10 facts about Alena Doletskaya

After the departure of Alena Doletskaya, Look At Me recalled 10 facts about the permanent chief editor of Russian Vogue.

Alena Doletskaya has twitter.

Why do people on the Internet prefer to express glaring malevolence and rudeness under the nicknames, and in your face you pour caramel flattery?

last entry text

Alena Doletskaya was born in 1955 in a family of doctors. Her father - Stanislav Yakovlevich Doletsky, the famous pediatric surgeon, academicianANSSR, a member of the Royal Academy of Pediatric Surgeons of Great Britain, and the mother is Kira Vladimirovna Daniel-Beck, oncologist surgeon, professor.

I am the daughter of the "son of the enemy of the people" Stanislav Doletsky. Granddaughter exiled for 17 years to GULAG Sofia Stanevich, a brilliant engineer, and head of the telegraph agency GROWTH (now TASS) Yakov Doletsky, shot himself in 1937, when he learned that he should be arrested.

from the post on snob.ru

My father was a pediatric surgeon, very famous, and still a writer, writer, publicist, as they say now. Mom was a professor and also the author of a large number of books.

from the Hello interview

Alena is a comparativist philologist by education: she graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University and defended her thesis on the topic “Comparative Rhetoric of Russian and English Speech”. Later she worked at the department, translated by William Faulkner and Ray Bradbury.

Frankly, when I accepted the offer to become the editor-in-chief, I went to London and studied for two weeks at the journalism department - although I am a philologist, I wrote a lot of things, I had more than one book at that moment. But it immediately became clear that they somehow cooked and spiced up texts in a different way, they somehow made the cover in a different way, they built sentences in a different way, everything was different there.

from an interview at look at me

The first issue of Russian Vogue was released in September 1998 - at the height of default.

I remember it all very well! And its September and October 1998 issues, which were about one fifth of what we are doing today. Here we depend on those who are engaged in everything except for gloss - power, politics, and economics. It would be better if they did it well.

from an interview with Openspace.ru

This moment, August 98th, I will not forget until the end of life. I fly to London on business. There is a meeting, in parallel, I give an interview to the BBC, and suddenly Bernd Runge enters and puts something in my hands. And I understand that this is the first issue of the Russian Vogue, which has just come out of print. What I felt is beyond words. Tears and splashed! It was a blessing. And at once not less strong impression - in Russia the default breaks out. And the first thing we did then with Bernd was the decision to cancel the celebration related to the release of the magazine. Then I had a second tearing, although I actually do not cry. And the holiday was conceived colossal! It was Red Square, the red carpet, on which all the first persons of the fashion world had to pass, a huge number of people had already confirmed their presence, they had already written what pillow they were, kindly arrange in “National”. It was terribly painful and offensive to cancel the holiday, but this was impossible not to do out of respect for the country. And then the first issue of Vogue appears in Russia, immediately all these articles appear in “MK”, in “Moskovskaya Pravda”, that the first issue is also the last. And only the experience of communication with the press did not allow me to get involved in the discussion and not to write through all the pages of these newspapers: "DO NOT WAIT!" I was absolutely sure that everything will be fine with us.

from the Hello interview

Before joining Vogue, Alena worked for some time at Cosmopolitan.

I had a brief experience at Cosmo, deeply, from my point of view, unsatisfactory and unproductive, but at the same time positive and productive in the sense that I understood what I wasI do not want do.

from the interview to the "Journal Hall"

The newspaper New York Times once called Alain "lanky Slavic analogue of Miranda Priestley". The British The Sunday Times spoke of her as about."living personification of post-soviet unshakableness and style". Blogger Brian Boycalls Alain her favorite editor-in-chief Vogue.

Favorite breed of dogs - Siberian Husky.

They are the best buddies, those who are not flattering, respect your freedom, yours and your friends, only they love to walk a lot !!!! And Denis Simachev will definitely hold me in this love !!! And also take to the house of dogs abandoned and cured by professionals (such as children from Human Ecology).

comment on snob.ru

On the cover of the first issue of Russian Vogue were Kate Moss and Amber Valletta. Photographed their Mario Testino.

The best artists worked and worked at Vogue, everything was always the best, the most courageous, the most unexpected, the most expensive. The most, the most. That is why for the first issue we brought stars - photographer Mario Testino, Kate Moss and Amber Valetta. These were the top models of the world. For us, the Sheremetyevsky Palace was specially opened, they blocked Nikitskaya, near the TASS building - there were shooting for the first Russian Vogue. From the very beginning, the idea was clear to me - I wanted Russian Vogue readers to get something other than a local spill: "Here you have a little book for the poor about fashion!" I wanted Russian readers to feel themselves as part of an international, global, prestigious (I don't like this word, but nonetheless) marked group. I wanted the borders of the countries to collapse as quickly as possible. Recognized Russia, did not recognize - I did not care. Then no one understood anything at all. The ignorance of the West towards Russia was phenomenal. I worked with world agencies, photographers, people said: "In Russia? Where? There are bears in the same place!" I can't hear about these bears.

from an interview with "Nezavisimaya Gazeta"

Initially, Alain was going to do not go to the philological, and medical.

I had to go to medical - I wanted to be as great as mom and dad. And for the last two years at school, I worked with my dad at the clinic as a nurse, washing the floors, cleaning the sick, and still quietly wearing a mask, went to surgery. One day, Dad recognized me in a crowd of his graduate students and asked me to immediately get out. Already at home, there was a clarification of circumstances that were unexpected for parents: that I want to be a surgeon, and not associate life with such wonderful professions as, for example, an ophthalmologist or a cosmetologist. And they unanimously declared: the surgeon never! And I said: "Well then, bye, no medical!"

from the Hello interview

Alyona appeared on the cover of Black Square magazine (winter 2009-2010 in the issue).

I came to a jewelry boutique in Paris, where, as a person deeply obsessed with jewelry, I began to try things on. And they were so happy that I went into the store, that they immediately closed it for "special service". However, I was wearing a shirt with which to try on jewelery is a crime: you will never understand what the product is for and why. Therefore, I threw off my shirt around the waist - so the jewelry looks more beautiful - and let's turn and spin in front of the mirror like forty. Photographer Matt Irwin was absolutely delighted and clicked almost all the time. So, I do not know who is there and what is topless there, but I have a shirt on my waist.