Biography of Heinrich Padva. Biography Special achievements of Padva Genrikh Pavlovich

I had to meet with the famous metropolitan lawyer Heinrich Padva twice.

The first time was in his Moscow office in quiet Sretensky Lane.

One day the phone rang in my office and I heard the voice of Heinrich Padva. I was shocked - he called himself after learning that a journalist was looking for him!

This is an unusual move for the province.

Most of my heroes did not seek meetings with me.

We agreed on a meeting, I arrived in Moscow (it’s a short drive), and we talked for about an hour.

Genrikh Pavlovich amazed me by going up to the apartment (he lives in the same building where his office is located) and, at my request, bringing an album with photographs.

After our meeting, I wrote this text. I sent the newspaper to the hero of the article.

During our second meeting, Heinrich Padva said that he liked the article.

Over time, the topic of crime began to interest me more and more.

Soon I had the opportunity to visit the court archive, look through old cases, among which cases involving lawyer Padva began to come across more and more often.

In the 60s of the last century, the young defender quickly gained popularity in the region.

Padva had almost no ordinary, routine cases. Large business executives, rapists, parents of young rogues sought his protection...

Gradually I began to collect “Padva’s files.” Daddy is already quite chubby.

Someday I will write a review of his Kalinin practice.

Genrikh Pavlovich himself told me about some of his affairs during the Kalinin period.

Two cases from his extensive practice are included in this text - the chapters “Love and Murder” and “Revelation.”

The second time we met with the venerable defense lawyer was when he came to Tver for the opening of the Padva and Epstein law office.

We talked for half an hour, and I again wrote a text, a small one - a news one.

Then I read the autobiographical book of Heinrich Padva.

The name of the capital's lawyer Heinrich Padva usually sounds exclusively with excellent epithets: famous, venerable, famous.

He is rightfully considered one of the best defenders in the country.

Among Genrikh Padva’s clients or clients, as lawyers say, were member of the State Emergency Committee Anatoly Lukyanov, head of the presidential administration Pavel Borodin, Krasnoyarsk businessman Anatoly Bykov, Pasternak’s beloved Olga Ivinskaya (Lara!), Mikhail Khodorkovsky...

He handles the most high-profile cases. Crowds of journalists await the exit of lawyer Padva from the courtroom and surround him in a tight ring in order to hear a few phrases uttered in a quiet old-Moscow dialect.

Few people know, even in Tver, that Heinrich Padva began his career in the Kalinin (now Tver) region.

Here he became a lawyer, met his first wife, and here his daughter was born.

Genrikh Pavlovich recalls the Kalinin period of his life with great pleasure.

He is a very busy man, but found time to meet with a correspondent from a Tver newspaper.

Our conversation took place in the office of the Padva and Partners law office in a quiet Moscow side street, lost between Sretenka and Trubnaya streets.

His father, Pavel Yulievich Padva, was a major planning engineer, held responsible positions in the Northern Sea Route organization, he worked under the polar explorers Papanin and Schmidt, fought, and after the war was appointed commandant of one of the German cities.

Genrikh Padva's mother, Eva Rappoport, was a ballerina; after the birth of her son, she left the stage, limiting herself to teaching dance.

Heinrich Padva studied at the prestigious school No. 110, where his classmates were the children of high-ranking officials, scientists, and artists.

My childhood was quite prosperous, the only serious test What befell little Hera was the Great Patriotic War and the evacuation from Moscow to Kuibyshev (Samara), where he had to endure all the hardships of military life.

In 1948, Heinrich Padva graduated from school.

Choice life path Hero did not stand in front of the young Hero - from childhood he was inspired by the speeches of the famous Russian lawyers Plevako, Karabchevsky, Urusov and dreamed of becoming a lawyer.

Time, however, was not very conducive to the development of the human rights movement.

In jurisprudence, the accusatory side prevailed; the confession of the accused was considered the queen of all evidence.

But Heinrich Padva only dreamed of becoming a lawyer; other legal specialties did not attract him.

Get into Moscow University on the first try law school It didn’t work, the second time too, the questionnaire failed.

I had to study at the Minsk Law Institute for one year and then transfer to Moscow.

The young lawyer received his diploma in 1953. The assignment was given to him by the Department of Justice of the Kalinin Region.

The aspiring lawyer went to his place of work with one suitcase in his hands, and in it only some clothes.

My mother had already died by that time, my father married another woman.

Henry's relationship with his stepmother did not work out. Whether you like it or not, you had to start your life.

At the Kalinin Department of Justice, the graduate of the capital’s law faculty was received by the head, Vladimir Emelyanovich Tsvetkov, and immediately sent for an internship in Rzhev.

Heinrich went there by train. The train arrived at Rzhev station at night.

Quite a lot of passengers got off the platform, but most of them remained at the station until the morning.

Only the most desperately brave, including Heinrich Padva, who was not afraid of anything or anyone due to his youth and lack of life experience, dared to go to the city.

It was the summer of 1953.

Stalin had just died, and a broad amnesty was declared in the country (it was called Beria's).

A huge number of real criminals were released, so the situation in the city, as elsewhere, was turbulent.

Post-war Rzhev amazed Heinrich. The city, which survived a long German occupation and terrible, bloody battles, was still in ruins in the 50s.

People lived extremely poorly. For the first time, the Moscow boy encountered the life of a real outback, which until that time he had not known at all.

In newspapers and books about real life They didn’t write then, there was no television, films were shot mainly on abstract topics.

Genrikh settled in an apartment with another lawyer from Moscow, also Genrikh, whose last name was Revzin.

The boys trained their courage and will - they walked through the cemetery at night.

This was the shortest way to the house, but also the most terrible, lamps flickered around and ghosts appeared.

Heinrich Padva got to work. He did not hesitate to learn from his colleagues, because they had invaluable practical knowledge that cannot be learned at any university.

At the time, the head of the Rzhev bar was Filippenko, a knowledgeable specialist with great knowledge of life, a man with a sense of humor.

There were specialists with a unique education - for example, lawyer Kustov, one of the old, pre-revolutionary lawyers, who graduated from the University of Dorpat.

A woman became Henry's immediate mentor. “A very nice lady lawyer,” recalls Genrikh Pavlovich, “she was kind to me, although she was terribly far from jurisprudence.”

At first, not everything went well. Heinrich Padva was very worried when he lost his first cases.

Colleagues consoled him.

“You do not exist to win cases,” a judge from Leningrad once told him words that were remembered for a long time, “but to ensure that there is a guarantee of the truth of justice, so that a miscarriage of justice does not occur.”

BURNED CITY

Six months later, the aspiring lawyer was abandoned independent work.

Genrikh Padva was transferred to the village of Pogoreloye Gorodishche, which then had the status of a regional center, where he became the only lawyer.

It was good practice. I had to handle all cases - both civil and criminal.

In the village there were divorces, property disputes, murders, hooliganism, theft, and rape.

The court at that time was not humane - for being late for work for a few minutes you could actually be sent to prison.

They were tried for a careless word, for a handful of grain taken from the field for hungry children.

Despite all the efforts of the defense lawyer, such trials rarely ended in the acquittal of the defendant. But the authority of Heinrich Padva, the defense attorney, grew from case to case, not only in the courtroom, but also in the eyes of ordinary people.

In Pogoreloye Settlement, Padva encountered real poverty, in which almost the entire population of the country lived at that time.

Poverty was appalling, life was hard.

The lawyer himself lived the same way as everyone else. Heinrich Padva earned pennies, his home was a corner in a village house, behind the wall the owner's cattle mooed and grunted.

His only trousers were “decorated” with a patch in a rather noticeable place, which greatly complicated his personal life.

It was impossible to buy any food or industrial goods in stores.

Moscow saved. The bosses were happy to send the new employee to the capital.

Padva took a stack of cases for Supreme Court and boarded the Moscow train.

We usually had to travel without amenities, on third shelves.

For the journey, the young lawyer was given geese and piglets, which his Moscow relatives and friends were very happy about. He returned back with sugar, butter, and soap.

GIVING UP

The first independent case of Heinrich Padva in Pogorelye Gorodishche and in life in general was about rape.

“The case is unique in its kind, amazing,” the famous lawyer recalls the events of half a century ago. – A young guy had just returned from the army, came to a village party, where he met a girl, very young, underage, took her into the forest and raped her. The next day he ran away from the village and was never seen again.

Eight years have passed. In Stalingrad, a man came to the police - a respected worker in the city, a shock worker of communist labor, hung on the Board of Honor, awarded an order, an exemplary family man, the father of two children and said: “I can’t do it anymore. Eight years ago I raped a girl. Arrest me."

It was the same guy from Pogoreloye Gorodishche. In my practice, this was the only classic confession, because usually confessions are fictitious.

A person really could not carry this load on himself. I defended him.

He told me how he lived in fear for eight years, he was afraid that he would be arrested, and when he saw a policeman, he crossed to the other side of the street.

For him, the thought that his children would ever find out about his crime was unbearable. It was such a horror that he really couldn't live anymore.

This guy was brought to Pogoreloye, they began to conduct an investigation, which was very difficult - there were no witnesses, the girl left the village. She was found. She forgave him a long time ago.

They gave him very little - less than the minimum, three years instead of eight years.

But I still thought I complained a lot. But by the time I reached the top, he had already been released in half, then the working days were still being counted.”

TORZHOK

Genrikh Padva worked in Pogoreloye Gorodishche for a year and a half, then he was transferred for some time to Likhoslavl, and then to Torzhok.

Torzhok forever remained for Genrikh Pavlovich the city in which he met his love, his future wife, and that time - the end of the 50s - was the most romantic in his life.

Albina Noskova (that was the name of his chosen one) was from Riga.

The girl studied at the newly opened medical institute in Kalinin, and she was in practice in Torzhok.

She was very beautiful, and over time Albina’s beauty only blossomed. In the 60s, the wife of Heinrich Padva was considered one of the most beautiful women Kalinina.

In Torzhok, Heinrich Padva met not only love, but also true male friendship. He became friends with investigator Yura Khlebalin, also a Muscovite.

Both were homeless, but Yura had an office with a sofa. The friends lived in this office for about six months.

Then we became friends with forensic expert Volodya Gelman. He had a room in a house on the banks of the Tvertsa.

The three of them began to live together - the investigator, the lawyer, the forensic expert. They had everything in common - work, budget, they ate, drank, and relaxed together.

At the same time, the thought did not even arise of somehow using friendship for official purposes! One is a lawyer, another is an investigator, the third is a forensic expert.

They met at trials in the courtroom and could easily agree to turn a blind eye to some omissions.

But the friends were absolutely honest.

Then they were joined by a married couple of lawyers from Leningrad.

The husband - his name was Kim Golovakho - became a deputy prosecutor.

In court, Heinrich argued with Kim until he was hoarse; after the trial was over, they swore to each other, which did not interfere with their friendship.

Was the time so pure or the people?

Heinrich Padva worked in Torzhok for two years, then he was transferred to Kalinin.

At first he lived on Volny Novgorod Street, where he rented a room in a two-story house with a front garden. A well-known dentist in the city, Yankelzon, lived in this house; sometimes they called it Yankelzon’s house.

His wife was finishing medical school, Genrikh Padva also continued his education - he entered the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of History, correspondence department.

His choice was this: either he studied at the institute, or he learned the basics of Marxism-Leninism at an evening party school.

Padva chose the history department, where they taught more than one Leninism.

After graduating from the institute, Albina began working as a neurologist.

Over time, she was given an apartment on Proletarka. A daughter, Irina, was born into the family. In recent years, the lawyer’s family lived on Ordzhonikidze Street at number 44.

Genrikh Padva arrived in Kalinin already having certain everyday and professional experience.

Here he quickly gained fame. A lot of people flocked to him a large number of affairs, so that he could choose those that were interesting to him.

As Heinrich Padva says, he most successfully completed civil cases, but there were also unusual criminal ones - murders, robberies, rapes.

One of the most high-profile cases that shook up, without exaggeration, the entire city, in his rich practice as a lawyer, was the case of a woman who killed her lover’s wife.

LOVE AND MURDER

The city was raging - everyone was against this woman. Wives, husbands, even mistresses were indignant.

Citizens sent petitions to the prosecutor's office. As in the 30s, everyone demanded one thing - shoot, shoot, shoot!

When the trial was going on, the police formed a cordon around the entire block, the hall was jammed, crowds of people stood in the street, the lawyer was taken under guard, because everyone hated him for defending a murderer.

The verdict was broadcast via radio to the street. The prosecutor demanded capital punishment punishments.

And this was a tragedy, and Heinrich Padva proved to the court how desperate a situation his client found herself in.

Heinrich Padva still remembers that old case in every detail.

“This was a woman of a very difficult fate,” says Genrikh Pavlovich, “her husband was killed in the forest by lightning, and she raised two children alone.

She lived a very difficult life, got by as best she could. She was not very beautiful, and she hardly had hopes of personal happiness.

One day a serviceman, a lieutenant colonel, appeared in her apartment.

The military was well paid back then, he was very polished, prosperous, from a completely different life.

He came from Minsk, where he had a wife, and wanted to exchange an apartment.

It seemed to her that this was happiness. This went on for several months. The woman was already expecting a child.

And then his wife arrived, and the guest began to appear less and less often, and soon his visits stopped completely.

The pregnancy had to be terminated. The children asked her every day: Mom, where did that good uncle go?

One day the woman plucked up courage and came to his house. The wife was at home, they were talking about exchanging an apartment, the husband was embarrassed, and it was obvious that the wife suspected something.

After some time, the lovers met by chance (the town was small), I remember that it was near the Philharmonic, and he attacked her like a kite, began to insult her, call her names, and scream.

Her friends then egged her on: they say, don’t leave it so easily, punish him.

And then she decided to tell his wife everything. She came to her again, her husband was not there, and told her everything.

In response, insults were heard again. As luck would have it, she came across a hammer, which was very inopportunely lying in a visible place... Arriving home, the woman wrote a note to her family asking them to take the children with her, drank a handful of pills and prepared to die. She was saved by a neighbor - he accidentally came in and understood everything, called an ambulance.

I defended this woman very simply. It seemed to me that there was everything necessary for protection here. I spoke for an hour and a half and told this whole story in detail. She was given fifteen years.
I hope it came out earlier."

Heinrich Padva worked in the Kalinin region for about seventeen years.

He arrived as a green boy and left as an experienced defense attorney with hundreds of successful high-profile cases behind him.

Here he learned the essence of the profession - protecting a person, his life, freedom, rights.

It was not very easy to leave - Genrikh Pavlovich settled down in Kalinin, acquired friends and a social circle.

But still he was drawn to Moscow, the city of his childhood.

In 1971, the lawyer and his family left Kalinin.

A new life awaited them. What she would become, he could not know, but he really strove for her.

For many years, Genrikh Pavlovich Padva has been considered one of the best lawyers in Russia.

He is vice-president of the International Union of Lawyers, holder of the honorary sign “Public Recognition”, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, awarded the gold medal named after F.N. Plevako and many other titles and awards.

And it all began in the Kalinin region, in a small town, from whose night station he was once not afraid to step into the unknown.

Heinrich Padva is the founder and managing partner of the Padva and Partners bureau. He became a lawyer when he graduated from university in 1953. His career began in the provinces, and then he became one of the main symbols of the legal profession in the Russian Federation.

Merits

Lawyer Heinrich Padva often and eagerly took on the most complex cases available. It was he who made a great contribution to ensuring that the death penalty in our country was recognized as contrary to the Constitution. Genrikh Padva was involved in the defense of the Chairman of the USSR Supreme Court by the manager of the Presidential Administration Pavel Borodin. He also handled the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky related to YUKOS.

Lawyer Genrikh Pavlovich Padva has an active life position in professional activity, as well as in leisure. He is passionate about motor sports and football. For for long years he is a Spartak fan. He has participated in the Snob project since 2009.

Genrikh Padva became an Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, laureate of the F. N. Plevako gold medal.

Family

The lawyer was born on February 20, 1931 in Moscow. His father's name was Pavel Yuryevich. Padva Genrikh Pavlovich's mother is Eva Iosifovna Rapopport. His first wife was Noskova A.M., she died in 1974. The current wife’s name is O. S. Mamontova. The couple has a daughter and granddaughter.

Biography

Genrikh Pavlovich Padva was born into a family of representatives of the Moscow intelligentsia. His father was a major engineer and held one of the responsible positions in large-scale projects. Thus, Padva’s father, Genrikh Pavlovich, Pavel Yurievich Padva, participated in the design of the Northern Sea Route. Its leaders were the legendary Schmidt and Papanin. He received a shell shock while participating in the Great Patriotic War. Since 1945, he was the commandant of the German city, dealing with reparation issues. At the time of the victory he was captain. Padva Genrikh Pavlovich's mother was a ballerina who had remarkable appearance. Having given birth to a son, she leaves the stage, but becomes a dance teacher.

Before the start of the war, their son was a student at the prestigious school No. 110, and children of high-ranking people grew up next to him. statesmen, scientists, artists. Graduates of the school achieved many successes in a variety of professions. And the level of teaching was educational institution very high.

War

At the beginning of the war, Heinrich Padva and his family members were evacuated to the city of Kuibyshev (Samara). They started living with their distant relatives: 10 people in one room slept on the floor and on chests. Nevertheless, it was during this period of time that many wonderful events and new meetings occurred. For example, a playwright who was returning to the capital after serving time in a camp where Stalin had exiled him also lived in this room for several days. Heinrich Padva has the most wonderful memories of him: he was an unusually interesting person to talk to, who also had strong qualities. He showed fascinating charades, which also remained in the memory of the little boy.

As soon as the Germans were thrown back from the capital, mother, Eva Iosifovna Rapopport, and Padva Genrikh Pavlovich were able to return home and repair a room in a communal apartment, which was heated with a homemade brick stove.

After the war

The boy continued to study at the same school and graduated by 1948. He did not enter the Moscow Law Institute the first time: the future lawyer Genrikh Padva did not score the required number of points. It should be noted that in those years they took into account whether the applicant was one of the Komsomol members, and the young man did not particularly want to be one; the “nationality” column was also important.

The second attempt, a year later, turned out to be more successful - the future lawyer Padva scored points that qualified for passing.

Having confidently passed the Russian language, literature and history, he turned out to be not so strong in matters of geography. The question about the rivers of Great Britain turned out to be a failure, and it received a “satisfactory” rating. The future lawyer Heinrich immediately sensed the blatant injustice and, leaving the audience, asked the same question to many. However, most of those to whom he addressed it, even geographers by training, did not remember anything other than the Thames.

University years

When the entrance exams were over, the future lawyer Genrikh Pavlovich Padva was invited to the Minsk Law Institute. He began his studies there, moving to Minsk. He studied very well: he passed his first sessions with excellent marks.

According to reviews of lawyer Padve from his comrades of those years, Heinrich found time for both sports and student activities. He appreciated the highly qualified teachers who worked at the educational institution. After 2 semesters, he transferred to the Moscow Law Institute.

First independent steps

Heinrich graduated from it in 1953. He was assigned to work in Kalinin, which is now called Tver. There he becomes an employee of the local justice department. Padva began his career as a lawyer with a six-month internship in Rzhev. It was a wonderful old city. After completing the internship, Heinrich headed to the regional center of Pogoreloe Gorodishche. It was a small settlement where he becomes the only lawyer.

Being a native Muscovite, Heinrich was amazed at the exoticism of provincial life: he lived in the corner of a wooden house, there was a barnyard nearby, lilacs were blooming in the front garden, and the trills of birds could be heard from the nearby forest edge.

He retained in his memory many pleasant memories associated with this particular period of his life: he managed to hunt wolves, go real fishing, collect a full basket of mushrooms and take long walks through the forests. But the most grandiose experience was the acquaintance with the life of ordinary people who lived in the most difficult conditions, in poverty and total lack of rights.

Heinrich Padva's first cases were trials between ordinary front-line soldiers, convicted of heated words against the USSR, and the state. These were the most ordinary local settlers, young workers who were about to be sent to prison for being a couple of minutes late for work.

The justice of that time was most often too cruel and unfair. In those conditions when for the smallest offenses a person could be imprisoned for a long time - for 10, 15 years - it was an unenviable rarity that cases ended successfully for Henry’s clients.

But nevertheless, little by little the lawyer’s authority gained momentum both in the courtroom and among local residents. His opinion, his arguments became more and more convincing, the district prosecutor, who was an honest and decent person, although he did not have a higher education, was already listening to them.

After 1.5 years, Heinrich continued his career in Torzhok. Here he again hones his skills, constantly growing, reading many books. This was largely facilitated by the peculiarities of provincial life, in which there was not much entertainment. She gave him a lot of free time. It was during this time period that he met his future wife.

Soon the lawyer moves to Kalinin, where his other half studied. Soon the couple gets married. While practicing law, Heinrich entered the history department of the local pedagogical institute. Among the main reasons for this action was that he did not want to be forced to study at a party school. This was a way to avoid it.

Return to Moscow

Gaining more and more professional authority, Heinrich returned to the capital in 1971. At first, his small homeland greeted Padva completely unfriendly; it was difficult for him to adapt, since after the province a certain inhumanity was especially striking big city. Everywhere here bureaucracy flourished, of which there was an extreme amount.

Padva’s colleagues helped him overcome many difficulties. In many ways, during this period, the deputy chairman of the presidium of the Moscow City Bar, I. Sklyarsky, also influenced Heinrich’s life. As a lawyer, Padva began to be appreciated by both professionals and the public. His extraordinary talent became noticeable to everyone.

Padva gained great fame during the case of an American businessman and the Izvestia newspaper. The entrepreneur sued her for slandering him. He won the case in his homeland, and a decision was made to collect from the publication large compensation for the moral damage that it caused him. However, the incident for a long time was ignored by official Soviet structures, which knew that the Americans were limited in enforcing their court's decisions in cases concerning the Soviet Union.

But US representatives began to act actively, seizing the property of the Izvestia newspaper office located in the United States. Then this case became a real threat to diplomatic relations between the two countries. It was necessary to mobilize all major legal resources. As a result of the response actions taken by a number of domestic lawyers under the leadership of G. Padva, the decision of the American court was overturned. It was a brilliant victory.

The important thing is that a couple of years later, Padva met with the injured person who initiated this proceeding. At that time, the entrepreneur had already retired and noted that he did not hold a grudge against Padva, who demonstrated many valuable professional qualities in that process.

First fame

Starting from that period of time, Padva’s name acquired the epithets “famous” and “venerable” wherever it appeared in the press. He became known to everyone: a photo of Heinrich Padva often appeared in the press.

Over the course of many years of subsequent practice, he managed to participate in a variety of proceedings in which the media were involved, which caused violent reactions and protests from society, and were made public.

Russia

The 1990s turned out to be a unique experience for Padva, during which he won many victories that consolidated his success and great authority in the professional field.

During the putsch in August 1991, Genrikh Padva was vice-president of the Union of Lawyers of the USSR and, while in the USA, made statements to lawyers different countries, proclaiming the illegality of the events taking place in his home country. Thus, he emphasized that the actions of the State Emergency Committee were illegal.

He returned to the capital at a time when the putsch had not yet been defeated, and could have been arrested. The likelihood of this was high. However, the events soon came to an end, and a couple of days later, after the arrests of the putschists, A. Lukyanov’s daughter called Padva, asking to speak in defense of her father.

Having familiarized himself with the details of the case, Heinrich emphasized that he was not going to evaluate the dramatic events that unfolded in the country differently, but agreed to the defense of Anatoly Ivanovich. However, he did not support the actions taken by the putschists.

First of all, Padva made a statement on TV that accusations against his ward are unacceptable, even if he is an ideologist of the putsch. The whole point is that everyone has their own political views and has the right to them. People cannot be persecuted simply for their dissent. The argument was accepted, and the flow of accusations gradually died down.

The lawyer argued that accusations of treason against Lukyanov were unacceptable, as well as against other members of the State Emergency Committee. As for the defendant personally, his direct participation in the putsch was entirely controversial. It is for this reason that the question arose before Lukyanov and Padva: is it worth accepting the State Duma’s amnesty in the State Emergency Committee case? At that time, due to the many experiences that befell the defendant, he was not in the best state of health. Then a decision was made to accept an amnesty. A further struggle for justice would have cost many losses and risks to the life of Padva’s client.

In 1996, the case of P. Karpov thundered throughout the country. He was the deputy general director Federal Business Insolvency Office. He was charged, which stated that he received a bribe while staying at a Saratov enterprise. Karpov was arrested twice - both in Saratov and in the capital. The proceedings in his case were extremely protracted, but thanks to the efforts and assistance of Padva, he was rehabilitated.

At the height of the 1990s, Heinrich Padva began defending influential businessman L. Weinberg, who was also accused of giving bribes. A high-profile case was when he handed over a piece of jewelry to one of the customs committee employees.

An investigation into the case by the Prosecutor General's Office has begun. Numerous violations of the rights of the accused were revealed. Padva ensured that he was soon released, and then the case against Weinberg was completely abandoned.

Soon the law office of Heinrich Padva began operating, in which, together with his colleagues, the lawyer achieved success in many cases. Thus, one of the famous cases was the epic associated with the detention of P. Borodin, whom the Swiss prosecutor's office accused of money laundering and being part of an organized crime group. Together with E. Sergeeva, Padva stood up in defense of the ex-manager of the Presidential Administration.

Heinrich Padva's office worked simultaneously with Russian political government agencies and with American legal authorities. It also interacted with Swiss investigators.

By April 2001, all charges against their client were dropped. They stopped accusing him of complicity in an organized crime group; already in March 2002, the Geneva prosecutor also stopped prosecuting the former business manager.

The proceedings involving Elkaponi also became loud. It started in 2003. Then G. Padva, together with Gofshtein, defended a politician and businessman from Azerbaijan. He was charged with possession and transportation of illegal drugs. Elkaponi was the head of the Azerbaijan-XXI People's Patriotic Union when he was detained with 1 kg of heroin in June 2001. Some of the prohibited substance was seized from the entrepreneur’s clothing, and some was found in his home. The discovery was made by employees of the Department for Combating Illegal Drug Trafficking of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate.

The lawyers proved that the heroin could not have belonged to their client and was planted. In March 2003, the Azerbaijani was acquitted by a Moscow court. Elkaponi was released from custody. He managed to stay in prison for more than one month.

One of Heinrich’s clients was the ex-chairman of the Board of Directors at the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant. For many years, A. Bykov was a frequent subject of many articles in the media, since his case was given the widest possible publicity. The court chronicles were full of references to him.

In 1999, the first attempt was made to convict him for his involvement in murder and money laundering. Bykov was detained in Hungary and brought to the Krasnoyarsk pre-trial detention center. However, in the fall of 2000 he was released. The court ruled so Central region Krasnoyarsk. After some period of time, he was detained again, accused of organizing an attempt on the life of businessman V. Struganov in Krasnoyarsk.

Padva came to his defense, citing a compelling argument that clearly showed that Bykov was innocent. However, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow made a unique decision. Bykov was found guilty, but as punishment he was given a suspended sentence of 6.5 years. Moscow City Court this decision was upheld.

Since the lawyer himself knows for sure that his client is innocent, and also notes the presence of many violations of his client’s rights that emerged during the trial, he is still seeking to appeal the verdict. He even reached the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights.

In March 2003, Genrikh Padva took part in the trial of a new criminal case against A. Bykov. It proved his involvement in the murder of businessman O. Gubin.

However, already in July 2003, Bykov and his accomplices were found innocent. However, Bykov was found guilty under Article 316 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (concealment of a murder that was committed without aggravating circumstances). Padva’s client was sentenced to 1 year in prison, but was quickly amnestied.

G. Padva never advertises only those cases in which he managed to achieve excellent results. So, in his portfolio there are different results. Padva compares his profession to a medical specialty: not in all cases a doctor can provide assistance, and a lawyer sometimes does not have unlimited power.

To this day, his heart is deeply regretted by the failure that ended the civil case related to the return of part of Boris Pasternak’s legacy to his beloved. Immediately after his death, she was arrested. She was accused of smuggling, but then exonerated.

Padva, defending her, managed to reach the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, but still a legacy greatest writer was not returned. Although this should have been done in accordance with both legal and universal norms. It came to absurd events and a real mockery of Pasternak’s memory: the state demanded documents from Ivinskaya stating that Pasternak gave his manuscripts to her. This despite the fact that the poems were dedicated to her personally.

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In 2012, according to the results of a joint study by VTsIOM and the Russian Reporter magazine, 81-year-old lawyer Genrikh Padva was recognized as one of the authoritative figures of the Russian legal community. Today it’s hard to believe that after graduating from school he twice failed to enter the Moscow Law Institute. Last year, Padva celebrated his 60th anniversary in the profession, but when asked if he has any desire to retire, the elder of the legal profession admits that he is tired, but retiring for him means physical death and he continues to work. Pravo.Ru talks about Padva’s career, his attitude to the legal profession, money, and relationships with clients in his own words.

About the beginning of a career

I went to the Kalinin region on assignment. First, my friend Yura Yurbursky received a ticket there, and he persuaded me to apply with him. Yes, I am characterized by nostalgia, attachment to my native ashes, my father’s coffins. I consider the Tver province to be my second homeland.

At first they wanted to send me to Vologda, but I did not agree, and as a result, something absurd happened. The commission began to wonder why I refuse to go to Vologda. I said: “I can’t, my sick elderly father is alone in Moscow, I can’t leave him alone and go far.” And the director [of the institute] Butov objected to me very unsuccessfully: “Just think, you have one father, I also have one old father, so what?” I plucked up the impudence and replied: “Well, you’re not going anywhere from Moscow.” This made a huge impression on the commission, and one of the important bosses in the commission burst out laughing and said: “Okay, the man needs to find something closer.” And they offered me the current Tver region.

I don’t regret that during the difficult years I got to work in Pogoreloye Gorodishche, and in Rzhev, and in Torzhok. It was good school, and for me it was very useful. In my youth, of course, I experienced all this.

In Pogoreloye Gorodishche, I was on friendly terms with the judge and, as they say, hand in hand. We drank together and walked together, and the prosecutor and the investigator were with us. We were one company.

In the first decade of my legal practice, I received terrible slaps in the face from various court decisions, and even wrote letters of resignation from the legal profession. Nowadays, too, sometimes I give up, my mood deteriorates for a long time, but I no longer fall into terrible despair from failures. The next case is heard - and you go, put all your passion, all your professional experience, all your understanding of life and people into it.

About the main achievements and failures

If we talk about my “career”, then you need to understand that lawyers do not have any career in the generally accepted sense. I started working as a lawyer and have been working to this day. He did not earn any positions or ranks. A lawyer can only become more and more famous. In this sense, I had a serious breakthrough, which was associated with the Izvestia case during the Soviet era. An American businessman sued the newspaper for libel in an American court and won the case. At first, the Soviet authorities did not pay attention, but then seizures of Izvestia’s property abroad began. I had to resort to the help of professional lawyers. They invited me, although I was known only in professional circles. The case was reviewed and the decision was overturned. Naturally, the newspaper covered the trial and wrote that its interests were represented by lawyer Padva. Apparently they didn’t want to write simply “Padva”, so they added epithets: first “famous”, then “venerable” and, finally, “famous”.

Professionally, I have achieved a lot, including changing the practice of all Russian courts on various fundamental issues. But the most important thing is that I petitioned the Constitutional Court to declare the death penalty unconstitutional. Since then we have not used it.

There were cases after which I wanted to shoot myself, or at least leave the profession. In the book ["From the Bag and from Prison... Notes of a Lawyer"] I describe a case almost fifty years ago when the prosecutor asked my client for ten years. According to the chairman of the court, I gave a brilliant performance, caused a storm of applause - and after that my client was sentenced to death. In my practice there were two or three such shocks. But these negative feelings are compensated when you hear the words: “Release from custody in the courtroom.” This is also too much of an emotion, and here you need, if not validol, then Valery-Yanka.

About choosing cases

Most of all [when choosing a business] I am driven by professional passion. Imagine you are a surgeon. Aren't you interested in trying a heart transplant someday, instead of spending your entire life delving into panaritiums?

I don't take on things that aren't interesting to me. I also don’t take on small, simple matters. When people now come to me with cases of petty theft or drugs, I refuse. I even forgot what articles provide for punishment for these crimes. My assistants can conduct them.

Sometimes I was absolutely sure that I would win the case - and lost miserably. And it also happened the other way around: the case is hopeless, but the client begs: “Take it!” Okay, you take it reluctantly - and suddenly the result is brilliant.

Sometimes they tell me: you don’t have to take up the case, but at least give us a legally correct position - they say, there is no such corpus delicti here, but there is such and such. When I feel that something is unclean in a matter, I try not to participate in it.

A lawyer must, on the one hand, be biased and act only in favor of his client, and on the other, be able to see and soberly evaluate all the evidence, which is very difficult if there is excessive interest and excitement. Many surgeons do not undertake to operate on their loved ones. That's how I'm close, loved one I won't defend. And even more so yourself.

About preparing for the process

For the first twenty years of my legal practice, I wrote my speeches inside and out. I thought about everything in them, carefully checked them. Right down to punctuation marks: I spent a long time weighing what to put at the end - a period, an ellipsis, an exclamation point or a question mark. I could, for example, end like this: “After everything that you have heard here, dear comrades of the judge, what other sentence can be passed other than acquittal?”

A pre-written speech is a dangerous thing. Lawyers who write well, but do not know how to use the writing correctly, dry up their speeches. They read, but it is poorly received. You must be able to write, then make what is written seem like someone else’s, and then appropriate this alien thing again and tell it. Sometimes it seems that you are ready to perform, that your head is completely clear. And when you try to put your thought on paper, there are not enough words. This means that there is actually a fog in the head. And to dispel it, you need to compose a speech.

About judges, prosecutors, investigators

The authorities have never interfered so actively in the work of the judicial system as they do today. Please note: even Stalin dealt with people not with the help of courts, but with the help of “troikas”, where there were no lawyers. The courts were not involved in extralegal reprisals. Now we have a democracy, many issues are resolved in the courts, but they often either obediently do what is ordered or give in to selfish aspirations. This discredits the judicial system.

Oddly enough, earlier even in the most Hard times justice was more democratic. Thus, in the Supreme Court and in the Prosecutor General's Office, senior officials systematically received citizens and their lawyers on complaints against decisions of lower courts. I could come to an appointment with the deputy chairman or chairman of the Supreme Court, explain my position and convince them of the need to reconsider the case. Now this is impossible: you send a complaint, but you don’t know who it will get to, and it’s generally impossible to get an appointment. In these conditions, achieving justice is much more difficult.

Previously, in judicial practice there were more fig leaves that created the appearance of legality, and thanks to this, in some cases it was sometimes possible to achieve a fair verdict. Whereas now they openly spit on observing at least minimal formalities. Previously, it happened that a judge would be caught neglecting some procedure - and immediately the lawyer would file an appeal, the prosecutor would protest: it’s impossible, rights have been violated! And although the Constitution said the least about human rights, obvious outrages were still not allowed. There were almost no acquittals, but the termination of the case, the overturning of verdicts by higher courts - all this was possible. There was a Supreme Court of the USSR, and if you got there, you could get justice. The decisions of the Supreme Court of the USSR and its plenums were very good and gave the right direction.

In Russia, many shortcomings of the judicial system are not obvious at first glance. Most of our laws aren't that bad, but they're practical use sometimes turns them into their opposite. For example, there is a law that a higher court does not have the right to increase the punishment determined by a lower court, but can only reduce it. But there is a consideration of marriage in the work of judges and, in accordance with it, any reversal of a sentence is a marriage for which one is punished. How does a judge think? Let's take an article for which you can give from three to five years. Of course, the judge “just in case” will give the maximum so that the higher authority can only reduce the punishment, which does not require the sentence to be overturned. What happens? The law is good, but the accounting system encourages judges to pursue repressive policies. I don't think this is an accident.

In our judicial system, calculating something is a thankless task. Because sometimes everything is decided not according to the law, but under the influence of some incidental circumstances that I may not know about.

IN Soviet time The work of a lawyer was not easy: much was predetermined, but money in justice did not play the same role as it does now. Today, everything is bought, from condemnation to justification.

I have never paid [investigators, prosecutors and judges] in my life. But I must say that such questions began to arise only in recent years. I give my word, I worked for decades and did not even imagine that investigators could take bribes.

In the Kalinin region, for example, with one of the investigators and an assistant prosecutor, we were close friends, what is called the same company. During the trial, Kim Golovakho, the assistant prosecutor, and I squabbled to the death. But I couldn’t even imagine that before a case, somewhere in a company, Kim could be told: “Listen, tomorrow there will be a case. So ask for less.” Yes, I’m sure, if I allowed myself to do that, he would probably punch me in the face.

In my worst nightmare I could not imagine that I was handing over a bribe from my client to the prosecutor or judge. In those days [Padva talks about the beginning of his career. - " Pravo.Ru"] and no one had any money, so what kind of bribes were there. Later in Torzhok I defended the investigator who took it. But what did he take? A dozen eggs, a jar of mushrooms. There was no systemic corruption at all then.

About fees

My very first fee is not money. I received a briefcase as a gift for helping my uncle write a complaint, which helped his complete rehabilitation.

I remember that appeal- the result of many days of work - cost [in the USSR] up to seven and a half. Conducting a case in court cost twenty rubles. The least time that can be spent on conducting a case is three working days, more likely even four days for each case. Only twenty working days. That means five cases for twenty rubles each. It turns out to be a stolnik per month. This is only what the client deposits into the cash register. Of these hundred rubles, the lawyer received seventy in his hands - minus income tax. It was impossible to live on this money. Therefore, an additional agreement between lawyer and client flourished. The client paid extra. This, of course, was not encouraged. Perhaps some lawyers were abusive.

For some reason, we believe that the most expensive is the best. But this is not always the case. I am a man of the old school. I worked at a time when lawyers' fees were like alms for a beggar. Of course, I won’t work at this rate now, but I can’t get used to the fact that you can easily charge hundreds of thousands, millions from a client... I’m not the most expensive lawyer. Besides, I have my own theory about this. It consists in not taking as much as possible from the client. Because if you take too much, he will either overly hope or even think that you are taking not only for yourself, but will share with someone. As a result, you will become psychologically dependent on him. He may demand from you something that you do not consider possible to do. It’s better to take a little less from him, let him think that he owes you, let him tell his relatives and friends: “I thought Padva would take a million, but he took it like a god.” Then I have a different relationship with him, and I’m more comfortable with it than an extra thousand or ten thousand.

When it comes to choosing a client, money has never played a role for me. decisive role. For me to get down to business, it must first of all be interesting. Much less often if the case causes a public outcry. In this case, I generally take symbolic amounts. Acquaintances often come to me, and I cannot refuse. I don’t want to present myself as unmercenary. I get a lot. This provides me with a decent life.

I am fascinated by the legal plot. Sometimes I get so carried away that I can take on the task for free. And sometimes poor people turn to me, from whom there is nothing to take, but they want to help. This happened several times. Journalists talked about this, and now pensioners are bothering me: “I heard that you do business for free...” Yes, it happens. But I cannot practice law on a charitable basis. I work for free in exceptional cases. When things are very interesting. Or when I see that blatant injustice is happening.

About the role of a lawyer

We do not defend murderers, thieves, rapists, but citizens who are accused of this. And someone has to protect them. What if the investigation was wrong? The defense attorney has no right to raise the question: whether this person is really guilty or not. He does not judge his client. He is obliged to do only one thing - to present to the court all the arguments in favor of this person. Society is interested in this, and without this there is no justice.

It is important to say that in relationships with clients, we - lawyers - are not their judges. Neither formally, from the point of view of the question of their guilt and responsibility, nor humanly, from the point of view of good or bad person handed us his destiny. Whatever our client is, we are obliged to protect him, we are obliged to defend his position and be critical of the accusations. Therefore, I consciously always limit myself in assessing my client from the point of view of universal human criteria of morality and ethics. As for intellectual abilities - intelligence, education, then, of course, I take this into account in my relationship with the client.

When I accept an assignment on a new criminal case, I should not wonder whether the person is guilty or not. A citizen needs legal assistance and protection. And it is my human, professional and constitutional duty to provide this assistance. In addition, at this stage I cannot get an answer to the question of whether the person is guilty or not. To do this, I must enter into the case, get to know him, but after that I no longer have the right to refuse defense.

When a person himself says that he is guilty, I should question this too and believe him only when I am convinced of this myself. If it turns out that the accused is nevertheless guilty, I am obliged to express my opinion on how his actions should be legally assessed and what punishment should be determined. The lawyer is obliged to present to the court all considerations mitigating the guilt of the client.

Many lawyers calmly admit: they say, of course, we are scammers. We undertake to protect people for money, even when we know that we cannot do anything. And they tell the client that they will do everything possible and impossible... I try to be as frank as possible with the client. For example, especially difficult cases I explain that very little will depend on me during this process. And even if he invites the best lawyers in the world, it is unlikely that anything will change. It’s very cruel to say this, but it’s honest. As a rule, after such words a person still does not give up his defense, otherwise he would feel doomed. But he still has hope.

To be a good corporate lawyer, you don't need to have an artistic temperament. And to be trial lawyer in civil and criminal cases, it is necessary, of course, to master the art of oratory, which is especially required in jury trials. In turn, in order to speak successfully, you need to be a highly educated person, know music, literature, and painting. You need to visit port taverns, mingle among the station public, observe the life of the inhabitants of the social bottom, know the types of street and apartment hooliganism. Maybe sometimes you need to fight.

About clients

There are different clients. There are clients who disappear after their issue is resolved. And then, when they see you on the street, they cross to the other side. Others are grateful to the grave. They express it somehow. Not necessarily in money. Attention, care, congratulations for the holidays. For example, when I was robbed, two or three clients came and tried to compensate for something from the stolen goods. One bought a VCR. Suddenly he called and said if he could come. I say yes. He brings a tape recorder. And this happened. The case was carried out successfully, the man was released from prison. After that he didn’t even show up, didn’t say a kind word, let alone thank him. And a few years later, suddenly an acquaintance brings me to him: I really need it on business. I didn’t even know who. And he turned out to be a prosperous businessman and gave me half of his business. Another thing is that in the future it did not bring me any dividends - just trouble.

I maintain good, friendly relations with some clients, but there are not very many of them. Some people do not like to remember difficult moments in their lives, and a lawyer is a living reminder of such moments. They do not like to communicate with those to whom they owe something.

In my practice, I had to come into conflict with my own client. I once defended a guy who pleaded guilty to a crime. I didn’t believe him and sought to return the case for additional investigation. The accused tried to refuse me, but it was too late. The court sent the case back to the prosecutor, and it turned out that the guy took the blame on his father so that the punishment would be more lenient.

I had a case when one person was acutely, literally physiologically, unpleasant to me. One day we worked with him for a long time, and I had to feed him. He ate so much that I felt disgusted, I even had the feeling that there was some kind of animal in front of me. But I could not refuse his defense, only if he himself wanted to change his lawyer.

About Me

[Being a lawyer] was a school dream. I basically imagined that a lawyer is a speaker. As a child, he was engaged in literary reading and participated in reading competitions.

I don't identify myself with anyone. I value myself.

I think I'm a kind person, I think I'm a trusting person, oddly enough. I think I'm an honest person. I think that I am a courageous person, in terms of my virtues. And if we talk about shortcomings, there are no less striking ones: I am terribly uncollected, I am terribly disorganized, I am terribly absent-minded, lazy.

I don’t have an all-consuming hobby. I have several hobbies that have been with me all my life - sometimes to a greater extent, sometimes to a lesser extent. This is a passion for certain sports. I adored and adore football and tennis. Once upon a time I played both. He even had a referee category in football and refereed some matches. I still love football. A Spartak fan, a little bit of a fan, but not to the point of going and sorting things out with CSKA fans. But, in general, I really love Spartak, and now I’m worried: they’re playing poorly.

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Father:

Pavel Yurievich Padva

Mother:

Eva Iosifovna Rapopport

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Genrikh Pavlovich Padva(born February 20, 1931, Moscow) - Russian lawyer. Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.

Education

Born into the family of Pavel Yuryevich Padva and Eva Iosifovna Rapopport. Graduated (), Faculty of History, Kalinin State Pedagogical Institute (in absentia;).

Advocacy

He began his legal practice in distribution in the Kalinin region, and, as Padva himself especially notes, in the year of Stalin’s death.

Represented the interests of Boris Pasternak's friend Olga Ivinskaya and her heirs in a long (-) trial regarding the fate of Pasternak's archive (the interests of the writer's heirs, daughter-in-law Natalya and granddaughter Elena were represented by lawyer Lyubarskaya). Later, with great regret, he recalls the failure in this civil case: It reached the point of absurdity and mockery of the memory of a genius: officials demanded documents about the donation of a manuscript of a poem dedicated to herself to O. Ivinskaya!

He was a defender of a number of famous people, including:

• crime boss Vyacheslav Ivankov, better known as “Yaponchik” (); charges against Ivankov were dropped illegal storage firearms, however, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
• former Chairman of the Supreme Council of the USSR Anatoly Lukyanov (-; “the State Emergency Committee case”, which ended with an amnesty);
• large businessman Lev Weinberg (-; the client was released from custody, and the case was soon dismissed);
• Deputy Director of the Federal Insolvency Administration (FUDN) Petr Karpov (-; accused of taking a bribe, was twice imprisoned and twice released on his own recognizance, the case was dropped due to an amnesty);
• former chairman of Rosdragmet Evgeny Bychkov (; the client was amnestied, some of the charges against him were dropped);
• former manager of the affairs of the President of Russia Pavel Borodin (-; Borodin was arrested as part of the investigation of the “Mabetex case”, the case was discontinued);
• former chairman of the board of directors of KrAZ Anatoly Bykov (2000; the client was found guilty, but he was given a suspended sentence);
• entrepreneur Frank Elkaponi (Mamedova) (2002-2003; charges of possession and transportation of drugs were dropped, the defendant was released in the courtroom);
• the former head of NK "YUKOS" Mikhail Khodorkovsky (; the defendant was sentenced to 9 years in prison, then the term was reduced to 8 years);
• actor Vladislav Galkin;
• former Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.

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Family and hobbies

Heinrich Padva is married for the second time to a woman 40 years younger than himself. Wife since 1996 - art critic and notary assistant Oksana Mamontova (b. 1971), graduated from the Moscow Law Academy. Her son from her first marriage, Gleb, perceives Genrikh Pavlovich, according to Oksana, as own father. The spouses entered into a marriage contract.

Albina's first wife died in 1974. From this marriage he has a daughter.

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The valet stood up and whispered something. Timokhin, suffering from pain in his wounded leg, did not sleep and looked with all his eyes at the strange appearance of a girl in a poor shirt, jacket and eternal cap. The sleepy and frightened words of the valet; “What do you need, why?” - they only forced Natasha to quickly approach what was lying in the corner. No matter how scary or unlike a human this body was, she had to see it. She passed the valet: the burnt mushroom of the candle fell off, and she clearly saw Prince Andrei lying with his arms outstretched on the blanket, just as she had always seen him.
He was the same as always; but the inflamed color of his face, his sparkling eyes, fixed enthusiastically on her, and especially the tender child’s neck protruding from the folded collar of his shirt, gave him a special, innocent, childish appearance, which, however, she had never seen in Prince Andrei. She walked up to him and with a quick, flexible, youthful movement knelt down.
He smiled and extended his hand to her.

For Prince Andrei, seven days have passed since he woke up at the dressing station of the Borodino field. All this time he was in almost constant unconsciousness. The fever and inflammation of the intestines, which were damaged, in the opinion of the doctor traveling with the wounded man, should have carried him away. But on the seventh day he happily ate a slice of bread with tea, and the doctor noticed that the general fever had decreased. Prince Andrei regained consciousness in the morning. The first night after leaving Moscow it was quite warm, and Prince Andrei was left to spend the night in a carriage; but in Mytishchi the wounded man himself demanded to be carried out and to be given tea. The pain caused to him by being carried into the hut made Prince Andrei moan loudly and lose consciousness again. When they laid him on a camp bed, he lay for a long time with his eyes closed without moving. Then he opened them and quietly whispered: “What should I have for tea?” This memory for the small details of life amazed the doctor. He felt the pulse and, to his surprise and displeasure, noticed that the pulse was better. To his displeasure, the doctor noticed this because, from his experience, he was convinced that Prince Andrei could not live and that if he did not die now, he would only die with great suffering some time later. With Prince Andrei they were carrying the major of his regiment, Timokhin, who had joined them in Moscow with a red nose and was wounded in the leg in the same Battle of Borodino. With them rode a doctor, the prince's valet, his coachman and two orderlies.
Prince Andrey was given tea. He drank greedily, looking ahead at the door with feverish eyes, as if trying to understand and remember something.
- I don’t want anymore. Is Timokhin here? - he asked. Timokhin crawled towards him along the bench.
- I'm here, your Excellency.
- How's the wound?
- Mine then? Nothing. Is that you? “Prince Andrei began to think again, as if remembering something.
-Can I get a book? - he said.
- Which book?
- Gospel! I have no.
The doctor promised to get it and began asking the prince about how he felt. Prince Andrei reluctantly, but wisely answered all the doctor’s questions and then said that he needed to put a cushion on him, otherwise it would be awkward and very painful. The doctor and the valet lifted the greatcoat with which he was covered and, wincing at the heavy smell of rotten meat spreading from the wound, began to examine this terrible place. The doctor was very dissatisfied with something, changed something differently, turned the wounded man over so that he groaned again and, from the pain while turning, again lost consciousness and began to rave. He kept talking about getting this book for him as soon as possible and putting it there.
- And what does it cost you! - he said. “I don’t have it, please take it out and put it in for a minute,” he said in a pitiful voice.
The doctor went out into the hallway to wash his hands.
“Ah, shameless, really,” the doctor said to the valet, who was pouring water onto his hands. “I just didn’t watch it for a minute.” After all, you put it directly on the wound. It’s such a pain that I’m surprised how he endures it.
“It seems like we planted it, Lord Jesus Christ,” said the valet.
For the first time, Prince Andrei understood where he was and what had happened to him, and remembered that he had been wounded and how at that moment when the carriage stopped in Mytishchi, he asked to go to the hut. Confused again from pain, he came to his senses another time in the hut, when he was drinking tea, and then again, repeating in his memory everything that had happened to him, he most vividly imagined that moment at the dressing station when, at the sight of the suffering of a person he did not love, , these new thoughts came to him, promising him happiness. And these thoughts, although unclear and indefinite, now again took possession of his soul. He remembered that he now had new happiness and that this happiness had something in common with the Gospel. That's why he asked for the Gospel. But the bad situation that his wound had given him, the new upheaval, again confused his thoughts, and for the third time he woke up to life in the complete silence of the night. Everyone was sleeping around him. A cricket screamed through the entryway, someone was shouting and singing on the street, cockroaches rustled on the table and icons, in the autumn a thick fly beat on his headboard and near the tallow candle, which had burned like a large mushroom and stood next to him.
His soul was not in a normal state. A healthy person usually thinks, feels and remembers simultaneously about a countless number of objects, but he has the power and strength, having chosen one series of thoughts or phenomena, to focus all his attention on this series of phenomena. A healthy person, in a moment of deepest thought, breaks away to say a polite word to the person who has entered, and again returns to his thoughts. The soul of Prince Andrei was not in a normal state in this regard. All the forces of his soul were more active, clearer than ever, but they acted outside of his will. The most diverse thoughts and ideas simultaneously possessed him. Sometimes his thought suddenly began to work, and with such strength, clarity and depth with which it had never been able to act in a healthy state; but suddenly, in the middle of her work, she broke off, was replaced by some unexpected idea, and there was no strength to return to it.
“Yes, I have discovered a new happiness, inalienable from a person,” he thought, lying in a dark, quiet hut and looking ahead with feverishly open, fixed eyes. Happiness that is outside of material forces, outside of material external influences on a person, the happiness of one soul, the happiness of love! Every person can understand it, but only God can recognize and prescribe it. But how did God prescribe this law? Why son?.. And suddenly the train of these thoughts was interrupted, and Prince Andrei heard (not knowing whether he was in delirium or in reality he was hearing this), he heard some quiet, whispering voice, incessantly repeating in rhythm: “And drink piti drink” then “and ti tii” again “and piti piti piti” again “and ti ti.” At the same time, to the sound of this whispering music, Prince Andrei felt that some strange airy building made of thin needles or splinters was erected above his face, above the very middle. He felt (although it was difficult for him) that he had to diligently maintain his balance so that the building that was being erected would not collapse; but it still fell down and slowly rose again at the sounds of steadily whispering music. “It’s stretching!” stretches! stretches and everything stretches,” Prince Andrei said to himself. Along with listening to the whisper and feeling this stretching and rising building of needles, Prince Andrei saw in fits and starts the red light of a candle surrounded in a circle and heard the rustling of cockroaches and the rustling of a fly beating on the pillow and on his face. And every time the fly touched his face, it produced a burning sensation; but at the same time he was surprised by the fact that, hitting the very area of ​​​​the building erected on his face, the fly did not destroy it. But besides this, there was one more important thing. It was white by the door, it was a sphinx statue that was also crushing him.
“But maybe this is my shirt on the table,” thought Prince Andrei, “and these are my legs, and this is the door; but why is everything stretching and moving forward and piti piti piti and tit ti - and piti piti piti... - Enough, stop, please, leave it, - Prince Andrei begged someone heavily. And suddenly the thought and feeling emerged again with extraordinary clarity and strength.

Heinrich Padva, founder and managing partner of the Padva and Partners bureau, took up the legal profession immediately after graduating from university in 1953. Having started his career in the provinces, he eventually became not just one of the most famous lawyers in Russia, but also a kind of symbol of the legal profession. He took on complex matters a lot and willingly: he achieved that the application death penalty in Russia was recognized as contrary to the Constitution, defended the former chairman of the Supreme Council of the USSR Anatoly Lukyanov, the head of the Presidential Administration Pavel Borodin, and among Padva’s last clients was the ex-head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He takes an active position in life not only in his professional activities, but also in organizing his leisure time: he is interested in motor sports, athletics and football, and has been a fan of Spartak for many years. Member of the Snob project since June 2009.

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Birthday

Where he was born

Who was born to

at mom and dad's

Where and what did you study?

In Moscow, he graduated from school No. 110 and the Moscow Law Institute, and then from the history department of the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute.

Served?

“I worked as a lawyer after graduation, since 1953, all my life.”

He is one of the founders and managing partner of the Padva and Partners law firm.

Academic degrees and titles

Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation

What did you do?

"Protected people"

Achievements

“I consider my achievements to be the cases when I was able to prove the innocence or lesser guilt of people.”

Public affairs

Member of the Central Council of the Russian Bar Association, the Scientific Advisory Council of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers of Russia and the Council of the Moscow Bar Association. Vice-president and one of the initiators of the creation of the Union of Lawyers of the USSR (now known as International Union lawyers).

“Of course, I do charity work, help children and other people. But I don’t recognize the funds, I only help myself.”

Public acceptance

Honored Lawyer of Russia, holder of the Badge of Honor “Public Recognition”, awarded the gold medal named after F.N. Gobber. Repeatedly recognized as one of the best Russian lawyers. In 2001, he was recognized as Person of the Year in the “Law” nomination based on voting results in the Rambler search engine.

Important life events

“Well, if you don’t take things like finishing school, college, starting work, then this, of course, is the death of your mother, then the birth of your daughter and the death of your beloved wife.”

First created and invented

“Professionally, I have achieved a lot, including changing the practice of all Russian courts on various fundamental issues. But the most important thing is that I petitioned the Constitutional Court to declare the death penalty unconstitutional. Based on my complaint, the Constitutional Court examined this issue and declared the use of the death penalty unconstitutional in our country. Since then we have not used it.”

Displayed on clean water

“There were several cases when I brought to light those who illegally attracted honest people to criminal liability. In a number of other cases, I proved that someone was behaving illegally.”

I'm interested

“Nothing human is alien to me: women, love, friendship in all its manifestations, starting with friendly drinking sessions and ending with friendly help, I adore art, painting, I really love music.”

I love

At different times I had different hobbies. At one time I was interested in motor sports, even took part in amateur rallies. Once in my youth I was involved in philately, but then, however, I completely abandoned it. I was interested in photography for some time, then I also gave up. At different times I had a variety of hobbies and interests. Of these, I retained my love for sports. But if I used to do a lot of sports myself: gymnastics, athletics (I even achieved some decent results), and table tennis, now I enjoy watching football and tennis. And, of course, I support Spartak. I support this team not only because I am a Muscovite, but because at one time they captivated me with their style of play. Nobody played the way Spartak played. It was a very beautiful game style and I fell in love with it. I myself once played football and even had the refereeing category. In the 50s, after I graduated from college, I judged local competitions.”