There is such a guide in Moscow that invites children and adults to walk along the streets of the capital and the Moscow region, turning it into an exciting journey back centuries. This is Michael Zhebrak. He is called a private guide, an inventor, a storyteller, and he is also the host of the author’s program “Walk”.
Excursion performance
Yes, he is just like that. Over the years, comes up with interesting games for children and even adults. Michael turns excursions into real performances in which those who come on an excursion become actors, and not just a group following the guide. Each new walk, new tour or trip to one of the parks in Moscow with the guys suddenly turns into a search for treasure or some kind of historical artifacts.
Excursions to art museums turn into a detective investigation, more complicated than Pinkerton's. Children like these searches for the clues of secrets stored in museum halls. They are interested in looking at paintings and finding clues to solve instead of the dry classic story of the guides.
In a nutshell about yourself
Biography of Mikhail Zhebrak is very stingy with the facts. It’s just that it’s not verbose about itself, it’s basically a list of dates of key moments of creative activity. Born April 27, 1965 in Moscow. He studied at school, then received higher education at MGUP (press). His hobbies are historical places of Moscow and mountain tourism. He draws information for his excursions from books, being a reader of all the metropolitan libraries. He believes that only a book helps to correctly understand history, especially ancient.
Mikhail said that in his youth he traveled all over central Russia with children's tourist groups. Gradually, an adult contingent began hiking. According to him, knowing the material, you can conduct a tour in any city in about three hours. From school, Mikhail was passionate about theater, the history of architecture and fine art. His favorite means of transportation are a bicycle, and outside the city a horse. The personal life of Mikhail Zhebrak is known to be married and has a son. He does not like to talk about more.
Tourism and excursions - love from childhood
Born in Moscow, Mikhail walked her far and wide, covered all the mysterious places in the center of the capital and the remote corners of her parks. The young adventurer liked finding historical sites and ancient monuments described in literary works. Knowing every nook and cranny of the capital well, he spent many years touring Moscow and, traveling with children around Moscow, tried to introduce them to nearby monasteries, estates, and cities.
In 2004-2005, Mikhail Zhebrak worked at the Fisht Expedition Travel Company as the head of the excursion department. Here he is involved in route development, writes excursion programs and advertising texts. Further work as the editor of the sports department, then the chief editor of the magazine "Self-defense without weapons."
From September 2012 to the present, Mikhail has been conducting the weekly Peshkom program on the Culture channel. And, of course, he continues to conduct sightseeing tours for children in the city and the region from the travel company “Fun Travel”. Travel company Travel Store and Mikhail work with adult groups of tourists. Any person can be carried away, most importantly, that he was interested and fascinating. Here is such an interesting biography of the guide Mikhail Zhebrak.
Sightseeing tours from the "Fun Travel"
Such excursions, which Michael conducts as part of his own authoring gaming programs, give a maximum of interesting information to the guys. In a playful way, they not only learn their city, its museums, historical past, but also learn to see and understand what the artist painted, why the house was built in this style and much more. Children in the game become explorers. With loops, maps and notepads, they, under the leadership of Mikhail Zhebrak, discover a world that is not ordinary. Well done are those parents who bring their children on such excursions. On the Merry Travel website, you can read rave reviews from parents and the children themselves.
Author’s program “On foot”
Excursions and performances, which Mikhail Zhebrak has been inventing for many years now, pushed him to the idea of creating his own program “Walk”. And she received the highest marks from the audience.
Remarkably, the transmission is half an hour and does not tire the viewer from the screen. Its highlight is the professionalism of the narrator, which is Mikhail himself. He, a great connoisseur of the history of Moscow and its environs, devoted many issues of the program to the theme of Moscow. These include a cycle from the programs Moscow Tea House, Water Moscow, Italian Moscow and others. This is also an excursion, only for a wide range of viewers. These programs are on the Internet, that is, they can be viewed at any convenient time. In the plots that Mikhail creates, the viewer watches an amazing game of an erudite and talented person.
What else will Michael come up with? What other talents are not revealed?