Seva Novgorodzew
Seva Novgorodzew ( Russian Се́ва Новгоро́дцев ; born July 9, 1940 in Leningrad ; actually Vsevolod Borissowitsch Levenstein ) is a British-Russian radio presenter and musician .
A year after the birth, his mother left the besieged Leningrad with him ; The family was not together again until 1945 and moved to the Estonian Soviet Republic in 1949 . Novgorodzew trained as a navigator in the Soviet merchant fleet and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1962. Then he returned to Leningrad and became a professional musician from 1965 with Josif Weinstein , later from 1972 with his own ensemble "Добры Молодцы" (Dobry Molodtsy, the Fine Young Men) and toured the Soviet Union .
In 1975 he left the Soviet Union with his family and was recognized by a BBC employee in Italy and won over to work for the station. After a linguistic and journalistic training, Novgorodzew worked for 38 years as a freelance radio presenter for the BBC on Russian programs from 1977 . During the Soviet era, he presented two weekly radio programs with and about music and background information, and thus became known to an audience of millions throughout the Soviet Union; Hundreds were standing at the airport when he first visited Russia in 1990. During the Cold War , the Soviet media had speculated that entire groups of MI5 agents had come up with anti-Soviet jokes, but that this was only his own, perceived apolitical way of moderating. A lot of fan mail to him was opened by the Soviet secret service, which he in turn discussed hidden in the programs. He had received British citizenship in 1984.
The opening of the media market in Russia in the 1990s seemed to mean the end of the BBC's Russian service, but Vladimir Putin's regime would have brought back the propaganda (“Putin's regime has returned everything to Soviet standards ...”). In contrast to the repetitive and ideological, but never nationalistic Soviet propaganda feed the new propaganda monsters, he called it in 2015 "hysterically patriotic". The only means against it is the absolute observance of journalistic due diligence rules, as they apply at the BBC (“If you put up a fight and you reference the BBC Charter, you will win”).
In the film In the Face of Death , he played a Russian pilot who chases Bond. He then had an appearance in Spies Like Us and three other film appearances.
In 1995 a rock lexicon by Novgorodzew was published. On April 27, 2007, the Queen presented him with the Order of the British Empire .
The fan mail letters were made available for research in the archive of the Hoover Institution in 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.peoples.ru/art/music/dj/novgorodtsev/
- ↑ a b c d e f BBC Russian's Seva Novgorodsev: my method was compassion , Cambridge Globalist, March 16, 2015
- ^ A b Inventory of the Seva Novgorodsev letters received , 2010
- ↑ a b c BBC Russian's Seva Novgorodsev: 'The facts are the last thing they think of' , The Guardian, September 4, 2015
- ↑ http://www.antiquariat-buecher.de/ss_Crops.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Novgorodzew, Seva |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Новгородцев, Сева (Russian); Novgorodtsev, Seva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian musician and radio host of the BBC |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |