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said that if one day we feel miserable, it is enough to remember that we are just dust particles, tiny atoms that have fallen from a star and try here for a few moments. on the scale of the universe it is faster swung. on use it this moment because life is stronger than anything. so we will live.

i wrote more empty books, and in each of these books there is some particle of my childhood. memories of what my parents told me, my grandmother does not try in any way. anyway, your work gets into the history of your family of your childhood. well, the older i get, the

more i begin to realize that the main most interesting story in my life is the story of my family. this is my ancestry. each family has some secrets and hidden pages. but when i started to study the history of my family, when i became interested in this, i realized that this is where the real detective is. this is where a huge number of secrets and a huge the amount of everything is simply incomprehensible. daria dontsova

born agrippina vasilyeva writer recognized master of the ironic detective author of more than a hundred novels does not recognize computers writes only by hand loves dogs of the pug breed collects everything related to them was born in 1952 in moscow the daughter of the writer arkady vasilyeva and tamara novatskaya daria dontsova considers the history of his family and their twisted detective for a reason. all her life she was sure that the biography of her father was a famous soviet writer. arcadia vasiliev contains no secrets. but recently, while cleaning up the family archive, she discovered documents from which it follows that her father was not only a writer. this is how dad was a deputy, how he worked in the writers' union, but the most interesting thing is this book of the ogpu pension certificate, which was later renamed the nkvd. a pension was assigned, by the way, 74 rubles. and another

cash content of 210 rubles. he was very young is not written here. why this pension was probably appointed, it was appointed due to injury and you know my documents daria dontsova for the first time finds out that her father arkady vasiliev was once a staff member of the ogpu and suggests that her father continued to contact the special services even after he became a famous writer a hard day and a dress rehearsal worked in the magazines crocodile and ogonyok secretary of the party organization of the union of writers of the ussr was born in 1907 in the city of shuya, ivanovo region, the father of darya dontsova so who really in fact, there was a father, why he never talked about his other non-literary life, what he hid daria dontsova begins to investigate. maybe

the story of her own family will be the plot of her new detective novel. soon daria will have to find out how her childhood interfered, and then helped her or her tongue. why were all famous writers in the ussr settled in one place. and why her father could not tell the whole truth of the investigation about himself, the famous detective dontsova, first of all, decides to interview her father's friends. perhaps they can bring probably, the light of daria goes to the dacha, the village of writers, peredelkino, where she spent her childhood. june. veronica come in. come on in, sunshine, haven't seen it in 100 years. how glad i am to see you. so none of the girls change. remained the same remained yes, the daughter and granddaughter of the famous soviet writer valentin kataev, who for many years was the best

friend of darya dontsova's parents and their neighbor in the dacha, agreed to share their memories. in 1934, 205 km from the kremlin in the village of peredelkino, construction began luxury dachas for the best soviet leaders the idea of ​​​​creating a writer's town belonged to maxim gorky in a few years, 50 houses were erected according to german projects, they were distributed for free for bunnies in different years, with all the dachas, there were sagbabel korney chukovsky boris pasternak ilya ilfa and evgeny petrov's brother valentina when she began to study her pedigree mm. i encountered a very interesting moment such a huge number of white spots in the biography of the father. he never spoke about his family. and if there were some echoes, it was some such at once. well, they lived very poorly here, ivanovo is not at home , there is no street. where i lived, that i never

said anything. hmm, just how exactly weird. it was, but i would think that they would tell you something, they would say something to live. no, there was only clothes, that dad might have drunk something here at your place or on our veranda, a glass of nothing at all . he was a real writer so strange, i almost don’t remember him, i don’t remember why? well, how he loved you so much, and you looked so much like him. these were some of the same, both with hanging tongues. you are just absolutely. this is what his daughter was like. dad was wonderful was the queen in the house you were the king with mom. sometimes ran up to you. sometimes she started to attack dad, and dad has a wonderful line

of defense, he sat down and said whatever you want, dear, and on the third, whatever you want, dear. mom with the ceilings are already nothing. she wanted yes, she did not know where to go. yes, tamara novatskaya graduated from the moscow institute of philosophy of literature and art, worked as a director at the mos concert born in 1917 in kislovodsk, the mother of darya dontsova pf most likely tamara novatskaya knew something about her husband’s connection with the special services, but this was never mentioned in the house spoke. the people of that time had some certain fears. he was afraid to tell too much that they didn’t suffer later, he was afraid for you, he was afraid for his mother. he was afraid for his family. you could bow, very much by you valued, valued you very much. i could foolishly, of course, a child, a small one could. well, what can i say, grunya, you were so talkative that you could tell everything to everyone at once, of course, i

had toys in my childhood. do you remember this story? we sit in our country house on the veranda. this is how we started telling stories. they fell silent. i keep talking, talking, suddenly some people say, i can’t lie for so long. i had the nickname toy, liar toy to toy , some kind of toy of new information about my father. darya fails to obtain, but her version that he lived a double life is confirmed. now the masters of the detective genre will have to bit by bit collect information about the history of the family, but even such connoisseurs of private investigation sometimes need advice daria visits the site of the program my genealogy. if you assume that your relative was in the service of the ogpu of the cheka and the nkvd, make a request to the archives of the federal security service . the personal file of your ancestor should contain information not only about him, but also

information about his parents and other immediate relatives. this information will help you make significant progress in the study of your pedigree. daria dontsova writes a request to the fsb archive, she hopes that she will be able to get at least some information about her father, and gives his certificate of an employee of the ogpu for examination by an expert of our program, then connects her children to the investigation, arkady and maria will soon find out together. why did her grandfather send scissors instead of a letter to her grandmother, what is in common between a ram and a silver sugar bowl, for what reason her grandmother made scandals to felix dzerzhinsky and why the terek cossacks bowed first to the horse, and only then to their husband. the writer daria dontsova is good. it is known that in the investigation of any detail. even if the indirect one can eventually lead to the right trace, so she decides to study the life of her ancestors by the maternal branch. after all, two intermarried families

can have common secrets. stefan nowacki, grandfather, a writer, on my mother's side, was also related to the state security agencies. and he was even a childhood friend of felix dzerzhinsky himself for 26 years the people's commissar grandson of affairs is the people's commissariat of internal affairs of the nkvd managing affairs. here you are, the maternal grandfather of darida dontsova is in poland. came from poland to russia to make a revolution friendship with dzerzhinsky. helped his career by the early twenties, stephen's house became a favorite meeting place for the political and military elite. the countries of that time were largely due to the hospitality of afanasy shabanov. this was left after my grandmother's death. this is grandma young , she told me that this is the last class and gymnasium. afanasia shabanova, a daring cossack , was born in kislovodsk, grandmother darina dontsova on

the maternal side, i look, only she looks like masha, you have feelings in 1922, stefan novatsky, his wife was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary activities. afanasia managed to break through to dzerzhinsky, made a terrible scandal and demanded to let her husband go. dzerzhinsky succumbed to the onslaught of temperamental cossack women and stefan was released, but after the death of the iron felix novatsky. understood re-arrest him not avoid stefan mikhailovich here he is here he realized that things would be bad. after all, he did not understand that things would be very bad, and he divorced his grandmother, divorced absolutely officially according to the documents, and the grandmother, who had never worked before. very afraid that someone would find out that she was stefan's wife, she went to work. rye stefan's intuition did not fail in 1937, he was

arrested in the tukhachevsky case and sentenced to death. daria dontsova goes to the gulag museum according to the information she has in anticipation execution in the camp for political prisoners near blagoveshchensk, her grandfather made scissors. by some miracle, he managed to send one of these scissors to his wife afanasy shabanova in moscow as news that he was still alive. daria dontsova wants to know if these scissors were really made by him in the camp near blagoveshchensk? in blagoveshchensk, there really was such a camp that was engaged in the manufacture of its own requirements. e in the camp was organized in the twenty-ninth year and about 1,000 prisoners worked for the manufacture of consumer goods. so quite maybe it was you. eh, a relative was also there afanasy shabanova, the grandmother of darya dontsova kept these scissors as the most important family heirloom. she hated stalin all her life and

considered him personally guilty of the execution, her grandmother and mother went back to the column to watch stalin's funeral, her grandmother took her mother with her on purpose and she had only one motivation found and said i want to see that he died. i want to see that he is dead. i want to understand that this is true, my grandmother saw such that stalin died. and when they were leaving from there, as it were, from this crown station, she turned to her mother and said, it was his froze. here we have presented the camp barrack winter landscape homemade stove with a barrel made and the year of nara nara bunk wagon type with a place designation. everything is very, frankly , oppressive, very gloomy, if you imagine that people have been sitting here for 10 years 15 years.

it is hard to imagine what a person experienced in such a camp. this is terrible. it's you just never just never in life should repeat with no one to know. to move further in her search, daria sends a request to the kislovodsk archive in stavropol, her ancestors lived on the maternal side, but soon the answer comes from there that no information has been preserved. this leads the writer to the idea that it is not without reason that there are solid white spots in the history of her family. she goes to the moscow hippodrome, where her grandmother afanasia shabanova worked as a cashier and took bets. perhaps there will be something to find out. at the end of the thirties, moscow the hippodrome was one of the most popular places among the creative intelligentsia, having settled down

to work here, the grandmother of darya dontsova, afanasy shabanova , got the opportunity to communicate every day with famous writers, musicians and actors. and who went here during the soviet years? what an ampunka it was, it was very diverse, but what was characteristic was that the entire moscow art theater always went to you, especially the theater of ladies, the art theater went here practically, the whole, and the young now old people, the current old people of the moscow art theater , said that we were immediately great our details were introduced to all by a friend. in the twenties of the last century, with the advent of the nep, the tote was restored here at the moscow hippodrome . moscow bohemia poets mayakovsky oseev, the famous actors moskvin yanshin tarkhanov were held here for a long time and they not only make

bets, but also participated in dinners themselves, sometimes the great coach ivan kozlovsky sat down on a jogging chair among the party nomenclature, the least fashionable races appeared, and prizes were considered the most prestigious. voroshilov budyonny and tukhachevsky came to see the race from steel, only there was no stalinist ghost. they say that the father of peoples did not like the phrase stalin's races and stalin's races for five years, when my grandmother brought me to her podium in the inner room, where no one was allowed. outsiders, but i was very small, it was difficult to suspect me of gogoljakeys, and therefore my grandmother and i were allowed to go where ordinary people were not allowed. i remember the impression that the call of the horse had on me. they were incredibly huge stood under such a horse's muzzle. this muzzle wrote. right above my head, i was a little scared at first, but then somehow

very pleasant, because horses are actually quite wonderful animals. the last time dontsova gave gifts was in this one, of course, exactly half a century ago, when her little girl was brought here by grandmother athanasius on musya. i also have musli at home. musya you are the same as my little musya. well, that's scary, i can't give it to him. he throws me out, grandmother afanasia was a cossack from childhood, daria dontsova adored horses, it was always interesting to learn about the life of her ancestors of the terek cossacks from the shaban family. the kazakh surname shabanov comes from the exclamation shaban meaning the same as the sabbath, that is,

quite enough according to another version, the surname shabanov is formed from the male name shabanka , which is often found among peoples who profess islam from arabic, it translates as well-fed or rich and comes from the name of the eighth month of the muslim lunar calendar, and in some in the turkic languages, shavs designate petrified or stiff lover or lazy? it is necessarily harnessed by several ribbon crews. whistling scream songs are played in harmony. the most important thing is when the wedding is the biggest, when the crew is harnessed. here, the rest of it was usually

done on horseback. but, by the way, uh, when the cossack escorted her husband to the service on a campaign, or really let him down, of course, it was her husband’s wife who let the horse down, and then, when she met, uh, first of all, not with her husband, but a stone evaded. uh, for bringing the owner of the whole, sugar. yes, not that not that more pleased, but she thanked. uh, so the end for delivering the owner smoking, great well, so i like to ride a horse, so that it was a crew of some kind. and here is the top. of course, i don’t risk, probably, sitting down my canadian genes, they died there somewhere on the sly to communicate more often, maybe we’ll wake up, we’re not sure, we’re not sure. i'm still afraid of a very large such a tall animal. i'm still no, no. i'm better. here uh, on

four wheels. yes, from the grandmother of the cossacks, dontsova was left in the dining room silver sugar bowl with a spoon and a spatula for cake. in the family they are used every day for their intended purpose. but now that the writer took up the investigation of her family detective. it was the first time she had a different look at these objects, for sure. they can tell a lot about family life. grandmother told me that grandfather came to woo her once and tore her off on nerves. that's how great-grandfather laughed for a very long time from this cover, and grandfather frightened said, i'll fix this sugar bowl then my dad turned to my mom. uh, he said that he wants you to put in how much sugar he said that he will definitely fix this lid for grandma. he hasn't fixed that cover so far. here is the sugar bowl alive and here is the spoon. this is still alive with us, and this is all from my grandmother and this is from my grandmother

afanast konstantinovna, but as i understand it, well, probably, maybe they were given radicals and you know what. i think that if they had such things at home, dear, they must be prosperous after all. somehow lived. the initial independent examination of the relics did not give tangible results. daria dontsova decides to make an examination of them. it is silver in design, the most difficult and costly, because here , after all, there is sawing, engraving, blackening by weight and in terms of significance in everyday life, it resembles, most likely, the opportunity to buy a small lamb. this is a sugar bowl, mind you very kneading. this is the beginning of the twentieth century to the tenth. secondly, uh, after all, it’s like we have imported ones now. yes , it came from poland, and the technology that made it possible to widely distribute items

resembling silver throughout vast russia, you know, our family always had this spoon, but i suspect that they are, in general, from some different collections, as it is now customary to say. they are from different countries, they are from different workshops, they are from different materials and they are even different in time. this is the second quarter of the 19th century, and in view of the fact that here, uh, the owner’s facsimile stands, it means that the level of the first owner who bought this spoon or was given to him, and the higher one is very expensive. they are the memory of my grandmothers, my grandfathers are all gone, neither my grandmother, nor my grandfather, nor my father, nor my mother, i look at these things and remember my parents, so i never heard of this to study my genealogy writer.

i have already collected a lot of information about the life of my ancestors. she feels that she will soon be able to come close to unraveling the main secret of her family , who her grandfather, a famous soviet writer, really was. arkady vasiliev soon daria will have to find out what the examination of the certificate showed ogpu employee. what secret insignia went to their father and what was actually the name of her great-grandmother and great-grandfather popular writer daria dontsova continues to study her pedigree, she has already found out that her grandmother terek cossack bowed first to the horse and only, then to her husband and that felix dzerzhinsky was a friend in childhood her grandfather, but most importantly, the mystery of who actually was her father, the famous writer arkady vasiliev, has not yet been solved. daria is sure that he was not just a

writer, but also worked for the special services. for this her version was prompted by the id of an ogpu officer found in the family archive with a photograph of her father in military uniform, daria sent the document for examination, and she herself wrote a request to the fsb archive with a request to find a personal file. arkady vasilyeva, but she received an answer that there had never been such an employee in the state security organs. they didn't give me anything. we were told that there is nothing of the virgin, there is no vasily in arkady nikolaevich, they do not know, this only adds to the writer 's confidence that she probably exists father's certificate in the form of employees of the ogpu, but there are no archives. this cannot be, it is quite possible that the father's case is still classified. in support of this version, daria, with the help of her son, finds new irrefutable evidence. here the fsb keeps telling me that we can’t find the father’s case,

we couldn’t have a sensible silva arkady nikolai, nevertheless, for each anniversary date 50 years. you are like 40 years old, uh, and you were awarded a commemorative badge on each date, but the fsb does not do it. i would have just sent it like that, probably, they handed out everything have been. in 1923, along with the title of counting worker in the scpu, especially distinguished employees began to be awarded badges, felix was the first to become the first, and along with him several more senior leaders of the vchkh, in 1940, a badge of honored worker of the nkvd was established, its owners had the right to receive housing on fire 1957 year, the best employee of the kgb began to be awarded a badge of honorary state security officer, the awarded received the right to medical care in departmental clinics and free tickets. in the meantime, the expert of our

program is ready to talk about the results of a study of the pension book of an employee of the ogpu arkady vasilyev, father daria dontsova judging by the available mark, the pension was assigned due to disability, such a variant of suspension from service could be used to transfer the employee to an illegal position, just in the early thirties the practice of strengthening all kinds of civilian departments by employees of the ogpu arose. uh, three rectangles on the buttonholes. uh, mean not any rank in that period rank they did not exist, they correspond to the ninth category of the commanding staff of the ogpu today. that would equal the rank of colonel. he could hold a fairly high position or e in one of the departments. or the department of the

central apparatus, what was it like the secret political department, the foreign department of the oge on economics, and so on, this book was used for about one year, since after 1 year the department itself ceased to exist. e, changed its name by becoming the people's commissariat of internal affairs. after the service vgpu. her father didn't rupture his organs. leave the writer continued to cooperate with the secret services, but now she wants to find secrets of this documentary evidence. but how to continue the evidence if the father's file was not found in the fsb archive if your ancestor actively showed himself in the creative field, was related to literature , theater, or cinema was an artist or musician? ask for his personal file in the russian state archive of literature and art, for sure, there you will find detailed information about his activities, as well as information about him.

relatives of daria dontsova were lucky in the russian state archive of literature and art. there was a personal file of her father, a writer. arkady vasiliev daria sees these documents for the first time in her life and studying them. she finds many inconsistencies with what she knew. before, for example, i didn’t know either the patronymic of the grandmother or the patronymic of the girls. yes, i think that he was nikolaevich always, as if the father of arkad nikolaevich, i thought that grandfather was nikolai nikolaevich we had nikolai alexandrovich, this is, in general, for me, certainly. in general, your dad is from, so to speak, well, a hereditary family. because grandfather worked as a goods conductor on freight trains, your grandmother, born in 1878, her name was agrippina vasilyevna so i know that i was named after my grandmother, but i never knew her, honestly in the

archives daria finds documents testifying to that her father repeatedly went on business trips abroad, primarily in germany in connection with this. she recalls a story from her childhood that never betrayed special significance. but now it seems to her that it is in this childhood memory that the key to unraveling all the secrets lies. yes, well, here, there are some such oddities as soon as, for which i personally have no explanation, it is written here, my father always emphasized that he does not speak foreign languages. i had a very funny situation in my childhood, when i was sitting, i speak fluent german, as a german woman brought me up from childhood. uh -huh and i was doing a grammar lesson, and something didn’t fit there. i couldn't understand what to do if when i don’t do homework with me, but on this day it’s a rare case, he was at home, he came up to me and said. and what do you have here so i say, there is something pap well, what am i going to explain to a person who does not understand. and so, from these daties, he

bent down like this, over his shoulder. i say, this is nonsense, what kind of smoke is here, i stuck my finger into the line , i looked at him and i think he is really right. here the declension of the noun goes wrong, i say, dad, how did you guess? well do not know, logical thinking also came out. i thought well, you know, sometimes people accidentally get into it, although it was impossible to accidentally get into it. yes, i think so too. it all looks very strange, and too much doesn't add up, father. darius indicated in all documents that he did not speak foreign languages, but in fact he was well versed in german grammar. in addition, he often visited germany, but for what purpose it is not known, moreover, as a home tutor for his daughter. he hired a german woman daria intuitively feels that she is already two steps away from the solution, but she needs to some more solid evidence version that her father was not only a writer, but also a member of the secret services is possible.