Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin is divorcing his wife. Although he seemed "the last of the Mohicans" in terms of the stability of family life.

Vladimir and Natalia Potanin have three children: 29-year-old world champion in aquabike Anastasia, 24-year-old Ivan and 13-year-old Vasily. And Potanin's children are probably almost the only oligarchic children deprived of the "nouveau riche" barbarism of the "golden youth." They don’t swim in public on luxury yachts, don’t swim in champagne pools, don’t cut through Switzerland in a Lamborghini, but go in for sports, win honest sports medals, etc. In general, they are so decent that even skeptics are persuaded to believe that Russian capitalism has a chance for cultural progress. The "nouveau riche" buy their mothers-in-law crocodiles for their birthdays, while their highly educated grandchildren are already collecting rare books and support brilliant artists.

Therefore, even Potanin's socially sympathetic refusal to pass on his fortune to children by inheritance aroused sympathy among a part of the public: they say that the best children were deprived of their inheritance.

And here is the divorce. The trial is closed to the press. News about personal life the richest people of the world "leak" to the ("yellow", as a rule) press almost without fail, but, in general, the oligarchs are not doomed to a public private life, like politicians. However, the burden of publicity arises in it, if only because the oligarchs are the elite. Definitely economic and social. (Much less often - cultural. Even less often - intellectual and moral.) And the elite sets the models. As soon as four children from one wife are born in the family of an oligarch, a serious upheaval will take place in society, experts say. Potanin was almost born. But he got divorced. And from this point of view, his divorce looks like the loss of the last hope for a model.

But also politicians, whose family life X-rayed by publicity, they get divorced too.

Of course "someone else's life is darkness", and family stories the least I want to judge - there are so many nuances that you don’t know, and having learned, you won’t raise your hand to “throw a stone”. But the caution of the psychological view of the problem does not negate the critical need for a moral and sociological view. Because simple observation by the "Balzac method" - peering into the history of life - puts the facts into a disturbing picture. Loyalty and devotion cease to be a virtue (with the exception of extreme cases when the husband is in prison, at war, in suffering). In a serene situation, they turn into trash. And soon, following the poet, we will repeat "as incomprehensible fidelity of reason" - it will really become incomprehensible to us.

Entrepreneurs, especially the owners of business empires, are, as a rule, goal-oriented people: for them, the goal is more important than norms and values. And especially feelings. This makes them the engines of progress - material, scientific and technological.

But, probably, they also want "progress" in the family, which from this point of view immediately turns into an anachronism. A new young wife is somehow always "more progressive" than the previous one.

Meanwhile, the family is an "invariant", that, in general, an "institution" established by God, which knows no progress. And two thousand years ago, and now it's still a family. Something built on the love of a man and a woman. And loyalty and devotion have always been her first virtues, and not vice versa. As well as patience, sacrifice. Relationships that were meant to go deep are going wide today.

Another totality is even sadder - women, wives are increasingly becoming image capital. Sometimes almost a commodity. The high price of such "purchases" does not justify the "horror of reification", which equally spoils both those who reify and those who reify...

It is not for nothing that most real (not quasi) religions discourage divorce rather than encourage it. And if these happen, then they either look at them with sadness, as evil, or excommunicate them from the sacraments of the Church - the most important thing that is in it.

Returning from the Christmas holidays, I met in a train compartment with a young woman, silent and with a gesture of an open bird, covering something from me. It turned out that she instinctively hides her sick daughter. Cerebral palsy - the back does not hold, the legs do not unbend, convulsions do not go away even from Belgian drugs, there is no talk yet. But Anka laughs a lot. Because she is loved by her mother, sister, grandfather, grandmother. The only one who refused her this was her father. Left the family. The only thing that brings tears to her stoic mother's eyes is the memory of it. "Betrayal," I say as indifferently as possible.

And inside, Akhmatova's royally contemptuous words boil up that "they", men, almost did not stand in lines with packages to prisons. "Inferior race" - snapped Akhmatova.

Against the backdrop of fashionable references to Schopenhauer, who did not like women, these Akhmatov's words are very opportune. But in general, I don’t want to glue “racist” labels based on gender. The "lower race" are those who betray.

Psychologist's comment

Olga Makhovskaya, candidate of psychological sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences:

Let me first say that this story is good. It is good that the Potanins had a great family experience. Because now, alas, in most cases it is very small - spouses get divorced from the 2nd or 3rd year of marriage.

In my opinion, there are two serious reasons for such divorces. First, our family model is changing. We are moving to American standards of relationships: the family becomes a partner. And in a partner family - when children grow up, spouses often get divorced. And what, they have fulfilled their parental function and, often maintaining good relations, each one begins to live for himself. Previously, our family was built according to the Orthodox type - this was our titular model. In principle, it is also possible now.

A family according to the "partnership model", in which a man and a woman are equal, presupposes, even with the long-term preservation of the marriage, their rather large distance from each other. In people of Protestant culture, the distance of psychological intimacy is generally very large. But this distance and we are now changing dramatically. When we, psychologists, talk to a rich man who has decided to divorce, then, as a rule, he has in his head a "partner model" of the family.

The second serious reason for divorce is that the appearance of a young lady "on the side" and the prospects for a second marriage in this case fall exactly at the "age of the male crisis." From 50 to 55 years - this is exactly the age of the "male crisis". In it, a man chooses between having a relationship with a woman "in depth" and the last adolescence, "last sex." A man dangles between these poles and often, very often, does not dare to choose the path of greater wisdom, the model of a serious life. Many people want to prolong their youth. A man at 52-53 feels that he is not yet old. And in this last "adolescence" it's very common to want to run scripts "one last time". But, choosing this path of the "last time", he risks his health very much.

Since the presidential couple announced a divorce in our country, we can expect a new trend to open. All divorces that took place quietly and were discovered only when filing tax returns (which usually show that deputies, for example, had many different, and not only official, wives), will now cease to be shy. Morality will be even less of a deterrent, and in high circles there may even be a fashion for divorce. Of course, wives in oligarchic divorces, in contrast to American practice, are almost not protected. Legally, we still generally, in my opinion, live in the USSR. All lawyers will tell you how bad it is to “abandon wives” in our country, leaving them financially uncovered. Although it still seems to me that husbands like Potanin will worry about their ex-wives. But, as a rule, this does not remove the discontent of ex-wives.

The problem of fathers and children in the works of V. Potanin

("Daughter", "Letters to Son", "Blue Postcards")

Target:make students think about their relationship with their parents, arouse a desire to understand the depth of the characters in the works of V. Potanin, develop the ability to analyze a literary work, draw parallels and draw conclusions.

On the desk:portrait of V.Potanin, illustrations for works.

Words - epigraph:

Although they say that the apple does not fall far from the tree, it is not always so. Sometimes the wind blows the apple.

V. Potanin.

One goes straight

The other goes around

And waiting to return to his father's house,

Waiting for an old friend.

And I'm going - I'm in trouble,

Not straight and not oblique

And to nowhere and to never,

Like trains off a slope.

A. Akhmatova.

People are all the same, fix society - and there will be no disease!

I.S. Turgenev.

Can you tell your soul?

M. Lermontov.

Be silent, hide and conceal your thoughts and dreams.

F. Tyutchev.

Is the future world harmony worth one tear of a child that fell into its foundation?

F.M.Dostoevsky.

Can future generations revel in harmony, will they forget at what cruel and inhuman price it was achieved?

M. Prishvin.

The opinion of young people should not be valued.

I.S. Turgenev.

During the classes.

Introduction by the teacher.

We got acquainted with I.S. Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons” and made sure that in past centuries the relationship between fathers and children was full of drama, misunderstanding, sometimes rejection and even hatred, as well as love and tenderness. How the Kurgan writer V. Potanin considers the problem of fathers and children, we will see in today's lessons, referring to the stories: “Daughter”, “Letters to the Son” and the story “Blue Postcards”. We work in groups.

1 groupstudents. Conversation on the story "Daughter".

- What do you think this story is about?

Why is the state of the narrator expressed by the phrase: "Oh, my God, what anguish." Let us recall the story of A.P. Chekhov “Tosca”: a cab driver’s son died, there is no one to pour out his grief. So the poor father is talking with his horse to the stable, reporting his grief. Where is the sympathy?

Why does the story begin with excerpts from the Youth Newspaper? (The author shows what worries 15-16-year-olds).

What is the atmosphere in the Seryogin family?

What impression did Lenochka make on you?

Why do her parents call her that?

What memories warm the father's soul?

What is especially upsetting?

What are the relationships in the family?

What can you say about Lena's guests? (Olga and Sasha)

What worries young people and how is the dialogue with Lena's parents built?

Is it interesting for guests to listen to the mother's story (Annushka - affectionately calls his wife Nikolai)?

Why does Lena's father constantly have to restrain himself, "clench his teeth"?

Through what artistic detail is the indifference and inner emptiness of Lena and Sasha shown? ( Golden ring with ruby)

When we read the bitter lines in the story: “I am lying in some kind of iron coffin, and stones are falling from above”?

Why such a dramatic ending: “I open my eyes - it's a phone ringing. The wife picks up the phone. He congratulates someone, wishes happiness, and sobs squeeze me. What will happen tomorrow? And the day after tomorrow? And in a year? Can I live another year? Really? .. And I close my eyes in impotence.

What, in your opinion, is the problem of misunderstanding, cruelty to your dearest people?

What does the text make you think about?

With what statements to the lesson would you relate your reflections in the lesson?

2 groupstudents. Conversation on the story "Blue Postcards".

“Work hard for people,” writes V. Potanin.

Explain the title of the story.

What a story?

Why does Semyon Fedorovich have to write holiday cards?

What is your opinion about the son of Semyon Fedorovich, Anatoly.

Could Anatoly reassure his father when he fell ill: “Maybe the son will intercede, will not let the old man perish”?

Life position of Anatoly. (I have already seen everything - both white mushrooms and grebes). Army, prison, drunkenness.

The fate of Father Anatoly, his dream. (Would be a son of a man)

Why did Fedorovich decide to die? (No blood. Only water. Oh god, like a frog)

And sad again tragic ending. What is he?

Let us turn again to the statements of the writers. Draw a parallel to the content of the story "Blue Postcards".

And as the final conclusion of our reflections on the problem of fathers and children - a work consisting of 14 letters - "Letters to the Son"

3 groupstudents. Conversation on the story "Letters to the son".

Our soul cries and asks for protection.

V.Potanin.

... wherever you step, everywhere is grief. Everywhere the soul cries and asks for protection.

V.Potanin.

Why does a work begin with a confidential dialogue with the reader?

Which of the 14 letters made the biggest impression on you and why?

V. Potanin in his last letter quotes the words of an old teacher: “Life is a book with blank sheets. And a person should write down these leaves with kindness. And if he writes down, he will be happy.” Why, according to the author, should these words become guiding not only for the son, but also for every young man?

Why was the son named Fedor?

What letters are dear to the writer himself?

Are there any letters in your family that your parents carefully keep?

Resultsour thoughts.

About loving your parents

About a moral duty to them,

About the warmth or callousness of the soul,

About ourselves: are we worthy of the memory of our ancestors.

By personal example, V. Potanin through the lines of many of his works carries a good memory of his mother, Anna Timofeevna, and his ancestors (“Arrival to Mother”, “Letters to Son”). Where there is no mutual understanding and love, there are all misfortunes and tragedies.

And as a further illustration of these problems - the story "The White Bird", in which Potanin calls: "Do not forget either your school or your parents."

Let us turn to the words of I.S. Turgenev: “The opinion of young people cannot be underestimated.” For us, the older generation, your views, your opinion are really very important. Your attitude to the ongoing moral cataclysms. And if you think and sympathize, then there is hope for a better future for future generations.

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The ex-wife of Vladimir Potanin again gave a revealing interview: she spoke about life before and after her divorce from the oligarch

The former wife of oligarch Vladimir Potanin, Natalya, gave an interview to the glossy Tatler, talking about her relationship with her husband before and after the divorce, and also showed reporters a house in the village of Nemchinovo on Skolkovo Highway. Natalya, her 95-year-old mother, 16-year-old son Vasily, 26-year-old son Ivan, his wife Yana and their three-year-old baby Andryusha now live in this house, which formally belongs to a company controlled by the oligarch.

The Potanin family built this house in 1993 next to Mikhail Prokhorov's plot. On the first floor of the mansion, opposite each other, hang two portraits by the elegant Shilov - daughter Anastasia and eldest son Ivan. Family photos are everywhere - weddings, vacations, christenings, birthdays and other events that make up the annals of any equally happy family.

The last time the Potanins spoke was in November 2013, when Vladimir, as if nothing had happened, after drinking tea, stunned his wife with a divorce message. Since then, they have communicated exclusively through lawyers. Then, having announced his desire to get a divorce, Potanin suggested that his wife sign papers that there should be no material claims on her part.

“I was promised medical care and security. It's all. The offer was humiliating. Even the house, which was conceived as a family house and which was built by the whole family, Vladimir demands to be vacated urgently. But I did not accept his offer for another reason. Vladimir's words did not guarantee anything to our children. Time has confirmed that I was right: since December 2013, my father has not even called younger son. But he is actively discussing the issue of Vasya's alimony in the courts, ”says Natalya.

Natalya said that the youngest son found out about his parents' divorce from the Internet in December 2013. Excited, Vasily immediately called his father, but at the other end of the wire a dry voice was heard: "Don't call again." My son spent his sixteenth birthday clutching his phone. However, the father did not call and did not even give a gift for his son. “Is it worth mentioning that the children did not go to the Sochi Olympics, which Vasya so dreamed of. But the Olympics took place largely thanks to the energy and money of the head of Interros, the newspaper notes.

Natalya Potanina. 1977

According to Tatler, after the divorce, Vladimir Potanin stopped communicating with his eldest son. Before the divorce of his parents, Ivan, a graduate of the MGIMO master's program, lived with his family in New York, worked at AltPoint, a company owned by his father. He served as a junior analyst - his father wanted him to go through all the rungs of the career ladder. However, after the first attempt to stand up for his mother, a promising analyst was sent email about dismissal and revoked a work visa. After that, communication ceased: Potanin Sr. did not respond to the letters of his son.

“Recently, I tried to wish him a happy birthday, but it didn’t work out. The phone is locked. Security numbers have changed. Probably, you can sign up through the reception,” Ivan jokes.

Now he works for the financial company LR Global, responsible for the Eastern European markets. With his wife Yana (the couple met at school), they lead a modest life by metropolitan standards, preferring home comfort to parties.

1977

“It seems to me that the tragedy in our relationship with Vladimir rallied Ivan and Yana. The son is still so young, I would not want him to completely immerse himself in my problems. For me, Vova's statement about his desire to get a divorce was shocking, but nothing more. It was harder to see how the children were going through the gap, - says Natalia. - It is obvious that I and our children are enemies for Volodya. Property and funds in the accounts can be divided indefinitely. Hide in offshore and trusts. Prove something to each other. But when the child grows up, he needs the attention of his father. A teenager should not be asked to wait and not grow until dad and mom solve their problems. And it hurts a lot."

The new wife of Vladimir Potanin - Ekaterina, whom he now introduces to everyone as his former employee, Natalia saw earlier. So, in 2011, the girl Katya was on new year party in the Potanin residence in "Luzhki". Among the many girls who were invited to delight the eyes of business mastodons, there was a certain Katya. Beauties came and went, but Katya steadfastly took part in all the amusements.

Potanin's wedding. 1983

In the autumn of 2014, Vladimir Potanin came arm in arm with his new wife to a reception in honor of the 250th anniversary of the Hermitage. In her, Natalia, not without surprise, recognized the same Katya. The oligarch introduced the 38-year-old blonde in a black lace dress to the curious press as his former employee.

Three and a half years ago, Catherine gave birth to Potanin's daughter, and in the summer of 2014, a son.

One of the first family trips. Tenerife, 1993

Natalia did not know about Potanin's illegitimate daughter: “I trusted him unconditionally. All these years he was for me the main protection from all adversity and problems. What began to happen to him after the divorce - his cruelty, unjustified self-confidence - open to me ex-husband on the other hand. This is no longer the Volodya whom I fell in love with and with whom I spent the best 30 years of my life. He positioned himself as a faithful family man, preached family values and loudly condemned divorce. But he turned out to be a banal womanizer who has not only affairs on the side, but also an illegitimate child.

1995

It came as a shock to many that Potanin, instead of calmly dispersing and providing ex-wife and children, preferred to make a scandal. “Our family had enough money to respectfully disperse without creating problems and without bringing them up for public discussion,” Potanina agrees. But Vladimir for some unknown reason decided that he had the right to manage the family budget as he pleased. For some reason in recent times rich husbands decide for themselves what and how much of the generosity of the soul to allocate to bored wives when new fighting girlfriends appear. After all, Russia has a law. This law prescribes the division of the property of the spouses acquired in marriage in half. But for the law to work, you need to find all the assets that husbands usually take to the minimum tax zones.

year 2009

It is worth noting that now Vladimir Potanin officially owns nothing. So, values ​​​​like a thirty percent stake in Norilsk Nickel, half of SUP Media, ProfEstate, Interport, Petrovax Pharma, Rosa Khutor, the Luzhka residence on Novaya Riga, three Gulfstream aircraft, yachts " Anastasia "and" Nirvana "(it was planned to be called" Natalia "), as well as the new yacht officially recorded on structures that do not belong to Potanin.

2010

“I never went into the details of ownership patterns. This is what I'm trying to figure out right now. As my lawyers explained to me, Vladimir Olegovich actually created a multi-stage structure of nominee companies that divert money through multi-level layers to trust and offshore companies in various tax-free jurisdictions. Thus, Vladimir “hid” family property and huge sums from me and the Russian courts - both dividends and income received from the sale of assets, - says Natalia. - Love passes. But why, along with love, simple human respect for a woman who gave birth to children, went through all the difficulties of establishing a business with her husband. Who, after all, was making borscht while he was building the Interros empire? There is a boundless feeling of permissiveness, a feeling that you can adjust the laws and judges for yourself. It shouldn't be like that. And I don't want to put up with it. The law is the same for everyone: Potanin, Ivanov or Sidorov.

Natalia Potanina hopes that her former spouse sit down at the negotiating table. “I hope for common sense, for the remnants of conscience. In the meantime, I stand alone on the platform, waiting for a train called "The Honor and Dignity of Vladimir Potanin." Although the light on this platform has long gone out,” the woman notes.

2015

Natalia Potanina with her son Ivan and daughter-in-law Yana in the living room of a house in Nemchinov. 2015

The heroes of Potanin came to his stories and stories from the life that the writer himself lives. In his works he tells the story of one human soul. Love and compassion for one's neighbor become integral part man and his destiny.

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Regional component in literature as a means of forming a spiritual and moral personality on the example of V. Potanin's work

V.G. Vasilchenko, teacher
MOU Zhuravlevskaya secondary school
Kargapol region

In a full and healthy nature lie at the heart of the fate of the motherland ..., every grateful person is deeply aware of his blood relationship, his blood ties with the fatherland.

V.G. Belinsky.

In life modern school local history is becoming more and more active. Acquaintance with the life, way of life, nature and culture of the native land contributes morally - aesthetic education students, active life position.
Literature is a special subject in the school curriculum. Its influence on the development of the personality of the child is enormous. Along with music, painting, history, it has grown together with the beauty of the Russian land. The writer influences the spiritual life of a person with his creations. The writer's word helps the teacher of literature to form universal values: compassion, kindness, memory, love for native land. In this regard, the stories of Viktor Fedorovich Potanin, which have a moral potential, are indicative.
The heroes of Potanin came to his stories and stories from the life that the writer himself lives. In his works he tells the story of one human soul. Love and compassion for one's neighbor become an integral part of a person and his destiny. The favorite genre of V.F. Potanin is the story. Semyon Rastorguev from the story "Grieving" is on the verge of leaving. The old man does not want to be a burden to his youngest son, but his mind and tenacious memory remain with Semyon. But when the daughter-in-law took him to a new bathhouse, the desire to live woke up. After all, you still need to tell about the eldest son to his brother, who almost did not know him. Kolka's grandson must remember his grandfather. It is necessary to convey the family memory of their roots. Yes, and the old man simply “thought to live”. However, the harmony of man and nature is destroyed by the relationship of people.
The theme of loneliness sounds in the story "The girl wants to go to the sea." The reader is imbued with a feeling of pity for the little girl Vera. Her mother went to the sea, leaving the girl with her hated stepfather Grigory. The closest thing for Vera is the dog Dozor. And Vera is constantly looking at the portrait of her father, who died in an accident at the factory. Without waiting for her mother, she goes to the post office to give her a telegram: “Vera got sick. Come soon. Gregory". A woman at the post office helps the girl to send a telegram, imbued with some kind of feminine flair. Faith is waiting. The heroes of novels, essays, and stories are our countrymen from the Urals.
The landscape paintings of the Trans-Urals, close to the heart, are so easily recognizable. Viktor Fedorovich declares his love for the Motherland with all his work: “What can I hide, if from childhood I love all our rural affairs and concerns, I love rural nature - our unimaginable beauty of forests and lake reaches ...” He is convinced that for everyone, the Motherland begins with the smell of fresh milk, bread, the warmth of mother's hands. With what pain the hero of the story “Success” remembers his mother: “I loved her very much, but she never heard about it from me. Didn't hear it and great sorrow". What simple and eternal truths are revealed to the reader: the memory of native people, why at home, the feeling of one's roots in the earth-breadwinner. But this is life itself.
The ideal for Potanin is people who live with their hearts, creators who do good according to their spiritual nature. They are connected with the native land, the roof of the house, family, language, culture. Love and compassion for one's neighbor is an integral part of a person and his destiny.
Victor Potanin's moral values ​​are extremely specific. Such concepts as “morality” and “spirituality”, instilled from childhood, do not leave him throughout life path.
I, as a reader and teacher, am glad that I manage to read and teach children to understand the works of V.F. Potanin, who created beautiful works about Russian people, about Russian nature, about the Russian soul. At literature lessons, relying on the stories of Viktor Fedorovich, I try to find an answer to the question in children: what does it mean to live honestly, in good conscience?
Analyzing the story “Daughter”, I ask students the following questions: 1. Why did the destruction of a strong circle occur - the Family in which there was a beloved wife and adored daughter Lenochka? Understanding the text. Brief entry.

• Time influenced when clothes, money, cosmetics became for Lenochka a criterion for assessing social and personal.
• For the entire salary of the wife, they bought a golden ring for their daughter.
• With the last savings, she bought a tape recorder.
• Neglect, condescending attitude of the daughter towards her parents.
• Grandmother is annoying - she doesn’t hear well, she has a scarf tied up “in a collective farm way”, her hands are dark and swollen all the time.
• Screaming at his father and making fun of backwardness.
• Lenochka gives the ring to her friend, as the stones in New Year"fashionable".
• When Olya was attacked by a hooligan and she ended up in the hospital, the daughter did not think about her friend, about the ring, how to quickly remove this ring. And left with Sasha.
• Contempt for "crazy" parents.
• Nikolai Petrovich, a tolerant and gentle person, is not able to accept this act, which is a betrayal of his girlfriend, his whole life, dedicated to his daughter.

I ask the students:

• Why did Lenochka turn from a cute child into a monster?
• Who is to blame? Coincidence, time, man?
• Circumstances are to blame, time?

Reflections of students.

Slide show.

• It has no stem.
• They did not teach her to love, to take care of others.
• Get used to taking but not giving back.
• Lenochka's generation is not all "moral cripples" for whom jewelry and clothes are more important than relatives, family.
• Lack of conscience, cynicism, "spiritual rust" - that destroys all life, family ties.

How do you understand the words of the hero of the story “Daughter”: “What will happen to me tomorrow? And after tomorrow? And in a year?... Can I really live another year?”

Reflection:

How did the writer influence your views?

Summary of the lesson.

Potanin's works are moral lessons. The teaching helps to understand the depth of the author's intention. A growing person needs to comprehend the purpose of life, the role of the family. The works help in this, affirming morality, spirituality, conscientiousness, truth - something that has always been inherent in the Russian people. At such a lesson, I am sure, in the hands of a teacher of literature, the richest heritage in the world, the most influential teaching on the soul of children about kindness to one's neighbor, about enduring values ​​in human society, because we are all indebted to our parents. The main subject of literature as art is man, his inner world, his attitude to other people, to society and nature, and the task facing the teacher-philosopher, in many respects differ from the goals and objectives of other subject teachers. By and large, our main goal is the soul of the child, these are the problems of morality.