What the grandchildren of 10 Russian writers look like: photos

Recently, a video of blogger Maria Rutkis telling her subscribers that she is the cousin-granddaughter of Joseph Brodsky went viral on the Internet. Now the Internet is actively looking for other relatives of famous writers. Many do not comment to journalists, but there are also famous people.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s St. He has a great-great-grandson Alexey from St. Petersburg. A man has been working on one of the ships of the Valaam monastery fleet for more than 20 years. He also plays bass guitar in the folk group “Bird C”.

“I couldn’t find my grandfather; He died in 1968. “I am currently working on Valaam on the ship Vasily Fokin, which is sailing between the islands in the archipelago,” Dostoevsky, now nearly 50, told RIA Novosti this summer.

Nikolay Leskov

Nikolai Leskov, known to many for the story “The Leftist”, has a great-grandchild Tatyana. He is little known in Russia, but in his native Brazil he is revered for his great contribution to local ballet culture. From 1950 he danced at the Rio de Janeiro Opera House and then founded a ballet school at the theatre.

“The Nikolai Leskov Museum invited me in the late 1970s, but they did not give me a visa. Lepeshinskaya (prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater – Note ed.) said: “Don’t worry, I will arrange a visa for you.” So I went to an international competition in Moscow. I wanted the visa to include a trip to Leningrad, which is something my family history is connected to and which I particularly wanted to go to. And everything went well,” the ballerina told the Russkiy Mir portal. She turned 102 last year.

Alexey Tolstoy

We are sure that as a child you read the book “The Golden Key or The Adventures of Pinocchio” or watched a cartoon or movie based on this work. It was written by Aleksey Tolstoy in 1936. The author has a distant relative whose work you definitely see on the streets of the city and on the Internet. Artemy Lebedev is Tolstoy’s grandson.

“We detected significant autosomal DNA matches between Tatyana Tolstaya (the designer’s mother). Note ed.), Artemy Lebedev, descendants of Alexei Tolstoy and representatives of the Tolstoy dynasty,” said Genotek Scientific Director Alexander Rakitko last year.

Leo Tolstoy

As his surname suggests, Alexei Tolstoy is a relative of Leo Tolstoy, he was his second cousin. Also, the author of the book “War and Peace” has another famous relative, our contemporary. The Tolstoy family has more than 300 descendants around the world, one of whom is Pyotr Tolstoy, the great-great-grandson of Lev Nikolayevich and a State Duma deputy.

“Of course, I was always and everywhere asked if I was a relative of that Tolstoy. I’m used to it and somehow it doesn’t make life particularly difficult for me. But relatives in the previous two generations got it, yes,” the author’s heir told the Nation website.

Alexander Pushkin

It is known that Alexander Pushkin had a great-great-great-great grandson, Hugh Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster. At one point, the author’s genealogy became so distorted that his descendants were now relatives of the Romanovs. The thing is that Alexander Sergeevich’s grandson married the grandson of Emperor Nicholas I, after which Pushkin’s relatives became close to the royal family.

Grandson of the writer who had a fortune of $13 billion (13.3 trillion rubles) last year Note ed.), married a modest girl. The wedding took place at Chester Cathedral in Cheshire. This was reported by East News.

Sergey Yesenin

We have a great-granddaughter, Anna Yesenina, who was a contemporary of Sergei Yesenin. Additionally, her great-grandmother is theater actress Zinaida Reich. The woman now lives in Canada and does not communicate with journalists. He is a professional artist, like his daughter Daria. Paintings of the heirs can now be seen in the Yesenin Museum in Moscow.

Anna tries not to talk about herself, but on the website “Letters About Tashkent” she told the following about her late mother: “Tatyana Yesenina, who has lived in Tashkent since 1941, worked as a journalist in the newspaper Pravda Vostoka, loved chess tournaments and parachuting. “He was bouncy, he was still, and he was a talented writer.”

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Mayakovsky has a living relative, Elizaveta Lavinskaya. His father, Gleb-Nikita, is the writer’s son who had a short affair with Elizaveta Lavinskaya. Yes, their first and last names are the same. The woman is very similar to her father, because, like Vladimir’s son, she is interested in art: she creates sculptures and paints paintings. He now establishes his own workshop and teaches art to children.

“It is known that Lilya came to visit the Lavinskys to see what Volodka was. My father’s name has not been disclosed yet. And endless debates began about the name. My grandmother said: “Nikita will be,” and Anton answered: “No! It will be Gleb! They argued and argued but couldn’t come to a conclusion! As a result, they gave him a double name,” the poet’s grandson told Prosodia.

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov lived abroad for a long time. His only son, Dmitry, was born in Berlin, almost a copy of his father. The young man studied at Harvard, sang in the opera, then taught Russian and even worked for the CIA. Against her father’s wishes, she published her unfinished novel, Laura’s Original, in 2009. Dmitry died in 2012; He had no children.

“Dmitry was a rather extreme person: a climber, a racer. Numerous car accidents and falls from mountains caused him to injure his back. In the last years of his life, he suffered from chronic back pain and his face grimaced when he stood up. Nabokov’s secretary admitted to Gorky Media: He lived with constant pain, so we had many difficult periods in everyday life; It seemed to us that Dmitry was about to leave.

Pavel Bazhov

Pavel Bazhov’s great-grandson was repeatedly inspired by the stories of his famous great-grandfather. Andrey graduated from the Sverdlovsk Theater Institute, worked in the drama theater in Omsk, and later in St. He moved to St. Petersburg. Now he acts in films, one of his famous roles is in the film “Notes of the Young Doctor” based on the work of Mikhail Bulgakov. In addition, Andrey is also involved in the making of wooden dolls that appear in his performances.

“My great-grandfather was a storyteller, and my grandfather was a carpenter. In Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita” there is the following expression: “Blood matters are the most difficult matters in the world.” Probably the genes of my grandfather and great-grandfather woke up in me. As an adult, I took a piece of pine, a puzzle, an airplane and tried to make toys. It turned out to be a bear. He then carved a horse out of wood. As a result, I aimed for a fairy tale,” Andrey admitted to Metro.

Mikhail Sholokhov

Alexander is the grandson of Mikhail Sholokhov, he graduated from the Faculty of Biological and Soil Sciences of Rostov-on-Don University, completed his master’s degree at Moscow State University and received a doctorate in Biological Sciences, and later received a law degree. . The man was a teacher and the manager of his grandfather’s museum reserve. He has been actively involved in politics since 2003 and is currently a State Duma deputy.

“My grandfather helped a lot of people even before the Supreme Council. Starting with simple cases – after dispossession, a family with a bunch of children was left behind, if you do not help them, everyone will starve to death,” Alexander told Lenta.ru about his famous relative.