A writer all his life working in the newspaper.
he placed the book "Journey to the new moon" and "Fatherland". In the initial period of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, a newspaper article Peskov called the Armenians and Azeris to stay, they came to themselves carried the sobering charge greater force than many slovosloviya politicians.
"Komsomolskaya Pravda in the beginning of the XXI century has changed, becoming a glamorous, to say the publication. Sands remained in the newspaper, but, naturally, in the camp glamorous authors were passed. Whether he won from this? It is difficult to judge. However, the newspaper won a lot - topic Peskov "Window to nature" has become the new "Komsomol Truth" remarkable window into the world of moral freshness.
- You see, Oleg, what is the problem - said to me, Vasily Mikhailovich telephone in fall 2006. - All my life I'm trying to get my journalistic work contributed to mental health. Now some of our newspapers engendered the opposite. On one page of a different sort of newspaper condemns such a person as Grabovoi, on the other advocates - for money, of course - his morbid ideas.
I invited Peskov on a radio program about Georgia. He politely refused, calling the Radio Liberty considerable political platform. He is, they say, politics in the work of only a hindrance.
- I often listen to your radio. The fact that I have not, and never had a TV set (by the way, has not acquired Vasily Peskov and passion for computers, communicators, mobile phones, the article he wrote in pencil, after nadiktovyvaya their editorial stenographer - Prim. DC ). In Voronezh, where I began working at the newspaper, came from the village actually after school - went on Vassily Peskov. - But quickly realized that I, a village youth who had received higher education, you need a lot and benefit from reading. So I said to myself: "Well, brother, if you'll have fun, then not leave.
Reading since become for him a daily task. Here you have many years of leading one of the most, as they say nowadays, in times past, a rating of TV programs "In the world of animals!
Still, we talked about Georgia, right there on the phone, though not a record. By phone Vasily Peskov told about the trip to Georgia, read some romantic poems by Russian poets of the province.
For me, a journalist who has repeatedly denied in an interview. But I do not remember that someone else did it so tactfully, accompanying refusal verses. Disclaimer I am not disappointed, however, remained in the memory of a happy proof of journalistic capabilities to communicate with the unique human beings.