Sergey Tsigal: biography, photo

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

A man with a chic admiral's beard, known mainly as an artist, but at the same time the author and host of the Recipe Hunters and House on Your Plate programs, radio host, and author of cooking columns. All this is Tsigal Sergey Viktorovich. A versatile person who boldly rushes into adventures, like races for survival on the "wrecked", and wins them, an actor and tennis player.

Family

Sergey's family comes from Odessa, where his grandfather was a civil engineer. The fact that Sergei Tsigal became a famous artist is probably not an accidental event. He is a descendant of talented and famous people. His father is the famous sculptor Viktor Tsigal, whose work is well known to Muscovites. And Sergei's grandmother Marietta Shaginyan, the famous Soviet science fiction writer, was one of the first in the USSR to start creating in this genre. Another famous member of the Sergei family was the beloved actress Lyubov Polishchuk. Not to mention the uncle, cousin and other close relatives - it seems that the whole Tsigal family is generously endowed with talent. And Masha Tsigal is known as a talented actress whose parents are Lyubov Polishchuk and Sergey Tsigal.

Biography

The biography of Sergei began on December 6, 1949 in Moscow. He was born in the family of sculptor Viktor Tsigal and artist Mirel Shahinyan.

From his school years, Tsigal began to show a craving for travel, at the age of 16 he went on an expedition to South Sakhalin. Another passion of the future animal artist since childhood was biology, Sergey became interested in it after one day the teacher took him to the department of ichthyology, where he was allowed to dissect various fish. And despite the fact that Sergei Tsigal later graduated from the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University (in 1973), the craving for biology did not disappear. He worked in the laboratory GeLAN (Helminthological Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR), led by K. I. Skryabin, an outstanding Russian scientist, the founder of Russian helminthology (the science of parasites). Fascinated by this science, Sergei Tsigal wrote a diploma on parasites of salmon fish and after university became an employee of the All-Russian Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography.

At 30, he decided to quit his career as a scientist and become a freelance artist.

Artist career

Sergey Tsigal did not learn to draw until the age of 30 and never tried to do it. But it was at this age, with the help of his father, that he joined the Youth Union of Artists. Started classes in a drawing circle.

Deciding to draw professionally, Sergei enters the famous Stroganov School, where he studies at the faculty of "interior and equipment". At this time, he begins to travel to sketches in the Crimea, to engage in jewelrydecorations. Then they get themselves a greyhound dog and father and son - Victor and Sergey begin to draw it.

Tsigal Sergey animal painter appears during this period.

In 1989 he became a member of the Moscow Union of Artists. Now his works are in the fund of the Ministry of Culture of Russia, in the State Museum of Ecuador, in the Museum of Modern Art. Many works are in private collections.

With his exhibitions, Sergey traveled all over our vast Motherland and not only, but to a wide circle of people he is known mainly as a leading culinary specialist.

Career of presenter and journalist

This new milestone in Sergei's life began in 1995, when, at the invitation of Sergey Parkhomenko, editor-in-chief of the Itogi weekly, he began to run a culinary page. Then there were works in the magazines "Hedgehog", "Way and Driver", "New Russian Word", "GQ" and others. Rich life experience helped, trips abroad and in their own country, numerous acquaintances who shared their experience, helped write interesting articles, and none of them was without a prescription.

Then Sergey and his wife Lyubov Polishchuk received an offer from Mikhail Shirvindt and Alexander Konyashov to create a series of culinary programs called "Recipe Hunters". They showed this program on Channel One. And then this program began to appear on the Domashny channel, but Sergey already led it with his daughter Masha. In the program, father and daughter share culinary secrets obtained in different parts of the country and from different people.

Private life

In 1981, seeing Lyubov Polishchuk in one of the performances, Sergei clearly decided that this was the woman with whom he would like to link his fate. The artist began to attend all the performances with her participation, connected all the friends who could somehow help to get to know the beauty. Perseverance was rewarded, the actress reciprocated the ardent artist. They were happy together, but they were not going to sign, until it turned out that Lyuba was expecting a baby. Sergei's parents warmly supported their decision to legitimize the relationship. And the born daughter was named after her grandmother Marietta Shaginyan (but for many she is just Masha).

It was a very harmonious couple, they did a lot together - they traveled, cooked, spent holidays in the Crimea, argued, but always supported each other.

Sergey did not give up until the very last moment, did not give up and did not stop trying to cure Love from a terrible disease. But, alas, fate decreed otherwise.

Twenty years of marriage, filled with love, happiness, experiences, passions, lived Lyubov Polishchuk and Sergey Tsigal. Photos of this married couple always convey those bright, kind, sincere feelings that these people had for each other.

Tsigal and Makarov

Besides Marietta, Sergei was also involved in the upbringing of Lyubov Polishchuk's son from his first marriage. After the couple formalized their relationship, Lyubov took her son from the boarding school, and they began to live together. Alexei Makarov, Tsigal's stepson, always rested with his mother and stepfather in the Crimeaand rejoiced at the appearance of his sister. But after the death of Polishchuk, a split occurred in the family. The relationship between Sergei and Alexei Makarov did not work out, it turned out that the only thing that connected them was Love. The struggle for inheritance did not add warmth to their relationship, and today Sergey and his stepson hardly communicate.

Conclusion

Sergey took the loss of his wife very hard. Intense grief led to he alth problems. For several years, Tsigal did not let anyone close to his heart, but in the end he met his happiness again, he had a woman, according to some, very similar to his first wife.