1/3Photo: Roman KuznetsovPhoto: Roman KuznetsovPhoto:Roman Kuznetsov: I'm on my lunch break, so I ran out of the office with Vanya for a walk. I spent time in Gorky Park with my dad when I was a child. He turned 50 when I was born, we didn't communicate as often as I would have liked. He was busy at work, and the rare moments when we managed to be together, for some reason, always passed in the park: in the winter we went ice skating, in the summer we swam on the pond. Only then there were no catamarans here, but rowboats. It so happened that the age difference with my grandson is approximately the same as that of my father and me. Vanya and I try to lead an active lifestyle. An hour or an hour and a half together - and, you know, your productivity increases, your thoughts are organized, I return to the office and get down to creativity. I have no experience raising boys. I have always been surrounded by a feminine kingdom: I have four daughters (Natalia is 31, Sarina is 18, Emmanuel is 9, and Beate is 6). I even raised my third daughter, Emma, a little like a man, because I was really expecting a boy in her place. But I resigned myself to the fourth experiment. The first couple of months after Vanechka was born, I would pick him up and say, "You're my girl!" Then I thought, "What am I saying? You can't do that." Choosing gifts for a guy also turned out to be difficult. I had no such experience. But I have a wife who helps me with these matters. She has many friends who have sons. We buy bicycles and construction sets on their advice. But the best way to spend time is with relatives. This is what we teach Vanya. We often run away into problems and work. We give a toy to a child, saying, "Entertain yourself," but he needs human contact. It is necessary to talk to children from the very beginning, even while they are in the womb. Now my grandson is already one and a half years old, and I still can’t believe that I am a grandfather. Although, of course, I am happy. I changed my status, this means that my days are not wasted. But my daughters are still small, so I am a young father. My wife now has a favorite joke: “I’m not a grandmother yet, but I’m already sleeping with my grandfather” (Liana is Mikhail Turetsky’s second wife. The eldest daughter Natasha, Vanya’s mother, was born in his first marriage. – Antenna’s note).
