Anton Krasovsky gained notoriety in 2013, when he publicly announced on one of the TV programs that he was gay. Prior to this statement, Krasovsky managed to make a solid career in journalism and even took part in several political projects.
From the biography of Anton Vyacheslavovich Krasovsky
The future journalist and gay activist was born in Podolsk on July 18, 1975. A few years later, his father was transferred to work in Polesie, where he worked at the Rivne NPP as a representative of the design bureau.
Anton was an impressionable child, he loved nature. It was she who inspired the boy to write his first stories and poems - Anton sent them to Pionerskaya Pravda.
Subsequently, my father was transferred to work in the village of Zheleznodorozhny, which is near Balashikha, and then to Moscow. Anton graduated from high school in the capital of the USSR. Here he continued his education.
In 1994, Krasovsky entered the Literary Institute, where he attended poetry seminars by Tatyana Bek and Sergei Chuprinin. After some time, the young man began to cooperate with the Voprosy literatury and Nezavisimaya Gazeta. At the beginning of his literary career, Tatyana Bek provided great support to Krasovsky.
Anton Krasovsky and his career
In 1996, Tatiana Bek recommended her talented student to television presenter Alexander Shatalov. This is how Anton's career on TV began. He became the chief editor of the Book News program. Then he worked in the same position at Teleproekt CJSC. Since 1997 Krasovsky has been a theatrical commentator for the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva.
In the treasury of Anton Vyacheslavovich's career achievements - work on the Internet portal "Yandex", in the publishing house "Kommersant" and Vogue magazine, where he was the editor of the culture section.
In 1998, Krasovsky received a new appointment, becoming the curator of special projects for the women's fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar. In subsequent years, Anton Vyacheslavovich was published in a variety of publications. His materials covered the pressing problems of business life. Critics have noted many clever and sometimes paradoxical judgments in Krasovsky's articles.
When the name in journalism was created, Krasovsky decided to try his hand at politics. In the fall of 1999, he collaborated with the Union of Right Forces, working at the party's campaign headquarters. A few years later, Krasovsky headed the campaign headquarters of Mikhail Prokhorov, providing support to the billionaire in the struggle for the highest post in the country.
In the fall of 2017, Krasovsky supported the nomination of Ksenia Sobchak for the presidency of the country. The journalist shares the ideas of the opposition, opposes the war in the South-East of Ukraine and against the annexation of Crimea.
Personal life of Anton Krasovsky
In 2013, Krasovsky, unexpectedly for many, announced on television about his unconventional sexual orientation. In 2017, the journalist also told the public about his positive HIV status.
Krasovsky considers it inappropriate to tell the public about the details of his personal life. Journalists, however, found out that Anton maintains close relations with a student at one of the capital's universities.
Krasovsky, according to him, is not interested in the life of his relatives. Relationships connect him only with his older brother and parents.
