Mikhail Yuryevich Barshchevsky is an extremely versatile person. Jurisprudence, science, social activities, politics - he clearly showed himself in all these areas.
Fourth generation lawyer
Mikhail Yurievich is a hereditary lawyer. His great-grandfather, Yakov Davydovich, was engaged in legal activities in Ukraine. Grandmother, Tatyana Yakovlevna, actively participated in it during the Great October Revolution, was a member of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage under the Council of People's Commissars, and then became deputy prosecutor in the capital of the Soviet Union. The ancestors of Mikhail Yuryevich, not related to jurisprudence, also distinguished themselves. Barshchevsky’s grandmother by mother is a descendant of the Teutonic Knights. The wife of a revolutionary grandmother, Alexei Pavlovich Selivanovsky, created the Literary Newspaper. During the repression, he was shot. The wife of the “enemy of the people, " Tatyana Yakovlevna, was rehabilitated only after the death of Stalin in 1956. She immediately returned to the bar. The son of Barshchevsky, Yuri Selivanovsky, was adopted, but, despite this, he was also declared "an enemy of the people." It was not easy for him to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors, but he was not afraid and received a law degree and in the end was able to achieve success: he became one of the best lawyers in the USSR. This is the father of Mikhail Barshchevsky.
Biography
- 1963 - 1973. Education in an English special school.
- 1969 Entry into the Komsomol.
- 1973 - 1979 Work at the Moscow Margarine Plant, legal adviser.
- 1973 - 1978 Studying at the All-Union Correspondence Law Institute
- 1980 Admission to the Moscow City Bar Association
- 1983 - 1991 Membership in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1990 Foundation of the first law firm
- 2001. Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of the Russian Federation in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, in the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation.
- 2006 - 2015. Activities in the political party "Civil Power" ("Civil Platform").
Mikhail Yurievich was born in Moscow on December 27, 1955. The foundation for a successful career was laid in childhood. Therefore, the parents sought to give Misha a good education and even the school did not choose a simple one - special English school No. 29 on Kropotkinskaya. The family can be attributed to the Arbat intelligentsia, therefore, the mother not only tried to get her son all the knowledge necessary for the future profession, but also developed it in other directions, educated a real person in him.
What Mikhail will become in a future life was clear from the very beginning. But jurisprudence is a fairly wide area. Having received higher education, Barshchevsky decided to develop in business advocacy. Prior to that, he had already conducted various cases, including criminal ones. This gave him great experience, especially since the lawyer did not choose simple cases in which success can be easily achieved. He himself recalls that he decided to specifically take matters for which experienced lawyers did not take up. Judge for yourself: it’s not a shame to lose such a thing, the rest haven’t even tried, and at least he tried. But the price of victory was already high: others were frightened, and he lined up.
Choosing a niche for himself as a business lawyer, Mikhail Yurievich acted very visionary, because just at that time, and ended the eighties, the Soviet Union was living out its last days and entrepreneurship was already beginning to emerge. Commercial banks appeared, for some Barshchevsky even wrote charters.
Already in 1989, he received a unique opportunity to go to the United States for an internship at the large law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McLoy. Among her clients was even the Rockefeller family. And a year later, upon returning from the United States, Mikhail Yurievich created the first private legal office in the USSR, and then in Russia, under the name Moscow Lawyers. Three years later, she was transformed into the law office "Barschevsky and Partners" of the Moscow Civil Aviation Administration. At the same time, a well-known lawyer not only engages in professional activities in practice, but also continues to do scientific work: on the basis of his dissertation, he writes a doctoral dissertation and successfully defends it.
Since 2001, begins the political career of Barshchevsky. In the Government of the Russian Federation, where he was invited to work, Mikhail Yuryevich becomes the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of the Russian Federation in various courts of the Russian Federation. Since that time, Barshchevsky essentially becomes the country's main lawyer.
At the end of 2006, Barshchevsky decided on his political priorities and joined the Civil Power party. In the fall of 2007, he was elected chairman of the Upper World; he was in this post for exactly a year. And in 2012, Barshchevsky was elected to the federal civil committee of the Civic Platform party. Three years later he quit the party.
