According to the official version, Boris Nikolaevich was born in Sverdlovsk region in a family of dispossessed peasants.
All his ancestors have roots from here - grandfather Ignat Yeltsin, parents - Nikolai Ignatievich and Klavdia Vasilievna. They are all Russian and even several generations old. The version of Jewish origin was developed precisely from the grandfather, who was recorded under the surname “Yeltsin” - the absence of a soft sign prompted historians to look for a Jewish origin in this whole story. It was also possible to establish that in the 18th century. Under the same surname there was another paternal ancestor - Sergei Yeltsin. All this has prompted historians to study Yeltsin's genealogy over several generations.
Jewish roots - myth or truth?
In the early 90s, a theory appeared that Boris Nikolaevich’s uncle was a Jew, Eltsin Boris Moiseevich. Many tried to prove their relationship. For this purpose, several representatives of the all-Russian movement went to the Yeltsins’ homeland to interview live local residents and bring up the archives. The FSB hindered the search in every possible way, so the group returned back with nothing. Although there is a very low probability that they could confirm their version. In the historical works of M.E. Bychkova completely refuted the Jewish theory, claiming that there were no Jews in the family of Boris Nikolayevich and there could not have been. The famous historian D. Panov claims that already in 1921, Yeltsin’s surname included soft sign, as evidenced by official questionnaires of migrants who went to the Urals in search of work. Among them were the ancestors of B.N. Yeltsin. According to the census data, there were no Jews among them. The Yeltsin family firmly established itself in the Urals, where the future president was born, graduated from college and began building his career.
Trying to prove Yeltsin's Jewish origin, biographers subsequently switched to his legal wife. And there was something to catch on here. Anastasia Girina was a classmate of Boris Nikolaevich. At school and at home they called her Naya - it was this fact that seemed suspicious and became the reason to rummage through her biography. Although at that time there were no official statements about Naina Iosifovna’s Jewish genes. A serious argument was the confession of Yeltsin’s mother, she told reporters that Naina Yeltsin was indeed Jewish. But this is the story of the next generation and it has nothing to do with the origins of Boris Nikolaevich.
It is known that many facts about the biography politicians were hiding at that time. But regarding Yeltsin, this was only information about the repressions to which his ancestors were subjected. No more. Therefore, on the basis of officially proven facts, it can be argued that Boris Nikolaevich belongs to the Russian nation. Although studying family tree The Yeltsin family continues. Who knows, maybe over time facts about other roots will emerge.
Russian propagandists sang surprisingly harmoniously about the “true Russian” man Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin after his death. It’s as if they want to prove something, to confirm something. But in fact, the question of his origin and the nationality of his parents is open. Ed. ARI
Linguists, philologists and anthropologists who study the origin of people's surnames are well aware that Kuznetsov, who came to Britain, does not become Smith (analogue), but limits himself to adding a couple of letters, turning into mr. Kusnetsoff. In the same way, Sakharov who comes to Israel does not become Zuckerman, just as Schwarzenegger who comes to the USA is not a black man: there are rules according to which some things in the surname can be changed, but others cannot. So, no matter how much you incline the Russian surname Yelchin, for example, the surname Yeltsin will not work out of it - although the question seems to be in one letter. But as it turned out recently, one letter is not a question; in fact, the question is the results of “privatization,” which put more than 2/3 of Russian property into the hands of foreigners. In one of our previous publications, it seemed to us that we were able to lift the veil over this secret by undertaking a careful study of the origins of the Yeltsin surname. We have put forward a version that Yeltsin is actually a Russian transcription of the foreign surname “Elcin”. How correct it is is not for us to judge, but for our readers, however, given the massive criticism of our theory started online by someone for some reason, we consider ourselves entitled to stand up for this theory - to give in detail all the pros and cons, to consider all the facts together . Well, let people draw conclusions.
The reflections of ARI analysts on deciphering Abel’s mysterious prophecy about the three elders - the guardians of the spirit of Evil reigning over Russia, caused the expected wide response from our readers and... not only. Since the intriguing theme of the “third elder” somehow touches on the genealogy of the first president of Russia, voluntarily or unwittingly we came into contact with the secret, touching strings that were very painful for someone. First of all, this can be seen in our forum, where some professional “readers” rushed to refute our thesis that Boris Yeltsin is actually more likely Borukh Eltsin (although the article, in general, was about something else). But most importantly, various genealogical partnerships rushed to refute us, after our publication they suddenly decided to return to the extremely “interesting” topic of the origin of Mr. Eltsin. The topic is discussed on their websites, which have posted epitaphs for Eltsin, some articles are being written and typed up. Apparently, we have hit the point, an extremely painful point.
The course of our reasoning was not particularly deep, but absolutely correct from the point of view of the morphological typology of Russian, and indeed any language - after all, the mouth of most people is structured the same. As a consequence, a natural linguistic-technical phenomenon of the so-called palatization arises - this is when back-lingual sounds (G, K) that are difficult to pronounce certain words are transformed into so-called affricates - double sounds such as CH, C, DZ, J:
bake - bakes;
amico-amici (read “amiKo-amiChi” - friend-friends, Italian)
Chief Keef (these are the different pronunciations of the word "like" in colloquial and literary Arabic)
Now let's take Russian word FIR, as if underlying the surname EL-TsIN, and we build its derivatives: Elov, Elovich (for example Mila Yolovich), Yolkin. The last name, as it were, served as the basis for the future word “Yeltsin” - this is how people who worked on the genealogy of Boris Nikolayevich explain it: YolKin - YolChin - ElChin - Yeltsyn - Yeltsyn. A lengthy transformation, of course, but theoretically possible: the sounds K and T are interchangeable and a person who was called Mr. ElChin at birth, when moving to Western Siberia, for example, can easily become Yeltsin. The morphological typology of the Khanty and Nenets languages makes the sounds Ts and S more preferable for them than many others: “PoSli to Tsort, this is NaSa LodoTska” - this is the typical dialect in those places, which are also adopted by the Russian old-timers living there. It seems that they are spoken by the Kamchadals - the old-timers of Kamchatka (they call themselves Kamtsadals), it seems that they speak in the villages of Pskov (BudoTska, Lodotska). But what kind of transformation is there? Here the sound CH for some reason changes to hard and unnatural for Russian, and even after a consonant with a soft sign, C(YelChin - Yeltsin). What does palatization have to do with it?
Palatization changes K to H, and not vice versa - after all, it is H that is preferable. Another example with Arabic: “Chief?” (how?) is a folk word, and “Kif?” - literary. That is, it is more convenient for people to speak, the mouth is designed that way. Or an example like this with Russian: chain, cling, hook, cling. What do they say in Little Russia, for example, and in our gateways? “You have capped me”, “Don’t cap him”. That is, Ch is a quite convenient letter for Russians, and if they met a man with the last name Yeltsin who came from reindeer herders, they would most likely call him ElChin, but not vice versa. And then some Yeltsins appeared in Russia. Where?
Let us purely hypothetically imagine that the ancestor of Mr. B.N. Eltsin, the first to come to Russia, arrived here from Poland on a steam locomotive or in a black leather jacket who sailed on an American ship in 1917 bore the typical Jewish surname Elsin (for example, like Miri Elsin, press secretary of the Israeli government). How was this last name written on his Polish or American passport? This surname was written Elcin - according to all the rules of Latin grammar. Now let’s read this word according to our rules (such as “Microsoft”, “computer”, etc.). We'll get YELTSIN. Maybe my comrades translated everything correctly? 2
We presented the step-by-step course of our reasoning, set out in the previous material in one paragraph and therefore giving rise to cries with reference to the chairman of some central genealogical partnership in Russia and personal genealogist Eltsin, who are now emanating from the shit on their websites. Since we are not mentioned there, and we will not refer to anyone, but we will give an excerpt from the main document to which the genealogists refer - it is very interesting. Let us take into account that the very spelling of the surname in this genealogy may be distorted by the genealogist and different from what is actually in church books, for example, “Yelchin”. Well, more on that later, let’s look at the genealogy:
ALEXANDER KALININ SON OF YELTSIN Born in 1862. Peasant of the village of Beregovoi. First wife of Afonasy Moiseev/Mokeev/Matveev b. 1863, second - MARYA KHRISTOFOROVA b. 1865. Children IVAN (b. 1883), EKATERINA (b. 1884), EUPHROSYNE, ANDREY
ANIKA SERGEEV SON OF YELTSIN Born in 1726. State peasant of Butkinskaya
settlement. Wife EUPRAXIA PETROVA, b. 1726. Children AGAFYA (b. 1750), PETER (b.
1760), MELENTIUS (b. 1766)
ANTIPAPETROV SON YELTSIN 1796-1826 State peasant of the village
Basmanovsky. Wife EVDOKIA ABRAMOVA b. 1797. Children of EVDOKIM (b. 1822),
NASTASYA/NATALYA (b. 1825/1828), MARIA (b. 1826)
ARTAMON YELTSIN Second half of the 18th century, state peasant. Children
IVAN THE ELDER 1785-1825, IVAN MALOY (1794-1825), KHARITINA (b. 1802), STEPAN.
ARTEMY SAMSONOV SON OF YELTSIN Born in 1868. Peasant of the village of Beregovoi. Wife
ALEXANDRA NIKIFOROVNA b. 1868. Children of IVAN (b. 1896. Military village of Beregovoy),
VASILY (b. 1899), IRINA (b. 1903), ANDREY (b. 1905)
GRIGORY DMITRIEV SON OF YELTSIN Born in 1831/1838. State peasant
With. Basmanovsky. Children MATVEY, MIKHAILO?
GRIGORY EGOROV SON OF YELTSIN 1823/1833 - until 1855. State peasant of the village. Basmanovsky. Wife EKATERINA SEVASTYANOVA b. 1829. Son NAZARIUS?
GRIGORY IVANOV SON OF YELTSIN b. 1808 State peasant of the village
Coastal. Wife of FEODOSIY MAKSIMOVA b. 1807. Children MARIA (b. 1834), DOMNINA,
MIKHAIL (b. 1838), AVDOTYA (b. 1841)
DMITRY MELENTYEV SON OF YELTSIN Born in 1803. State peasant of the village.
Basmanovsky. Wife AFONASYA/ANISYA NIKIFOROVA, b. 1803. Children GRIGORY (b.
1831/1838), EVDOKIA (b. 1836), PARASKEVA (b. 1839), NIKITA (b. 1842), IVAN (b. 1843)
EVDOKIM ANTIPOV SON YELTSIN Born in 1822. State peasant of the village
Basmanovsky. Wife ANNA GERASIMOVA b. 1823. Children of STEPHANID (b. 1847), ? (b. 1849), MICHAEL?
EGOR MELENTYEV SON OF YELTSIN Born in 1799. State peasant of the village.
Basmanovsky. Wife of STEFANID TARASOV b. 1803. Children SIMEON/SEMYON (b. 1826),
GRIGORY (1823/1833 - until 1855), EUGENIYA (b. 1826), IRINA (b. 1831), VASSA (b. 1835), EKATERINA (b. 1837), EVDOKIA (b. 1841), IVAN (b. 1834 ), AGAFYA (b. 1842), MITROFAN (b. 1847)
IVAN PETROV SON OF YELTSIN Born in 1782. State peasant of the village
Basmanovsky. First wife FEODOSIYA PETROVA b. 1783. Second wife of PARASKEV
PROKOPEVA, r. 1787. Children ANNA (b. 1805), SAVVA (b. 1807), EVDOKIA (b. 1812), MARFA (b. 1814)
IVAN MALOY ARTAMONOV SON YELTSIN 1794-1825 Wife MARFA FEDOROVA b. 1795. Children:
legitimate FILIMON (b. 1821. Conscripted in 1842), DARIA (b. 1825); illegitimate children of the widow MARFA FEDOROVA ELTSYNA - KSENIA (CHIONIA, FIONA, b. 1827), KALLINIK/KALINA (b. 1829), PAKLITHEA (b. 1830), EVSEGNEY/EVSEI (b. 1832, recruited in 1855), XENOPHON ( b. 1836), SAMSON/SEMION (b. 1837), LUKERYA (b. 1840)
IVAN THE ELDER ARTAMONOV SON OF YELTSIN 1785-1825 State peasant of the village of Beregovaya, Butkinskaya volost. Wife of VASSA FOKIN b. 1784. Children GRIGORY (b. 1808), SERGEY (b. 1809), EUPHROSYNE (b. 1812), ANTON (b. 1816. Conscripted in 1842), ALEXEY (b. 1817. Conscripted in 1840), ANNA (b. 1826).
JOAKIM/EKIM SAVIN SON OF ELTSIN Born in 1841. State peasant of the village. Basmanovsky. Children IGNATEY (children NIKOLAY, ADRIAN, IVAN), THEOKTIST?
KALINNIK/KALINA ELTSIN Born in 1829. State peasant of the village of Beregovoi. Wife DOMNA ELISEEV b. 1828. Children ZENOVYA and ANASTASIA/NATALYA (twins, b. 1856), EVDOKIA (b. 1859), ALEXANDRA (b. 1860), ALEXANDER (b. 1862), EVFIMIY (b. 1866. Wife of PARASKEV SERGEEV b. 1869)
LUKA SAVIN SON OF YELTSIN Born in 1834. State peasant of the village
Basmanovsky. Children PETER, ILYA?
MELENTY ANIKIN SON OF YELTSIN Born in 1766. State peasant of the village.
Basmanovsky. Wife NASTASYA OSIPOVA, b. 1768. Children of PELAGEY (b. 1792),
EUPHROSYNE (b. 1795), ELENA (b. 1797), EGOR (b. 1799), DMITRY (b. 1803),
EVDOKIA (b. 1807)
MITROFAN EGOROV SON OF ELTSIN Born in 1847. State peasant of the village
Basmanovsky. Son ANDREY
MIKHAIL GRIGORIEV SON OF YELTSIN Born in 1838. Peasant of the village of Beregovoi. First
wife AFONASYA FEDOROVA b. 1835, second - MARIA (LUKIA) IVANOVA b. 1843, third - FEVRONIYA MIKHAILOVA b. 1846. Children from his first marriage: ARKHIP (b. 1863), PROKOPIY (b. 1867, wife GLYKERIA FEDOROVA b. 1875), EUPHROSYNE (b. 1869), IVAN (b. 1882)
PETER ANIKIN SON OF YELTSIN Born in 1760. State peasant of the village
Basmanovsky. Wife EUPRAXIA PANKRATIEVA, b. 1758. Children of IVAN (b. 1782),
PARASKEVA (b. 1785), EVDOKIA (b. 1792), IVAN (b. 1793), ANTIPA (1796-1826)
SAVVA IVANOV SON OF ELTSIN Born in 1807. State peasant of the village
Basmanovsky. Wife EKATERINA EMELYANOVA b. 1797. Children ANASTASIA (b. 1833),
NATALIA (b. 1833), LUKA (b. 1834), VASILY (b. 1839), JOAKIM/EKIM (b. 1841), FEDOR (b. 1843), VASSA (b. 1847), PETER
SAMSON/SEMION ELTSIN Born in 1837. State peasant of the village of Beregovoi. Wife of EVGENY ERMOLAEV b. 1836. Children ARTEMY (b. 1868), VARVARA (b. 1872), FETINA (b. 1878), ELIZAVETA (b. 1883)
SERGEY IVANOV SON OF YELTSIN b. 1809 State peasant of the village of Beregovoi. Wife EVDOKIA IVANOVA b. 1810
STEPAN ARTAMONOV SON OF YELTSIN End of the 18th century. Soldier. Conscripted in 1824. Wife of MATRONA IVANOV, b. 1786. Daughter TATYANA (b. 1808/1809)
We apologize to the readers for such an extensive quotation, but its essence is precisely in its completeness - Mr. Eltsin’s genealogists tried very hard, looking for similar surnames throughout Russia. Right place in bold:
JOAKIM/EKIM SAVIN SON OF ELTSIN Born in 1841. State peasant of the village. Basmanovsky. Children IGNATEY (children NIKOLAY, ADRIAN, IVAN), THEOKTIST?
This is, as it were, Mr. Eltsin’s great-grandfather, whose grandson was Mr. Eltsin’s father:
YELTSIN NIKOLAI IGNATIEVICH. 1906 - d. 1978 Born in the village of Basmanovo. In 1930
dispossessed and exiled to the village of Butka. In 1932, together with his brother Adrian and
other fellow villagers came to the construction of Kazan
aircraft plant, where he led a team of carpenters. In 1934
was arrested along with his brother and spent several months in prison. Later he moved to Berezniki. Worked at a construction site. Wife - STARYGINA KLAUDIA
VASILEVNA. Children:
BORIS 1931,
MICHAEL 1937, installer at a construction site
VALENTINA, engineer.
Now let’s go back to the entire big list and try to find certain patterns in it - they will help us detect elements artificially introduced there. We discovered two such patterns. First - exact dates births of children, they can be easily traced in church parish books and EVERY surname has these dates: ….Children ANASTASIA (b. 1833),
NATALIA (b. 1833), LUKA (b. 1834), VASILY (b. 1839), JOAKIM/EKIM (b. 1841), FEDOR (b. 1843), VASSA (b. 1847), PETER ...- and so on. And what is JOAKIM/EKIM SAVIN SON OF ELTSIN, “great-grandfather” of Mr. Eltsin? AND JOAKIM/EKIM SAVIN SON YELTSIN was born in 1841 and... and that’s all, actually. All people have all their children listed, right down to the one who was taken into recruits (that’s what Sasha Suvorov’s slaves (“miracle heroes”) were then called), but JOAKIM/EKIM SAVIN SON YELTSIN, some incomprehensible comrade, dropped out of the parish books. Or when he gave birth to someone, did the chronology of that year stop for a while? Or maybe the chronology was carried out according to some other rules, of some other people? Yes, and he gave birth somehow strangely, not like a human being, without a woman, since, unlike others, it is not indicated who he was married to, when, or whether he was married at all. That is, he produced children himself, almost according to the Old Testament canons... Abimelech gave birth to Esau, Esau gave birth to Josau, etc.
The next point: the time of marriage of ALL men mentioned in the list - it is easily determined by the time of the birth of the first child. For example IVAN MALOY ARTAMONOV SON YELTSIN 1794-1825 Wife MARFA FEDOROVA b. 1795. Children:
legitimate FILIMONS (b. 1821. Conscripted in 1842) ...
That is, MALOY ARTAMONOV’S SON YELTSIN was born in 1794, gave birth to a child in 1821, therefore he got married at the age of about 25 years old - this is one of the latest ages on the list. And on average - 22-23 years. This was the custom among peasants: they got married on time, like clockwork. When JOAKIM/EKIM SAVIN SON ELTSIN (sort of Mr. Eltsin’s “great-grandfather”) got married is unclear, but let’s simulate the development of events and imagine that he got married, like others, no later than 25 years old:
If JOAKIM/EKIM SAVIN SON ELTSIN (“great-grandfather” of Mr. Eltsin) was born in 1841, and at the age of 25 gave birth to a son (“grandfather” of Mr. Eltsin), then this was in 1865. That is, Mr. Eltsin’s “grandfather” was born somewhere in 1865, although strangely - the grandfather of the first president of the country, and we must calculate the year of his birth, since Russian genealogists crawled, crawled along the tree, like macaques, but also didn't find anything. But let's say it's 1865. Now let’s solve an arithmetic problem: how old was Mr. Eltsin’s “grandfather” in 1935, if he was born in 1865? We take 1935, subtract 1865. How much do we get? We get 70 years or so: 69-71, we don’t know exactly when the person got married? Or maybe he was married at the age of 20, 25 years old - this is the EXTREME age for a man to get married in a Russian village at that time. Now let’s take Mr. Eltsin’s “memoirs” (“confession on a given topic”):
We lived rather poorly. Small house, cow. There was a horse, but it soon fell. So there was nothing to plow on. Like everyone else, they joined the collective farm... In 1935, when the cow had already died and it became completely unbearable, grandfather, he was already about sixty, began to go home and put on stoves. In addition to being a plowman, he also knew how to do carpentry and carpentry. The father then decided to go to work on a construction site somewhere in order to save his family. This was the so-called period of industrialization. He knew that nearby, in the Perm region, construction workers were needed for the construction of the Bereznikovsky potash plant - so we went there. We harnessed ourselves to the cart, threw the last things we had, and headed to the station, which was 32 kilometers away.
That is, in 1935, Boris Nikolaevich’s grandfather, in theory, should have been about seventy, and he was about 60. It turns out that JOAKIM/EKIM SAVIN SON OF ELTSIN is again missing from the list - not at 25, but at 35, he got married, for that village he is an old man! We understand, of course, anything can happen - maybe the person was a widower and the marriage was repeated at 35 (in the 19th century, peasant priests did not divorce). But again: the death of a wife is not an event that is recorded in parish books? And the second marriage was again not included in these books. Strange and foggy?
Absolutely not, dear readers, because everything is clear to the limit: JOAKIM/EKIM SAVIN SON OF YELTSIN is an artificial insertion into the list of other “sons of the Yeltsins” made by his genealogists at the end of the 20th century. Actually, this was clear to us even without reading all this crap about the “sons of the Yeltsins” (or “Elchinovs”), because before we read anything, we look at the names of the authors. Do you know who the authors are? Chairman of the Association of Genealogists of Russia and a certain D. A. Panov. Doesn't mean anything, right? And Dmitry Arkadyevich Panov, does that already sound great? We have not seen a single Russian Arkasha in our life - all of them, as a rule, and with the rare exception of Arkasha Gaidara. Actually, the genealogy in the Third Reich was personally supervised by Himmler himself, and it would be strange if in Russia they trusted a stranger to find out the “genealogy” of Mr. Eltsin. Finally, the most interesting thing, which almost came as a shock to our general Shcherbatov: the main genealogist of Russia, who put the seal on the writings of Dmitry Arkadyevich’s son, bears the beautiful “Nordic” surname Gasselblat. In general, like Zadornov - Tsilya, come back, here all of our people have become counts and Russian princes (on paper they have become, on paper).
By and large, what any individual Mr. Hasselblat thinks on any individual topic - we don’t really give a damn whether Mr. Gasselblat thinks about how best to develop Russia or theoretical physics there, however, as tolerant people, we, albeit at length and in detail, are well-reasoned and with primary sources showed that Mr. Hasselblat was unable to properly organize such a simple task entrusted to him as writing a biography of the first Russian president. In the year 1991, when some literary hero was writing a book for Mr. Eltsin, Mr. Hasselblat’s bullshit went well. But in the era of the Internet... The only thing that can console Mr. Hasselblat is that he was not the only one who failed to show up. Let's explain.
Every Russian figure, like any person, has a so-called “small Motherland” - the city or village in which he was born. And no matter what kind of nit this figure is, he will either put a church there or run water, blowing it up with fanfare throughout the whole country. Sometimes even house-museums are opened to figures, where the underpants of his relatives are hung under glass. Then these house-museums are even shown on TV. And so, Boris Nikolaevich Eltsin was president for 8 years, but for some reason we NEVER saw either the village of Butka, or the village of Basmanovsky, or any reports from that area. If the journalists had found some crazy grandfather, he would have “remembered” Joachim-Ekim Savin, Yeltsin’s son. But they didn’t find it. Didn't you guess? This is a flaw in the legend, a serious flaw, worse than that of Hasselblat or Colonel Isaev himself. But real people who remember Joakim-Ekim are NOT IN NATURE, just as Eltsin had no urge to go to his “small homeland”, to bring water or a road there. Although who knows: before his death, Boris Nikolaevich decided to wash his hooves in the Jordan, so maybe this was the very urge of the soul that decided to visit the land of its ancestors before leaving?
It is clear that no one wants to have some Chikatilo or Eltsin as their fellow tribesman, so the Jews will probably now rush to refute our version of EBN’s (Eltsin Borukh Noevich) visit to the Jordan, but we emphasize once again: this is a version. It is not a fact that Mr. Eltsin is 100% Jewish: maybe he is half Jewish, maybe less, maybe not a Jew at all, but the fact that he is not entirely Russian, that his biography and pedigree are a complete phony, is a FACT. And although the above evidence of the artificiality of the EBN “pedigree” is more than enough, we will prove everything once again, highlighting the problem from a slightly different angle, namely, by examining in detail the more than strange passages in Boris Nikolaevich’s autobiography, set out in his memoirs “Confession on a Given Topic” , 1989 edition. At one time, we, like many, having read this book, did not, of course, delve into the details. As it turned out, it was in vain. Let's start in order.
My mother told me how I was baptized. There was only one church with a priest for the entire district, for several villages. The birth rate was quite high, people were baptized once a month, so this day was more than stressful for the priest: parents, babies, people - full of people. Baptism was carried out in the most primitive way: there was a tub with some kind of holy liquid, that is, with water and some kind of seasonings, the child was lowered into it with his head, then the screaming one was raised, baptized, given a name and recorded in the church book. Well, as is customary in the villages, the parents brought the priest a glass of mash, moonshine, vodka - whoever could...
Considering that my turn reached me only in the afternoon, the priest could hardly stand on his feet. They handed me to him, the priest lowered me into this tub, but forgot to take it out, let’s talk and argue about something with the public. My parents, Klavdia Vasilievna and Nikolai Ignatievich, were at a distance from this font; at first they did not understand what was going on. And when they realized, my mother, screaming, jumped up and caught me somewhere at the bottom and pulled me out. They pumped me out... I don’t want to say that after that I developed some kind of definite attitude towards religion - of course not. But nevertheless, there was such a curious fact. By the way, the priest was not very upset. He said: well, since he passed such a test, it means he is the strongest and is called Boris.
This is a fragment of a story about the baptism of Boris Nikolaevich, retold by him allegedly from the words of his mother - he himself hardly remembered this episode with deep-sea diving. What stands out here? Here, an unprecedented crowd of people wishing to baptize a child attracts attention. How many villages were there in the “whole district”? Let's take the maximum - 10 villages. How many inhabitants lived in them? Again, let's take the maximum - 1000 people in each, although these are almost urban-type settlements. The annual percentage of population growth in China (the highest birth rate in the world) is about 1.5-2%. Let's say that the birth rate in the entire district was 2% - like in China. In total, 10,000 gave birth to 200 children per year, or 15-20 children per month. All these 20 mothers lined up to be baptized. Is this the very “full-full” thing? It’s full - that’s about two hundred people, that is, children from an area with a population of 100,000. Where is it in Russia that there is “the whole district”?
Let's move on - to the moment where the EBN was dropped into the font and in honor of this they were named Boris - a name extremely rare in the Russian village. Rare because the holiday of Boris and Gleb occurs once a year, and only the children born on this day could be named either Boris or Gleb by the priest - if the parents had no other options. Mr. EBN was born, according to him, on February 1, 1931. This is not the holiday of Boris and Gleb, which is celebrated either on the 20th or 24th of May, this is some other day according to the calendar, so a priest, baptism, a child drowning in a font, it was unlikely at all. And in general, was there originally Boris, maybe still Borukh? Go ahead:
We lived rather poorly. Small house, cow. There was a horse, but it soon fell. So there was nothing to plow on. Like everyone else, they joined the collective farm... In 1935, when the cow had already died and it became completely unbearable, my grandfather, he was already about sixty, began going from house to house to put on stoves. In addition to being a plowman, he also knew how to do carpentry and carpentry...
….Well, and of course, we were already working part-time. Every summer, my mother and I went to some nearby state farm: we took several hectares of meadows and mowed the grass, stacked them, in general, prepared hay: half for the collective farm, half for ourselves. And they sold their half so that later they could buy a loaf of bread for 100 - 150 rubles, or even 200.
These two fragments tell about Mr. EBN’s difficult childhood, when his grandfather, in order to feed his family, went to put people’s stoves on fire, and young EBN worked as a laborer with his mother in the field, mowing grass and all that. The question is: where was dad at that time? Was it on the stove? Somehow, in families, it is customary that first the father humps, then, if the father’s hump is not enough, the mother does the harnessing, and last but not least, the elderly and children. And then they dumped everything on the labor front, and they didn’t take dad? Is Mr. EBN really talking about the moment when he didn’t have a dad, and the whole family consisted of his mother and grandfather? This, of course, is only a theory, but what Boris Nikolaevich writes about “dad” fits well into it:
The father then decided to go to work somewhere in construction in order to save his family. This was the so-called period of industrialization. He knew that nearby, in the Perm region, construction workers were needed for the construction of the Bereznikovsky potash plant - so we went there. We harnessed ourselves to the cart, threw the last things we had, and headed to the station, which was 32 kilometers away.
We ended up in Berezniki. My father enlisted as a construction worker.
..Father was constantly inventing something. For example, I dreamed of inventing a machine gun for brickwork, drew it, drew it, invented it, calculated it, drew it again, it was some kind of blue dream of his. Until now, no one has invented such a machine, unfortunately, although even now entire institutes are scratching their heads over it. He told me everything about what kind of machine it would be, how it would work: laying bricks, mortar, grouting, and how it would move - everything was planned in his head, in general schemes drawn, but he failed to implement the idea in metal.....
As we see, Boris Nikolaevich’s dad seemed to be there: while he and his mother were mowing the grass, he was working somewhere on a construction site. It seems that our theory is completely refuted, but pay attention: a simple peasant who has just trained as a mason, and suddenly begins to draw a machine that neither German, nor American, nor Japanese engineers have undertaken to solve for 200 years! The eccentric from the village doesn’t know which way to approach the drawing board, but he’s already drawing cars. The eccentric is clearly either not a peasant at all, or a peasant who got a little overheated in the field. But this is so - a small detail, because we are interested in the question - did Boris Nikolaevich’s own father die at the age of 72? Read on:
My father died at 72, although all my grandfathers and great-grandfathers lived in their nineties, and my mother is now 83, she lives with my brother in Sverdlovsk, and my brother works as a construction worker.
Let us remind you: the book is written by the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee, before that - the first secretary of the regional committee of the Sverdlovsk region. Who saw the first secretary of the city of Mukhosransk, whose brother worked as a loader? Nobody has seen. So EBN lied about the builder? Although, if you imagine that EBN’s brother is a half-brother, then the construction site is the place for him - after all, Boris Nikolaevich had a difficult relationship with his “dad”:
He and my mother constantly had arguments because of me. My father’s main means of education was a belt, and he punished me severely for misdeeds. If something happened somewhere - either a neighbor’s apple tree was ruined, or the German teacher was annoyed at school, or something else - without saying a word, he grabbed the belt. This always happened in silence, only my mother cried and tore: don’t touch me! - and he closes the door and says: lie down. I’m lying there, shirt up, pants down, I must say, he applied himself thoroughly... I, of course, clenched my teeth without making a sound, this angered him, but still my mother burst in, took his belt away, pushed him away, stood between us. In general, she was my eternal protector.
Beating offspring with a belt is a tradition that occurs in some families, but for mom and dad to argue about this is nonsense. The second nonsense - Boris Nikolaevich does not write that his father also beat his brother, and his mother also performed. No, according to him, his dad “raised” only him, and his brother is somehow not mentioned. This is somehow strange, although this is not the end of the strangeness with spanking:
My father came home angry and, as often happened, grabbed his belt - and then I grabbed his hand. First time. And he said: “That’s it! From now on I will educate myself.” And never again did I stand in a corner all night long, and no one walked over me with a belt.
As they say, “Oops!” Imagine the movie " Quiet Don“, Dad lets the twenty-year-old kid Grisha Melekhov shit himself, and Grisha grabs his hand and - I will continue to educate myself. Dad will probably reach for the gun here, he raised his hand against his own father! And then it wasn’t even Grisha, but a kid from the eighth grade who went toe-to-toe with his dad. This doesn’t happen with natural fathers, but with adoptive fathers it also happens.
And everything, in general, then becomes clear: Boris Nikolaevich’s own father disappeared somewhere, his mother pushed around with his grandfather and child, and then found herself a new husband - who was already “raising” Boris Nikolaevich. This husband is a mysterious figure: a simple mason, but he draws some kind of machine guns, a simple mason, but ... was not drafted into the Red Army. Why did they give my uncle the reservation? So that brick car further developed? So at the front, masons were also needed - the bunkers were not built by combine operators. But someone got Dad away from the front, apparently. Who? We don’t know, but the fact that Bori Eltsin had some powerful patrons is a fact. They put him in college, and they also looked after the family:
Before entering the Ural Polytechnic Institute at the Faculty of Construction, I had to pass another exam. It consisted in the fact that I needed to go to my grandfather, he was already over seventy at that time, he was such an impressive old man, with a beard, with an original mind, so he told me: “I won’t let you become a builder if you yourself , you can’t build anything with your own hands. And you will build me a bathhouse. Small, in the yard, with a dressing room"
In general, the construction of a bathhouse by a young boy from scratch is a separate story: not every GOOD carpenter, having never built anything like this, will master such work, but then some young clown bam-bang - and cut it down over the summer, instead of preparing for the exam:
Although I didn’t prepare specifically, due to the fact that I was building this very bathhouse, I did it relatively easily - two fours, the rest fives. Student life began: stormy, interesting. From the first year I plunged into social work. On the sports side, I am the chairman of the sports bureau, and I am responsible for organizing all sporting events. I was already quite involved in volleyball back then. high level, became a member of the city's volleyball team, and a year later participated in the Sverdlovsk team in major league games, where the 12 best teams in the country played. All five years while I was at the institute, I played, trained, traveled around the country, the workload was enormous... True, we took 6-7 places, we did not become champions, but everyone took us seriously
Just an amazing child prodigy: he built a bathhouse all summer and passed the exams at the Polytechnic Institute. When this book was written, that is, in 1989, it was indeed possible to enter the Polytechnic University almost without exams - the situation was different. But if Mr. EBN was born in 1931, then he acted just after the war, when universities were besieged by crowds of front-line soldiers:
IN small room dean's office - restrained speech, laughter and closeness. Here
sat on sofas, crowded with rough-looking guys in overcoats, old,
coats from someone else's shoulder, in army tarpaulin boots, standing in line at
table At the table there is a fresh, excited face of a blonde
girl secretaries; her thin voice sounded with an expression of uncertainty and
scared:
- Comrades, comrades, the dean will not accept everyone! Are you pestering? Won't accept it! I
I told you: the preparatory department is overcrowded! Well, comrades,
everyone rushed to this institute? Few institutions? Come tomorrow with
documents: certificate or certificate of education, biography... Well, that’s all
rest.
This is a fragment from Yu. Bondarev’s slightly autobiographical novel “Silence”; the post-war atmosphere of the university admissions department is conveyed exhaustively. Crowds of people (over five years!) have accumulated, and not just people - but every medal bearer and hero. And then some Borya Eltsin, who had just built a bathhouse, taxis in and immediately enters. Does this happen without a “call from above”? Let's look further:
The fact is that in the theory of plasticity there are some formulas that must be written on more than one page and are impossible to remember. You were allowed to use your textbook and notes. The professor decided to experiment on me. We fought with him for a long time. But he still gave me a B, which is a pity. Although he treated me well. I once solved a problem for him, a very difficult one, which none of his students had been able to solve for about ten years before me. That's why he fell in love with me.
Mr. EBN was such a genius. Can you imagine a problem on strength of materials that none of the students could solve for TEN years? There are, of course, unique people, after a conversation with whom the teachers allow them not to come to classes anymore, but for 10 years this hasn’t happened - until some agrarian came from Berezniki or Butka? For Boris Nikolayevich it’s not like this:
I remember in Zaporozhye, when I was already completely hungry, I accidentally met with one officer, and he said: “I need to go to college, but I don’t understand anything, not even a damn thing, about mathematics. Come on, coach me in math so that I can pass the exams.” He went through the war and apparently brought a lot from there, because his apartment was richly furnished. I set him a condition - to work, except for three to four hours of sleep, for twenty hours.
The fact that the genius of EBN worked as a tutor with stupid and thieving officers is already clear: our land is not overflowing with geniuses, but on the subject of how this “genius” went hungry (which he talks about in a line) - there is one curious point. It is clearly visible to people whose parents belong to the generation of the 1930s-1940s (by year of birth). Let them say: whose dad was a giant, two meters tall? No one? That's right, because in those hungry years the boys did not eat very well, they did not grow well, and people with a height of 175 cm were considered giants by this generation. I wonder where the hungry EBN ate such a mess, after all, he’s a big guy? Although there is a version: Boris Nikolaevich was a brilliant athlete:
Then I started actively playing sports. I was immediately captivated by volleyball, and I was ready to play all day long. I liked that the ball obeyed me, that I could take the most hopeless ball in an incredible jump. At the same time I was involved in skiing, gymnastics, athletics, decathlon, boxing, wrestling, I wanted to cover everything, to be able to do absolutely everything. But in the end, volleyball overpowered everything, and I took it up very seriously. He was with the ball all the time, and even when he went to bed, he fell asleep, but his hand still remained on the ball.
We modestly omit such a fact as a volleyball from a Soviet boy living in 1945, although in the seventies not all families could afford children such expensive toys even then. Another thing is touching: the city of Berezniki in the development of sports infrastructure in 1945 is second only to the city of Moscow and clearly does not lag behind Sverdlovsk. The question is not even about the stadium, the wrestling room (mat), the boxing room (ring, bags), etc. - here we need at least trainers in all subjects. So, did everyone come to Berezniki to teach young Mr. Eltsin?
We are probably gullible people and even a little naive, but we can believe in one, two, or three proposed explanations for these TEN strange facts from biography, but to accept everything is almost like a religion, not a single logic can withstand such “explanations” " And even these are not enough:
When I left, I also had an old, large watch, my grandfather gave it to me. But I lost this watch, like all my clothes, at cards.
Again, nonsense - an antique watch. Cast iron with cuckoo? After all, these are the only ones that a peasant grandfather could have had? Or is the grandfather not a peasant? Most likely, this is exactly what is going on. We don’t know who Boris Nikolaevich’s father was, an obscure and his adopted (most likely) father, but the fact that EBN’s biography is a fiction from beginning to end - there’s no need to go to a fortune teller, everything is obvious. And we, in general, don’t care much about this biography - we don’t give a damn about EBN and his relatives who looked after the son of an executed enemy of the people (most likely). The question is different: why was this “biography” made up? Why didn't they tell the truth? What, in 1989, someone would have condemned Boris Nikolaevich for some relatives who fought with Denikin, for example, because what else could be hidden then? It is obvious what both Mr. Lieberman (Andropov) and Mr. Zhirinovsky were hiding, who only in his old age suddenly remembered that his dad was buried in Israel. We don’t have any direct indications that Mr. Eltsin was a Jew, but the fact that he tried to hide something in his biography makes us suspect his Jewishness - they don’t hide anything else in Russia. Well, further: the wife is Iosifovna, all three main friends are Rabinovichs, 70% of the property “privatized” under EBN is in the hands of the Abramovichs, 70% of the seats in the government are in the hands of the Davidovichs. The entire Jewish press doted on EBN and continues to praise him after his death. What can we think? Therefore, we will not draw any conclusions - let our readers draw conclusions, because we have provided more than enough facts.
The situation with the pedigree of the first president of Russia is quite confusing. There are still no clear answers to questions regarding the correct spelling of the surname of Yeltsin’s ancestors, their nationality and way of life.
Changeable surname
The surname “Yeltsin,” according to Wikipedia, is Russian, derived from the Turkic nickname Elchy or Elchi, which translates as “messenger.” However, according to the same Wikipedia, the surname Yeltsin (or Yeltsin) in the original version could have sounded like Yelchin, Elchin or even Elchin. Similar surnames are still common in the Urals.
The very first ancestor of Boris Yeltsin is supposedly considered to be a resident of Veliky Novgorod, Elizarko Yelets, who fled in 1495 to the northern Urals from the atrocities of the Muscovites, who encroached on the once free republic. This is how the family of the Novgorod fugitive established itself in the Urals.
Some researchers believe that Boris Nikolayevich’s ancestors bore the surname Yeltsin until the 1920s - it was written with “s” in all official documents, just like other similar surnames - Solzhenitsyn, Kuritsyn, Spitsyn. According to one version, the letter “y” was replaced by “i” by the grandfather of the first Russian President Ignatius. And his father Nikolai began to sign up for him. There are several versions of modification of the surname. According to one of them, Nikolai Yeltsin wanted to avoid punishment for serving in Kolchak’s army in this way. To do this, he allegedly changed not only the letter, but also the year of his birth - 1899 to 1906.
Historian-archivist D. A. Panov points out that initially the ancestors of Boris Nikolaevich were recorded as Yeltsyns, later a soft sign was added to the surname, and only after the arrival Soviet power the letter “i” appeared at the end. This was done, according to the historian, not for security reasons, but in accordance with the spirit of new times.
Who are the ancestors?
In his autobiography, Boris Nikolaevich wrote that his family lived poorly - “a small house, a cow. There was a horse, but it soon fell. Like everyone else, we joined the collective farm. In 1935, when the cow had already died and it became unbearable, my grandfather began going from house to house and putting on stoves. Then my father became a construction worker.”
However, the author of a monograph on Yeltsin, journalist Boris Minaev, talks about what the first president kept silent about. It turns out that Boris Yeltsin’s grandfather Ignatius was the owner of a mill, which he was later able to modernize. The Yeltsins also had their own threshing machine, as well as five horses and four cows. Harvard University professor and Boris Yeltsin biographer Timothy Colton even calls Ignatius a “rural capitalist.”
Yeltsin's grandfather maternal line Vasily Starygin could not boast of such property as Ignatius Yeltsin. He was a master woodworker. However, already in Soviet time Vasily was noticed that he hired seasonal workers - farm laborers - to build houses. That is, according to the new revolutionary ideology, he exploited the labor of others.
In 1930, both of Boris Nikolaevich’s grandfathers fell under dispossession. Ignatius, as the most zealous anti-Soviet, was exiled to Nadezhdinsk (now Serov) - the northernmost region of the Ural region with a harsh climate and scarce land. They took everything from the Yeltsins - 12 hectares of land, a house, a mill, a threshing machine, livestock, even household utensils and clothes, which the confiscators themselves began to wear.
Phantom Jewry
There are still heated debates surrounding the nationality of the first Russian president. Some say that Yeltsin has Russian roots, others claim that he has Jewish roots. In my time Chief Editor"Literary News" Edmund Iodkovsky noted that he has no shadow of doubt about nationality Boris Nikolaevich, only he prefers to talk about it in narrow circle like-minded people. It was about Yeltsin's Jewish roots. What arguments can there be in this regard?
Among the first who, at the dawn of the 90s, to talk about the Jewish roots of Boris Yeltsin was the writer Alla Krotova, who lived in the United States. In her book “Sweet Gift,” she notes: only an inexperienced person in onomastics may think that the surname Yeltsin is Russian, meanwhile, it has been obscured by Russification.
The author draws attention to the fact that the alternation of “s” and “i” in the endings of some Russian surnames plays a role important role, which can only be recognized by an onomast specialist. In this case, according to Krotova, the surname Yeltsin comes not from the name of the city Yelets (here surnames like Yeltsov or Yeletsky are derived), but from the Jewish anthroponym, deminative (diminutive) female name Yeltsya.
Krotova claims that this Jewish name the surnames Elkin, Elchin, Elshin also appeared. “As for the surname Yeltsin, it is also found in the United States, having arrived in America along with those who emigrated here in late XIX centuries by Jews,” the author concludes.
There is another argument that may indicate the Jewish ancestry of the first president of Russia. This is the commissar, a Jew by nationality, Boris Moiseevich (Mikhailovich) Eltsin, whom some researchers call Boris Nikolaevich’s uncle. People's Deputy of the Sverdlovsk District Council of Moscow Valery Rodikov, in particular, drew attention to this family connection in a feuilleton published in the magazine “Young Guard” No. 3 for 1993.
Rodikov in his material notes the active political activity Boris Eltsin, who was the chairman of the Ufa Gubsovnarkom. He was an ally of Trotsky, communicated closely with Lenin and even suggested that the latter tighten the ruling regime, to which the leader of the world proletariat refused.
During the Great Terror, Boris Eltsin was accused of Trotskyism and executed. “In honor of his Trotskyist uncle, who died a martyr’s death, his nephew Boris was named with a slightly modified surname - Yeltsin,” the deputy summarizes.
Yeltsin's Jewish origin was also hinted at by his schoolmate. Pushkin of the city of Berezniki Yuri Borodin (Chernyaev) in a letter published in the newspaper “Volya Rossii” No. 9 for 1993. True, he does not provide any convincing arguments in favor of his version.
Russian President Yeltsin is a Jew
In the socio-political newspaper “Evening Magadan” dated July 15, 1994, No. 28, “List of citizens shot in the Magadan region, rehabilitated posthumously” was published. The list includes Eltsin Boris Mikhailovich, whose column indicating his nationality says Jew.
Considering the common and very common practice among us of writing the letter “E” in the form of the letter “E”, especially in words foreign origin, it becomes clear that the surname “Eltsin” was often written as “Yeltsin”. And accordingly, the conclusion suggests itself that B.N. Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as E.B.N. President) is of Jewish origin.
Popular wisdom says that in order to accurately recognize the essence of a person, one must judge not by his words, but by his deeds. The Democrats, led by E.B.N. president (and with the actual assistance of the last dictator of the USSR Gorbachev) in 1991 destroyed a united Russia by dividing it into 20 states, then destroyed the developed industry of Great Russia, turning it into a raw materials appendage of other countries, plundered Russian state (people's) property (which at the beginning of the twentieth century in time civil war and after it the grandfathers of the democrats took it away from the Russian people by force, killing those who resisted). Judging by these and other committed E.B.N. president's "deeds" - it would be more correct to say monstrous atrocities, the whole life of E.B.N. President was dedicated to the extermination and humiliation of the Russian people.
Whatever rotten nit E.B.N. president, but this alone cannot explain the expressed anti-Russian orientation of his atrocities and such fierce hatred of the Russian people. The only thing that can explain the hatred of E.B.N. President to us Russian people, then only the banal (ordinary) xenophobia of a person of a different nationality.
Determine which national minority E.B.N. belongs to. The president can again according to his affairs. Everyone knows which national minority was given all Russian state (people's) property, including the richest oil and gas enterprises, under the guise of privatization. Therefore, the answer to the question of what nationality is E.B.N. There is only one president that suggests itself. The publication of the newspaper “Evening Magadan” dated July 15, 1994 No. 28 unexpectedly only confirms the only reasonable answer to this question.
On 02/07/1998, I conveyed to V.V. Zhirinovsky, through the LDPR headquarters (Magadan branch), information about the origin of E.B.N. president and a white-yellow-black banner. Then I still believed that the LDPR was the opposition to the E.B.N. regime. President, and therefore will do something about it. There really wasn't any positive reaction.
In 1949, Yeltsin entered the construction department of the Ural Polytechnic Institute named after SM. Kirov, but before handing over entrance exams, he passed a kind of “workshop” to test his suitability for construction work - he built a village bathhouse according to the “design” of his seventy-year-old grandfather.
The Confession again does not specify which grandfather we're talking about: either this is grandfather Ignat, who ten years ago laid the village stoves, or just one of the villagers he knew. Here our “hero” gave free rein to his imagination: he alone felled pine trees and carried logs on himself from the forest, which is three kilometers from construction site, and alone he lifted the upper crowns and so on.
The bathhouse, together with the dressing room, turned out to be a success, my grandfather accepted the work with an “excellent” rating and gave the go-ahead to enter the institute. I entered the institute easily, only two B's, the rest were A's. And a “strange” student life began, firmly connected with the game of volleyball. However, it is better to give the floor to the former student himself:
“Student life has begun: stormy and interesting. From the first year I plunged into social work. On the sports line - the chairman of the sports bureau, on me - organization all sporting events.
By then he was already playing volleyball at a fairly high level, became a member of the city’s volleyball team, and a year later he participated in the Sverdlovsk national team in major league games, where the 12 best teams in the country played.
All five years while I was at the institute, I played, trained, traveled around the country, the workload was enormous. True, we took 6-7 places and didn’t become champions, but everyone took us seriously.”
There's no time for studying here. We do not find in B. Yeltsin’s memoirs any memories of professors and teachers of the UPI named after S.M. Kirov (the case of Professor Regitsky is a pleasant exception), about work in student circles or student scientific society Institute, about the reports he made at student scientific conferences, what topics coursework or projects he had to work on, which of his professor-mentors he remembered for the rest of his life.
There is nothing of this, as if he is a student not of UPI, but of some institute of physical education, or at least a full-time volleyball coach at the physical education department of the same UPI. He has no time to study scientific work, would pass the next session and go back into battle.
“Volleyball really left a big mark on my life, since I not only played, but then also coached four teams: the second team of UPI, women, men - in general, it took me six hours every day to play volleyball and study (and no one gave me any favors I didn’t give it) I only had to do it late in the evening or at night, even then I taught myself to sleep little, and until now I somehow got used to this regime and slept for 3.5-4 hours...” To be sure, without concessions, of course, it didn't work out.
“We all learned a little...” and we know very well in what privileged conditions the sports stars of institutes and universities invariably found themselves. For the sake of the sporting honor of the institute, the dean’s office calmly turned a blind eye to any absenteeism or absences, and no one asked such students strictly: as long as they won more diplomas, cups, and pennants.
In this situation, a sports star, in principle, may not attend classes at all, but only show up on time for tests and exams, preparation for which was reminiscent of storming a fortress. Such students “mastered” a semester course of any subject in 4-5 days, which gave rise to a well-known student joke: when asked “in how many days can one master Chinese, the question followed - when to take it?
So for student-athletes, all subjects in the course of study were a kind of “Chinese literacy”. Professor Regitsky, who taught a course on the theory of plasticity of materials, apparently was a “black sheep” at the institute, since he demanded that students report for the semester in their subject, regardless of athletic achievements.
Here he is the only one who ended up in Yeltsin’s memoirs: “Once Professor Regitsky, during an exam on the theory of plasticity, asked me to answer immediately, without preparation. He says: “Comrade Yeltsin, take a ticket and try without preparation, you are our athlete, what do you need to prepare for?”
And everyone has notebooks and notes on their desks. The fact is that in the theory of plasticity there are some formulas that must be written on more than one page and are impossible to remember. It was allowed to use textbooks and notes. The professor decided to experiment on me. We fought with him for a long time.
But he still gave me a B, it’s a pity.” In fact, student Yeltsin lives to the nines. Daily training for six or more hours, long trips in the cities of the country as part of the city's national volleyball team, training in fits and starts for 4-5 hours in the evenings and even until late at night sooner or later had to affect his health.
Here are his own memories on this matter: “Once my favorite volleyball almost drove me to the grave. At some point, training for six to eight hours and studying subjects at night (I wanted to have only an “excellent” grade in my record book), apparently I overexerted myself.
And then, as luck would have it, I fell ill with a sore throat, the temperature was forty, but I still went to training, and my heart could not stand it. Pulse 150, weakness, I was taken to the hospital. They told me to lie down and lie down, then there is a chance that in at least four months the heart will recover, otherwise there will be a heart defect.”
However, Yeltsin turned out to be a very undisciplined patient - a few days later he made a romantic escape from the hospital, descending from the top floor along an improvised rope woven from hospital sheets. He went to his parents in Berezniki to complete his treatment, where he again began to get involved in a protracted manner: periods of seemingly complete recovery were replaced by relapses of weakness, apathy, and ultimately he had to stay for a second year.
Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina - biography
Jewish origin
What is Naina Yeltsina's real first name and surname?
So he graduated from the institute only in 1955, a year later than his classmates with whom he began his studies. There is always a silver lining, since as a result he ended up on the same course as Anastasia Girina, who in a few years would become his wife - Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina.
Nationality of Naina Yeltsina... How Anastasia Girina later became Naina Yeltsina is a separate question.
Anastasia Girina ( Naina Yeltsina) was born on March 14, 1932 in an Old Believer family, but, despite the Church Slavonic name - Anastasia, in the house she was called Naya, and at school Naina, which was the reason for biographers of the Yeltsin family to look for Jewish roots in the genealogy of Naina Iosifovna Girina (Yeltsina).
According to Alexander Korzhakov, the version about Jewish origin of Naina Iosifovna, was actively supported by B. Yeltsin’s mother, Klavdia Vasilievna. Thus, in an interview with the former head of the presidential guard for the newspaper Zavtra (1998, No. 43), he, in particular, said: “Yeltsin tells everyone that she is Russian.
Although the name itself is doubtful: in a Russian family, where they know “Ruslan and Lyudmila” Pushkin, they would never call a girl that name, because Naina there is a genius of evil, a sorceress, a witch... So, Klavdia Vasilievna (Yeltsin’s mother) told the journalist , What Naina Iosifovna - Jewish, But " good jew».
When the rapprochement between Berezovsky, Smolensky, Gusinsky, Malashenko, Khodorkovsky, Yumashev, Filatov took place - these are all people of the same nationality - at first I could not understand Tanya (Yeltsin’s daughter): how can she listen to the same Boris Abramovich for hours?.. Alas, maternal genes. Native environment."
Long years the future first lady of Russia lived under a double name: according to her passport, Anastasia, but in everyday life, Naina. Even Boris Yeltsin, already married, did not know about the existence of a double name for his wife. (->> Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina Wikipedia)
In any case, she claimed this in an interview with the press (how did they formalize the marriage and the birth of their first daughter?). And only in 1960, after the birth of her second daughter, she wrote an application to the registry office and put an end to all this confusion.
Boris Yeltsin writes very little and restrainedly about his future wife in his memoirs: “In the whirlpool of a stormy student life, we formed our own company: six guys and six girls. We lived nearby, two large rooms, met together almost every evening.
Of course, someone fell in love with the girls, I fell in love with sports training, and within a month I started playing volleyball again. Some people also liked the treatment, but constantly in our large friendly student family I began to notice one more and more - Naya Girina...
She was always modest, friendly, and somehow soft. This suited my irrepressible character very well. Our mutual sympathy grew gradually, but we didn’t show it, and even if we kissed her, it was like with all girls, on the cheek. And so our platonic relationship continued for a long time, although I internally understood that I had fallen in love, fallen deeply in love and there was no escape.”
Of all the girls in the established student group, Naina Girina was the most inconspicuous and quiet. Biography of Naina Yeltsina banal... Growing up in an Old Believer family, where not only drinking but strong words were considered a sin, she amazed her friends with her humility and gentleness. For the desperate ringleader of student parties with his nose broken by a shaft, this is a rather strange match.
But, according to A. Khinshtein, everything was decided by a very prosaic background: “Nastya was an excellent cook (by student standards). Coming to the girl’s room, Yeltsin invariably swept the pies baked for her off the table, ate homemade borscht and gradually developed sympathy for the sweet, homely young lady.
Their union became a clear confirmation of the thesis that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. I would venture to suggest that delicious home-cooked food symbolized the warmth of the family hearth for the future president.
He himself ate from hand to mouth from childhood; he saw tempting pickles only in the book “On Tasty and healthy food“and quite sincerely considered sausages cooked with the addition of butter to be the highest pleasure.”
According to another version, sport brought young people together; for example, A.A. writes about this. Mukhin and P.A. Kozlov: “Naina met Boris Yeltsin, as you know, in her second year at the institute - Boris Nikolaevich was the chairman of the sports bureau Faculty of Construction, and Naina was involved in athletics. They came together in the sports field.”
Apparently both versions have a right to exist, especially since Boris Yeltsin himself confirms this in his other book, “Notes of the President”: “When we lived in a hostel in neighboring rooms for several years, we did not have “love” in the modern sense of the word .
By the way, at first I liked another girl from their group. Then he fell in love with Naya. But it was impossible to start a real romance. We lived some kind of overflowing collective life - stormy, active... Our two rooms - “girls” and “boys” - were called the “collective farm”, I was chosen as the “chairman”, and Naya as the “hygienist”.
The most accurate one. We had a girl who was the “treasurer”, all the money went into one pot, we ate together, laughed together, went to the cinema together, organized cabbage parties, well... we just lived. And, of course, sports, endless volleyball - matches, training, I’m on the court, Naya is on the bench, and I see her face, calm and radiant.”
All this is true, but something important is missing to explain such a long but reliable path to Naina’s heart. He carefully concealed his sympathy for her both from his friends and from herself. As a true leader in the resulting “collective farm,” he behaved like a king.
He kept all the girls who were in love with him, and even the pretty Naina, at a fair distance. The king cannot be accessible to everyone!
He understood and felt that if he took a step towards this or that girlfriend, that would be it, goodbye freedom! He did not want to exchange his strength, which he expected and expected to invest in his career, for love affairs. He decided that he would not make an exception for Naina either.
Let time will pass, it will better show whether they are suitable for each other or not. Emotions are a perishable product, which means that when creating a family you cannot be guided only by them. There must be something more that keeps two people together for life.
It is known that the happiest marriages are those where the spouses have the same value system, the same interests, when they look in the same direction, see the same pictures of the world, speak the same language, and understand each other perfectly.
But in order to be convinced of all this, time is needed and therefore Yeltsin keeps Naina at a distance, while continuing to carefully monitor any of her glances, gestures, phrases, actions - he made a deliberately dismissive appearance, made it clear that pies-pies, sport-sports, and Naya is just one of many for him beautiful girls who are trying to win his heart. And he is the main prize in this competition.
Conquer whoever can! The question is, how did the modest, shy Naina manage to beat all her smart and attractive fellow students who were in love with the handsome sports leader of the department? How did she manage to become the chosen one of the future president of Russia? Until the end, she most likely won’t even realize it herself. Moreover, she didn’t put any special effort into it.
She was just herself. A. Granatova, who has well studied the biographical intricacies of the Yeltsin family clan, writes: “One can more likely assume that Boris saw maternal care, thriftiness and cleanliness in Naya. And yet, the main difference from all her “competitors” was her incredibly patient and enduring character.
Psychological flexibility, willingness to compromise. He was like an icebreaker going ahead, crashing and breaking ice floes on its way, never deviating from its chosen course. And she is like water in the ocean, also strong and energetic, but capable of flexibly taking on any form... They are hard metal and soft water - two elements, two people, they were very suitable for each other.”
It has been said, in our opinion, keyword, which determined the fate of these two completely different psychologically personalities, like this from the poet: They came together - water and stone, Poems and prose, ice and fire... And the word is “maternal care.”
Naina Iosifovna became for Yeltsin for the rest of her life - “wife-mother”. Of the three categories of women - future wives (“wife-mistress”, “wife-mother”, “wife-daughter”) for such an irrepressible nature as B. Yeltsin, only the “wife-mother”, which Naina Iosifovna was, could to become the irreplaceable half of an obstinate spouse.
Always in the shadow of her husband, calm and reasonable, unquestioningly enduring his various breakdowns and antics, she unobtrusively, smoothly helped him open up. It was Naina Iosifovna who played a decisive role in the formation of Yeltsin as the whole country knows him. Without it, he would simply have drunk himself to death, examples of which are yet to come.
And Yeltsin himself understood this well, if in his memoirs he found a few warm words addressed to his half, he “condescended,” so to speak: “All subsequent life showed that this was fate. It was exactly that choice - one out of a thousand.
Naya accepted me and loved me for who I was - stubborn, prickly and, of course, it was not so easy for her to be with me. Well, I don’t say about myself - I fell in love with her, soft, gentle. Good, for life." Thus, the choice of a “wife-mother” as a life partner is not accidental; it also comes from childhood.
The cruelty of the father, to whom the son should have had a natural attachment, pushed him to his mother, who was an intercessor for her beloved son during the drunken antics of his father. The child slowly but surely developed an “Oedipus complex” - unnatural love for his mother and natural responsiveness to women's problems.
For example, at the institute he was the coach of the women's volleyball team, and in leadership positions in Sverdlovsk he always found mutual language with women's brigades and was personally involved in the improvement of women's change houses. In general, he felt much more confident in a female audience than in a male audience, on the one hand, and quickly found understanding with them, on the other.
Yeltsin's family relations with his father led to the development of other complexes, such as inflated demands on oneself - to be a leader in any environment, on the one hand, and fear of a solitary existence, on the other. Studying and working in all positions, Yeltsin planned his working day in such a way as to spend as much time as possible “in public.”
For example, according to some reports, he excluded Saturday from his days off and always worked to be visible. Yeltsin was burdened by the obligatory Sunday lunches hosted by Naina Iosifovna, considering the rest time to be wasted time.
His vacation was always collective, which he enthusiastically writes about in “Confession...” that even after graduation they would vacation together, the entire “collective farm,” regardless of any ups and downs in life: “And after 1955, when we graduated from the institute, 34 years have passed (the year the “Confession” was written - 1989 - A.K.), and I have never broken this tradition!
And once we even gathered with children. 87 people already came to this meeting. By no means in a sanatorium, but only in a wild way: we walked through the taiga, through the Urals, along the Golden Ring, once bought tickets for a steamship - and drove along the Kama and Volga.
Another time we lived in Gelendzhik, on the seashore in a tent city, and once sailed along the Yenisei to Dikson Island. We always came up with new options, and they were always interesting and fun.” This character trait allowed some researchers to talk about Yeltsin’s “underdevelopment, extreme primitiveness of feelings and undeveloped intimate side of life.”
He compensated for the lack of intimacy with “labor maximalism,” which, as a result, led to the formation of the “self-made man” complex, a “self-made” person. Such a person sincerely thinks that he can do everything and there are no things that he cannot understand and do.
Such a person lives in a completely different coordinate system, where there is no place for emotions, and everything should revolve around one person, that is, around him, his beloved. A. Khinshtein did not scrupulously analyze these psycho-emotional subtleties of his “hero” and lashed out in worker-peasant terms: “It feels like Yeltsin was not interested in women at all. Or they were interested insofar as.
God knows, maybe he got more satisfaction from sports and labor feats than from sex? And in conclusion he gives a medical diagnosis: “Sexual disorders that are not caused by organic disorders appear when there is an actual deviation from age and constitutional norms.
They can be expressed in the form of complete or relative indifference to representatives of the opposite sex and in the manifestation of obvious sexual immaturity.” Naina Iosifovna walked next to her tyrant husband throughout his difficult life path.
Apparently he loved his other half in his own way, but was too busy with his career. Natalya Konstantinovna, a former employee of the Kremlin press service, recalls: “Perhaps all these forty-odd years (in fact, they lived for 51 years - A.K.) she lacked warmth and care, although what woman admits this out loud.
Only once did it burst out in a conversation with his youngest daughter Tatyana about family life: “If my husband kissed me every minute like your Lesha...” Boris Nikolaevich was rude to her, he could shout,
At the same time, he himself admitted this shortcoming: “I am a rather harsh person, I don’t deny it. It’s a little difficult for Naina to be with me.”
Once Alexander Shokhin observed and subsequently described a characteristic scene. Someone close to him fills Yeltsin’s glass. Naina Iosifovna tries to stop him: - Bor, don’t drink! - Tsk, woman! They bring borscht.
Yeltsin takes the salt shaker. Naina Iosifovna warns: - Bor, try first. Salty borscht. Not paying attention to her words, he begins to shake the salt shaker...” Years will pass, and the first lady of Russia will smile awkwardly, not knowing what to tell people about her bruises on her arms.
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