Famous journalist and writer Maxim Kotin. Stella Baranovskaya
Friday. After work I run to the train. The day is terrible...
I got to the station and wanted to grab something to eat. And your favorite store is nearby. Yes, I love shawarma and I don’t hide it. One guy works there - either an Arab or a Tajik - he cuts the meat calmly. A very short Asian woman helps him. I like this place because everything is sterile and when I came here for the first time I was treated to free tea. One day a boy was hesitating near a shop, an Arab went out into the street and kindly asked what he wanted. In the meantime, I grabbed the shava and moved on.
There is a gazelle on the sidewalk. An open body - in front of it is a wooden table with boxes. I look closely and see that they are selling something similar to meat in boxes. People are crowding around. Suddenly one salesman “imposingly” (emphasize this word) takes a step away from the table; aristocratically presses one nostril with his thumb, and with the other powerfully performs a first-class solo.
So, a book about Russian business.
The story of one guy from Syktyvkar who decided to fulfill his dream. Just don’t draw parallels with American success stories. First of all, there is no happy ending here. Secondly, I have always loved the stories of Russian entrepreneurs - after all, Western realities are so far from us.
Fedor Ovchinnikov - main character books. He turned 25 and decided that he needed to start a business. He wanted to sell books. This strange guy also started a blog where he recorded all his actions. When the author of the book wrote Fedor's life story, between some paragraphs he inserted quotes from Fedor's blog and his commentators.
That's all you need to know about Fedor, because what this book is really about is Russian realities and what is it like to build a business in Russia, namely in Syktyvkar. Well, for example, what is it like to find a decent driver to transport books, if they all practically drank themselves to death, or called on the second day of work and quit. What is it like to hire workers for whom the bonus system does not apply at all - “they gave - good and who have no idea at all about communicating with visitors (remember the story with boxes of lard). What is it like to deal with partner deputies who have no logic at all. If you didn’t install his friend into your business, he begins to do you dirty, thereby ruining and own business. This is a peculiarity - if someone has a better house, I would rather set the whole village on fire than build my own, more beautiful one. And a bunch of such examples.
An excerpt about the attitude of Russians towards entrepreneurs is ingrained in my memory. Popularly, these are crooks, charlatans and swindlers, so employees mess up at work not only because of carelessness, but rather with the goal of repaying the “oppressor.” For example, a Papa John's employee spilled sauce on the floor and spread it back on the pizza. Or instead of putting the dough in the refrigerator, I threw it in the warehouse. For what? It's not laziness, it's more like "watchman's syndrome." I'd like to think about it.
But the most interesting and intriguing thing about this book is that the author finished writing it when Fedor lost everything... And only a small chapter said that Fedor did not give up, that he did not give up. And if you Google Fedor Ovchinnikov now, you will understand that this book has become a real prophecy. This still boggles my mind.
There is a movie coming out soon about Ray Kroc, who is also mentioned several times in this book. This book also contains a rich plot for cinema. Maybe one day...
People like Stella Baranovskaya are usually envied. She was beautiful girl, happily shared photos on Instagram, from which many concluded that “life was good.” Cars, flowers, lips, legs, restaurants, more bouquets. And you wouldn’t wish the misfortunes that befell the 31-year-old actress on your enemy. She had to face complete hatred strangers, a serious illness. And even the fact that before her death she did not have the opportunity to take care of the future of her little child.
I wish I could live and not bother. But at the beginning of last year she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She underwent treatment in the USA and Russia. Initially, she underwent several courses of chemotherapy, which made her feel much worse. At some point, she really began to be treated with everything she could. Weiland Rodd, ex-husband Irina Ponarovskaya, tried to treat her with a strict diet - juices, vegetables and fruits. And she tried to heal herself with chlorophyll... The essence of this method is to saturate cancer cells with a natural preparation from spirulina in order to activate the release of oxygen under the influence of laser irradiation.
Alternative medicine did its job, but not at all what the patient expected. In the final stages, she was no longer taken for chemotherapy, since both her kidneys and liver were already failing. Yes, she wouldn’t have helped at this stage. Even those doctors who offered her chemotherapy did not give guarantees and honestly warned that her body might not be able to withstand it. But Stella convinced herself that she was feeling better, thereby wasting precious time.
At the beginning of last year she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Photo:
All this time, the girl was supported by Lera Kudryavtseva and Anfisa Chekhova, who helped spread information about Stella’s illness. There wasn’t a lot of money for treatment from the very beginning, so a fundraiser was announced. And then they came, the “haters.” Who began to flood the Internet with streams of hatred, trying to convince the public that Stella was lying. Entire groups were created where everyone could kick a sick woman. There were also witnesses who saw in different places of the capital a happy, contented woman who did not look dying at all.
At the end of 2016, the girl went on “Live” then to Boris Korchevnikov, where she honestly spoke about her illness, that the treatment helped her and she had a lot of chances for life, and also answered the haters. But the disease did not subside.
After treatment in America (where, by the way, as family friends say, her mother flew to see her), Stella swam, sunbathed, and tried to enjoy life. Then it got worse.
Stella, meanwhile, realizing that the end was just around the corner, tried to decide the fate of her son. Katya Gordon, who is now trying to help the child, says:
“Anfisa Chekhova contacted me to help her friend Stella with Lera Kudryavtseva. They asked her to make a will and told her about the difficult situation with the child. It was urgent to establish paternity, since Stella practically did not walk. And after her death, 6-year-old Dani had only his rather elderly great-grandmother. According to Stella, her mother (Dani’s grandmother) never really helped her with treatment. And, therefore, she really did not want the child to go to her mother. She once called me and told me that she needed a child solely for the sake of money. Well, in front of me, her mother really didn’t help much. And I witnessed how once relatives transferred money for Stella’s treatment, and my mother did not deliver it. That’s why Baranovskaya asked to somehow get through to the child’s father.”
She was a beautiful girl, happy to share photos on Instagram Photo: Personal page of the publication’s hero on the social network
According to Stella, several years ago she had difficult relationships with Maxim Kotin. His mother, Irina Winter, regularly appears in gossip columns and tells glossy publications about her garden. The interior designer and art director of the “Galleries on Mosfilm” no, no, yes, he will post on Instagram photos from luxurious vacations on yachts, trips in expensive cars and other attributes of an expensive life. My friends on Facebook are all decent people: gallery owners (Aidan Salakhova), lawyers (Alexander Dobrovinsky), magazine publishers. There is even Maria Maksakova. Maxim’s father, Igor Kotin, previously headed the copper department of the representative office of the Swiss company Glencore. Now he is listed as the founder of NFR Energo LLC. And, apparently, he is not in poverty at all.
Who will raise the little son dead woman, unknown Photo: Personal page of the publication’s hero on the social network
When little Daniel was born, Stella brought the baby to meet relatives and ask for some alimony out of naivety. But, as the poor mother told her friends in horror, the grandfather asked the guards “to remove this bastard from the house and not let him in again.” Then the disease was not close and on the horizon, so she coped with the first five years of her son’s life without outside help and the need to recognize the child. But when she was already in a completely sad state, realizing that the child was already left with her great-grandmother, who was not able to take care of him, she decided to start establishing paternity - maybe dad would take care of the boy after her death.
According to Stella, several years ago she had an affair with major Maxim Kotin Photo: Personal page of the publication’s hero on the social network
“I wrote to Maxim Kotin, who, according to Stella, is Dani’s biological father (they are really very similar). And she wrote it to her mother, Irina Wintour, Gordon continues. - She told me that this was the situation and I needed help. She might not know that this is the situation with Stella, and that she considers Maxim the father of her child. After which I was immediately blocked, depriving me of the opportunity to write. Although, I could have written “you’re wrong, Katya,” or “I don’t know anything about this,” but I simply decided to ignore it. Anfisa Chekhova and I sincerely believed that the boy’s father would respond. And they even sent photos of Stella in a deplorable state. And we had all the medical documents on hand. We periodically took care of the child, who observed this most cruel picture of his mother dying. The boy was periodically with me, then with Anfisa. Now he is with the singer Zara, where he spent the last three days. We were all puzzled by his fate. I kept wanting a notary to come to her as soon as possible, which was not so easy, since Stella was in a clinic 80 kilometers from Moscow. But at some point it seemed to her that she was recovering. And so she postponed the notary until later. Although we had already approved a claim with her to establish paternity and were ready to file it. At the same time, a year ago, the real persecution of Stella began. Since she was accused of not being sick and deceiving people for money. A certain Madina and her mother went on TV and said that Baranovskaya was a charlatan. And even last Friday she was ready to go on TV with a story about her theft. This hurt Stella to the core, and she was even ready to take a lie detector test if they brought it to her. For she no longer walked and screamed from any touch to her. When we put in an IV, the blood was very thick, and it was clear that she was living her last days.”
Irina Winter regularly appears in gossip columns and tells glossy publications about her garden Photo: Personal page of the publication’s hero on the social network
Stella is gone, but 6-year-old Danya remains with a dash in the “father” column. And also grandparents, the cream of our society, pretend that the child does not exist. Beautiful people In general, it’s hard to be unhappy - who will feel sorry for them? It's her own fault, obviously. They will also spit in your back. This story is more about that, and not about the fact that a girl who became ill from chemotherapy decided to try everything to be treated in an attempt to save herself, and eventually died. What will happen to the child? Unclear. Who will be in charge of establishing paternity - Dani's old great-grandmother? Or will “secular people” take pity on the boy and take him under their wing? Or will he still go to an orphanage?
CALLING MOM
“Danya will stay with me”
Of course, Danya will stay with me, I already have him! - Stella’s mother, Larisa Kryuchonkova, told Komsomolskaya Pravda. - The boy is going to kindergarten, he will start school in a year. And in general, he grew up with me, you know?
- Will you somehow contact Maxim Kotin?
Not yet. Today this is not the main thing. Everything that happened to my daughter was out of despair. Danya is really Maxim's child. And someday they may communicate. I worry about something else: why didn’t those people who surrounded my daughter understand that she had to be saved? Make her fight for her life. She has a little son!
- So she didn’t listen to your advice?
She is very tired. What to do when everyone around you says that you are a liar, deceiving, and making money. Let these people now live happily ever after with what they did...
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Biography, life story of Kotin Maxim
Maxim Igorevich Kotin is a Russian writer.
Childhood, family
Maxim was born in St. Petersburg in 1980. His mother is Irina Winter, interior designer, art director of the Mosfilm Gallery. His father, Igor Kotin, once served as head of the media department of the representative office of the Swiss company Glencore, then became one of the founders of a large Moscow energy company.
Education
Maxim received his secondary education at gymnasium No. 73. Then he studied at the Lenfilm film school, then was a student at the music school named after. Later the young man entered the St. Petersburg State University at the Faculty of Journalism, which he successfully graduated in 2004.
Labor activity
Maxim Kotin worked as a columnist in Forbes magazine. He was an editor and special correspondent for the magazine "Secret of the Firm". For some time he was the editor of the portal Slon.ru. A little later, he got a job at the information and social magazine “Snob” as a special correspondent and deputy editor-in-chief. Kotin also collaborated as an editor with the publishing house Mann, Ivanov and Ferber.
Maxim Kotin wrote two books about domestic business that became very popular. His creations ". If out of 100 times you get sent 99..." and "Nerds Do Business" (a series of three books) became bestsellers. For his work, Kotin has repeatedly received professional and public awards. Thus, in 2008 he became the winner of the “Business Book” award in the “Business Stories” category, and in 2011 – the winner of the “Runet Choice” award.
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Maxim Kotin is the founder and head of the Hocus-Pocus publishing house, which publishes e-books self made.
Personal life
Maxim is married to a girl named Polina, the daughter of an alcohol magnate.
In 2010, Kotin dated a Russian film actress. In 2011, she gave birth to a boy, Daniel, presumably the son of Maxim.
After the tragic death in 2017 (the girl died from a severe form of cancer), the actress’s friends, as well as the public, began to actively find out whether Kotin was Daniel’s real father and whether he was obliged to take responsibility for raising the little man. It is noteworthy that in Daniel’s birth certificate there is a dash in the “Father” column. Maxim refused to acknowledge paternity.
Millionaire Maxim Kotin, from whom Stella Baranovskaya gave birth to a son, Danya, does not want to know his child.
A 30-year-old actress who has a son, Danya, from millionaire Maxim Kotin.
As close friends of Stella - and - Baranovskaya loved the beautiful and luxurious life. Obviously, this is how Maxim, a millionaire from Rublyovka, conquered her at one time. He gave the girl rides in expensive cars and took her to prestigious restaurants and nightclubs.
However, the fairy tale ended for Stella when she found out that she was pregnant. Maxim demanded that the girl have an abortion. However, he stated that starting a family is not part of his plans. And later he completely abandoned Stella. He did not want to see her, even when she became seriously ill.
The terrible news about the diagnosis found Baranovskaya in America with her fiancé. According to Larisa Pokhilchuk, a nurse at the hospital in Minnesota where Baranovskaya went, the chosen one turned away from the girl after learning that she had cancer.
"When she was discharged with her mother and Danya, they had nowhere to live. They stayed at my house... At that very moment she experienced betrayal loved one. The groom didn't even lift a finger to help her...We had several long conversations in the kitchen. What Stella experienced in her 30 years, some people do not experience in a hundred years. So many betrayals, so many difficult situations,” the nurse recalled.
Danya is the son of Stella Baranovskaya and Maxim Kotin
Also, Maxim Kotin did not want to recognize his son Danya, whom Baranovskaya gave birth to despite his demand to terminate the pregnancy.
Now Maxim has another girlfriend, she privately told Stella’s friends that the “bastard” in the Kotin family will never be recognized. “By the way, even Maxim’s girlfriend wrote: “I know this story, and all my close people know this story, but they consider him illegitimate, so they don’t want to see him,” Gordon said.
According to Katya Gordon, she sent the guy a photo of both Stella and the child, but Maxim’s family refused to communicate in any way.
In turn, Katya Gordon spoke about how she tried to get the child Stella Baranovskaya recognized by his biological father Maxim Kotin, son socialite Irina Winter - Dani's grandmother.
The staff of the show “Let Them Talk” also tried to contact Irina Winter, but the woman replied that she was vacationing in Venice and refused to talk.
Irina Winter - mother of Maxim Kotin
Stella’s friends remembered the persecution of skeptics and enemies that befell the actress on the Internet. They believed that the girl was faking the disease for personal gain.
Chekhova noted that Stella tried to provide support to other people who were struggling with serious illnesses. “She always helped. All the sick. She sent flowers to the same Madina who opposed her, supported her, listened to her. They initially communicated as friends. After which Madina, out of the blue, suddenly decided to go against her,” said TV presenter.
Also in the talk show, those who knew Stella said that she was going through chemotherapy very hard and was experiencing hellish torment, which is why she later refused this procedure.
“Stella has a very high pain threshold, she literally climbed the wall from pain during chemotherapy. She went through six steps, but didn’t pass the last one, it was too painful for her,” Pokhilchuk noted.
It was because of this that Baranovskaya turned to alternative medicine. Shortly before her death, the actress was treated by healer Akylbek from Kazakhstan. The editors of the program tried to contact the man, but he refused to talk about the artist’s treatment. At the same time, Anfisa Chekhova noted that Stella always noted that after sessions with him, her pain went away and she could sleep peacefully.
Stella Baranovskaya. “You didn’t believe me, and I died.” Let them talk
Stella Baranovskaya’s grandmother Lidiya Petrovna Kryuchonkova also came to the program. She said that she raised her from the moment she was discharged from the maternity hospital, because the girl’s mother worked and she did not have time to raise her daughter. When the grandmother found out about her granddaughter’s diagnosis, she was speechless. Now she, like all Stella’s loved ones, is worried about her fate six year old son Dani.
“For me, he is the last straw of life, I have to help him, because my daughter is inadequate... I know about Dani’s father that when he was 10 months old, his father did not give up on him. He may have wanted to, but his parents were against it... When she became pregnant, he said: “I’ll give you money, have an abortion.” But she didn’t have one,” shared Lidia Petrovna.
Lydia Kryuchonkova - grandmother of Stella Baranovskaya
Baranovskaya’s father, Stanislav Kanteladze, appeared in the finale of the talk show. He flew from the USA to Moscow for her funeral. "I don’t know about Stella’s mother, but I think that no parent wants to harm their child. We communicate with her. We have a grandson, we must raise him. First of all, we must agree among ourselves how we will do this to do, this is a very difficult question. Of course, it would be good for the child if he went to America. And he would be raised there... I would like to take him, but we’ll see how we agree,” said Stella’s father.
Stanislav Kanteladze - father of Stella Baranovskaya
In recent days, Stella Baranovskaya was going to file a lawsuit against the father of her son, who is not involved in raising the child, but did not have time. Now her friends are doing this - Katya Gordon and Anfisa Chekhova.
September 4, 30-year-old actress Stella Baranovskaya, who had been battling cancer for a long time, has died. Her friend reported this Katya Gordon, who published an emotional video. “Stella died some kind of martyr’s death... in wild pain and worried that you, Max Kotin, even in this situation turned away from your little son. And she also cried because of your post Madina Tatraeva that she was a charlatan... her friends helped her... and she lived in poverty... Artem gave money to rent an apartment, Anfisa, Zara helped as best they could... but there is no person... there is a child Danya with a dash in the paternity column... but grandparents, rich socialites don’t even want to know about him...”- Gordon said.
In 2016, Stella became the heroine of the “Live Broadcast” program, whose studio she decided to visit after slander against her. A certain Madina Tatraeva, who herself is fighting cancer, accused the actress of deceiving the public and using the money raised for treatment to buy cars, houses and travel around the world. Communities were even created against Baranovskaya in social networks, throwing mud at her name every day.
Now, after the death of the actress, all the haters are silent, hastily deleting groups on social networks and refusing to comment. But, according to those close to the late Stella, all this no longer matters. Now Baranovskaya’s star friends - Katya Gordon, Anfisa Chekhova, Lera Kudryavtseva and singer Zara - are trying to find a new family for Stella’s six-year-old son Dani. As it turned out, while Baranovskaya was suffering from pain, her heir was at Gordon’s house, and after that Zara took the boy to her place.
The alleged father of the child, Maxim Kotin, refuses to contact Katya, according to whom she and Stella collected documents to file a claim to establish paternity, but did not have time. The orphaned boy has a grandmother (the mother of the late actress), but she, according to media reports, is not able to provide him with a comfortable life. How will it turn out? further fate little Dani is still unknown.
