Vladimir Potanin is one of the richest people on the planet, who has held leading positions among Russian and world billionaires for 20 years. Vladimir Potanin is the owner of Interros, Russia's largest investment company, and also owns controlling stakes in the mining and metallurgical company Norilsk Nickel, the Russian media holding Prof-Media and the Rosa Khutor ski resort in Krasnaya Polyana.

Potanin Vladimir Olegovich was born on January 3, 1961 in the capital of Russia in the family of the trade representative of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade Oleg Romanovich and the doctor Tamara Ananyevna. Vladimir became the first and only son of his parents who put all the best in his son. In view of the work of the head of the Potanin family, Vladimir, by the standards of Soviet times, belonged to the category of "golden youth", but did not cause trouble for his own parents.

In childhood and adolescence, the future billionaire grew up as a well-rounded boy. The boy was fond of studying foreign languages and sports, and at the school desk he behaved like an exemplary student. This allowed Vladimir, after leaving school, to easily enter MGIMO at the Faculty of International Economic Relations at the commercial department. The young man left the university with a diploma of "international economist" and in the footsteps of his father got a job at the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the USSR, where he worked for 8 years until the beginning of the 90s.

Business

Vladimir Potanin's business career began to develop in 1990 - Vladimir Potanin founded and headed his own investment company, Interros. In the same year, the businessman met with, who in the future became Potanin's main business partner.

Together, the businessmen founded the International Finance Company bank, of which Potanin became its president. This financial institution is considered the first bank in Russia to receive a license, since all the Soviet holdings of the IBEC in the amount of $ 400 million were transferred to it, along with the banking clientele. Later, Vladimir Olegovich became the president of ONEXIM JSCB, which today is one of the TOP-5 largest banks in the Russian Federation.

In 1995, Potanin bought out a controlling stake in the Russian mining and metallurgical company Norilsk Nickel, and in 1997 created the Prof-Media holding, which included the largest Russian media such as Izvestia, Afisha, Komsomolskaya Pravda ", "Big city".

In 2007, Vladimir Potanin announced the division of the business with his longtime partner Mikhail Prokhorov. This process dragged on for several years and resulted in a serious conflict. Other large businessmen of the country also joined the "war" between Potanin and Prokhorov, which led to a scandal between "friends" with a wide scale and coverage.

The main focus of Potanin's activities today is the development of the Interros and Norilsk Nickel companies. Also, in the development of his own business projects, Vladimir Potanin teamed up with the holding company Metalloinvest. The businessmen are planning to create a global metallurgical giant with the help of a "triple" alliance of companies, which will be the leader in the production of nickel, iron ore and aluminum on the planet.

Politics

In addition to business, billionaire Vladimir Potanin has regularly participated in the country's political life throughout his own career. In 1996, Vladimir Potanin was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Then the duties of a businessman included the coordination of the economic block of issues.

During that period, Potanin also headed 20 federal, interdepartmental and government commissions on Russia's monetary and financial policy. Potanin also became the manager from the Russian Federation in the MBRD and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency.

In 2006, the oligarch became a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, where he became the chairman of the Commission on Volunteering and Charity. Thanks to the initiatives of this commission, federal laws were adopted in the country to support the development of public organizations and NGOs, and individuals carrying out charity received tax incentives.

Charity

Vladimir Potanin's charitable activities occupy an important place in the biography of a businessman. The Potanin Charitable Foundation, created by the billionaire, has been running smoothly for 20 years now, and it carries out activities aimed at the development of culture and education in Russia.

The Potanin Foundation offers scholarship programs for talented students. The foundation has an official website, where details of the foundation's work and requirements for recipients of assistance are posted. The charitable program really helps students and teachers. The foundation sees its own goal as creating "conditions for the disclosure of creative potential, the development of creative thinking, expanding the possibilities of professional and creative realization." Over 20 years, 26,000 students and 2,000 teachers from 83 Russian universities have received grants and scholarships.

In addition, the charitable foundation holds events to support cultural initiatives and philanthropy. Lectures and seminars on the work of NGOs in Russia have been announced on the site.

Since 2003, the billionaire became the head of the Board of Trustees of the State Hermitage, in which he invested $ 5 million from his own funds. In 2006, Potanin took over his native MGIMO, and donated $ 6.5 million to its endowment fund.

In 2013, Vladimir Olegovich joined the Oath of Giving philanthropic campaign, thereby agreeing to donate at least half of his fortune to charity. He became the first Russian businessman to take such a bold step.

Personal life

The personal life of Vladimir Potanin has always been the subject of the interests of the general public. The first time he married during his student years, his childhood friend Natalya, with whom he had been married for more than 30 years. During this time, three children were born in the Potanin family - Anastasia, Ivan and Vasily. The elder children of the billionaire are the champions of Russia and the world in aquabike.

In 2014, the strong and large family of the oligarch broke up, initiated by Vladimir Olegovich. According to the wife of the billionaire, it was a shock to her about his statement, but it was not possible to save the marriage. The divorce proceedings of the Potanins' spouses were long and loud. They still have not resolved all financial issues, since the businessman's wife insists on dividing the property acquired in a joint married life.

After a divorce from Natalya Vladimir Potanin. His wife was Catherine, 14 years younger than him, who at the time of her marriage was raising her three-year-old daughter Varvara. The girl's father, according to open sources, is Potanin. In 2014, Forbes magazine reported that the oligarch had a fifth child.

Vladimir Potanin now

As of January 2016, Vladimir Potanin's fortune was estimated at $ 12.1 billion, which allowed him to take the fourth position in the ranking of the richest people in Russia. Compared to 2015, the oligarch lost $ 3.3 billion, due to which he was the leader among Russian billionaires and the richest man in the country.

In 2017, Forbes magazine placed Potanin on the 8th line of the Russian rating of billionaires and on the 77th position in the world. The businessman's fortune was estimated at $ 14.3 billion.

Nevertheless, Vladimir Potanin spends part of his own income on charity. For example, a businessman donated $ 5 million to the Hermitage Endowment Fund.

Projects

1990 - President of the Foreign Economic Association "Interros"
1992-1993 - President and Founder of the International Finance Company Bank
1993 - President of JSCB ONEXIM Bank
1995 - owner of a controlling stake in Norilsk Nickel
1996 - Member of the Board of Directors of Svyazinvest
1997 - created the holding ZAO Prof-Media (Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Afisha and Bolshoi Gorod)
1998 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Interros holding company (FIG Interros, Norilsk Nickel and SIDANCO)
1999 - established a non-profit charitable organization Potanin Charitable Foundation
2000s - began the construction and development of ski slopes in the Krasnaya Polyana area, which later became part of the sites of the XXII Winter Olympic Games
2001 - Member of the Board of Trustees of the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation
2002 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hermitage-Guggenheim Charitable Foundation
2003 - Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the State Hermitage
2006 - Chairman of the Commission on the Development of Charity, Charity and Volunteering
2008-2010 - headed projects to improve the legislation on NGOs
2013 - the first Russian entrepreneur to join the Oath of Giving philanthropic campaign

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The personal life of billionaire Vladimir Potanin has long been the main topic at all social gatherings and this is not surprising - not having time to finish the high-profile divorce proceedings with his ex-wife Natalya, 53-year-old Vladimir Potanin tied the knot again.

The billionaire's chosen one was his 39-year-old subordinate named Catherine. With his blond lover, the 53-year-old businessman came to the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.

Vladimir Potanin with his new wife, photo: why divorced the first, who is the second wife, children?

With his new beloved, the businessman came to the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, where the whole world of Russian culture gathered. The newlyweds posed for photographers, not hiding happy smiles.

39-year-old Ekaterina, who did not hide her happy smile all evening, appeared before the audience in a long elegant dress with black lace. The entrepreneur himself tried not to attract attention to himself, and while the guests of the event were at the concert dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the Hermitage, he went to enjoy the art in the company of his beautiful wife.

Recall that billionaire Vladimir Potanin tied the knot again after divorcing his wife Natalya. The entrepreneur's chosen one was his subordinate. The billionaire took his new beloved to the altar in the summer, and after the newlyweds spent their honeymoon on the Cote d'Azur, in the legendary hotel Du Cap Eden Roc. Recall that the litigation between Potanin and his ex-wife Natalya lasted quite a long time, but she lost some of them.

Vladimir Potanin is the richest man in Russia, the owner of assets of several large companies and the leader of the Russian Forbes list.

Until recently, he was also considered an excellent husband and family man, and his marriage with Natalya, which lasted more than thirty years, was distinguished by its strength and prosperity and was an example for all those windy oligarchs who changed their chosen ones like gloves, but apparently did not grow together ...

The ex-wife of Vladimir, Natalya Potanina, back in 83, changed her maiden name to her husband's. In 77, having met at a party with friends, the young schoolgirl Natasha Varlamova and her classmate Vova Potanin could not even predict that the spark of feelings that had slipped between them would be able to spin their relationship so tightly that they would last for 37 years.

They studied together at a Moscow school and met, spending time after school in each other's arms. Their love only grew stronger while studying at universities - he is at MGIMO, she is at the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers. When in the fourth year Natalya and Vladimir got married, everyone around - from parents to close friends - was sure that the family happiness of the young Potanin family would be "until death do them part."

In 2011, the Potanin couple celebrated the New Year in the newly built Luzhki residence. It was there that Vladimir met Katya, his future second darling, for the sake of which he decided to change his already established family structure forever.

Spectacular tall and slender blonde Ekaterina with her beauty and energy firmly hooked businessman Potanin. She was one of several dozen specialists in one of his companies invited that evening to Luzhki to entertain guests of a high circle - oligarchs and business sharks. It was then that Vladimir noticed Catherine.

He was not at all embarrassed that Catherine was 14 years younger. She was not embarrassed by the fact that Vladimir had a wife and three children. Their romance flared up in flames, at first hidden from everyone, but then escalated into more after a few years.

In December 2013, Natalya learned that her husband was filing for divorce. He told her about it himself at a family dinner. Later she learned that Ekaterina has a three-year-old daughter from Potanin, and they have been dating since that New Year's Eve in Luzhki.

A long and scandalous divorce process began. Vladimir finally broke all ties with the old family for the sake of a new one.

In 2015, the court divided the property of the former spouses. Natalya Potanina received three plots of land, a summer house in the village of Vlasyevo in New Moscow and a house in the village of Ubory on Rublevka, as well as monetary compensation in the amount of half the cost of an apartment in Skatertny lane in Moscow.

The court also ordered the Russian billionaire to pay alimony in the amount of a quarter of his earnings to support his youngest son. The ex-wife also wanted to sue Potanin's stakes in Interros and Norilsk Nickel, but lost the dispute in all courts, including the Supreme Court.

Already in the summer of 2014, just a few months after the divorce from Natalya, a new place next to businessman Potanin was taken by Catherine, who by that time had given birth to him another son.

They spent their honeymoon on the French Riviera. The press wrote about the 39-year-old second wife of Vladimir that she is a person of broad views and that this marriage is a profitable party for both of them.

Loving long black dresses, Catherine complements her husband well wherever they go. In the fall of 2014, during their joint walk through the Hermitage, it finally became clear to everyone that Vladimir and Catherine had discovered a new life for themselves and were not going to part ways in the near future. His former employee, and now his faithful wife, became a ticket to a new life for the middle-aged businessman.

Of course, in order to create a new family, Ekaterina and Vladimir had to go through a lot: several years of secret relations, Potanin's scandalous divorce from his ex-wife and testing the relationship for strength by the close attention of the press, but they coped and continue their way of life further hand in hand ...

Billionaire Vladimir Potanin is currently ranked fourth in the Forbes list of richest businessmen. Experts have estimated his fortune at $ 12.1 billion. In 2015, he was in the lead in a similar ranking with 15.4 billion.

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Being the wife of a Forbes businessman is also a job. But some ladies have a business acumen only after they part with rich husbands. "Lenta.ru" remembered what some spouses of billionaires were trying to achieve after they turned into "ex."

Natalia Potanina

Businessman Vladimir Potanin (first place in the Forbes ranking among Russian entrepreneurs - $ 15.4 billion) filed for divorce in November 2013. The claim was upheld by a magistrate three months later, in February 2014. The entrepreneur was obliged to pay his ex-wife, Natalya Potanina, 25 percent of his earnings on a monthly basis.

But this did not satisfy her, and she appealed to the court of Limassol (Cyprus) with a request to arrest part of Potanin's assets "as an interim measure for a future claim for the division of property." The court dismissed the claim.

Moreover, at the end of June 2014, the Presnensky Court of Moscow limited Potanina's access to alimony - half had to be transferred to the depository account of their 16-year-old son Vasily before they reached the age of majority. Potanina tried to challenge this decision on appeal, but the court sided with the oligarch.

And already in 2015, the Presnensky Court of Moscow refused to divide the shares between the former spouses. Natalya Potanina appealed this decision to a higher authority, but lost. She claimed 50 percent of her ex-husband's shares in Norilsk Nickel and Interros. Despite the setbacks, Natalia does not lose hope to achieve her goal. If the court goes over to her side, she will become the richest woman in Russia.

Elena Rybolovleva

The fortune of 48-year-old Dmitry Rybolovlev, the former owner of Uralkali, is estimated by experts to be about $ 8.5 billion. This allowed him to take 14th place in the latest ranking of Russian billionaires and 156th place in the list of the richest people on the planet.

The divorce proceedings with his wife Elena, which lasted since 2008, ended in 2015. In May 2014, a Geneva court ordered the businessman to give his ex-wife almost half of his fortune - $ 4.5 billion, as well as real estate in Geneva, art objects and jewelry worth $ 560 million. However, the billionaire transferred his assets under the management of a trust three years before the divorce proceedings, and appointed two daughters as beneficiaries. The court recognized that the assets that Rybolovlev transferred to the trust in the interests of the heirs were not subject to division.

Moreover, in 2015, a Swiss court reduced the payment to his ex-wife to $ 600 million. And the process could have continued, but in October 2015, the parties agreed to end the litigation and agreed on the amount of compensation.

For the general director of Rosgosstrakh Danil Khachaturov (54th place in the Forbes ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia with $ 1.6 billion), the marriage with the designer Ulyana Sergeenko, like the divorce, was not the first.

At the first divorce in 2007, the parties agreed that there was no property to be divided. But later, the ex-wife changed her mind and filed a lawsuit, deciding to sue half of everything, including the shares of the largest insurance company in the country. She lost the trial.

The second divorce cost the businessman a quarter of his income - this is how much he will pay his ex-wife and daughter. There were no requirements for the division of property.

Elena Novitskaya

Alexey Mordashov, the chairman of the board of directors of Severstal (fifth in the Forbes rating with $ 13 billion), divorced his wife Elena Novitskaya back in 1996. Then the spouses agreed on alimony for their son Ilya in the amount of 8.9 million non-denominated rubles (about 1.5 thousand dollars) and an additional six thousand dollars annually. At the same time, the ex-wife got a three-room apartment in the city of Cherepovets and "VAZ-2109". She refused the rights to other property.

After the 1998 crisis, the then-impressive alimony turned into $ 320. And in 2001, the ex-wife tried to sue the now billionaire for 32.5 percent of Severstal's shares and alimony in the amount of a quarter of his income (about $ 80 million a year at that time). For the period of the litigation, the actions of Alexei Mordashov were arrested, but the lawyers succeeded in transferring the consideration of the case from the Moscow court to Cherepovets.

The ex-wife lost the court, and she was ordered to pay a state duty in the amount of 1.5 percent of the subject of the dispute (more than 200 million rubles). She didn't have that kind of money. Novitskaya appealed to the European Court of Human Rights with a demand from Russia of $ 500 million, but the case was never considered due to the reconciliation of the parties. The amount of the reconciliation was not disclosed.

Ekaterina Doronina

The chairman of the board of directors and co-owner of the Capital Group company Vladislav Doronin (in 2011 his fortune was estimated at $ 6.7 billion) broke up with his wife Ekaterina after a 21-year marriage in 2009.

The ex-wife left for London, but did not give the businessman a divorce, which prevented him from marrying the top model Naomi Campbell. Doronin still managed to divorce, for which Catherine received $ 10 million.

But Naomi Campbell, with whom he broke up a few years later, something fell out. For the top model, by 2012, Doronin built a mansion in the area of Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway in the form of a spaceship with an area of more than 2.5 thousand square meters.

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

Vladimir and Natalya Potanin have three children: 29-year-old world aquabike champion 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 do not sail in public on luxury yachts, do not swim in pools with champagne, do not cross Switzerland in 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. "Nouveau riches" buy crocodiles for their mother-in-law for their birthday, and their highly educated grandchildren already collect rare books and support brilliant artists.

Therefore, even Potanin's socially attractive refusal to inherit his fortune to children aroused sympathy from part of the public: they say, the best children were deprived of the inheritance.

And here is the divorce. The trial is closed to the press. News about the personal lives of the richest people in the world "leaks" into the ("yellow", as a rule) press almost without fail, but, in general, oligarchs are not doomed to public private lives, like politicians. However, the burden of publicity arises in it, if only because the oligarchs are the elite. Certainly 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 sample.

But politicians, whose family life is visible through the X-ray of publicity, are getting divorced too.

Of course, “someone else’s life is darkness,” and family stories are the least one you want to judge - there are so many nuances that you don’t know, and once you’ve found out, you won’t raise your hand to “throw a stone”. But the caution of a psychological view of the problem does not negate the critical need for a moral and sociological view. Because simple observation by the "Balzac method" - scrutinizing the history of life - adds facts to a disturbing picture. Loyalty and devotion cease to be dignity (except in extreme cases when the husband is in prison, in war, in suffering). In a serene situation, they turn into trash. And soon we, following the poet, will repeat "as the incomprehensible fidelity of the 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 even more so feelings. This makes them the engines of progress - material, scientific and technological.

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

Meanwhile, the family is an "invariant", that, in general, an "institution" established by God, which does not know progress. And two thousand years ago, and now it is 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. So is patience, sacrifice. Relationships that are meant to go deep today are going in breadth.

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

It's no coincidence that most real (non-quasi) religions discourage, rather than encourage, divorce. And if such happen, then they either look at them with sadness, as an evil, or they are excommunicated from the sacraments of the Church - the most important thing in it.

Returning from the Christmas holidays, in the compartment of the train, I met a young, silent and open bird gesture, a woman hiding 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, the convulsions do not go away even from the Belgian medicines, there is no question yet. But Anka laughs a lot. Because she is loved by my mother, sister, grandfather, grandmother. The only one who refused her this was her father. Left the family. The only thing that makes her stoic mother cry in her eyes is the memory of it. "Betrayal," I say as indifferently as possible.

And inside, the regal contemptuous words of Akhmatova boil up that "they", men, almost did not stand in lines to the prisons with parcels. "Inferior race" - Akhmatova cut off.

Against the background of fashionable references to Schopenhauer, who did not like women, these Akhmatov's words are very useful. But in general, I don't want to glue "racist" labels on the basis of gender. The "inferior race" are those who betray.

Psychologist's comment

Olga Makhovskaya, PhD in Psychology, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences:

First, I’ll say that this story is good. It's good that the Potanins had a lot of family experience. Because now, alas, in most cases it is very small - the spouses get divorced from the 2nd or 3rd year of marriage.

There are, in my opinion, 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 begins to live for himself. Previously, our family was built according to the Orthodox type - this was our title 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 a long-term preservation of the marriage, their rather large distance from each other. In people of Protestant culture, the distance of psychological closeness is generally very large. But this distance is changing a lot with us now. When we psychologists talk with a rich man who has decided to divorce, as a rule, a "partner model" of a family is found in his head.

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

Since the presidential couple announced the divorce in our country, we can expect that a new trend will open. All the divorces that took place on the sly and were revealed only when filing tax returns (which usually show that the 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 even divorce may be in vogue in high circles. Of course, wives in oligarchic divorces in our country, 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 for us to "abandon their wives", 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 Cards")

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

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

Words are an epigraph:

Although they say that an apple falls not far from an apple tree, it is not always so. It happens that the apple will be blown away by the wind.

V. Potanin.

One goes the straight path

Another goes in circles

And waiting to return to her father's house,

She is waiting for her former girlfriend.

And I go - trouble is behind me,

Not straight and not oblique,

And nowhere and never,

Like trains off the 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 secret and your thoughts and dreams.

F. Tyutchev.

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

F.M.Dostoevsky.

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

M. Prishvin.

One cannot but value the opinion of young people.

I.S. Turgenev.

During the classes.

Introductory speech of the teacher.

We got acquainted with the novel by I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons" and became convinced that in the 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.

1st groupstudents. Conversation on the story "Daughter".

- What, in your opinion, is this story about?

Why is the state of the narrator expressed by the phrase: "Oh my God, what a melancholy." Let us recall the story of A.P. Chekhov "Tosca": the cabman'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 narrative begin with excerpts from the Molodezhnaya Gazeta? (The author shows what worries 15-16 year olds).

What is the atmosphere in the Seregin family?

What impression did Lenochka make on you?

Why do her parents call her that?

What kind of memories warm your father's soul?

What is especially upsetting?

What are family relationships?

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

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

Through what artistic detail is shown the indifference and inner emptiness of Lena and Sasha? (Gold 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 call. The wife picks up the phone. He congratulates someone, wishes him happiness, but a sob squeezes me. What will happen tomorrow? And the day after tomorrow? And a year later? Am I going to live another year? Really? .. And I close my eyes in powerlessness. "

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

What does the text make you think about?

With which lesson statements would you relate your reflections in the lesson?

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

“Work a little for the people,” writes V. Potanin.

Explain the title of the story.

What a story?

Why does Semyon Fedorovich have to write holiday cards?

Your opinion about the son of Semyon Fedorovich, Anatolia.

Could Anatoly reassure his father when he fell ill: "Maybe the son will intercede, will not let the old man go to waste"?

Life position of Anatoly. (I've already seen everything - both white milk mushrooms and toadstools). Army, prison, drunkenness.

The fate of Anatoly's father, his dream. (Would sonny be a man)

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

And again a sad tragic ending. What is he like?

Let's turn to the writers' sayings again. Draw a parallel to the content of the Blue Cards story.

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"

Group 3students. Conversation on the story "Letters to the Son".

Our soul cries and asks for protection.

V. Potanin.

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

V. Potanin.

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

Which of the 14 letters impressed you the most 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 pieces of paper with kindness. And if he writes down, he will be happy. " Why should these words, according to the author, become guiding words 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 cherish?

Outcomesour reflections.

About love for 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 the good memory of his mother, Anna Timofeevna, and his ancestors ("Coming to the Mother", "Letters to the 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 "White Bird", in which Potanin urges: "Do not forget either your school or your parents."

Let us turn to the words of I.S. Turgenev: "The opinion of young people must be appreciated." For us, the older generation, your views, your opinion are really very important. Your attitude to the ongoing moral cataclysms. And if you are thinking and compassionate, then there is hope for a better future for future generations.