Lavrov Sergey Viktorovich - a diplomatic worker who began his career in Soviet times and continues at the present time. Since 2004 - Minister of Foreign Affairs, member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. His wife is Maria Alexandrovna, a teacher by training, but she did not work a day at school. She devoted her whole life to home, family and children.
Biography of Maria Alexandrovna
She married Lavrova, being a student of a pedagogical university with a degree in “teacher of the Russian language and literature”, a philologist. Sergey Lavrov at that time was also a student at MGIMO and was finishing the third year. After receiving higher education, Maria did not have the opportunity to work in her specialty - as the wife of a diplomat, she was forced to travel with him on foreign business trips that lasted for years. Therefore, her fate and vocation were her husband, home and children.
Until the wedding with Sergey Lavrov, little is known about the biography of his wife. During the period when her husband lived and worked in the USA, Maria was in charge of the library of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations.
The total experience of the life of the Lavrovs was more than 40 years, and they fell in love with each other at first sight. In the early 70s, Sergei was tall (185 cm) and a handsome young man who knows how to play the guitar well, sing and read poetry. By the way, Lavrov never left his hobbies. He now enjoys singing with a guitar, writes poetry, is engaged in rafting and football.
Character
By nature, Mary is very modest, intelligent and does not like to appear in public. At social events and diplomatic receptions, she tries not to leave her husband. She shows restraint in clothes, but tries to be stylish, which indicates her good taste. She is very considerate, always and in every way supports her husband and provides home comfort.
He takes an active life position, although he tries to be in the shadow of her husband. She created and runs the Women's Club, which includes the wives of Russian diplomatic workers. This organization provides assistance and support to spouses of diplomats who are forced to leave for a foreign country and get used to new living conditions. Maria herself advises the club members on behavior and communication in other countries, often unfriendly.
The "Women's Club" was very popular, and the fact of participation in it was incredibly prestigious. Currently, the club has ceased to exist, but many of its members are grateful to Mary for the support she provided to them.
In raising her daughter, she emphasized knowledge of the Russian language, history, culture and heritage of Russian people. Thanks to this, after 17 years spent abroad, daughter Catherine did not cease to be Russian, both in heart and soul. And when choosing a husband was guided by the fact that he was necessarily Russian. According to Catherine, the mentality of Americans and Europeans is alien to her and she chose only her compatriot as husband.
Living together
The first business trip took place in 1972, immediately after graduating from MGIMO. In Sri Lanka, on the island of Ceylon, they lived with their wife for about four years. Then they returned to Moscow, where Sergey built a career in the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In the early 80s, Sergei Lavrov was appointed first secretary of the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the UN at headquarters in New York. And then he successively became an adviser and senior adviser to this mission. In total, they lived in the USA for seven years: from 1981 to 1988.
In 1988, the Lavrovs again came to Moscow and Sergei took up a career in the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For four years, he grew to the head of the Office of International Organizations and the director of the Department of International Organizations and Global Problems of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Since 1992, Sergey Lavrov is the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, and since 2004, the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
