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Today Anatoly Alexandrovich Sobchak, politician and father of TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, would have turned 79 years old. Ksenia says that hardly anyone can match him on the scale of the individual.
Anatoly Sobchak was one of the most prominent politicians of the late 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. Speech Sobchak in the Congress of people’s deputies in the days of the Soviet Union consigned to history. In 2000, the first mayor of St. Petersburg died — officially because of acute heart failure, but there is also a version of the murder.
In the last years of his life Anatoly Sobchak was declared strong persecution. The policy even had to leave their homeland and move to Paris — in Russia it was a criminal case. The daughter of Anatoly Alexandrovich still blames himself for the fact that in those years, meeting friends and parties for her was more important than communication with the father. “I do a lot with him back. It is my big internal problem. Because in that moment, when he was alive, I had other interests, but now this is not possible,” — says Ksenia.
The loss of her beloved father for the secular diva was a real challenge, because she always admired my dad: “my dad has always been the ideal, it was the most beloved man in my life. His death was a huge tragedy, the most difficult experience, ” recalls Sobchak. — I had terrible depression. I barely got out alive from all this. And, of course, nobody around him I can not deliver. This is my biggest problem.”
In his microblog Ksenia Sobchak posted a touching entry in the memory of Anatoly Alexandrovich. “I love and will always love you. Thank you for teaching me to be free, not to be afraid to say what you think, and for teaching me to see the thing in people. The hardest part for me to accept the fact that to be a man of your scale — it is a luxury and a rarity for people. And all life is a search for those “large cell”. Those who though something like you” (Spelling and punctuation more. — Approx.ed.).
