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Editor’s Letter
By Igor Garanin
Sometimes a person can seem like a snob to others — they can seem cold, stuck up, even aloof. I like to trying to “warm up” people like this. From my experience, this behavior is the flip side of concentrating on something very important that demands colossal expenditures of emotion and energy. These are mega-professionals — people so enthusiastic that what their behavior looks like to others doesn’t even occur to them. It’s not that they don’t care about people, that’s not it. They just don’t have much time to think about it. Any creator’s resources are limited. One always has to choose where to spend energy, how much to spend, and how to restore it.
I believe — no, I’m sure — that the hero of our April cover is exactly this breed. I have heard a lot of different things about Kozlovsky: that he dislikes journalists, isn’t available to talk and says he’s busy (and very few people have been as busy as he is, it must be said). Agreeing to this interview certainly didn’t happen fast, but it was meticulous — two hours were found in his overfilled schedule for the shoot. Danil loves football and has played since childhood. Having ended up with a ball in a totally empty stadium, he simply couldn’t stop: his eyes glinted with mischief. The photographer Danil Golovkin could barely catch up. And it didn’t matter anymore that he was short on time and that there was much to do. There’s a professional team, a wonderfully directed photo-shoot, and Kozlovsky put his all into it. We were totally star-struck — delight, goosebumps. You know that only a heavy-hitter with a spotless reputation could interview somebody like this. I know only one such person: Russian television host Vladimir Pozner. We start discussions, and we have an idea. There’s never been anything like it in a Russian glossy magazine: Pozner speaks to Kozlovsky on his show on First Channel, GQ publishes the text. It’s something totally in the spirit of the times and in the spirit of Kozlovsky: to cross non-intersecting planes in space, enhance the effect,