"to guard Nadezhda Krupskaya, widow of Vladimir Lenin, so that ""every line Krupskaya wrote about Lenin or the party had to pass through the fine sieve of Vera Solomonovna's vigilance."" Krupskaya called her ""my gendarme"". HIs grandson, Vladimir Shamberg, married Volya Malenkova, daughter of Georgy Malenkov (but was ordered to divorce her in January 1949) Profintern was wound up in 1937, when the communist policy changed to advocating a United Front against fascism, and Lozovsky was appointed Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, tasked with handling the Far East and Scandinavia. From 1939 to 1949, he was the oldest member"
"in a six-volume genealogy book (). Some family members were not part of the Russian nobility, and paid taxes. Other branches of the family were included in the nobility of the Minsk, Vitebsk, Vilna, Kovno, Volhynia, Podolia and Kiev Governorates. The family were members of the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches. In the Russian Empire, some became Orthodox priests. Nadezhda Krupskaya, wife of Vladimir Lenin, was a member of the family. During World War II, 772 family members died in military service; Polish officer Roman Krupski was killed in the Katyn massacre. Ninety family"
"first marriage. In March 2018, journalist Anna Mongait reported that singer Zara advanced her political career and received the title of ""Honored Artist of the Russian Federation"" because of her relationship with Slutsky. Leonid Slutsky (politician) Leonid Eduardovich Slutsky (, also transliterated Leonid Slutskii or Slutskiy; born January 4, 1968) is a member of the State Duma of Russia, a member of the LDPR party. In the 6th State Duma, he was the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots. In the 7th State Duma, Slutsky is the Chairman"
"years. He married young, at 24, to love of his life – Nadezhda, a pretty girl from a poor family who at tender age of 18 was working and supporting her ailing mother and younger brother. The two were together for almost 64 years until his death in 2012. The couple had three children. Throughout the famished and poor existence right after World War II and hardships of Communist regime, he kept his spirit high and never lost hope and trust in the people of his home country. His political views developed over time – raised in the family of"
"Armand, and Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya. He was a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee, which also included members such as Joseph Stalin, Andrei Bubnov, Moisei Uritsky, Felix Dzerzhinsky, and Yakov Sverdlov, and took part in the October Revolution. Following the Bolshevik seizure of power and the outbreak of the Russian Civil War, he was appointed a member of the Presidium of the Ural Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik), also popularly referred to as the Ural Soviet, and worked as editor-in-chief of the party's regional newspaper, the Ural Worker, and served on the editorial board of Pravda,"
"her by Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, and the Award of Saint Barbara in Ukraine amongst others. She has recorded duets with various well-known foreign singers including Ray Charles, Toto Cutugno, and Demis Roussos. In 2009, Gurtskaya received significant media attention after failing to obtain a visa from the British embassy due to her blindness. However, after a much publicised campaign, a visa was granted and the rules were changed. Gurtskaya is married to Pyotr Kucherenko, who is a sighted lawyer in Moscow, and they have one son, Konstantin (b. June 2007). Diana Gurtskaya signed the petition of support of Putin's"
"money laundering case. Veselnitskaya was formerly married to Aleksandr Mitusov, a former deputy transportation minister of the Moscow area. Natalia Veselnitskaya Natalia Vladimirovna Veselnitskaya (; born 22 February 1975) is a Russian lawyer. Her clients include Pyotr Katsyv, an official in the state-owned Russian Railways, and his son Denis Katsyv, whom she defended against a money laundering charge in New York. Her June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort in Trump Tower has attracted attention related to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, as well as to the role of her business contacts"
"perceived to be supporting Putin and his candidacy was seen as an attempt at putting himself forward a ""show"" opponent rather than a true challenger. Bryntsalov's first marriage was to Lydia Tikhonovna Bryntsalova. Together they have a daughter, Natalya (born 1971). His marriage is to Natalya Bryntsalova (born in 1967). He has two children with her, a son Alexey (1992) and daughter Alena (1994). Natalya decided to finally part with Bryntsalov, he left her his property in Monte Carlo. Bryntaslov'a nephew is the Chairman of the Moscow Oblast Duma having been elected to the post on December 15, 2011. Vladimir"
"2000. Peskov was named as Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov's Press Secretary on 25 April 2008, putting him in place to lead Vladimir Putin's press operations when he moved to the job of Prime Minister under Dmitry Medvedev's presidency. In May 2012, when Putin again became President, Peskov succeeded Natalya Timakova as the presidential spokesperson. In July 2015, Peskov became engaged to the Olympic Champion ice dancer Tatiana Navka, with whom he has a daughter. They married on 1 August 2015, after Peskov finalized the divorce with his second wife. During the wedding, Peskov was photographed wearing an exclusive $670,000 USD"
"to show that the feud has effectively ended. It has been reported that Ilya Kovalchuk, who was then the Atlanta Thrashers' captain and is also teammate of Ovechkin and Malkin on the Russian national team, brokered the peace between the two. Ovechkin was formerly engaged to tennis player Maria Kirilenko. On 21 July 2014, Kirilenko announced that the wedding was called off and that the two were no longer seeing each other. On 11 September 2015, Ovechkin announced via Instagram his engagement to Nastya Shubskaya (daughter of Vera Glagoleva) whom he subsequently married. On 7 June 2018, in an interview"
"moved to his dacha in Gorki. After this, prominent Bolsheviks were concerned about who would take over if Lenin actually died. Lenin and Trotsky had more of a personal and theoretical relationship, while Lenin and Stalin had more of a political and apparatical relationship. Yet, Stalin visited Lenin often, acting as his intermediary with the outside world. During this time, the two quarrelled over economic policy and how to consolidate the Soviet republics. One day, Stalin verbally swore at Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, for breaching Politburo orders by helping Lenin communicate with Trotsky and others about politics; this greatly offended"
"And I, as a man of left, democratic views, cannot contradict it, I cannot oppose it. The Crimeans wanted it. Whether it was right or not, it's their decision. Democracy is democracy"". He served as a campaign manager for Communist Party of the Russian Federation candidate Gennady Zyuganov during the 2012 presidential election. Sergei is married to Anastasiya Udaltsova. They are known as the ""revolutionary couple"" of Russian politics. Together they have two sons, Ivan (born in 2002) and Oleg (born in 2005). Sergei Udaltsov Sergei Stanislavovich Udaltsov (; born 16 February 1977) is a Russian political activist. He is"
"Sergei met Laima Vaikule's backup dancer Anastasia Nikishina with whom he began romantic relations. Anastasia gave birth to a son, and when he turned 1.5 years old, the parents got married. Sergei and Anastasia welcomed another child, daughter Lisa in 2008. On February 6, 2012 Trofimov was officially registered as a confidant of the candidate for the President of the Russian Federation and, now the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. March 11, 2014 signed an appeal of cultural figures of the Russian Federation in support of the policy of President Vladimir V. Putin in Ukraine and Crimea. Sergei"
"and later advisor to the mayor of Moscow, head of the Office of Public Affairs of Moscow Government, known as witness in the case of the head of Yukos security service Alexei Pichugin. As a result of the case, Pichugin was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment, and Nevzlin was put on a wanted list. In the aforementioned interview with Profile magazine, Olga described her first meeting with her future husband: Konstantin and Olga are a raising a daughter together. Konstantin Kostin (politician) Konstantin Nikolaevich Kostin (; born September 17, 1970 in Pushkino, Moscow Oblast) is a Russian politician, deputy"
"his seat, arguing, ""People expect fairness: Everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. We cannot undermine that hope of our people."" Analysts described the vote as part of a broader crackdown against Putin's critics, noting the recent charges against anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny. ""The Economist"" wrote that ""like, in a way, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the question is not whether Mr Gudkov ran afoul of Russian law but rather why Russian law seems to matter so little to his peers who keep themselves in the Kremlin’s better graces."" Gudkov is married and has two sons, Dmitry and Vladimir. Dmitry is"
"Ministry and was appointed First Deputy Finance Minister of Russia and Chairman of the Financial Monitoring Committee of the ministry, aimed to fight money laundering. On 16 March 2004 after the dismissal of Mikhail Kasyanov's Cabinet, the Financial Monitoring Committee was renamed to Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Finance Ministry, but Zubkov retained his position in Mikhail Fradkov's First Cabinet and Mikhail Fradkov's Second Cabinet. In a 2006 survey of political experts, Zubkov was ranked as Russia's 84th most influential politician. Zubkov's daughter is married to Anatoliy Serdyukov, the former Russian Defense Minister. On 12 September 2007, President Vladimir"
"unknown. The two soon separated, though Khrushchev helped Marusia in later years, especially when Marusia's daughter by a previous relationship suffered a fatal illness. Soon after the abortive marriage, Khrushchev met Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, a well-educated Party organizer and daughter of well-to-do Ukrainian peasants. The two lived together as husband and wife for the rest of Khrushchev's life, though they did not register their marriage until 1965. They had three children together: daughter Rada was born in 1929, son Sergei in 1935 and daughter Elena in 1937. In mid-1925, Khrushchev was appointed Party secretary of the Petrovo-Marinsky ""raikom"", or district,"
"as a senator from Bryansk Oblast, but she was dismissed by Nikolay Demin, a former governor of Bryansk Oblast. In 2016 she became a member of the Federation Council of Russia from Tuva Republic for a new term. In 2013 Narusova was expelled from the Fair Russia party. However, she later claimed she had never formally been a member of a party. Narusova is the widow of Anatoly Sobchak (1937—2000), who was a prominent Russian politician, mentor and teacher of both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, and the mother of Ksenia Sobchak (born 1981), who is a celebrity widely known"
"1861 Polovtsov marry Nadezhda Mikhaylovna Yunina (1843–1908), the only foster daughter of the first Chairman of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, Alexander von Stieglitz. According to popular believes Nadezhda was an illegitimate daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich of Russia and an unknown lady-in-waiting K. The marriage brought Polovtsov not only one million rubles of dowry and eventually 16-17 millions of rubles as Stieglitz's inheritance but also the help of the Emperor Nicholas I of Russia who was helping his alleged niece. Since 1871 Polovtsov became a senator, since 1873 he was the Secretary of State and simultaneously"
"Appeal. In June 2015, despite a court order to stay in Britain, Pugachev fled the country and turned up in Nice, France. Pugachev has two sons from his previous marriage to Galina Pugacheva. He has three children (two sons and one daughter) with his partner Countess Alexandra Tolstoy (daughter of the British historian and politician Count Nikolai Tolstoy). Pugachev has five grandchildren. Sergei Pugachev Sergei Viktorovich Pugachev, also spelled Sergey Pugachyov, (, ; born 4 February 1963) is a Russian investor and former member of Vladimir Putin's inner circle. He is a Doctor of Technical Sciences and a member of"
"Nadezhda Joffe Nadezhda Adolfovna Joffe () (1906 – March 18, 1999) was a Soviet Trotskyist and daughter of early Soviet leader Adolph Joffe. Joffe joined the Trotskyist Left Opposition within the Soviet Communist Party shortly after it was formed in 1923 and was first exiled from Moscow in 1929. She was re-arrested at the beginning of the Great Purge in 1936, and sent to Kolyma labor camps in Siberia, where her first husband, Trotskyist Pavel Kossakovsky, was killed in 1938. She was the last person to see Leon Trotsky's first wife, Aleksandra Sokolovskaya, alive in Kolyma in 1938. After Stalin's"
"Boris Grigoryevich Yusupov Boris Grigoryevich Yusupov (Russian : Борис Григорьевич Юсупов; 1695–1759) was a Russian nobleman and politician. From the house of Yusupov, a Russian noble family descended from 10th-century khans, he was elected a senator and became governor general of Moscow and St Petersburg. His parents were Grigory Dmitriyevich Yusupov (1676–1730), friend and minister of war to Peter I of Russia, and his wife Anna Nikitchna Akinfova, daughter of an okolnichy (noble rank below that of boyar). He was the great-great grandfather of prince Felix Yusupov. At age 20, Boris was sent to study in the French navy. He"
"with Slavic peasant colonisers. Nikolai had a number of children by different women. One of his grandchildren, Natalia Androsova, died in Moscow in 1999. Nikolai died of pneumonia on 26 January 1918. He was buried in St. George's Cathedral (later demolished by the Soviet regime). Nikolai married Nadezhda (variantly spelled Nadejda) Alexandrovna von Dreyer (1861–1929), daughter of Orenburg police chief Alexander Gustavovich von Dreyer and Sophia Ivanovna Opanovskaya, in 1882. Two children were born from this marriage: Among his illegitimate children were the following: With Alexandra Abasa (1855–1894): With unknown mistresses: Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia Grand Duke Nicholas"
"have married a man named Artur Ocheretny in early 2015. According to ""Reuters"", Lyudmila Putina controls the Centre for the Development of Inter-personal Communications (CDIC). The CDIC's offices are located in the center of Moscow, on Vozdvizhenka Street in the building previously known as Volkonsky House, which is its own property. The building, which once belonged to Leo Tolstoy's grandfather, was listed in Russian cultural heritage register but was completely rebuilt in 2013, raising its height from two stories to four, despite numerous objections and protests by Moscow citizens including an unanswered appeal to Vladimir Putin signed by 200 famous"
"and permitted to go on trips to swim in the Yenisei River and to hunt duck and snipe. In May 1898, Nadya joined him in exile, having been arrested in August 1896 for organising a strike. She was initially posted to Ufa, but persuaded the authorities to move her to Shushenskoye, claiming that she and Lenin were engaged; they married in a church on 10 July 1898. Settling into a family life with Nadya's mother Elizaveta Vasilyevna, in Shushenskoye the couple translated English socialist literature into Russian. Keen to keep up with developments in German Marxism – where there had"
"Aleksandra Sokolovskaya Aleksandra Lvovna Sokolovskaya (; 1872 – c. 1938) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and Leon Trotsky's first wife. She perished in the Great Purges no earlier than 1938. Sokolovskaya was a Marxist revolutionary in Nikolaev, Ukraine in the 1890s. She was married to Trotsky between 1899 and 1902, including when the two of them were in prison and in Siberian exile together. They had two daughters, Zinaida Volkova (1901-1933) and Nina Nevelson (1902-1928), both of whom predeceased their parents. When Trotsky considered escaping from Siberia (alone, of necessity) in the summer of 1902, Sokolovskaya fully endorsed his plan."
"Sergei Kapkov Sergei Alexandrovich Kapkov (Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Капко́в; born 10 December 1975) is a Russian politician, Head of the Culture and Urban Development Center, School of Economics, Moscow State University. Married, has two kids. Former Minister of Moscow Government, head of Moscow City Department of Culture (30 September 2011 - 10 March 2015), head of the National Academy of Football Fund, highly supported by Roman Abramovich. The Fund under Kapkov leadership was the one who hired Guus Hiddink as the chief coach of the Russian national team. After a bright start of the politician career, Sergei met Roman Abramovich,"
"as Nicholas II of Russia and Adolf Hitler, arguing that Hitler was revenge on the Bolsheviks for the revolution. According to his personal ideology the ""Russy"" consists of eight branches i.e. the ""Great Russians"", the Belarusians, the Ukrainians (the three groups from which he has descent), the Ruthenians of Carpathia, the ""New Russians"", the Siberians, the Cossacks and the Pomors. Aleksandr Ivanov-Sukharevsky Aleksandr Kuzmich Ivanov-Sukharevsky (; born 26 July 1950 in Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR) is a far right politician in Russia who is the leader of the Peoples National Party (NNP). Ivanov-Sukharevsky was the son of a Red Army officer"
"million dollars). Prikhodko himself denied the allegations, accusing Navalny of ""mixing the facts"" about his ""friend"" Deripaska, Donald Trump and Paul Manafort, while also voicing his wish to have a talk with Navalny as a ""man with a man"". A day after the video was published the Roskomnadzor added the video to the Federal List of Extremist Materials, thus making accessing the video illegal for all Russian citizens. Sergei Eduardovich Prikhodko Sergei Eduardovich Prikhodko (; born January 12, 1957) is a Russian politician and diplomat. From May 2013 to May 2018 he was Deputy Prime Minister in Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet."
"the Verkhovna Rada, for two consecutive terms from 1998 to 2006. He is married to Olena Pinchuk, the daughter of former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. Pinchuk was born in 1960 in Kiev to Jewish parents who moved to the industrial city of Dnipropetrovsk. He graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute with a doctorate in industrial engineering in 1987. Three years later, he founded the Interpipe Company on the basis of his patented innovations, which were adopted by leading metallurgical factories in the USSR. Interpipe is a major producer of seamless pipes and railway wheels. In 2004, Pinchuk and Rinat Akhmetov, two"
"As of 2017 Spencer was renting a house in Alexandria, Virginia. Spencer married Nina Kouprianova in 2010, with whom he has two children. Prior to this, Spencer's dating history included Asian women, which he has said predates his white nationalism, though this evaluation is disputed. He was separated from Kouprianova, who is Russian-Canadian, in October 2016; in April 2017, Spencer said he and his wife were not separated and were still together. Kouprianova has translated several books written by Aleksandr Dugin, a Russian political analyst known for his fascist views. The books were later published by Spencer's publishing house, Washington"
"Polina Zhemchuzhina Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina (born Perl Semyonovna Karpovskaya; 27 February 1897 – 1 April 1970) was a Soviet politician and the wife of the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Zhemchuzhina was the director of the Soviet national cosmetics trust from 1932 to 1936, Minister of Fisheries in 1939, and head of textiles production in the Ministry of Light Industry from 1939 to 1948. In 1949, Zhemchuzhina was arrested by the Soviet secret police, charged with treason, and sent into internal exile, where she remained until after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Zhemchuzhina was born Perl Semyonovna Karpovskaya"
"to five years of internal exile on a charge of parasitism, under the ""anti-parasite law"" initiated by Nikita Khrushchev. Krasin was serving his term in the Krasnoyarsk area. While he was in exile he was informed that in June 1971 his friend and participating rights activist Nadezhda Pavlovna Yemel'kin was arrested for demonstrating alone on Pushkin Square holding up a banner ""Freedom to Political Prisoners in the USSR."" After the RSFSR Supreme Court overturned Krasin's verdict in autumn 1971 he went to the town of Yeniseisk where she was in exile and married her. This was his second marriage. In"