In Moscow on January 19 said goodbye to talented journalist, TV presenter Mikhail Zelensky. He died at the age of 47 on January 11 in the Dominican Republic from a heart attack. Relatives and friends came to see him off on his last journey, none of them still can believe in the reality of this huge loss. buried Mikhail Zelensky Troekurovsky cemetery.
This was an incredible injustice: for so many years he came to his audience, and today they came to say goodbye to him. Friends, fans, fellow journalists. Great shared grief. At the very coffin, his parents, daughters Polina and Sophia – he warmly called his babies little ones. The tear-filled eyes of friends from the TV shop.
“All his colleagues loved him endlessly. He went all the way and tried himself in all the programs, not because he wanted change, but because he achieved success and followed the next path,” says the first deputy general director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, the general director of the Rossiya TV channel Anton Zlatopolsky.
“Misha was so … Bengal fire! It burned, sparkled, warmed, delighted everyone around. Unfortunately, all this did not last long. That’s a pity,” journalist and TV presenter, first deputy general director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Andrei Kondrashov lamented.
Both in the space of the Universe and in human space, the most dazzling stars have an offensively short fate.
“Misha was fully endowed with this amazing light. It was a light of extraordinary delicacy, subtlety of intelligence. It was the light of a person who talked to a person, and at the same time a camera was present. This is a rare quality,” the deputy general director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, chief editor TV channel “Russia-Culture” Sergei Shumakov.
“When I was buying flowers, the saleswoman immediately understood where we were going and said: “Can I put a bouquet from me?” I will put this bouquet to the coffin from viewers who also knew and loved Mishka very much,” says the host of the Vesti program. “on the TV channel” Russia “Ernest Mackevicius.
In the 25 years that he has served the fleeting, ever-changing art of television, a whole generation has grown up, both audience and professional. But it seems that everything was just yesterday: the first broadcasts, and creative experiments in them.
“We all started very, very young when we “Vesti-Moscow” we started together when we all came up with inclusions from traffic jams together. We smoked together, danced step. We were comfortable and fun together,” Irada Zeynalova, a journalist, author and host of the NTV program “Results of the Week”, says about the past.
“His whole story was unfolding before my eyes. And this success that he achieved, and this extraordinary energy that he possessed, and this ability to create a team of information programs,” Vladimir Luskanov, a political observer for the NTV television company, warmly recalls his colleague.
Mikhail Zelensky made me believe in the frame, in the television word, in live emotion.
“He always smiled. He was always glad to see you. Such a piece of the Sun left,” journalist Andrey Maksimov worries.
“He was first of all my very close friend. I was a witness at his wedding. He lived in my house, he was a member of our family,” admits a special correspondent of the TV channel “Russia 24” Alexey Mikhalev.
And his family of viewers was truly huge. More than the limits of one country and even, given the coverage of the TV signal, one continent.
“This is condolences to all of us. Because there are only a handful of such journalists. And this is a loss,” journalist Aleksey Samoletov complains.
“I will always remember Misha as a person who is naturally necessary on television. I will remember him as a person who carried the mood that our television, as a rule, lacked,” says the TV presenter, columnist for the Russia-Culture channel Vladislav Flyarkovsky.
Mikhail Zelensky was buried on the alley of journalists of the Troekurovsky necropolis, next to the journalist of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Igor Kornelyuk and Sergey Dorenko.
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