becomes a member of variousDissenters marches, which were held by the opposition in St. Petersburg. During one of these events, he was even detained by police officers in November 2007.
In 2007, our hero becomes a memberopposition party "Yabloko", headed by Grigory Yavlinsky. In the 2007 elections to the State Duma, Kotsyubinsky even passed under the second number in the regional lists of the party in St. Petersburg. However, Yabloko did not get the necessary number of votes.
Но вскоре отношения Коцюбинского с руководством the parties went wrong. Already in March 2008, he addressed an open letter to members of the Yabloko organization, in which he accused Grigory Yavlinsky of agreements with Vladimir Putin. Daniil Aleksandrovich asked his party colleagues: “Do we really need such a chairman?”, And he demanded from Yavlinsky to reveal the essence of the negotiations with the president. The last straw for Kotsyubinsky was the statement of the party’s spokesman that oppositionist Maxim Reznik could be expelled from Yabloko. After that, at the end of March, Daniil Aleksandrovich announced his withdrawal from this political organization.
Activities after leaving the "Apple"
But the opposition activity Kotsyubinsky notleft even after leaving the "Apple". In 2010, Daniel Alexandrovich became one of those who signed the opposition’s public appeal under the slogan “Putin Must Leave.”
Kotsyubinsky as a historian took the initiativeholding the anniversary celebration in 2011 of the 400th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg. He motivated it by the fact that in fact the city was not founded by Peter I, but by the Swedes in 1611 as the Nyenskans Fortress at the mouth of the Okhta River. In addition, he created an initiative group that called on the public to review the history of the region.
In 2012, Kotsyubinsky made even sharperstatement in the article “What will happen after Russia?”, expressing the opinion that St. Petersburg and its environs will become an independent state and will become part of the European Union. This statement caused a flurry of indignation among large sections of the public. A group of opponents of the ideas of Kotsyubinsky picket of the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, in which he works, and also sent a statement to the prosecutor's office with a request to consider Daniil Aleksandrovich’s statements on the subject of separatism.
Kotsyubinsky has a blog on the Internet, onwhich can be found with the political views of this person. Daniel Kotsiubinsky expressed his opinion there. LJ (LiveJournal), where this public figure leads his column, will interest those people who want to learn more about his position.
Book Editions
С 2001 года издается Даниил Коцюбинский.Books have become one of the forms through which he communicates his historical and political views to the public, and also simply reveals the facets of his work. His first published book was a popular science work on Russian nationalism at the beginning of the 20th century.
He became the compiler of the book “Petersburg withoutRussia, and also wrote a work about Grigori Rasputin. Kotsyubinsky was one of the authors of the essays included in the collection “From Rasputin to Putin: 50 Petersburgers of the 20th Century,” which was published in 2003. Later, he wrote essays on the modern history of St. Petersburg, a book about Moscow St. Petersburgers, as well as the work "It's time it's time!".
Poetry
But not only prose is written by Daniel Kotsyubinsky. Poems also occupy a significant place in his work. Especially often he began to publish poetry in recent times.
In 2009, his collection of poems was published in collaboration with Tatyana Matveyeva "69". The newest poetry of Daniil Kotsyubinsky from the collection “St. Petersburg has long been ridiculous ...”, published already in 2016.
A family
Little is known about the family of Daniil Kotsyubinsky. His father, Alexander Petrovich, is a famous psychiatrist who is still alive today.
Still should be said that is inregistered marriage Daniil Kotsyubinsky. The family still remains the darkest spot in the biography of this person, especially since he himself does not want to over-advertise this information.
general characteristics
As we see, Daniel Kotsyubinsky at the same timeambiguous and versatile personality. He managed to work in science and journalism, tried his hand at political activities. He had some success in all these areas. But the outstanding achievements have not yet reached. It is difficult to call him a patriot in the traditional sense of the word for the Russians. At the same time, it can be said for sure that Kotsyubinsky is upholding his real convictions, which in itself evokes respect.
Such a man is Daniil Kotsyubinsky.You can see the photo of this famous person in St. Petersburg above. Hopefully, in the future he will be able to reveal his talents even more and bring substantial benefits to the Motherland.
