President of Condé Nast Russia

Karina Dobrotvorskaya
Since December 2008 she is the company’s President.

Karina Dobrotvorskaya was born in1966 in Saint-Petersburg. She claims to be terribly homesick for StPete and adds that Moscow is still not her favorite “cup of tea”.

While in StPete she was successfully progressing in her academic career. After graduating from Stage Art Faculty of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Art she held her PhD on Theatrical Culture of Art Nouveau Epoch, contributed articles to theatrical magazines and academic journals and lectured on the history of foreign theater. While being a teacher at the Stage Art Academy she almost got accustomed to being addressed as “Karina Anatolievna” - the form of traditional students’ respectful address to their teachers,- which she immediately threw out of her head after moving to Moscow in1997.

In Moscow Karina Dobrotvorskaya sharply changed her occupation and completely engulfed in glossy journalism. She joined the Russian Condé from the moment of its foundation and participated in the launch of Vogue (initially as its Culture Section editor and later as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief).

She left this position for Editor-in-Chief’s chair of AD Magazine (Architectural Digest) and orchestrated its launch on the Russian market in 2002.

In 2005 she worked as an editorial adviser for the first issues of the Russian Glamour and in 2006 was nominated as the Editorial Director of Condé.

Despite her responsibilities of a top-manager, Karina didn’t want to stop working as an editor and left the chair of AD’s Editor-in-Chief only in 2008, when she was nominated as a Vice President of Сonde Nast Russia. Since December 2008 she is the company’s President.

Karina Dobrotvorskaya is married to Alexei Tarkhanov (The Kommersant). She is a mother of two children, Ivan and Sophia. Being an adamant cinema addict she sometimes watches several films a day. As her prime task Karina strives to keep up highly professional working climate and top quality of Condé magazines.