TASS DOSSIER. March 14, 2017 marks the 85th anniversary of the widow of the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Naina Yeltsina.
Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina was born on March 14, 1932 in the village of Titovka, Middle Volga region (now Orenburg region) in the family of Joseph and Maria Girin. Her father was a railway employee, her mother was raising six children - four sons and two daughters. Naina was the eldest of them. At birth she received the name Anastasia, but her family called her Naya. At the age of 25, she officially changed her name to Naina.
In 1955 she graduated from the Ural Polytechnic Institute named after. CM. Kirov in Sverdlovsk (UPI; now - Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg).
While studying, I met my future husband, Boris Yeltsin, a student at the UPI Faculty of Civil Engineering. They got married in September 1956, a year later a daughter, Elena, was born into the family, and three years later, Tatyana.
After college, she was assigned as a civil engineer to Orenburg. In 1956 she returned to Sverdlovsk. For more than 25 years she worked in the Sverdlovsk branch of the State Design Institute for the survey and design of external water supply systems, sewerage and hydraulic structures "Vodokanalproekt" (later - the Sverdlovsk branch of VodokanalNIIproekt and Soyuzvodokanalproekt, then - the State Design Institute "Ural Vodokanalproekt"). She held the positions of chief project engineer and group leader.
In 1985, she and her husband moved to Moscow, where Boris Yeltsin was invited to work in the Construction Department of the CPSU Central Committee. In June of the same year, he became secretary of the Central Committee for construction issues, and in December - first secretary of the Moscow city party committee. After Boris Yeltsin was elected president of Russia on June 12, 1991, Naina Yeltsina became the country's first lady.
According to Naina Yeltsina herself, until the death of Boris Yeltsin on April 23, 2007, she tried to stay in the shadow of her husband, emphasizing that first of all she was a wife, mother and grandmother. The First Lady was involved in helping children's and school institutions, hospitals, and nursing homes. Boris Yeltsin wrote about his wife in his book of memoirs: “When Naina goes to an orphanage, or to a children’s hospital, or to the hospital to see her favorite actress, she never tells anyone about it. She sincerely considers... good deeds to be her private business.”
For her charitable activities in 1999, Naina Yeltsina was awarded the international Oliver Prize in the nomination “For Humanism of the Heart”, awarded by the Frank Foundation for International Assistance to Children. In 2005, she was awarded the national award for public recognition of the achievements of women in Russia "Olympia" in the category "Honor and Dignity" ("for high style and impeccable service to moral ideals"); The founder of the award is the public organization "Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship".
In 2015, the B.N. Presidential Center was opened in Yekaterinburg. Yeltsin (“Yeltsin Center”), which operates a museum of the first Russian president and an archive named after him. Naina Yeltsina is a member of the board of trustees of the Yeltsin Center Foundation.
On February 1, 2017, on the day of the 86th anniversary of the birth of Boris Yeltsin, the widow of the first president of Russia presented in Yekaterinburg the first excerpts of her book, which is dedicated to episodes of meeting her husband, living together and his work. At a meeting with readers, Naina Yeltsina said: “I don’t like publicity at all, I don’t like giving interviews, but somehow it turned out that after Boris Nikolayevich left, I began to talk about our life - this is my duty to his memory.” As the press service of the Yekaterinburg City Duma reported, Naina Yeltsin began working on her memoirs several years ago, and the manuscript is currently being prepared for printing (the publication of the memoirs will presumably be published in March 2017).
For the 85th anniversary of Naina Yeltsina, the B.N. Presidential Center Yeltsin prepared a special program. On March 12, the premiere of the documentary film “Naina Yeltsin. Declaration of Love” (author - director of the Yeltsin Center Lyudmila Telen, director - Mumin Shakirov) took place in the conference hall of the center. It is based on an interview with the wife of the first president of Russia, video and photo archives of the Yeltsin family, which have never been published anywhere before. March 14 at the Yeltsin Center as part of the permanent exhibition of the Museum of B.N. Yeltsin "Another Life of the President" will open an exhibition of photographs "Naina Yeltsin".
The Yeltsins' eldest daughter is Elena Okulova (born 1957), married to Valery Okulov, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation. The youngest, Tatyana Dyachenko (born 1960), is married to Valentin Yumashev, former head of the Administration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, one of the founders and member of the board of the Yeltsin Center Foundation. Naina Yeltsina has six grandchildren: Elena's children - Ekaterina (born 1979), Maria (born 1983), Ivan (born 1997); Tatyana's children - Boris (born 1981), Gleb (born 1995), Maria (born 2002).
On May 31, 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree “On material support for the widow of B.N. Yeltsin” (taking into account changes from November 28, 2009), which established a monthly allowance for Naina Yeltsin in the amount of 195 thousand rubles.
Who: Boris Yeltsin Jr. is the main Russian enfant terrible, a typical representative of the capital's golden youth, a lover and favorite of girls, the grandson of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin and one of the most discussed representatives of the eminent dynasty.
However, now Boris Yeltsin is increasingly associated with an enterprising businessman rather than with a reveler and a waster of life. 
Boris Yeltsin Jr.
What's remarkable: To get on the front pages of newspapers, Boris Yeltsin Jr. only had to turn 15 and appear in society with his first lover. After the death of an influential grandfather in 2007, the heir to a famous family and an equally noble fortune begins to systematically squander not only family wealth, but also valuables. Completely giving himself over to fun, voluptuousness and nightlife, the adored grandson soon falls out of favor with the widow of the first president. Raised in strictness, Naina Yeltsin categorically does not accept Boris’s extravagance and wild lifestyle and stops all communication with him. By the age of 29, Yeltsin Jr. had not glorified his name with anything other than loud scandals - the man changed his girls like gloves, occasionally reassuring the public with statements like “please meet me, this is my bride.” Today, Boris is 33 years old - despite the ardent desire and instructions of his family to connect his life with politics, the heir to a historical family is trying to establish himself as an enterprising businessman. Yeltsin recently opened an unusual kindergarten for the children of oligarchs on Bolshoy Trekhgorny Lane in the capital, giving it the name “Interesting.” In his free time from business negotiations, the politician’s grandson plays music and plays hockey. 
In his free time from business meetings, Yeltsin plays music 
Boris Yeltsin Jr. during hockey training 
Boris spends his holidays at the best resorts in the world 
Now Boris Yeltsin devotes all his energy to business
Personal life: Over the past decade, quite a number of metropolitan beauties, among whom one could find both models and representatives of the thinking intelligentsia, have managed to become the potential bride of Boris Yeltsin Jr. But neither the dizzying gait of top model Margarita Annaberdieva, nor the touching declarations of love from Rasul Gamzatov’s granddaughter Shahri Amirkhanova won the playboy’s flighty heart. Zhanna Aggidasheva suffered the most for the temperamental Boris, who spent 10 years searching for the keys to the heart of her obstinate lover, completely forgetting about the disapproval of his pretentious mother Tatyana Yumasheva. The only unconditionally beloved representative of the fair half of humanity for Yeltsin Jr. always remained his half-sister Masha Yumasheva. Boris never tires of confessing his love for this precociously beautiful girl from the pages of his Instagram, in interviews and by any other means. However, Marfusha, as her older brother affectionately calls her, fully approves of the enviable bachelor’s new sweetheart - Serbian top model Tamara Lazic became the next victim of the charming heartthrob. The beloved of one of the most eligible bachelors in the country is distinguished by a chiseled figure, curvy shape and endless legs. You can appreciate the girl’s outstanding data in advertising campaigns for the brand’s underwear, the face of which is Tamara along with Irina Shayk. 
Boris Yeltsin Jr. with his grandfather and his first lover 
Boris Yeltsin and top model Margarita Annaberdieva 
Boris Yeltsin and his ex-fiancee Elena 
The affair with Shahri Amirkhanova was hot and long - the couple dated for several years 
The next victim of the charming heartthrob was Serbian top model Tamara Lazic 
Yeltsin spends all his free time with Tamara
Style: The heir to a huge fortune adheres to a fairly democratic style when it comes to clothing. Youth jumpers, T-shirts and shirts can be seen on him much more often than three-piece suits and velvet tuxedos. However, occasionally Yeltsin Jr. makes an exception even for an impeccably tailored tailcoat and bow tie, for example, to show off on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival on the arm of his mother. Boris's all-time favorite accessory is also aviator glasses, under the tinted glasses of which he hides the mischievous sparkle of his brown eyes.
The grandson of the first Russian president prefers sportswear 
Boris with his mother Tatyana Yumasheva at the famous staircase of the Cannes Palais des Festivals
Surroundings: Most often Yeltsin can be seen in the company of his sister Masha and his beloved Tamara. During periods of separation from both, Boris does business or spends time with a narrow circle of non-public friends, often foreigners. 
Boris Yeltsin Jr. dotes on his half-sister Marfa 
With beloved Tamara and sister Marfusha 
10 years ago, on April 23, 2007, he passed away first Russian President Boris Yeltsin. AiF.ru decided to see how his family lives today - not the one they wrote about in quotes in the 90s - consisting of oligarchs and officials, but the real one.
Naina Yeltsina. Widow
In March 2017 Naina Iosifovna celebrated the anniversary. At 85, she still leads an active social life. Recently, for her contribution to the implementation of socially significant humanitarian programs and active participation in charitable activities, the President of Russia awarded her the Order of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine. Naina Yeltsina's birthday was celebrated in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Relatives and friends of the hero of the day, employees of the foundation named after the first president, as well as people who worked with Yeltsin were invited to the celebration. The birthday girl personally participated in compiling the guest list.
As the widow of the first president of Russia told reporters, she often visits her native Yekaterinburg, sometimes goes on vacation with her children. But mostly he spends his time at home. Naina Iosifovna lives on a monthly allowance, which was established for her by decree in 2007. Vladimir Putin. In 2009, amendments were made to the decree and the amount was announced: 195 thousand rubles, with mandatory indexation, which is tied to an increase in the monetary remuneration of the President of the Russian Federation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Naina Yeltsina at a reception in the Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace on the occasion of Naina Yeltsina's 85th birthday. March 14, 2017 Photo: RIA Novosti/ Mikhail Klimentyev
On the eve of the anniversary, she admitted that she had always been burdened by politics and felt uncomfortable in the role of first lady, considering herself, first of all, a wife, mother and grandmother: “We have a large family, 18 people. I have 3 grandchildren, 3 granddaughters and 5 great-grandchildren. The grandchildren are already adults, they also have children, only a younger granddaughter Masha studying at school in England, she wanted to. And the great-grandchildren are growing up so fast! All are already schoolchildren, studying in different schools in Moscow. One great-grandson is already finishing school. They all study well, I very rarely go to school with them, mostly their granddaughters - Katya and Masha- take care of their children's school affairs... Almost every Sunday everyone comes to my house for lunch. And this is a great joy for me. I live the life of our entire family and worry about everyone,” Naina Iosifovna said in an interview.
Elena Okulova. Eldest daughter
The eldest daughter of B. Yeltsin Elena three children - Catherine(born 1979), Maria(born 1983) and Ivan(born 1997). Elena Borisovna is a decidedly non-public person, a housewife; there is also no available information about the lives of her children. Her husband Valery Okulov works as Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, before that he was the general director of Aeroflot for many years. The couple owns 4 plots of land, a residential building (430 sq. m), an apartment (193.8 sq. m), 2 summer houses and 2 foreign cars - Jaguar XF and Range Rover Evoque.
In a single interview in 2011, Okulova said that her father did not take part in her husband’s career: “Valera always considered it impossible for himself to involve his father in resolving any business issues. Of course, he really loved talking to dad, discussing problems, maybe even asking for advice. So do we all. But I never asked my dad for anything.”
Tatyana Yumasheva. Youngest daughter
The youngest daughter of the first president, on the contrary, has always been the center of attention. In 1996-1999 she was even officially appointed as her father's advisor. Today it is she who runs the B. N. Yeltsin Foundation and devotes a lot of time to the Center named after him, which was opened in Yekaterinburg in 2015. But the main thing, according to her, is still family. “I try to pay maximum attention to my mother... She has already gotten a little used to living without her dad, she has adapted, but it’s still hard for her without him, they were always like one whole. I try to somehow encourage her, make sure she does yoga, walks,” Tatyana Yumasheva told FORBES WOMAN magazine in 2015.
Vladimir Putin, Tatyana Yumasheva and Naina Yeltsina during a tour of the exhibition “Seven Days That Changed Russia” at the Boris Yeltsin Museum in Yekaterinburg. November 25, 2015. Photo: RIA Novosti/ Alexey Nikolsky
Boris Yeltsin Jr. Grandson
Born in 1981, son from Tatyana’s first husband Vilena Khairullina, who renounced his paternity in favor of Leonida Dyachenko. Boris was named after his grandfather and given his mother's maiden name. He studied at English school No. 1243 in Moscow. Since 1996 - at Millfield School in Somerset (England). Next was MGIMO, but Yeltsin Jr. didn’t work out as a diplomat. He transferred to the Higher School of Business of Moscow State University. After that, I studied for a year at Brown University in the USA, which I also abandoned. According to open sources, Boris Yeltsin still does not have a higher education diploma.
He worked as Marketing Director of the Russian Formula 1 team. Tried to produce films in Hollywood. Now Yeltsin Jr. is a co-owner of the Wide View Development company, which plans to build a ski resort with an area of 450 hectares near the village of Starovo in the Dmitrovsky district of the Moscow region. The cost of the project was estimated at $800 million. It includes 7 themed hotels: a village hotel, a spa hotel, an air hotel, a ski hotel, a linguistic hotel, a hotel in the trees and a view-point. According to Boris Yeltsin Jr., his main task as a co-owner is to attract investment through family connections.
Photo strip: Former first lady of Russia. The life of Naina Yeltsina in photographs
At 35 years old, Boris Yeltsin Jr. still remains a bachelor, although by this time he had managed to change several bride models. Judging by his microblog, the grandson of the first President of the Russian Federation spends most of his time abroad. And there he sometimes meets world-famous Hollywood actors.
Posted by Boris Yeltsin (@yeltsinboris) Aug 4, 2016 at 5:21 PDT
Gleb Yeltsin. Grandson
Born in 1995 with Down syndrome, which required constant supervision and special organization of his education. The blond boy was taken to school by a security guard, and from birth he was watched over by an entire army of doctors and nannies. The child, whom the famous grandfather called “the most wonderful boy in the world,” was not allowed to take a single step without supervision... But years later, in spite of everything, Gleb became not only a successful athlete, but also a capable musician - he plays hundreds of works by great classics by heart, draws beautifully and solves complex mathematical problems.
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“Since childhood, he has been swimming, and now he has become the European champion among people with Down syndrome, 200 m freestyle, and received a gold medal,” Tatyana Dyachenko proudly said in an interview with FORBES WOMAN. - I represented the Russian team at the Special Olympics in Los Angeles, from there I also brought silver and bronze medals. So he’s a great fellow, now he works in the swimming section for children with Down syndrome as an assistant coach. “He’s like a role model for these kids and an example to follow.”
Maria Yeltsina. Granddaughter
Born in 2002, schoolgirl. " Masha“This is my joy, the daughter I have always dreamed of,” Tatyana Dyachenko admitted to journalists. “Naturally, she’s going through a difficult adolescence now, but she makes me happy, she’s a very intelligent, mature girl.” According to some reports, in 2009, Maria, together with her parents, received Austrian citizenship in a special manner (as they say, because of their good relationship with the management of the Canadian-Austrian concern Magna).
Posted by Boris Yeltsin (@yeltsinboris) Dec 25, 2016 at 5:32 PST
Valentin Yumashev. Son-in-law
Journalist Valentin Yumashev actively participated in the political life of the country, and in 1997-1998 even headed the presidential administration. He did not remain aloof from politics in the new century. According to media reports, Yumashev was one of the ideologists of the parish Mikhail Prokhorov into big politics. Continues to be friends with Roman Abramovich. And his daughter from his first marriage Pauline married to another oligarch - Oleg Deripaska.
They say that the son-in-law of the first president himself is not a poor man. The media have repeatedly written that Tatyana Yumasheva and her husband own a large construction company (OJSC CITY) and luxury real estate (50% of the Empire Tower skyscraper). However, the family denies these facts. “I never had and never have any business interests. These are all the same myths from the 1990s. I’m not a business person at all and I don’t understand anything about it, I never had a desire to do this,” Tatyana Borisovna told FORBES WOMAN magazine. And Valentin Yumashev himself even wrote an angry letter to the Vedomosti newspaper, offended that journalists attributed to him a mansion on Arbat and huge business areas in the Empire tower in Moscow City. As follows from his letter, all this wealth is owned by his aunt’s husband, a businessman Oleg Grankin.
Information about members of a powerful clan gets into the printed media in such a filtered way and in such small portions that readers have even more questions
Six years have passed since the first President of Russia left the political shadow. Nevertheless, the life of Boris Nikolaevich and especially his prosperous family, enriched over the years of his presidency, is still of interest to millions of ordinary and difficult Russians. However, true information about members of a powerful clan gets into the print media so filtered and in such small portions that readers have even more questions.
Express Gazeta tried to get answers to some of them. And this is what the squiggle turned out to be.
Last summer, for example, news agencies suddenly unanimously announced that the ex-president had arrived with his wife in Mineralnye Vody, “having chosen the Kisnovy Bor sanatorium from all the recreational complexes of the resort region as its permanent place of preventive treatment.” The long ears of an advertisement for a Caucasian hospital stuck out from this widely circulated message. And in October, the same sources, within minutes of each other, broadcast throughout the country: “Boris Yeltsin broke his femur on the island of Sardinia in Italy, a favorite vacation spot of Russian oligarchs.” And for a whole week all the newspapers vigorously discussed this news.
Soon, having apparently realized that the information vacuum needed to be somehow deflated, the chief of protocol of the ex-president spoke in one of the publications Vladimir Shevchenko. He told what dishes Boris Yeltsin what he eats now, what books he reads, when he goes to bed, what he watches on TV and how many people are guarding him. And at the same time, inadvertently, he denied rumors that the beloved daughter of the ex-president Tatyana is in England and in France, where she and her husband Valentin Yumashev flies regularly, has luxurious real estate. In addition, Shevchenko named the address of the dacha where the ex-president permanently resides and where the whole family, including children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, come to visit him on weekends: 5th kilometer of Rublevo-Uspenskoe Highway, Barvikha-4. Alexander Korzhakov in his bestseller “Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk” he reported that the Yeltsin family, including his sons-in-law, settled in a house on Osennyaya Street near Rublevskoye Highway. However, the book was published in 2001, and since then much has changed in the house on Osennaya Street.
Native blood
We were very interested in Vladimir Shevchenko’s statement that on Sundays “all grandchildren and great-grandchildren” come to Yeltsin. Previously, only Alexander, the grandson of Elena Okulova, the eldest daughter of the ex-president, was called a great-grandson. While wondering who else could be considered his great-grandson, I remembered how eight years ago, during an interview with Yeltsin’s younger brother Mikhail (“EG” No. 41, 1997), his wife Natalya told me that all family ties rest on Naina Iosifovna . Without her, they say, Boris Nikolaevich would have already forgotten about his relatives. And Mikhail, who had shielded his brother throughout the conversation, here involuntarily agreed with her: “Yes, Naya knows all our relatives, even the little ones whom she has never seen, knows their names, is interested in everyone, remembers their birthdays. In general, she thinks so: blood relatives or external relatives - everything is the same. She grew up in the house of Old Believers. Family is a sacred thing for her.”
The roads of family ties and Alexandra Nikolaevna Yumasheva, who raised her son Valya without a husband or anyone’s help and, as the employees of the Korney Chukovsky House-Museum said, had a lot of hard times. During the life of the famous children's writer, Valentin Yumashev's mother served as Chukovsky's housekeeper. She worked from morning to night for meager wages, rejoicing at the opportunity to introduce her son to books, art and the people who create them. And I always dreamed of a big and friendly family.
And if so, I thought, then among Yeltsin’s grandchildren there might be not only the children of his daughters, but also Polina Deripaska- wife of the aluminum king Oleg Deripaska, she is the daughter of Valentin Yumashev from his first marriage to a journalist Irina Vedeneeva. And, what the hell, even Irina’s illegitimate son. After all, whatever one may say, he is Polina’s half-brother. All that is known about this baby is that he was born in the Moscow Family Planning Center, and not in London, where he was born Maria- “Yeltsin’s” daughter Yumashev and his “Deripaskovsky” grandchildren - Peter And Marusya. And, if you believe that Naina Iosifovna considers relatives who live on the side to be close, these kids can safely consider Boris Nikolaevich their great-grandfather! By the way, the child of Irina Vedeneeva, who, according to the nurses, was visited by no one in the maternity ward except her 30-year-old lover, is just over two years old. Not a single journalist knows the name of the baby, or his father.
There were rumors that 44-year-old Irina, married to Yumashev, decided to get pregnant when Tatyana Dyachenko married Valentin and gave birth. For this reason, she even performed artificial insemination - just to annoy her ex-husband, who twice exchanged her for younger and more influential women. To the first Svetlana Vavra, a journalist from the then fashionable Ogonyok, Yumashev left like a Jesuit. He said that he was going on a long business trip and asked him to pack his things. And then, putting them in the car, he said: “Ira, I’m leaving you.”
But Yumashev never abandoned his daughter. Polina studied at the elite English college in Millfield, and her father paid for her education, shelling out over $20 thousand per semester. And Polina, in turn, never abandoned her mother, Irina Yumasheva. It was rumored that it was the unemployed Polina who paid over $3 thousand for the “luxury” ward, the birth of her mother and the care of her premature brother, who was born weighing 920 grams. But who gave her the money: her husband Oleg Deripaska or her father is already a mystery. By the way, the birth of Polina herself and her stepmother Tatyana in a London clinic was more expensive - $5 thousand each.
Unclassified base
Deciding to get the coordinates of Boris Nikolaevich and his family members through official means, I contacted the Moscow City Spravka. To my great surprise, despite the big names - Boris Yeltsin, Tatyana Dyachenko, Valentin Yumashev and a number of others, at the information kiosk near the Sokol metro station they accepted my request, warning: “We do not issue telephones.” After 20 minutes, I received several addresses, paying 100 rubles for each. But the “09” service reported that they could not name the corresponding telephone numbers. They say this is the will of the subscribers.
There was only one thing left to do - go to the famous Gorbushka market. As I have seen, database merchants target their clients from afar. It’s enough to wander around the market for about 15 minutes, asking all the sellers about them. Soon a young man approached me and, for 500 rubles, promised to bring me a floppy disk with all the commercially available information on five people of interest to me. “The databases are the latest,” he boasted. True, he said that the information in them always lags behind reality by at least six months to a year. “Money in advance, you will pick up the floppy disk in two hours in the third row from the fourth seller on the right. Two, three, four - do you remember?
Imagine, I didn’t deceive you. The data I received stunned me. If you believe them, a year ago Valentin Yumashev was registered in the apartment together with his first wife Irina Vedeneeva, and his current wife Tatyana under the name Dyachenko was still registered in the same building, in the apartment next door! All three had a BMW: Valentin had a black one, Irina had a brown one, Tatyana had a dark gray one. At the same time, Tatyana, who has headed the Yeltsin Foundation for three years and receives a purely symbolic salary from it, has changed only one foreign car in 10 years. And her current husband Valentin is five and the same number is his first wife, Irina, who does not work anywhere. However, like Yumashev’s second ex-wife, Svetlana Vavra. But unlike Irina, Svetlana worked, and in the same “office” where her former common-law husband worked part-time - at the Video International Group of Companies CJSC. This company distributes advertising to central television channels.
If we assume that everything in the databases sold to me is the pure truth, then two well-known banks threw several million rubles at Yumashev for some services. It turned out that Yumashev’s annual earnings were commensurate with the income of Yeltsin’s other son-in-law, Aeroflot CEO Valery Okulov. Yumashev’s “white” earnings, from which taxes were paid, stopped at the level of 10 million rubles. You can't buy real estate in London with that kind of money. And, by the way, back in March 1997, Profile magazine reported on a scandal related to Valentin Yumashev’s purchase of a house in London worth £260,000. And Valentin did not deny the rumor then.
Unavailable subscribers
So, having written out the necessary phone numbers, I started calling. But some numbers did not answer either during the day or in the evening, while others, as it turned out, had belonged to other subscribers for six months or a year. It's not hard to guess why. Firstly, last summer newspapers reported on the appearance of “fresh” telephone databases on the market, and the new Russian bourgeoisie immediately began to change numbers. Secondly, the processes closed to journalists on the division of property between Yumashev and Vedeneeva could be completed. According to rumors, the first wife applied for an apartment on Osennyaya and one of her husband’s dachas. Thirdly, people of this rank, who most of the time live in country mansions, buy more comfortable apartments for themselves in Moscow, and often leave “family nests” for their children. Of course, in this case, the addresses and telephone numbers of the parents also change.
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I wanted to ask the members of the presidential family the simplest questions that concern our readers. For example, did Valentin Yumashev adopt Tatyana's children from previous marriages - Boris and Gleb? Are Yeltsin’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren baptized and who are their godparents? Who do the children stay with when the adults leave, say, for Courchevel - with their grandparents or simply under the supervision of governesses? What was the fate of Yeltsin’s granddaughter Katya Okulova, who at the age of 19 married fellow university student Sasha Sorokin and gave birth to Yeltsin’s first great-grandson, whom Boris Nikolaevich named Alexander? And, of course, I really wanted to ask for “fresh” photographs.
It appeared that it would be impossible to do without intermediaries. But the chief of protocol, Vladimir Shevchenko, left somewhere. And the Kremlin press service reported that I was contacting the wrong address and advised me to contact the Yeltsin Foundation.
Name fund
Almost nothing is known about the Yeltsin Foundation, which has existed for three years. From the press I only found out that he helped finance the Nika Award ceremony, the Kremlin Cup in tennis, and “often gives money to certain children’s institutions”, sponsoring cultural events and individual programs of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health. That is, secrecy is done even out of charity. However Alexander Drozdov, Tatyana Yumasheva’s deputy, unexpectedly responded to my request for a meeting. But he only said that in the near future the fund will acquire a website. In an effort to prepare as best as possible for the conversation, I tried to find out from the above-mentioned ministries what projects the fund financed. In vain. Only one person, who did not want to give his name, hinted that the project was somehow connected with Alexander Muzykantsky, prefect of the Central District of Moscow, and is aimed at creating new methods for treating Down syndrome and autism and teaching children suffering from these ailments. An increasing number of Russian families have faced this misfortune over the past decade.
What kind of false modesty is this? Why is not even a word reported to the press about such a noble and necessary cause? And then I remembered Raisa Maksimovna Gorbacheva, who actively helped children with leukemia. She also asked Express Newspaper not to publish a story about how she helped the children of two of our readers from remote villages, whose letters we gave her. “I have my reasons,” she said firmly then. Four months later, the wife of the first President of the USSR died from this disease. “What a rock! - I thought at her funeral and wondered: “Or maybe Raisa Maksimovna already knew about her illness and tried to save at least a few children?” Perhaps the Yeltsin family also has good reasons to keep their current charity a secret?
Having looked through the archive of published family photographs of the ex-president, taken after 1995, I discovered that in none of them was Gleb, the second son of Tatyana Dyachenko, among the grandchildren. It turned out to be difficult even to calculate the exact date of his birth. Flashed information about what this boy has "health problems", partly confirmed the guess.
Perhaps it was these problems that caused the cooling in the relationship between Tatyana and Alexey Dyachenko? Isn’t it all the hype around Alexei’s company Belka Trading, which was at the center of the Bank of New York scandal, where Russian mafia money was laundered?
According to official data, Gleb is studying “in Moscow in a regular school”. Her number is not given for security reasons. It's clear. But why isn't the class called? Due to age inappropriateness? But in any case, since the child is studying in a normal school, the version of Down syndrome disappears. So does that mean autism? Readers who have watched the films “Rain Man” with Dustin Hoffman and “Mercury in Danger” starring Bruce Willis will understand what kind of disease we are talking about. Autistic people may have perfectly developed intellect, but at the same time, from childhood they suffer from detachment from the world, self-absorption... It would be better if I was wrong. But if my guesses are correct, I would like to say one thing. Sincerely wishing success to Gleb and the scientists to whom the Yeltsin Foundation allocated money, many of our readers now probably think: this grief for such a high-ranking and highly wealthy family was sent down from above to help people about whom society essentially does not care.
Reference
* June 12, 1991 - Boris Yeltsin was elected President of the RSFSR. * December 31, 1999 - after apologizing to “dear Russians,” Boris Nikolaevich resigns early. The text of Yeltsin’s farewell address to the people was prepared by his current son-in-law and co-author of the book “Confession on a Given Topic” Valentin Yumashev.
Behave yourself, or the next one
life, be born in Russia again.
Russian joke
Our trouble is that we are ruled by people
who do not connect their future and the future
their descendants with this country.
A.I.Solzhenitsyn
Very interesting information for Soviet patriots: passionate admirers of Stalin and the USSR do not notice an amazing, unique, probably unparalleled historical pattern - after the collapse of the communist regime, the descendants of all Soviet leaders did not go to look for the “bright path” to China, North Korea or Cuba, but now live and work in the USA or Western countries. We are talking specifically about the descendants of the first and second persons of the state - Svetlana Alliluyeva, Sergei Khrushchev, Dmitry and Lyubov Brezhnev, Konstantin Andropov, Maya Sumarokova, Irina Virganskaya, Tatyana Yumasheva...
Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, who emigrated from the USSR to the USA in 1967 and renounced Soviet citizenship in 1986, chose to live in a nursing home in the city of Richland (Wisconsin, USA) over life in the Russian Federation... In 2008, in one of her rare In a television interview with a Russian journalist, Svetlana refused to speak Russian, citing the fact that she is not Russian: her father is Georgian, and her mother is half German, half Gypsy. Stalin's 45-year-old granddaughter Chris Evans now lives in Portland. He doesn’t understand Russian, he works at the Three Monkeys store, which sells second-hand goods. The only relatives Chris has left are her hairdresser friend Gino and her beloved dog Sparta.
Khrushchev's son Sergei, awarded the Star of the Hero of Socialist Labor and the title of Lenin Prize laureate, has lived in the USA since 1991. In 1999, he became a US citizen and worked as a research fellow at the University of Providence. He testified that he does not regret leaving Russia at all. Nikita Sergeevich’s great-granddaughter, Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva, teaches at the Faculty of International Relations at New School University in New York. Immediately after the annexation of Crimea to Russia, which, as is known, was transferred to Ukraine in the 50s. XX century It was on Khrushchev’s initiative that Nina Khrushcheva gave an interview from overseas, calling the annexation of the peninsula annexation.
Brezhnev’s great-grandson Dmitry is studying political science at Oxford University, and Leonid Brezhnev’s niece Lyubov Yakovlevna lives in California.
The daughter of the main ideologist of late communism, Mikhail Suslov, Maya Sumarokova, has lived in Austria with her husband and two sons since 1990.
The granddaughter of the General Secretary of the CPSU Yuri Andropov, Tatyana Andropova, with her husband and daughter moved to the USA, taught choreography in Miami, Florida. Her brother Konstantin Andropov also lives there, in the USA. Andropov's son, Igor Yuryevich, who died early, was the USSR ambassador to Greece, then the USSR and Russian ambassador on special assignments.
The only daughter of Mikhail Sergeevich and Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachev, Irina Virganskaya, lives mainly in San Francisco, where the main office of the Gorbachev Foundation is located, where she works as vice president. In an interview, she admitted that she could easily imagine herself outside of Russia.
Boris Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana Yumasheva bought Austrian citizenship in 2009. Valentin Yumashev, Tatyana’s husband, officially declared his main place of residence in the town of Winden am See, 60 kilometers southeast of Vienna, back in 2007. Since 2008, Tatyana Yumasheva and her daughter Maria have also been registered there.
Perhaps the only exception to this list is Chernenko’s children... But his daughter Elena also chose to work at the Soviet embassy in Washington. Chernenko's son Albert was the secretary of the Tomsk City Committee of the CPSU in Soviet times, and his other son Vladimir was an assistant to the chairman of the USSR State Committee for Cinematography.
Now this list can be significantly supplemented by tens, hundreds, thousands of major state patriots-oprichniks of the ruling “elite” of Russia, starting with its permanent leaders.
To what has been said, we can add that many of the leaders’ children ended badly and did not in any way correspond to moral standards, ending their lives under sad circumstances. Stalin's son Vasily was an alcoholic and died of poisoning. Leonid Brezhnev's daughter Galina also became an alcoholic and died in a psychiatric hospital. Andropov’s son Vladimir also drank. He was in prison for theft and died at the age of 35. The communist leaders who led the country into a “bright future” could not even cope with raising their own children.
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Yes. I take my words back. The author was born after 1991. Well, maybe plus/minus a couple of years. And I didn’t really live in “that” country. Young and immature yet. But it’s okay, carry on
Just please, no personal conclusions. People are of little interest to them. When it comes to personal conclusions in the article, it instantly turns into gossip (or just gossip) unnecessary GAGS! Just the facts.
P.S. Ignore errors. I’m writing from a mobile phone.