Alexander Druz and his Elena: The main prize of the honored intellectual

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Alexander Druz since his appearance on television in 1981 in the game “What? Where? When? very quickly became popular and recognizable. In an incomprehensible way, restraint coexisted with the passion of a real player. Of course, the intellectual had a lot of fans. But he can confidently be called a monogamous person. He has known his wife for more than half a century, and in September 2018 he will celebrate 40 years since the wedding.

School love

They met in first grade. This is not to say that they instantly became friends, and then the school friendship grew into love. They just studied together for 2 years, and after that Elena's family moved to another area. But the girl's mother believed that Alexander was a very good boy, so he should be invited to visit. And for a couple of years, Sasha Druz regularly went to Elena's birthday. And he invited her to his name days, respectively.

True, Lenochka did not understand why Druz went to visit. While all the children were happily playing and chatting, Sasha took a book in his hands, sat in a corner and spent all the time in the company of books.

Their connection was soon interrupted, but Sasha kept the girl's home phone number in his notebook. And when, a few years later, he decided to congratulate all the girls he knew on International Women's Day, he called Lena. He was curious how much his childhood friend had changed, and he offered to meet.

Elena recalled afterwards how she could not wait for the end of the date. Sasha just non-stop told her jokes. But on the second date, she still went. She does not hide it now: at first she just used Alexander. He helped her to do physics, and during his meetings around Peter he talked a lot and interestingly about the sights of his native city.

But somehow imperceptibly, the relationship grew from friendly to romantic. By the end of school, they both had no doubt: it was love. But in the registry office, they were in no hurry.

Reasonable approach to life

Alexander and Elena decided to get an education first and only after that create a family. Alexander did not immediately go to the institute through the competition, but entered the industrial pedagogical technical school and only then graduated from the institute. Elena became a student of the First Medical School. Although she dreamed of just pedagogical, she could not find the strength to resist her mother's decision.

Surprisingly, Lena's mother, who treated Sasha so warmly in childhood, suddenly turned out to be almost his ideological enemy. She always adhered to communist views, but for some reason Alexander expressed seditious, in her opinion, thoughts. He was a clear adherent of dissidence.

But as a result, the daughter announced that Druz proposed to her, and her mother simply had to come to terms with her choice. The future mother-in-law herself did not feel any special joy about this.

The newlyweds settled with Elena, and then Alexander learned to show miracles of diplomacy. He did not get into arguments or talk about politics. In addition, he tried to control so that my mother did not watch those programs that led her to an exacerbation of her diseases. When she fell ill, he looked after her without expressing displeasure.

"What? Where? When?" on television and in life

In 1979, the couple had a daughter, Inna, in 1982, Marina. For the first time in the program “What? Where? When? Alexander Druz appeared in 1981. And almost immediately unprecedented popularity came to him. The simple systems engineer suddenly became a real star. However, he did not pay much attention to his rating. He liked to read, liked to learn new things, and the game allowed him to skillfully use this knowledge.

Over the years of playing at the club, he managed to win all imaginable and inconceivable awards, and also bring up a worthy replacement for himself. Both daughters of the intellectual very successfully began to play “What? Where? When?.

When asked how Alexander Abramovich and his wife developed the intellectual abilities of their daughters, both answer that no one did this on purpose. Just from the age of three months they read books, and then they sent them to a good mathematical school.

Daughters, on the other hand, say that parents always answered questions. They have never been dismissed from them and not referred to being busy. Alexander Abramovich also taught girls to look for answers to questions on their own. They did not have any bans on books, each read what she considered useful for herself.

Surprisingly, the eldest daughter Inna turned out to be a lover of books about the revolution, and the younger sister did not share her sister's hobbies, preferring pirate romance and books about Robin Hood. Inna and Marina (each of them have two daughters) raise their girls in the same way as they once raised them themselves.

The secret of family happiness

Alexander Abramovich has repeatedly said in his interviews that Elena is his main prize in life. His wife believes that his constancy is from laziness. There is already a woman who is always there, comfortable and understandable. There is no need to do anything further, to conquer anyone.

The master of the game strongly disagrees with her. He knows for sure that he managed to find in his youth the best woman in the world, who became for him a friend, wife and faithful, intelligent and reliable life companion.

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