September 13, 2010, 14:53

To get an appointment with Alexander Andreevich Dobrovinsky, you need to go over the heads of the leaders. V literally: the way to the chambers of the most famous lawyer in Moscow is covered with carpets with portraits of Lenin, Stalin and Molotov. “It's funny to watch how indifferently the young people step on the carpets and the old guard shifts from one foot to the other in confusion,” smiles the owner of the office in the Last Lane. The office is a little more luxurious than its non-poor visitors have the right to expect. Art Deco is mixed with Sots Art: the contrast of beige and black lacquer, a lot of paintings and shelving, in which the collector Dobrovinsky settled porcelain trumpeters and Palekh Red Army soldiers who did not fit into the apartment for a long time. “You see, I am a complete hedonist. And since I spend most of my life at work, I want to feel good here. I generally do everything for pleasure. Including talking to you. But as soon as I get tired of it, I will tell you honestly about it. I hear these words at about the second minute of the conversation. As soon as you turn on the TV, you immediately understand: there is no lawyer more in demand today. A gentleman in a bow tie rescued Vladimir Nekrasov, the ex-owner of Arbat Prestige, from prison. In the case of the inheritance of the shot Shabtai von Kalmanovich, he defends the interests of his eldest daughter Liat and wife Anna. To this day, he defends the wallet of the Ural raw materials oligarch, whose betrayals the ex-wife estimates in the amount of nine zeros. But the cases of two fathers, who in all seriousness believe that it is harmful and even dangerous for their children to live with their mothers, received nationwide resonance. Ruslan Baisarov signed a peace agreement with Kristina Orbakaite, according to which the eleven-year-old Denis remains with him. Senator Vladimir Slutsker also received the right to live with Misha and Anya at the time of the issue. Now the spouses have to determine the order of communication with the children and divide the property. I was not given the opportunity to speak in court, - Valentin Yudashkin is surprised. The fashion designer is in a delicate position - his good friends and clients long years are both the lawyer himself and Olga Slutsker. “It’s terrible when children are isolated and put in a situation of choice. I would advocate that both the mother and the father have the opportunity to communicate with the children to begin with. I saw Dobrovinsky in the Baisarov case. Then a compromise was found. I think Alexander Andreevich will do his best even now.” Compromise is good, but in the eyes of many, lawyer Dobrovinsky will forever remain a man who takes children away from his mother. Does this stigma bother him? Not at all. “People who talk like that are not my clients. I do my job and I don't care who I represent. There are no emotions in business. If I see that I can help, I will. No - so no." As proof that he is not at all a pro-father's lawyer, Dobrovinsky says that he was on the side of the wife of the founder of Renaissance Capital, Tina Jennings, and the wife of the aluminum king Lev Chernoy, Lyudmila. And both ladies have everything in chocolate. And just yesterday, a doctor from the Sklifosovsky Institute turned to him with a salary of sixty thousand rubles: “The wife of a rich man left him, and he is fighting to ensure that two children stay with her. I found money only for a consultation and asked for useful advice to guide the process. I will protect him for free." I notice that, in theory, not a doctor, but an oligarch, should have rushed to Dobrovinsky. “And he will surely come. But one of the commandments of a lawyer is that if a person told me something, I have no right to even listen to the other side. But immediately after the process, Alexander Andreevich Slutskerov accepted a tempting offer from a certain businessman: “He will pay me a certain amount a month so that I never go against him.” Dobrovinsky can say as much as he likes that in this case he had no emotions, and his rivals were overwhelmed with emotions. But the friends of Olga Slutsker, Svetlana Bondarchuk, Albina Nazimova, Yulia Bordovskikh, who got to the closed meetings, unanimously claim that the court was turned into a farce. Both the senator and his defender were joking. For example, when the now deceased lawyer Olga Geralina Lyubarskaya asked to postpone the consideration of the case due to her going on vacation, Dobrovinsky noted that the vacation was probably on maternity leave, and the pause would drag on for nine months. Geralina Vladimirovna was sixty-nine years old. “The late Mrs. Lyubarskaya, right in court, addressed my client as nothing more than a horned senator. She wanted to piss him off,” explains Dobrovinsky. - On that day, the process was already over, and we were just discussing the date of the next meeting. Lyubarskaya said she was going on vacation. It was a tactical move - it was important for her to gain time. Well, of course, I couldn't resist. The joke was good, and I'm holding on to it. But the fact that Geralina Vladimirovna died is a tragedy. Some of my colleagues blame Dobrovinsky personally for this tragedy. But this does not bring him down: “I don't feel guilty. I think she knew she was going to lose." In a professional environment, opinions about Alexander Andreevich are very contradictory. “The legal community primarily evaluates the formation of a legal position, the ability to argue a non-disclosure policy, and vice versa - Dobrovinsky has obvious gaps here,” one of the most famous Moscow lawyers comments on condition of anonymity. – But his ability to “pierce” the structure and willingness to go ahead is undeniable. Objectively, he achieves results. “The profession of a defense lawyer is full of temptations, but it must be remembered that there is a moral bar below which he has no right to fall,” says Sergei Vladimirovich Berezovsky, father of Olga Slutsker, a veteran of the bar with half a century of experience. “I have to admit that Alexander Dobrovinsky simply ignores the code of ethics.” It is unlikely that in the Slutsker case, Dobrovinsky's penetrating resource was more powerful than that of the senator, who came to court as if to his own home - the bailiff ran to open the gate to his official territory. But in public affairs, a frame, a smokescreen sometimes more important than the essence. And here Dobrovinsky spoke in all its glory. He took the fire on himself and brought the client out from under the blow. He shocked, scoffed, threw his phone, folded two fingers in the sign of Victory. Even, according to eyewitnesses, he deliberately picked his nose. Behind the emotions was a cold calculation. And it worked. “Nine lawyers acted against me and my assistant at some point. And they all focused not on winning the process, but on tearing apart Dobrovinsky's lawyer. These people wrote down my every word. Sometimes it reached the point of absurdity. An example: the judge forbade us to use a mobile phone. I sit and send sms. At this moment, someone says: "Keep Dobrovinsky out of the hall, he is using the phone." My language is known, sharpness of thinking too. I answer: “I don’t use the phone. I'm counting the fee, it's a calculating machine." The opponents hesitated, a minute passes, and suddenly Olga Sergeevna's lawyer, Mr. Koblev, jumps up and for no reason shouts: “But I earn more than Dobrovinsky!” The judge looks at him, bulging eyes - what, where, why? You see, the whole team wanted to win against me and de facto against Volodya - for me this is best compliment throughout my career." We meet on Friday evening, and Dobrovinsky is dressed in casual friday: a navy blue knitted vest, tweed jacket, a plaid shirt with personal initials embroidered on the cuffs. Even the motley butterfly, which he put on many years ago, so as not to stand out - for in America and France all the servants of Themis wore butterflies - and she flew away, making room for an equally beautiful silk scarf. “I never get tired of repeating the following to my subordinates. First, you must trade face at social events. Secondly, you must be remembered. Monogram, watch, butterfly - it doesn't matter. Thirdly, do not learn the codes by heart - no one knows the laws better than a computer. And finally, don't make the situation legal, as ninety-nine percent of colleagues do. It is necessary to adjust the law to the situation, as Solomon taught me. Solomon Shvartsman is a New York lawyer of Odessa origin, for whom Dobrovinsky, having arrived in America, carried a briefcase for free. It was this old man who sent the persistent altruistic young man to law courses. And later he contributed to his admission to the authoritative Parisian business school INSEAD. Here, however, there is a certain gag: in the legal environment, Dobrovinsky is reputed to be a man without special education. Moreover, he is reproached almost for the fact that he added a Harvard diploma to himself. So was Harvard? “It was about 1994, and in an interview with a journalist I explained that I received an MBA from INSEAD. They asked me what it was, and for clarity, I answered: “It's like Harvard.” And since then it has been stuck in their heads, ”explains the lawyer. Education is not the only controversial point in his biography. Dobrovinsky is a mythologized personality. Why? He, of course, says that about all successful people make up legends, and envy is to blame. The undoubted acting abilities of Alexander Andreevich are rooted in the early seventies, when he studied four courses at the Faculty of Economics of VGIK. The young man went to cinematography in company with a friend and against the will of the family, who saw in him the hope of domestic biochemistry. “And I came to VGIK, met in the foyer the famous cameraman Boris Volchek and the legendary Chapaev, the actor Boris Babochkin. And the actress Alexandra Khokhlova, the wife of the founder of editing Lev Kuleshov, also went there. And I liked it so much that I took it and entered. Upon learning of this, my mother said: “You are hopeless, Sasha, I am leaving this country.” The ballerina mother left for France forever, leaving her son a luxurious two-room apartment on Gorky Street for use. And the everyday life of the golden youth began: a “penny” car, shoulder-length hair, a corduroy jacket, a bell-bottom, a clog, five hundred dollars a trimester from mom and a student card, according to which any young lady she liked could be taken to the Cinema House while watching “Cabaret ' put her on your lap. In the fourth year, two letters fell out of Sasha's mailbox. One, from my mother, smelled of Chanel and invited me to permanent place residence in Paris, another called to the draft board. “I went, and some major said to me: you have been honored - you were assigned to the navy. And that's three years of service. The argument that my Jewish mother believed that only those who know how to swim drown, and she didn’t teach me how to swim, didn’t make an impression. A month later, Dobrovinsky landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport. In Paris, he made acquaintance with the famous St. Petersburg lawyer Lev Adolfovich Aranson, who told him everything about who one should be. And at the same time, being a major collector, he introduced to antiques: “I began to speculate. I read a lot, slowly began to understand the subject. Since I am a born marketer, I bought things that were not in demand at that time. And then the fashion began on them. So the debut collection of opium pipes was collected and sold for fabulous money - they skyrocketed in price after the movie Once Upon a Time in America. There, in America, Dobrovinsky was drawn by two circumstances: love and the certainty that this was the promised land. The path to the American dream, as usual, lay through a taxi rank in Manhattan. The turnover was two hundred dollars a day: seventy went to rent a car, thirty for gas and food. There was a hundred left, which Sasha folded for the future account :). I slept in the car, took a shower at the station and reminded myself of my childhood idol D'Artagnan: not a penny of money, but everything is fine. One day he opened the New York phone book. I found twelve Dobrovinskys: eight lawyers, three doctors and one rabbi. I called the first lawyer and said: “I also have the surname Dobrovinsky, but I don’t want money. I want to treat you to coffee". “He did not speak Russian at all. At first he treated me with apprehension, but gradually got inspired and, when he found out that I had relatives in Odessa, he said: there is one most serious lawyer with a building on fifty-something street. He is also from Odessa and speaks Russian. After some time, I was introduced to this very bar guru. “I will make a man out of you, but you will earn money yourself,” Solomon promised. Dobrovinsky continued to drive a car in order to make ends meet and carry a briefcase for free for a patron. In the States, as you know, everyone is a narrow specialist in something. Alexander did not like the prisons: they smelled bad and they were far from New York. The prospect of sitting in hospitals and sticking business cards into the cast of the victims did not appeal either. Intrigued by the most difficult thing possible - maritime law: an explosive English-Portuguese-Dutch mixture of terms that you won’t dream of in a nightmare. Soon the first case was won and the first hundred and fifty thousand dollars were earned. And Solomon Schwartzman called his protege to the carpet: “So, where do you live there? In Brooklyn? So that I don't hear it. Move to the Upper East Side, to the area of ​​the seventies, drive a BMW, wear a white or blue shirt, only a yellow tie, or preferably a bow tie with a yellow sparkle. There was a list of restaurants where you had to show your face regularly, and a list of shops like Ralph Lauren where you were supposed to dress up. The pen had to be Montblanc, the briefcase was allowed to be chosen by oneself - the main thing is not from crocodile skin, because it is bad manners. Solomon called him again. “You know, I was not disappointed in you. You are not an idiot. A man will grow out of you. But since you came from red Russia ( Soviet Union he couldn’t pronounce) and you don’t have business skills, you need to get an MBA.” In 1983, Alexander returned to Paris and entered INSEAD: “Uch:) was insanely expensive, at the end I didn’t even have money to buy pencils”. But the graduate was gladly hired by a large Law Firm. One of her clients was a Genevan billionaire, again of Odessa origin, the owner of Inter Maritime Bank - Bank of New York, Bruce Rappoport. It was he who, having worked with Alexander, uttered the fateful phrase: “I pay your lousy office ten thousand a day for the work that you do alone. Let me pay you three and you will move to Geneva.” Rappoport flew to Russia a lot: he said that you can always make good money in a mess. And Alexander under tears ex-wife Lena, with whom today she has a wonderful relationship, eventually moved from Switzerland to Moscow. In the capital, Dobrovinsky proudly announced that he was a corporate lawyer. Fellow lawyers with a salary of sixty rubles a month were very surprised and asked who it was. Indulging in explanations in the early nineties was useless. Alexander actively hung out, ate everything he earned with Rappoport, and packed his suitcase to return to his wife. “Once, a healthy uncle knocked on the door of the apartment, which I rented from the hockey player Fetisov. He asked if I knew what tolling was. I said I know. And then he asked: “Can you fly to Krasnoyarsk with me and tell the boys? How much is it? I figured out how much it should cost in the West. I didn't want to miss my first client. And for some reason he said in English: “Five, OK?” He asked, “Fifty thousand dollars? Fits." The "healthy guy" was called Mikhail Chernoy - together with his brother Leo, they controlled a significant part of the Russian aluminum sector. Dobrovinsky flew to Krasnoyarsk and that's how he met half of the current Forbes dozens. Things rained down on him louder than one another. For one and a half million dollars, he returned Purneftegaz to Rosneft: “When I named the amount of the fee, my colleagues gasped. But I didn't care. I thought that the social status of a lawyer in Russia was greatly underestimated. And it was I who lifted it." Dobrovinsky took the side of Mikhail Chernoy and Iskander Makhmudov against Alfa Group in the battle for Nizhnevartovskneftegaz (according to rumors, four hundred and fifty million dollars were at stake). Participated in the conflict around the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, where the issue price was equal to thirty percent of the shares of Magnitogorsk. Finally protected the owner oil company"Birkenholz" Yevgeny Rybin, who led a long lawsuit with the then all-powerful Yukos. “Once, in a public place, a very famous Moscow man approached me, took out a gun, put it to my head and said: “Consider Rybin is gone, and you will be next. Why do you need it?". I was scared for my two daughters. I came home - I will never forget that night - and told Marina that we would have to leave. Marina asked only one question: “How much time do I have to pack my suitcase?” No where, no why. On the first flight we flew to Bulgaria, then to Israel. I lived there until 1999 and got citizenship(another myth about Dobrovinsky - in the press they write that in addition to Russian he has two more citizenships - Greek and French). The poetess Zinaida Gippius once uttered a phrase that was brilliant in its simplicity: “If you need to explain, then ... you don’t need to explain.” This phrase tells everything about the relationship between Dobrovinsky and his third wife. “I doubted that I would be lucky to meet a woman who would not have to tell anything about herself. And suddenly - Marina. Seventeen years ago, their future mother-in-law introduced them: “She deceived Marina, called from Paris, said that some documents needed to be drawn up. My wife is like everyone else. normal people, hates being introduced to the scope. As soon as the deception was revealed, the mother-in-law, whom I adore, said: if you don’t like it, you will be friends. A month later, I already made an offer to Marina. “Our meeting was like the intersection of two parallel lines” Dobrovinsky continues. It turned out that they lived nearby not only in Moscow (he is on Tverskaya, she is in Stoleshnikov), but also in Paris and New York. Dobrovinsky was proud that after so many years of emigration he did not insert the words "shopping" and "parking" into his delicious Russian speech. And Marina, knowing six languages, has no habit of mixing them. “She went to the same school as me. This is how I imagined the woman next to me. She has an amazing sense of tact. If she walks into a restaurant and sees me with girls, she doesn't come up and doesn't even say hello. He knows that I'm working." A dentist by profession, Marina organized art history courses at the Phillips de Pury auction house a year ago. According to her husband, the company is brilliant in terms of marketing. TSUM, champagne, lectures after seven in the evening, when the main buyers of the store who? That's right, men ... Girls learn to distinguish Galliano from Saryan, do less nonsense, less drip on their brains. And the husbands are happy. "How much time do I have?" I ask after two hours of conversation. "Yes, as much as you like", - Dobrovinsky seems to have forgotten how he threatened to end our interview at the first sign of displeasure. And we're going to look at the collections. Former pride, Soviet agitation porcelain has now faded into the background: "I've got the biggest collection in the world and calmed down". Now all Dobrovinsky's thoughts are occupied by agitlak - Palekh caskets, on which, instead of icon-painting plots, for example, the life of Trotsky is depicted. And also agitation - just try to imagine an aircraft propeller made of mammoth bone: one end is carved in the form of a pilot Chkalov in a helmet, the other is Stalin in a cap, and on the blades is written "Stalin's falcons - the pride of the USSR." But that's not all. On the way new collection. The name has not been invented yet, but by analogy with the predecessors, I would suggest “agitation treasure”. For example, a marvelous gold powder box with enamel, on which a man and a woman are drawn in caps and with guns at the ready. And in Russian: "We will not give up Madrid!" - Nowhere to put it. Probably, I will have to buy a big dacha after Slutsker, the lawyer complains. - Does the fee allow? “Children allow everything. How much are you willing to pay for children?- Yes, everything that is, probably. “That’s what everyone who comes into my office says.- Well, given the number of court cases won, you could retire a long time ago and calmly collect your agit ... - You'll have to work more. I want my daughters and Marina not to cry at my funeral, but to smile while reading the will. ________________________________________________________________________ Source - magazine

Imagine yourself imposingly reclining on the sofa with a newspaper and delicious cognac. Nobody puts pressure on your brains, you don’t hear the cries of children, and your wife doesn’t loom before your eyes. You are immersed in dreams of a cool sports car, a beautiful secretary and other nonsense, so far from the family hearth. And suddenly this invented world is destroyed by the creak of the door - and your wife rolls up to you with a long and painful monologue.

From her you will learn how difficult it is for her to live and do nothing - to sit at home all day. And it is you who will be guilty of her "trouble" - that you provided her with a personal driver, the sea credit cards, maids, etc. It turns out that all this was done by you on purpose so that your wife would feel unnecessary to the whole world.

Then, absolutely uncontrollably, a powerful stream of information will pour out on you that one of her acquaintances has opened an amazing PR agency, another has become the publisher of a glossy magazine, and a third is responsible for a beauty salon. The wife will make it clear that she is in no way inferior to all these successful business women, and that you were not the only one who managed to promote your business when everything was just beginning, and anyone could catch luck. The wife will make it clear that she already has client base, of course, from the inner circle, who are one hundred percent ready to give their kids to her Kindergarten, and all these outings, vegetating in the country and shopping - all this bored to the point of horror.

No, no, you only need a couple of millions of start-up capital. Is it big money after so many years together, after two children, after ruined youth and strangled personal development prospects in favor of marriage? If you are not ready to put money down the drain, and spend a lot of time and nerves with it, Dobrovinsky offers some practical advice.

First, don't say "no" right away. Do the opposite. Tell us how many times you yourself wanted to offer your wife something like a family holding, but were shy. Start discussing all sorts of options, emphasizing that only you can realize your wife's ideas. What is waiting for you? A night of pleasant surprises. And then you should wait a bit - maybe it will resolve itself. New details about the "profitable" business of her girlfriends, perhaps, will discourage the wife who has decided to go into business.

But if she stubbornly insists on her own, and this happens, then send the missus for training. For example, a wife dreams of opening a cosmetic or dental clinic. You will need money for premises, permits, advertising, staff, etc. endless spending that will never pay off. Well, be sure to assure your wife that she has a talent from God in the area where she was carried. And then tell her that this is still not enough - and you need to go abroad, because only there the best training and only there are such specialists that are not even dreamed of here. But this is only the first stage. There are also all kinds of refresher courses, residency, in the end, so the bright path!

Didn't this method work either? Give out a certain amount of money, and then write down on the shelves where and what should be spent. And that is all. Did your wife say she could handle it on her own? So "trust" her. End with these words: "I'm always busy, always at work. And you'll do a great job with everything. We'll see for ourselves in a year." Limit yourself to financial aid and nothing more. Otherwise, all the bumps will fall on you: you brought them together with the wrong people, advised them the wrong way, bought the wrong equipment, found the wrong place, etc.

Finally, the most efficient option. If your wife is suddenly carried away to creativity - rejoice. Wife-poetess, writer, artist? Yes, this is a wonderful opportunity to quietly "sell" her "masterpieces" for your own modest money to friends. You will spend very little to release her collection of poems or stories, and absolutely everyone will be satisfied.

Stylish and creative, in demand and scandalous, a regular participant in talk shows, an organizer of personal trainings, as well as a well-known lawyer - Dobrovinsky. The biography of this person is rather unusual for Russia. He became famous for his collaboration with Russian stars stage and businessmen.

Origin

Alexander Andreevich (Abramovich) was born into a Jewish family and a French woman. The father of the future human rights activist died early, his mother remarried, his stepfather adopted the boy and gave him his last name. After coming of age, Dobrovinsky returned his father's name, but Andrei Aivazyanets, who raised him, left his patronymic.

Biography of the lawyer Dobrovinsky, whose parents belonged to two different nations, was inextricably linked with home country mother - France. From 1972 to 1975 he studied at the Faculty of Economics of VGIK, but, having not completed his studies, he left for Paris. There, the young man worked for some time in a restaurant, got acquainted with the peculiarities of the food business. At the same time, Dobrovinsky graduated from a prestigious business school and became a co-owner of a Russian cuisine restaurant in the French capital.

Beginning of advocacy

Biography of lawyer Dobrovinsky receives new round with his move to the USA. In America, a purposeful young man received a higher legal education and some time in one of the law firms. And to pay for training, he had to earn extra money as a taxi driver. Later, the lawyer, not without pride, noted this fact in his interviews.

Dobrovinsky began his professional activity in Russia only after the collapse of the USSR. Upon returning to his homeland, he confirmed his American diploma and already in 1992 opened his first law office. Then such firms were still a novelty for the citizens of the new democratic country. Only wealthy people could use the services of private lawyers. That's why professional biography lawyer Dobrovinsky in Russia began with divorce proceedings, consideration of cases of businessmen and corporate clients.

High-profile cases in Russia

Already in the 90s, a special style of doing business, communicating with partners, clients and judges was formed. And most importantly, a novice lawyer focuses on public hype and fame through high-profile trials. So, the professional biography of the lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky begins with the scandalous lawsuit of the Swiss company Noga regarding the collection of debts from Russian Federation. The process was widely covered in the domestic media, caused a lot of comments from both professionals and the townsfolk, and Dobrovinsky became a well-known person in the country.

Dobrovinsky for several years represented the interests of the opponents of the long-suffering Yukos. Almost all of his clients famous people. He led the divorce proceedings of L. Cherny, Mordashov A., the owner of Severstal, acted on the side ex-husband K. Orbakaite R. Baysarova on the issue of determining the place of residence of their common son. And also represented the interests of V. Slutsker regarding the division of common property with his ex-wife.

Scandals

The biography of the lawyer Dobrovinsky is replenished from time to time with scandalous stories. One of the loudest and most memorable was caused by the extortion of a million dollars from Philip Kirkorva. The pop singer accused the leader of the French band Space Didier Marouani of a serious crime. The dispute broke out around one of the songs of the pop king - "Cruel Love". The French singer accused Kirkorov of using his music, while Philip claimed that he had registered all his copyrights much earlier.

Marouani suggested Russian singer go to the settlement and not file a lawsuit in exchange for $ 1 million. When trying to transfer money, Didier was detained in one of the branches of Sberbank. The media claimed that it was Dobrovinsky who arranged the fake meeting. Moreover, this is not the first time the lawyer has defended the interests of Kirkorov. Thanks to his efforts, the sensational case of Kirkorov's beating of the director's assistant ended with a peace agreement.

Famous Clients

List Russian stars who turned to Dobrovinsky for support is very impressive. In addition to the personalities already mentioned, among his clients in different time were:

  • Yulia Baranovskaya, who sued her ex-civil husband Despite the fact that their relationship was not officially registered, Dobrovinsky ensured that the football player monthly gave half of his income to support children.
  • No less scandalous personality - Anastasia Volochkova. Thanks to her, she was able to prove her innocence about insults against Joseph Prigogine and Valeria.

Not all rumors about Dobrovinsky turn out to be true in reality. He did not intervene in principle in many conflicts and did not always defend the interests of only wealthy clients. According to the lawyer himself, he only takes on those cases where he sees the prospect of a successful outcome. So, he refused to represent the wife of the football player Kirzhakov, who was accused by him of using drugs, did not take money from Volochkova, Maya Plisetskaya and other stars, whom he wanted to help on his own initiative.

Family. Hobbies

The personal life of the lawyer Dobrovinsky, whose biography is closely connected with the problems of family and marriage, has been successfully arranged for many years. He met his wife Marina in the early 90s. In one of the interviews, the lawyer said that their meeting was planned future mother-in-law, with which Dobrovinsky had many common acquaintances. Marina at that time lived in Paris, where she successfully maintained a private dental clinic. Her mother asked her daughter to come to Russia, where she met Alexander Andreyevich.

Their romance almost immediately ended with a painting in the registry office. Dobrovinsky mentioned more than once that he and his wife have a very real view of things, so for a long time between them was concluded marriage contract, according to which, in the event of a divorce, almost all property remains with the wife and two daughters. A passion for antiques also brings husband and wife together.

The biography of the lawyer Dobrovinsky, family, success in work and business - all this proves his non-trivial thinking and ability to bring his undertakings to the end. Today Alexander Andreevich gladly shares the secrets of his success, conducts personal growth seminars, gives interviews and writes articles.

Alexander Dobrovinsky is a lawyer, a specialist in difficult divorces, a collector, a radio host, a philanthropist ... One can list for a long time. Who are you, Alexander?

I AM? I am my own favorite. (Laughs.) This mutual love. Having arisen once, it is constantly cultivated. Once, I thought about what my positive and negative qualities are, and concluded that my main negative quality is that I do not know all my positive qualities, and most importantly my positive quality in that I know a couple of mine negative qualities. So Alexander Andreevich and I live in perfect harmony, we understand each other, it’s easy and comfortable for us to be together, and, most importantly, it’s interesting! (Laughs.)

A man with a great sense of humor is a rarity these days!

With my last wife we were just dying of laughter at the divorce. They looked at us like we were crazy, and we laughed, remembering something.

What did you remember?

Well, as the bed was broken, from laughter too. (Laughs.) In my family, first of all, a sense of humor was always valued, and a sense of self-irony was even higher than a sense of humor.

You can't live without self-irony.

People who take themselves too seriously are terrible boring people who are not fun to talk to. My people survived 5700 years only because they could smile at themselves.

How many wives did you have?

Yours or in general? Official, when did we go to the registry office? One two Three.

What about unofficial ones?

I will say that it has always been an amazing relationship, and even after breaking up.

Are you friends with everyone?

Do not spill water. There are exceptions, but this is generally the case.


This is another positive quality, but you breed a large number of people in this city?

And I breed, and I make peace.

What happens more often: divorce or reconciliation?

Of course, divorces happen more often, because there are aggravating circumstances. But when a couple manages to reconcile, it costs hundreds of divorces!

Do many clients remain your friends after that?

Yes, of course, because the moment when you reached out to give, not to take away, is very important for a person in trouble. And every divorce is a tragedy. After all, people got married in order to walk hand in hand along the thorny and winding road of life, to be together until the very end, and suddenly the family collapses. At this time, a lot of people appear around who give advice there, give advice here, in the middle there are often children who must take some position, or adults try to get the children to take this position. Often parents come in and stick to their own line. Sea of ​​advisers! And suddenly there is a person who says: “Listen, let me try to reconcile you.” And when this happens, a completely shocking state sets in!

An unexpected story, especially when your job is to stay on the client side.

I remain on the client side, there is no other way. But trying to convince a person that you need to think and make peace is great. By the way, one of the biggest cases that I had happened thanks to such an event. A divorcing husband came to me, the son of a very wealthy man.


Others don't come to you!

Why? I have a lot of friends who need help. Yes, and there are simply people who come to get a business card, then to scare a husband or wife. This also happens. (Laughs.)

So, they came together with their father with a definite intention to “tear and trample” the woman. I listened and listened, and then I said: “Why are you doing this? She lived with you for so many years, when you walked down the aisle with her, you probably loved her. Why now it is necessary to throw it out into the street, explain to me? To end this once and for all, let's make a marriage contract. Leave her an apartment, a car, a summer house on it and give her 200-300 thousand dollars. For you, this is nothing like taking the subway.” They were both surprised, but obeyed. And when they signed this contract, her husband said to her: “I can’t understand why I’m doing this, but I got a strange lawyer who insisted that you be given all this money. Send him a bottle of cognac." The woman remembered this and years later sent me one client. She came in tears - she was at odds with a phenomenally rich man, whom she was very afraid of, and all she wanted from him was that he leave her a boutique, a lease for a store in Moscow. The story ended with her receiving $620 million instead of a boutique.

Is it difficult to compete against people of this level? They then do not take revenge?

That is why they come here. Take, for example, the high-profile trial between Slutsker, which was widely covered in the media. When I was talking to a client who was unable to take the hit, I said, “Look, this story needs someone to focus all the hate on. I will be the one to call fire upon myself."

And it was done, 24 lawyers opposed me,
and I was alone.

And when the judge pronounced her decision, she said that in two decades of work she had not seen a case for the party to focus on proving that the lawyer was wrong, and not the defendant. For some time now it has become a certain calling card my work. I take all the negativity on myself, take the whole blow, and the danger passes by my client. The opposing side understands that I invented everything, and that I will go to the end, and its anger goes to me, not to my client. This happens both in the courtroom and outside its walls, from beginning to end.

Tell us about your passion for art. I know you collect paintings, watches, porcelain...

Yes, I have 22 collections. In total, as the museum workers say, there are 40,000 items.

Do you keep collections in Russia?

Yes, of course, I bring everything here. Now you are sitting next to Napoleon's purse. Touch it, he traveled all over Europe with it and got stuck here in Russia. (Laughs.)


What other weaknesses do you have besides love for beauty?

I don’t even know if this is a weakness, but I have never been able to hit or just raise my voice to a woman. And sometimes they do that. (Laughs.) I can't scream, I can't at all. A couple of years ago, there was a case on this carpet when my secretary, an assistant, did something stupid, and since I can’t scream, I started to hiss at her.

She fainted right there.

It seems to me that the quieter you speak, the more attention people pay to you, because they begin to listen. So the cry is not mine. True, sometimes I want to bark, but I can’t.

Do you travel a lot?

Oh yeah! I've been traveling all my life, but I haven't seen everything yet. One minus - I like to return to where I felt good.

And how often does this happen? I fell in love with Sardinia, I go there every summer. But best trip in my life is in Peru and I'm not sure I can go back there soon.

Differently. I was just in Sardinia and I didn't like it there. I liked Thailand! I bought a villa in Phuket, a car, and have been going there for 18 years. Every year I think about the fact that I should go somewhere else, but closer to the new year, thoughts always arise: “Where to? What for? It's so good in Thailand!”, and I fly there again. This is my distant dacha, it's so nice there in winter!


You can't forbid living beautifully. What did you dream about as a child and what do you dream about now? Have you fulfilled your aspirations? They say that successful men stop dreaming.

I haven't grown up yet to stop dreaming. (Laughs.) As a child, I knew very well what I wanted.

Perhaps these were goals, not dreams.

No, dreams. Because I wanted a Rolls-Royce. Who would have thought in Soviet time that I will have a Rolls-Royce. But my mother told me as a child that everything a person dreams about materializes.

I had crazy dreams, and gradually I realized them,
but they appear again and again.

I wanted to pee from the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris during the day - I did. I wanted to meet Brigitte Bardot, so she herself came to me by chance.

But seriously?

Probably make a film and try yourself as a director. I really love new things! All my collections are discoveries for myself and for the world. I collect what no one has collected, I love to do what no one else has done.

Will it be a feature film?

Probably yes. I almost despaired of finding a screenwriter and director for myself. I have come across the fact that writing books and being a playwright are completely different things. I succeed in writing, inducing a smile - the second book is already being published with a circulation twice as large as planned. But dramaturgy is a separate genre: you have to imagine a scene or film set with all the ensuing requirements. I tried to work with several screenwriters, but they are creative people, and they begin to advise me and offer me things that, for example, I do not want. I already have a couple of scripts that do not suit me, they need to be redone. I would like to make a film myself according to my ideas, and be responsible for it myself, and not make excuses, complaining that it turned out so badly because the director was bad. I am always responsible for what I do.


This is a rare quality that distinguishes a successful man from an unsuccessful one - the ability to take responsibility for people, for situations.

Yes, rare, especially in Russian culture. No matter how many times a person is late, he will always find a reason and an excuse: traffic jams, stomach ache, menstruation. I can't stand it. It's rare that a person comes in and says, "Sorry, I'm late, my fault." Period. This is how I was brought up - to be responsible for my actions.

Have there been times when you regretted your actions and would like to change everything?

Certainly. There is an anecdote that I often tell my clients. (Laughs.) On the eve of the 15th wedding anniversary, the wife wakes up and sees her husband sitting in the kitchen. In front of him is a glass of vodka, a cucumber ...

Honey, are you celebrating one?

Not really.

Why are you drinking?

If I had strangled you 15 years ago, today I would have been released. (Laughs.)

Of course, there are things that you regret, and which have settled in you and tormented by memories. But Jewish wisdom says that experience is your mistakes, and we never consider experience that we have done good. From time to time I think about what I would have done differently, what would have happened if I had come to Russia in 1992 and dealt with oil. Perhaps life would have turned out differently. (Laughs.)

Poor women would be left without an ideal lawyer, defender and intercessor! Are there more women than men among your clients?

No, it's about the same.

And who is more interesting to protect, women or men?

You know, the hardest things are the most interesting. With women it is more difficult, but more pleasant. Will explain. At a certain stage, a woman feels how a lawyer becomes, that is, I become, her brother, father, attorney ...

Strong male shoulder?

Yes, and the woman's subconscious wants to say thank you. She is looking for a person who sues her or goes to talk with the bandits, or shakes the rights with her husband, which is actually the same as talking to the bandits, who fenced her off from all troubles and promises a wonderful future, to thank. And how women say thank you, do I need to explain. And then the moment comes when you are invited to celebrate the victory in a restaurant, and I already know what will happen next.

Is it not pleasant for a man when a large number of women fall in love with him?

If we are talking about love, I will tell you, I am a great specialist in this field.

A person absolutely does not care whether they love him or not, it is more important for you that you love.

A person sincerely wants to prove his gratitude, so in no case can he be offended. It is best to come to dinner with a friend, with his wife, which dot the i's. After all, you came with your beloved, and that's it. But this comes with experience. I had very difficult cases when you lose a client. I was also warned by my grandfather's brother, Uncle Fima, a very famous lawyer in Leningrad. Never protect relatives, if you lose, everything will be bad: resentment, scandals, etc. And you can sleep with clients only after everything is over. Why? First, stop paying. (Laughs.) I had a case when I didn’t listen to Uncle Fima many, many years ago: we won, everything was great, but now I have a bill for her in front of me, and the girl comes and says: I want to go on vacation, please give me money ... This was not part of my plans when we got into the legal business.


Yes, perhaps it is a heavy burden to be your wife. Marina Dobrovinsky is a wise and beautiful woman.

Marina is beloved, there should not be another wife and never will be. Marina man of genius. We are of the same breed, went through the same school of life, both were emigrants. She is the first woman in my life who was able to create a home where I am drawn and where I want to return. I'm interested in her, and she, I hope, with me too.

Are you helping her?

Tomorrow I will give a lecture at her Phillips art history course. Her teacher is ill and I will have to give a lecture on photography. About Rodchenko and Helmut Newton, about two photographers whom I love and collect. At lectures, I always talk about my impressions, about my vision of these people. When a person gives a lecture in general, without passing through the prism of his perception, it is very boring to listen.

Tell me, do you always get what you want?

Almost yes. But it happens that I started to do, and how to continue, but I'm too lazy to go further.

You have so much time for everything, you have laziness!?

I want to have time for everything: both here and there. I'm doing a radio program "Yoga for the Brains" on Silver Rain. The program has been running for four years now with a phenomenal rating, it is listened to by both schoolchildren and pensioners. I remember you and Vitaly Kozak were visiting me. I have fun on the program! But I'm already thinking to come up with something new, you remember that I'm a lover of novelty!

Perhaps it will be a TV program?

Very likely.

Well, a big ship - a big voyage!

Biography of Alexander Dobrovinsky


Alexander Andreevich Dobrovinsky(September 25, 1954, Moscow) - an illustrious lawyer, head of the Moscow Bar Association "Alexander Dobrovinsky and Partners". Lawyer Dobrovinsky http://politt.ru/?p=1279 became known to the general public for representing the interests of F. Kirkorov, R. Baisarov, A. Mordashov, B. Berezovsky, V. Slutsker and other public figures in resonant civil and criminal cases, particularly related to family squabbles. Sergei Polonsky also involved our hero as a lawyer, which he bitterly regretted later.

Alexander Andreevich Dobrovinsky
Date of birth: September 25, 1954
Place of birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Citizenship: USSR → Russia
Occupation: lawyer

Alexander Dobrovinsky was born in 1954 in Moscow. He studied at the Faculty of Economics of VGIK, but did not complete this educational institution.
In 1972, 18-year-old Alexander Dobrovinsky left for Paris, where his mother, Lucy Rubinovna, a Frenchwoman of Russian origin, lived.
There he tried a number of types of earnings - he worked as a waiter, was the owner of the Parisian restaurant of Russian cuisine "Regal". Three years later he left for the United States, where he received a law degree. Alexander Dobrovinsky worked as an assistant in law firm, a taxi driver to pay for his studies.

To Russia Alexander Dobrovinsky returned in the early 1990s. Alexander Dobrovinsky externally received a law degree and in 1992 opened his first law office. He specialized in corporate law, as well as in divorce proceedings.
First fame Dobrovinsky brought scandalous story with the Swiss company Noga, which tried to sue the Russian Federation for debts for food supplies and threatened to seize property belonging to the state.

During several years Alexander Dobrovinsky represented the interests of opponents of Yukos, who fought for the assets of the Eastern Oil Company. Alexander Dobrovinsky participated in the processes covered in the press on the division of property during the divorces of the entrepreneur L. Cherny in 1999, the owner of Severstal A. Mordashov in 2001.

In 2007 Alexander Dobrovinsky represented the interests of M. Kashulinsky, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine, in the case of the suit of Inteko, the owner of which was the wife of the then mayor of Moscow, Yu. Luzhkov, E. Baturina. In 2009, he represented the interests of businessman R. Baysarov, a former civil husband K. Orbakaite, in their conflict over Denis's son.

Alexander Dobrovinsky He was also a lawyer for the co-owner of Fininvest, V. Slutsker, in a divorce case with his wife, owner of the World Class network, O. Slutsker.
In 2010, he represented the interests of F. Kirkorov, who was accused of beating the assistant director M. Yablokova.
Not in all disputes Dobrovinsky acted on the side of public figures. So, in July 2011, he represented the interests of the photojournalist of the newspaper " TVNZ» E. Guseva, sent a statement to the police demanding to open a criminal case against singer Valery Meladze on charges of beating a journalist.
In 2012, the Dobrovinsky Bar opened a branch in London to serve clients with business and personal interests in the UK.

In 2014 Alexander Dobrovinsky bought a dacha previously owned by Lyubov Orlova and Grigory Alexandrov, as well as personal archive actresses. Alexander Dobrovinsky fluent in English and French. Author of more than ten scientific works in jurisprudence. PhD in Law.

Alexander Dobrovinsky- winner of the open annual All-Russian competition"Leader of the Year" in the nomination "Best Lawyer in Russia 2003".
Alexander Dobrovinsky- former chairman of the board of directors of Arbat Prestige.
Since 2012, she has been broadcasting Yoga for the Brains on the Silver Rain radio station.
March 2013 Alexander Dobrovinsky was appointed chairman of the board of the Potok company, and a month later became a co-owner of Pushkino Bank.
On September 30, 2013, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, due to repeated violations federal laws revoked the license from Pushkino Bank, the owner of a 19% stake in which was Alexander Dobrovinsky.

Hobbies of Alexander Dobrovinsky

Alexander Dobrovinsky- Champion of Russia in golf (2002). He also heads a number of prestigious associations of athletes in this area, such as the Moscow Country Golf Club.

Alexander Dobrovinsky known as an avid collector. The world's largest private collection of Soviet porcelain, owned by Alexander Dobrovinsky, was exhibited at the Pushkin Museum, where it occupied 5 halls. Several times I changed apartments for the sake of a convenient exposition of this collection. He collected a collection of lacquered boxes depicting revolutionary miniatures, as well as photographs and paintings from the first half of the 20th century. He collected Tibetan iconography of the 17th-18th centuries, accessories for smoking cigars.