Nikita Khrushchev biography nationality

An unknown sculptor Ernst sculptor sculptor from white marble, the other from black. Light and shadow coexisted in Nikita Sergeevich on an equal footing. Today, Khrushchev’s figure on April 15 - from the day of his birth is perceived just as ambiguously. That is why the memories that can shed additional light on it are so valuable. The conversation between Nikita Sergeyevich Rada Adjubei Khrushcheva and the leading historical club "Izvestia" Stanislav Sergeyev took place in the year, two years before her death, at the height of the Kyiv Maidan, but then Rada Nikitichna asked her not to publish - in order to avoid unnecessary emotions, I propose to start our conversation with a virtual walk in your childhood and youth.

Your home, quarter, school, Grushevsky Street, which is now at the hearing ... - Yes, it's hard to look at these pictures. It is worth indicating the date of our conversation - January 30 of the year. This is for the point of counting what is happening there today. No one knows what will happen tomorrow. But each person has his own personal point of reference - his birth and childhood.

Kyiv and Ukraine are generally very close to me, because I am half a Ukrainian. My father, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, is Russian in all knees. And my mother, Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, is a purebred Ukrainian, originally from the Kholm province of the Kingdom of Poland, who was entering the Russian Empire at the time of her youth. Was Crimea ever Ukrainian? I did not know, although the name is familiar to me.

Mikhail Grushevsky, a major historian and politician, was the chairman of the Central Rada of the Ukrainian People’s Republic under the hetman Skoropadsky for some time, later lived in Moscow, was at the Soviet Academy of Sciences ... I remember this street completely different. And if in order, I must say that I was born in Kyiv in the year. For a long time ...

So life has lived a large, long, and a lot of everything happened in it. And at what is happening there today, I look somehow with fear. They call what is happening differently: revolution, coup d'etat, riot, counter-revolution. I can’t understand all this yet ...-And so let's get back to your Kyiv. My father was at that time a fairly prominent party worker in the Kiev regional committee but no more.

He really wanted to study and begged, because he settled the age qualification to be sent to Moscow to an industrial academy. Nikita Sergeyevich then had two more children from his first marriage - my older sister and brother Julia and Leonid his first wife Frosya died of typhoid in the year. All our family was then settled in the hostel of the industrial case, somewhere in the Maroseyki area.

The father was allocated in the hostel two rooms, and in different ends of the corridor. In one they lived with their mother, in the other - children. So my mother ran to me all the time, and, as she later told me, it was both funny and dramatic. How the Soviet doctors killed the room turned out to be infected with bugs, and mother put under the legs of the beds of water bowls so that they could not climb onto the bed.

Then they climbed the ceiling and fell down from there. That was my first, through my mother, the impression of Moscow. Further, almost my life, with breaks, passed here. And now I often think about this: where do modern young people, and not only young people, with the possibilities that, of course, exist today, the desire to feel, so to speak, citizens of the world and feel in this global world, achievable at any end, everywhere, in general, “people” without a homeland.

I think this is wrong. Three senior, fundamental classes ended in a local Russian school and then thoroughly learned the Ukrainian language. It was my third meeting with Kyiv. And the second occurred a few years before the war, so I also went through the elementary school in Kyiv, when I just began to recognize the language and literature of the talented people. At the end of the year, Khrushchev leaves for the Moscow industry, this is a higher educational institution created under the Soviet regime to train engineering personnel at the dawn of industrialization.

But the father of the academy did not graduate - the time was stormy, Stalin then fought first with the right bias, then with the Trotskyists. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev in the center with a delegation of the rally of the Stakhanovites of the Proletarian District of Moscow, the year photo: RIA Novosti and students of the Stalin Industrial Academy were, so to speak, the elite of the Soviet regime-not just people who came from the fields, but the party nominees who occupied some position, but quite independent in their political views.

Among them there were many those who were then enrolled in the Trotskyists. About a year and a half later, after all the vicissitudes and discussions, he was elected secretary of the Bauman district committee of the Moscow Party. Interesting zigzags of history. By the way, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, the wife of Stalin, studied at the industry. As his father later wrote, he believed that Stalin first heard his surname and opinion about his political temperament precisely from Alliluyeva.Khrushchev in Moscow was a powerful patron - Kaganovich, with whom they crossed in the pre -revolutionary years in the Donbass, where his father worked in factories and mines and was already politically active.

Kaganovich, being the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Party, proposed the candidacy of Khrushchev for the post of secretary of the district committee. But the political career quickly went up. He took the place of Kaganovich in the city committee, and he rose to the secretary of the Central Committee of the party. But he continued, as they say now, to oversee Khrushchev.

And at that time, Stalin already knew his father and even began to invite to dinners in a narrow circle, where serious state issues were discussed.