When you look at him, old age is not so sad. If you understand under the word "happiness", harmony with you and the outside world, then Nikolai Drozdov - a happy man. First, not everyone managed to live such an interesting and rich life. There were also an expedition to the North Pole, and climbing Elbrus, and unforgettable travels to Australia, Africa and South America. Nikolai Nikolayevich is a scientist, Professor MSU and the author of many books, popular science articles and textbooks. Secondly, he is love. Not everyone, surviving to such a reverence, retains faith in good, justice and beauty of the world.
Nikolai Nikolaevich, seventy-five you ... What feeling will celebrate the anniversary?
Nikolay Drozdov: "Fun! Every day is a holiday. A person is released a certain number of years he should live in joy and with a good mood. I really like the saying: "Who does not smoke and do not drink, that healthy is dying." In my opinion, keep yourself, to be healthy until the last day of life is great happiness. "
You never smoked?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "It was a case. Still, many of us enter the influence of the company in student years. But I will overcome my bad habit by psychological techniques. And erased from the memory that day when I quit smoking. My installation: I am non-smoking. "
Many celebrate how beautiful you look. How long do you feel internally feel?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "Somewhere in the area of thirty-five: sometimes it sobs, tingles there. I remember I grabbed me radiculitis in the expedition, in the desert. And then I just had twenty-eight years. I went for a long time in the heat, and suddenly it was raining. I hid under the bush, and then I could not climb: from the cold water was made the whole back, the nerve was torn. And this is at that age! But now I do not know what is radiculitis, because every morning I do a charging hour. This exercises for all muscle groups and yogh gymnastics. I have a teacher - Yuri Petrovich Gushcho. He wrote a book "Twelve keys from the safe of longevity."
Yoga implies spiritual improvement ...
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "Of course. There is a complex of breathing exercises, there is a meditation. We will not bring ourselves before soaring in the air, it still requires a strong disconnection from everyday life. (Laughs.) I am practicing yoga adapted for a regular European person. "
Childhood Nikolai Drozdova passed under Ryazan. In the picture: Grandfather Sergey Ivanovich, Mom Nadezhda Pavlovna, Father Nikolai Sergeevich, our hero and his older brother Sergey. Photo: Personal archive of Nikolai Drozdov.
In one of the interviews you admitted that you want to live to a hundred years. What for?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "No, I did not say that! Why do I feel with caution to journalists - they sometimes write what they themselves want. In fact, it is very bad - want to live to some age. If I thought so, it would immediately come into a contradiction with the will of the Most High. I am a believer man. And in heavenly scrubbles it is written, to whom and how much is destined to live. " (In the family of Drozdov, spiritual traditions have always been strong. The cousin Prapraded Nikolai Nikolayevich - Metropolitan Filaret (Drozdov) - ranked with the Russian Orthodox Church to the Famine of Saints. - Approx. Aut.)
There were moments in your life when you felt that the highest strength come to the rescue?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "All the troubles that happened to me are reminders that it is still necessary to be restrained and more carefully to yourself. It is worth listening to slaps and subtletiles of fate not to get a blow under the smoke. Such signals I constantly get. Once I was bitten by Vijuk, and together to immediately take action, I sat for three days at home. Then he arrived at the invitation of Elena Malysheva to a meeting with the children on June 1, and my hand had reached the state of gangrenes. Lena as shouting: "What do you want to cut off your hand to you?!" And I thought everything would be going through. At the Sklifosovsky Institute, I was immediately put in resuscitation under the dropper. Thank God, the hand was saved. "
Are you an adventurer in kind? Take at least your expedition to the North Pole. Not everyone will be thrown on it.
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "Well, you! There is a queue. An expedition to Antarctica seemed even more interesting to me. In the North Pole, I have already been three times. Once sled in atomic icebreaker "Yamal". Meets on the archipelago with Austrians who shot a film about the opening of the Land of Franz Joseph. We helped them to unload, and went on themselves. Of course, bright impressions of mass. Imagine: a huge powerful icebreaker is directly cutting the ice array. Behind the rear formed, and some hot heads (I, including) dived there. Not everything, however, dare, a man thirty from three hundred living on the ship. And of course, the captain was ahead of everyone. Water is ice, minus three degrees! We swim - and run in the pair. By the way, there were a lot of polar bears, which were lying around, waiting for seals. To completely merge with the snow, they covered their black nose with a paw. I heard about it, but I thought it was a bike. And then I saw all with my own eyes. Only a seal was emerged from the wormwood, this huge beast made a throw and grabbed him. The spectacle is not for the faint of heart. And another time I already flew to the North Pole by plane. We broke the ice camp, put tents with heaters. They lived in this camp for two weeks. "
After such tests it was easy for you to participate in the project "Last Hero". What made you on this - excitement?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "There was no excitement. I immediately told the organizers that I agree to participate, but I will not fight for the prize. I believe that people are not public, but those who participated in the competition took place. According to the rules of the game, prize money is impossible to spend on behalf. The tribesmen will not give you a voice if you are not declared some kind of useful, socially significant goal. One finalist said that he was going to restore the church in the village, where his mother lives. Another girl stated that it would build a nursery for homeless dogs. And they won! So, I think the idea of this TV project is noble. And of course, we learned to survive on the island: I was looking for firewood, tried to feed ourselves - they caught fish, some mollusks, grinding, collected mushrooms. In extreme conditions, human qualities are manifested - and bad, but mostly good. "
On the project "The Last Hero" TV presenter caught shark and, as in a fairy tale about the Golden Fish, let her go back to the sea. Photo: Personal archive of Nikolai Drozdov.
Do you lead a healthy lifestyle, are engaged in sports ... Vegetarianism is a conscious life position?
Nikolai Nikolaevich:
"Physical education and sports are different things. Once I played football, I loved to stand on the gate, but is it just a sport? So, rustic running. I lived with my parents in the suburbs. And we played with the guys in the meadow in the forest. Two pines - one gate, two pines - others. From the floor, I also pressed quite weak. I have an asthenic physique, Schwarzenegger from me not to do how much they do. Yes, I never sought to install some records. The main thing is health. And vegetarianism is a truly life position, coming from the philosophy of yogis. I believe that this path is very correct for a person. Our stomach is well adapted to vegetable food, but for the digestion of the animal you need large energy consumption. In addition, I am calm - for the sake of me do not kill animals. You probably have seen more than once the hostesses in the markets choose meat: it's on the soup, it's on roast. And if you think about it, they turn the pieces of the dissected corpse. "Do not eat fish too?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "Seafood and fish used to eat. This is considered lenger food. Now I realized that I can do without it. My teacher Yuri Gushcho, about whom I already told you, also does not use meat either. So, he found out that there are a lot of vegetarians among the Olympic champions. So do not think that vegetable food does not give force. And how. Orangutan and Gorilla are clean vegetarians, but I will not advise anyone to contact them. "
Are you able to kill the beast if your life threatens a danger?
Nikolai Nikolayevich: "I didn't have to do this, but I think if I had to choose a predator attacker at me, the choice would be unequivocal. Of course, I will not kill a hare or deer. Although no one impose its principles. I have friends-hunters. "
Mark Twain said: "The more people know, the more I begin to love dogs." Do you agree with that?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "I heard this expression, and it seems to me ugly. I bow before talent brand tween. But he smoked a lot, and smoking lowers the level of optimism and vitality. I would say this: "The more I recognize people, the more I love people." To put on one level a reasonable creature and an animal - disrespectful to a person. We can't say that all dogs are kind and cute. They are as they brought them. If I go to someone else's plot and the shepherd creates me, which protects the territory, I will not be offended at her - because I was given the installation of the owner. There are decorative little dogs very frozen. "
Have you ever had a dog?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "In adulthood - no. And when I was small, my father kept the terrier nicknamed Jim. Wonderful such dog, good-wishing sympathet. For several years we spent. A true friend. But this is not a human friend - he cannot give a good advice, it is impossible to talk to him. While you will pour the soul, the dog will look at you with devoted eyes, but will not tell me how to do in a difficult situation. It will not be able to keep from a bad act. People need to love, because only through love we can overcome the shortcomings of another person. And if you constantly roam and poke into them with your finger - you will not achieve a positive result. "
Have you ever had to prove your righteous fists?
Nikolai Nikolayevich: "Perhaps in school years I could defend against someone, but never fought for the sake of approval of my principles. And even more so did not attack. I believe the dispute can only be scientific, in the form of discussion. "
Can you say that you understand the animals better than many people?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "I am a leading TV shows. For each issue, I invite one or two specialists, scientists. And they tell them about their pets. My knowledge is pretty superficial. Better I know birds and reptiles. And there are such people who are engaged in a study of some particular species. For example, in the following my program, a lady will participate, Candidate of Biological Sciences Elena Chelyshev. She is engaged in twenty-nine years. Worked in the Moscow Zoo, then in Kenya, Tanzania and America. Can you imagine how much her rich experience is? "
For the sake of their loved ones, the TV presenter sacrificed his favorite hobby - poultry spiders. Photo: Personal archive of Nikolai Drozdov.
Previously, my houses lived at home, then they had to part with them. Did you have a resentment on home for the fact that they did not support your passion?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "What is the insult? We all do in terms of mutual agreement. Here, too, someone wrote that I do not hold poisonous snakes because of the protest from the family. What protest? I am not crazy to settle the snakes at home, which can be dangerous for my loved ones. Daughters, and now the grandchildren will inadvertently open Wolter - and trouble will happen. My brains have enough to understand it. And the poultry spiders really lived. They caused interest. Their behavior has been studied little. These are such animal aliens. They have a very peculiar relationship with the outside world. "
Nikolai Nikolaevich, you did not marry enough long. Looking for your soul mate?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "Well, in general, yes. Hoped that God would send her her. Friends joked, said: "You probably will bring my wife from Thailand or America." And Tanya lived with me in one entrance, two floors below. We got acquainted in the elevator. She began to help me print on a typewriter: I then wrote a book about my journey in Australia. She helped me very much. We have lived together for thirty-five years - without any quarrels, adventures and chagrins. And the further, the closer to each other becomes. "
Probably, she attracted that you were such an original person, you have a bright rich life.
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "Maybe. And I liked the fact that she is so serious, even closed. It does not show interest in a row. She does not like publicity. And when some magazines offer me to take pictures in the family circle, categorically refuses. "
Tatyana Petrovna - a woman's economy and does not like secular events. Photo: Personal archive of Nikolai Drozdov.
Your wife's life is also associated with biology?
Nikolai Nikolaevich:
"Now she is already retired, and before he taught in the Moscow Palace of Creativity of Children and Youth."Did you consciously brought up interest in children? One daughter you have a biologist, the other is a veterinarian.
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "No, it happened. There were many books on biology in the house, I told about my expeditions. "
How do Native let you go to any dangerous projects, for example, on the "last hero"?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "Well, who can forbid me? Still, I am my own owner. Of course, the wife says: "Dear, well, maybe not worth it?" I answer: "I need." In addition, for me, staying on a desert island is part of scientific work. From the student years, my classmate with my classmate studied island biogeography. We were interested in Flora and fauna islands as part of evolution. My friend and I have already written a couple of textbooks, I defended my thesis. And suddenly I was offered to live on a desert island ... so lucky! "
Probably, your grandchildren are also interested in biology?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "There is no younger for three years, and the older, Filaret, a lot of hobbies. He draws great, engaged in ceramics and plays an accordion. I am very happy for him. I myself tried to learn how to play an accordion, but I could not. Now I will sing, and grandson is accompanied by me. I love to sing, released a non-commercial disk with folk and Soviet songs. I'm going to record one more. By the way, a big festive concert is scheduled to my anniversary. We decided to call it "in the world of friends and animals." I am one of the leaders, but will speak Yuri Antonov, Joseph Kobzon, Tamara Gverdcitel, Lev Leshchenko. Funds from the sale of tickets will go to the operations to children with congenital defects of the face as part of the program "Return the children smile!", And all the stars will perform at the concert for free. With a very warm feeling, I'm waiting for this holiday. "
On a birthday, it is customary to poison candles on the anniversary cake and make a desire. What do you wish for yourself?
Nikolai Nikolaevich: "Being healthy and be able to do good deeds. This is the main goal of human life. "