Natalia Barbier: biography, career, personal life

Popular Russian presenter Natalia Barbier, although headed by a very authoritative and the very first printed edition in her niche, is a very cheerful, cheerful and friendly woman in her life. At the same time she is a very active, active and incredibly inquisitive person who is alien to snobbery and conceit.

The first steps of Natalia Barbie

Barbie Natalia has her own year of birth as a real woman hides. Comes from an intelligent Soviet family. Father - soldier Vladimir Troepolsky, sailor, captain of the 2nd rank; Mother is an English teacher. She was born in the fortress of Kronstadt, where her father was at that time. However, the first conscious memories link with Saratov, where the school years passed. She really liked this city, combining different styles of architecture, which became a haven for the intelligentsia in the military and post-war time. The girl often went on foot from school home, enjoying the views and the peculiar spirit of the city.

Formation of personality and character

Childhood of Natalia Barbie Was very happy. She was brought up in an atmosphere of love and care, always felt the support of the family. Thanks to this, as she herself admits, she always feels happy and does not give in to despondency.

Grandfather Natalia Barbier was dean of the Faculty of History of the University of Saratov, probably, he instilled in the girl from an early age a love for books. Mom was in constant search of a new apartment, loved to change the place and the situation. Most likely, it was from the mother and Natalie inherited a good taste and sense of style, becoming the result of an expert in the field of interiors.

Education and Internship

After graduation from school Natalia Barbie left Saratov for Moscow, where she entered the Moscow State University, at the Faculty of Journalism. After graduation at the same university, she enrolled in a postgraduate course in the specialty of "art critic". After graduation, it was possible to pass an internship on the BBC channel, which she gladly used.

Career growth and professional activity

Natalia Barbier, whose biography interests us, took this pseudonym when she began to develop her career. Barbie is the name of her grandmother, and the real name is Troepolskaya. For the first time a pseudonym was used to sign articles in the magazine "House".

The first place of work after the internship was the post of a correspondent in the newspaper Literaturnaya Rossiya, later in Literaturnaya gazeta and Ogonek magazine. Then I tried my hand at the editorial in the "Domovoi" magazine.

Since 1998, when she generated the idea of the magazine "Mezonin", she is the editor-in-chief of this publication. At that time it was the first magazine popularizing the idea of creating individual interiors, decor. Interior design has just started to become fashionable.

On television, Natalia Barbier took part in projects "House with mezzanine", "Interiors", "Perfect repair" at different times.

In addition to working on television and in printed journalism, this active woman is president of the Association of Interior Decorators, president of the annual exhibition events "Week of Decor" and "Week of Gardens", successfully oversees her author's project "Table Decor". Since 2008 she participated in the project "Snob".

Perfect repair

The main idea of the First Channel project "Perfect Renovation", led by Barbier, consists not only in replacing the old furnishings or re-equipping the interior with some other, new, fashionable, but perhaps absolutely unfit for habitation. The project team works primarily to ensure that the future interior is as good as possible to its owner. Therefore, they study the old situation, get acquainted with the owners, select a layout, materials and decor, which would be liked by the tenants of the apartment. As the presenter herself says, in order to make the interior "rich and fashionable", it is worth turning to other specialists. The same project has different tasks.

Personal life

Natalia Barbier, whose personal life is also not leading the public, is married to Alexander Galushkin. According to Natalia's own stories, she is happy in marriage, since her husband is her adherent. They together were engaged in restoration of the apartment converted from an old communal apartment in the Stalin's house. Together they built and furnished a dacha in the suburbs, and then in Montenegro. The husband supports and shares the woman's love for books, travel, socializing with friends and active recreation.

My home is my castle

Despite the fact that Natalia Barbier is a well-known and authoritative expert in the field of interior and decoration, she herself does not like show-off and does not understand why to do repairs every season. Although to change regularly the curtains and rearrange furniture from time to time very much. His apartment in Moscow, which she loves very much, she tried to decorate in the spirit of the Russian intelligentsia. Let it not be very large in area, only 72 m ² , but it is arranged so that it would be convenient to live in it. Barbie is very fond of reading, her house has many books on the shelves near the ceiling, as well as a mass of all kinds of souvenirs and postcards, brought from different countries, family photos and other lovely little things. In this interior everything is in its place.

But in a Mediterranean house in Montenegro, bought back in 2002, a completely different interior. This apartment became one of the first Russian settlements of famous people. And she attracted Natalya and her husband with their low cost and the silence of the town.

According to Natalia's professional beliefs, each interior reflects the identity of its owner. On it you can get an idea of the nature and preferences of a person. All the activities of this journalist are aimed at instilling in the interior a good taste in the interior, the desire to convey that it is not necessary to spend a lot of money to arrange an apartment and create a cosiness. It is enough to show imagination, to walk around flea markets, to look, and the necessary piece of "mosaic" - a detail of the interior - will be found.

The presenter is convinced that the interior is also dictated, among other things, by the location of the accommodation. For example, the European interior radically differs from Russian, due to weather conditions in the first place, as well as the traditions of each country, the available materials, the environment. As well as within the same country, the urban home environment will be radically different from the rural one.

Thus, Natalia Barbier became one of the first people who carried the idea of decorating and interior design to the public, created a new professional branch of interior journalism.