Primakov Evgeny Maksimovich: biography, personal life, activities and interesting facts. About the project Man from life. Yevgeny Primakov Illness and death

Death of son and wife

Few know Yevgeny Primakov deeply, only those who are part of his close circle of friends. Cloudy in appearance, he is in reality a cheerful, sincere, cheerful person. He writes good lyrical poems, loves a feast, knows many anecdotes and remains faithful to his comrades.

He did a lot of things as if playfully. He defended his dissertations, not intending to devote himself entirely to science, but it turned out that the academic career became the main one. He left the scientific institute, not assuming that over time he would take large positions in the government and eventually head the cabinet of ministers.

The seeming ease of a career is evidence of many talents, although in any career an element of chance, or rather, luck, also matters. But in his personal life, he experienced a real tragedy - he lost his wife and son. For a man of his type, his Tbilisi upbringing, this loss is unbearable. But Primakov never complains, never shows how hard it is for him, and does not fall into melancholy.

But the most important thing in life, despite his career and professional success, for him was the family. He married early, but over the years, their feelings with Laura Vasilievna Kharadze did not fade at all. They were not only husband and wife, but also friends, complementing each other. They gave birth to two children - a son and a daughter: Alexander Primakov and Nana Primakov.

“Sasha was an amazing boy,” Thomas Kolesnichenko recalled. “For me, this is ideal. I do not have such children, and I have not seen anyone with them. He went to Yevgeny Maksimovich. Sasha Primakov came to New York for an internship, and I worked there as a correspondent for Pravda. Just at that moment, I had a conflict with one of our local bosses. Mikhail Averkievich Kharlamov was the first deputy representative of the USSR to the UN. He did something wrong, I don’t remember, but I was offended by him.

And Sasha Primakov had to go to Kharlamov with some material. He announced to Thomas Kolesnichenko:

“Uncle Tom, I won’t go to him.

In Tbilisi, it is customary to call a father's friend an uncle.

- Yes, what are you? Kolesnichenko was surprised. - Why don't you go?

- He offended you!

- What do you have to do with this? You go, you have a job.

Sasha shook his head.

“I am a clansman,” the younger Primakov said firmly, “I will not go to him ...

Father's character.

“You know, when people find themselves abroad, they have something to do, there are so many temptations,” Kolesnichenko recalled. - And Sasha came to me after work, because he lived far away, sat in my office and worked. Until the evening he sat and wrote. He would certainly go far. This was an extraordinary guy.

He was in graduate school. He was offered to go to Cairo as a correspondent and go into science. But this was not destined to happen. Sasha Primakov passed away as a very young man, suddenly, in the arms of friends.

“This is one of the darkest days of my life,” says Valentin Zorin. – Sasha Primakov was my graduate student. Three graduate students went on duty on a holiday - it was May 1, 1981. A beautiful spring day. Suddenly Sasha grabbed his comrades by the hands and said: I am dying. And he died instantly.

Her heart could not stand it, as later with her mother, Laura ... Apparently, something like that was inherited from her mother. Sasha Primakov was only twenty-seven years old.

“The first to know about Sasha's death was Vitaly Zhurkin, the future academician and director of the Institute of Europe,” recalled Leon Onikov. - Zhurkin called me, and together we took Sasha's wife to the hospital, knowing that he had already died, and on the way we tried with all our might not to tell her about it ahead of time.

Sasha Primakov suffered from a heartache, but he died so unexpectedly that no one was ready for this and did not think that this could happen.

- Sasha's heart disease appeared suddenly? I asked Onikov.

– Our mutual friend, academician of medicine Volodya Burakovsky once told me: Sasha will die unexpectedly. And so it happened.

When this happened, Primakov was on a business trip in Mexico. Valentin Zorin, with the help of the embassy, ​​found him at the hotel and said:

- Do what you want, but tomorrow you should be in Moscow.

He asked what happened?

No, but I guess I guessed...

Friends met him at the gangway. He came down all white, and they told him:

Sasha is no more.

Vladimir Ivanovich Burakovsky also came to meet him at the airport. He ordered an ambulance.

Thomas Kolesnichenko:

- Here they were driving from the airport in a car, and an ambulance was behind them to help Zhenya if he became ill.

Valentin Zorin:

- In a semi-conscious state, we brought him home, where the body of his son lay ... That's what happened to him. Zhenya experienced this very terribly. If not for his daughter and grandchildren, he would not have endured such grief.

Thomas Kolesnichenko:

- He loved the boy very much. It was a terrible tragedy. It is still a tragedy for him. And at that time there is nothing to say: unbearable grief. Until now, we go to Sasha's grave, do not forget.

People around Primakov learned about this tragic history and understood what Evgeny Maksimovich was going through.

Alexey Malashenko, Doctor of Historical Sciences, employee of the Institute of Oriental Studies:

- I remember that just after the death of his son, an academic council was appointed at our institute. Everyone gathered, and there was dead silence. The venerable scientists sat and did not know how to express their sympathy to them. And Primakov behaved admirably, neither with a gesture nor a word did he show what he was feeling now.

Thomas Kolesnichenko:

- He continued to work. Yes, this is Zhenya's will. He goes to work, he saves himself by work.

Valentin Zorin:

“Two years after Sasha’s death, Primakov began his working day by driving to the cemetery in the morning and sitting at his son’s grave for an hour, and then driving to work…

The death of his son was the first of two tragedies that befell Primakov.

Everyone who knew Laura Primakova kept the best memories of her. A charming woman, a magnificent mother and a skilled hostess. She cooked amazingly, was hospitable, benevolent. She played the piano wonderfully. And everything she did was easy, simple. The house is always full of guests. They lived happily and interestingly.

One of Primakov's closest friends was Vladimir Ivanovich Burakovsky, a prominent cardiac surgeon, director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery, academician of medicine, laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes, last Hero Socialist Labor, who received a star from the hands of Brezhnev.

Burakovsky also grew up in Tbilisi, but he was seven years older than Primakov - in childhood and youth, this matters. Then this difference ceased to be noticeable. They became friends already in the early seventies, when Primakov returned from the Middle East.

Liliana Burakovskaya, the widow of Vladimir Ivanovich, recalled:

- We came to the Primakovs in a small apartment on Fersman Street. I knew that, like in every normal family, they had problems, difficulties, including material ones. But life was interesting. I didn’t see anything luxurious among them, and they weren’t used to a luxurious life. Neither Primakov nor Burakovsky created treasures for themselves on earth. They knew the Bible, they knew life. They understood: when we leave, we take nothing with us, except good name.

“But you can leave something for your children and grandchildren. And this leads many.

– Yes, you can provide offspring in the seventh generation. But they didn't. Not because they didn't love their children. They believed that what they had was enough. Let them earn the rest.

Yevgeny Maksimovich turned out to be a brilliant storyteller. In general, he likes to tell jokes, likes to joke. When the whole company later gathered, it was a firework of wit.

- As I first saw Evgeny Maksimovich, he remained so, - recalled Liliana Burakovskaya. – He is still like this: always with a smile, benevolent. And Laura was the same. It was impossible not to fall in love with this family and not get close to her.

They never took themselves too seriously, they didn't have any swagger. They were always self-critical, making fun of each other. Evgeny Maksimovich is neither vain nor pompous. These are people who have not realized themselves constantly talk about themselves. And the one who succeeded, why should he? On the contrary, such people treat themselves critically, with irony and even frivolously. Although Laura was sincerely proud when her husband made such a career:

- I told you that my Zhenya is number one!

She always understood that Yevgeny Maksimovich was somehow superior to his comrades, recalls Liliana Burakovskaya.

A wife also influences her husband. We imperceptibly approached. Laura became my friend. She was extraordinary, charming, attracted people. Diversely educated, she was keenly interested in everything, went to concerts, to exhibitions. She herself played superbly, sang. On her birthday - February 8 - her friends gathered, probably thirty. Then they moved from Fersman Street to Leninsky Prospekt, they already had a good apartment, but even it could not accommodate everyone. Her friends adored her.

Laura was so cheerful - friends could not even imagine that she was terminally ill. When she had her first seizure, Burakovsky was the first to run to her, because the Primakovs lived next to his institute on Leninsky Prospekt. The attack was stopped, and she was forced to be examined. Laura didn't take her health very seriously either. But she had to be treated. First, Burakovsky admitted her to his institute, then she went to the Central Clinical Hospital of the 4th Main Directorate under the USSR Ministry of Health.

Doctors made a serious diagnosis - myocarditis. The myocardium is the heart muscle. Myocarditis is inflammation of the muscle, it weakens and stops working. This is an incurable disease. Young Sasha Primakov died of myocarditis.

In such cases, a heart transplant is indicated. Vladimir Burakovsky wanted to start heart transplant operations, but the then Minister of Health Boris Petrovsky, himself a cardiologist surgeon, forbade him to do so. But drugs for myocarditis did not help, it was not possible to restore the working capacity of the myocardium.

The moment came when the doctors said that Laura Primakova had only five years left to live. They, of course, said this not to her, but to her husband. With this terrible news, Yevgeny Maksimovich came to the Burakovskys. He looked depressed, hushed, withdrawn into himself. He could only speak to the Burakovskys. Not only because Vladimir Ivanovich is a doctor. They also survived terrible tragedy Their daughter died in a car accident. Her grave is next to the grave of Sasha Primakov.

- Did Evgeny Maksimovich tell his wife about the diagnosis? I asked Liliana Albertovna Burakovskaya.

- No no! Nobody spoke. They pretended everything was fine. Primakov was invited to Japan with his wife. He asked if she could go? We decided: let Laura go, get distracted. And it's good that she went ... And then she felt worse and worse, she lay in the country, she became very weak ... Laura did not live even five years.

In June 1987, on election day, Laura and Yevgeny Maksimovich went out into the yard. She suddenly froze and said:

- Zhenya, my heart stopped.

They called an ambulance, but it was too late. She died in her husband's arms. She was only fifty-seven years old, she was for a year younger than Eugene Maksimovich. The second tragedy in a few years. Yevgeny Maksimovich still loves Laura, thinks about her and suffers ... In the days of the memory of Laura and Sasha, Evgeny Maksimovich always gathers friends at the grave, and then takes them to the wake.

Primakov left a daughter, Nana.

Liliana Burakovskaya:

- Evgeny Maksimovich loves his daughter and grandchildren. Nana is a psychologist. She works with retarded children. I tell her: you are a saint ... She looks at you somehow inquiringly, studies you. She is modest and laconic, restrained, maybe not very smiling, but suddenly she will say something with a great sense of humor, just like her father.

Primakov's eldest granddaughter, Sasha, was named after the deceased Alexander Primakov. From the second marriage, Nana has a little girl - Masha. And from the departed son there was a grandson Zhenya, named after his grandfather. He also became a journalist, working as his own correspondent for the NTV television company in the Middle East.

In April 1991, a group of American senators visited Moscow. Primakov invited them to his dacha. American Ambassador Jack Matlock was amazed:

“Traditionally, foreigners were received only in restaurants or in special “reception houses” kept for this purpose. Soviet leaders never invited foreigners home. Primakov's dacha was cozy, but not luxurious. Most high-ranking persons used state dachas, but Primakov was clearly more comfortable and cozy in his own home, and he proudly showed his house.

Primakov's daughter was the mistress of the house. Looking at photographs and family heirlooms, we remembered the personal sorrows that befell the owner. The family was friendly and close-knit, and Primakov had not yet healed the psychological trauma generated by heavy losses. Showing us a photo of his late wife, he remarked that although four years had passed since her death, he had absolutely no desire to marry again. Work changed everything for him.”

Primakov, even in childhood, did not go in for sports and did not differ in good health.

“While working at the institute, I inherited Primakov’s huge desk,” recalled Vladimir Sizerov, an IMEMO employee. He was given an office with new furniture. And I got his old table. I was horrified to discover that one of the drawers was full of drugs. He, poor, swallowed all sorts of pills. But he's holding on. Do you know what? I have seen this on my travels. He, like Churchill, can sleep at any time, taking advantage of any minute. I think this is how he compensates for his sores and overexertion.

When he was director of intelligence, Yevgeny Maksimovich underwent thyroid surgery. Becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs - gallbladder surgery. But he has no special ailments, he has not yet canceled or postponed a single business due to his own ill health. Every morning he swims half a kilometer in the pool, observes the regime, and no one dares to say that he cannot cope with his duties.

Thomas Kolesnichenko:

- He's got it all right. Very close to him good woman, new wife. We, old friends of Yevgeny Maksimovich, fell in love with her very much, because she loves him and creates a full life for him, takes care of him.

For the second time, Primakov married his attending physician, Irina Borisovna Bokareva. She worked in the Barvikha sanatorium, which was the most comfortable and prestigious in the system of the 4th main department under the USSR Ministry of Health. Although there were many sanatoriums and rest houses for the authorities - from the Riga seaside to Sochi, from the Kursk region to Valdai, in Soviet times all the big bosses preferred Barvikha.

Mild climate middle lane, indicated for almost any disease, proximity to Moscow, large rooms, good diet food and real medicine - this attracted vacationers even out of season. It was a special honor to get a ticket to Barvikha. This is where the top leaders used to rest. Less high-ranking officials were refused permits.

If you drive along the Rublevsky highway, then, before reaching the holiday village of Zhukovka and government dachas, you can see a simple sign: Barvikha. It is necessary to turn around and move off the highway onto a beautiful forest road. And soon there will be a new sign "Sanatorium Barvikha". During the war, there was a hospital here. Those whom the doctors were unable to help were buried nearby - the military cemetery has survived to this day.

At the gate is a stone house, from which a brave duty officer will appear. If you come to rest, then you need to present a ticket. If visiting, then your name or car number should appear on the list provided by the head physician. If you are expected, the gates open and you can enter the sanatorium. The road - with strict signs "Parking near the building is prohibited!" - leads to the main building. The doors open automatically. The attendant is sitting at the table. Vacationers are greeted like family. Things are taken on a cart to the room, so that, God forbid, you don’t have to carry it yourself.

There are few vacationers in the sanatorium who hardly see each other, but there are many incredibly polite people in white coats. Here they do not get annoyed and do not refuse anything to vacationers. Each is called by his first name. Names are remembered not only by the attending physician, but also by sisters, and waitresses in the dining room, and nannies, and those who deliver food to the rooms of the non-walking patients.

Each vacationer, if he arrived without a wife, is entitled to a cozy single room with a small dressing room and his own toilet room. The room has a wardrobe, a TV set, a refrigerator, a desk, a coffee table, a TV set and a telephone with a Moscow number. The family rooms are larger. Be sure to slide with dishes and an electric samovar. In Soviet times, everyone was provided with underwear, tracksuits and sneakers for free. Morals in the sanatorium are liberal. You can keep wine and vodka in your refrigerator and ask the sister on duty to bring a corkscrew. Although this is a sanatorium, no one will be surprised.

The sanatorium consists of several buildings connected by passages or a winter garden. The architecture is intricate. They live on the first and second floors, on the third administrative offices, a cinema hall - a movie every evening. Once it was the main evening entertainment. Doctor's offices are scattered on different floors. Each room has a small balcony, including the one on the first floor.

In the dining room buffet - vegetables, herbs, and the rest by order from the menu. The sanatorium has its own poultry farm. You can get unloading meals - they carry it to the room so that those who want to lose weight do not go to the dining room themselves and do not look with envy at what others are eating.

In summer they ride a bike, play ping-pong, swim in the pond. But a bicycle and a boat are only on prescription. In addition to the boatman, a sister is on duty - suddenly one of the vacationers becomes ill. They built a beautiful tea house, where they drink tea in the fresh air - with honey, with jam, with sweets.

Those who wish go to the pool and sauna. But mostly they are treated in Barvikha. Half an hour after the arrival of the vacationer, the attending physician appears in his room. He, or more often she, will come every day, except for weekends (when only the doctor on duty remains), at a convenient time between breakfast and lunch. Everyone is assigned a lot of procedures - so everyone is busy until lunch. The sanatorium is famous for its physiotherapy: magnetotherapy, electrophoresis, Bernard currents, hydroprocedures, whirlpool baths, hydromassage, carbonic baths, and the usual massage is wonderful.

Doctors live in a staff house - next to the territory of the sanatorium. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the attending physicians are going home. But first, the doctor looks at the patient:

– Are there any problems? Do you need me more today?

Only then can she leave. Doctors have always tried to select knowledgeable, skillful, amiable, capable of making the life of a vacationer pleasant. One of the attending physicians during perestroika times in Barvikha was Irina Borisovna Bokareva. A young woman, she and her family came from Stavropol, where she graduated from a medical institute, a fellow countrywoman Gorbachev, about which she spoke not without pride at the time. Her husband - A tall man, somewhat withdrawn, with a wheat mustache - also worked as a doctor in Barvikha. My daughter went to school, for the summer she was sent to her grandparents.

They immediately drew attention to Irina Borisovna: a sweet woman, smiling. She has a kind word for everyone. Every person, talking with her, feels how she sympathizes with him. She came to her patients in the morning in a great mood and infected the patients with this mood: Good morning, how did you sleep? And she asked sincerely, sympathetically. She remembered all the requests and wishes of vacationers. She spoke not about herself, but about patients, which is not so often the case among doctors. I am writing about this with knowledge of the matter - in the late eighties, my parents rested in the sanatorium, Irina Borisovna was their doctor, and they were very pleased.

Vacationers loved Irina Borisovna, appreciated the attendants and, apparently, the authorities, because she received a big promotion. She was put in charge of the department for senior management. When Primakov was resting in Barvikha, Irina Borisovna took care of him herself. In 1989, Yevgeny Maksimovich was elected a candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU. From now on, he relied on a personal doctor who dealt only with him, constantly observed the patient and, if necessary, called for help from any specialists.

The special polyclinic was located on Granovsky Street in an old three-story building that belonged to the 4th Main Directorate under the USSR Ministry of Health. On the second floor, members and candidate members of the Central Committee of the CPSU, members of the Central Audit Commission were received. On the ground floor - the biggest bosses of the country: members and candidate members of the Politburo, secretaries of the Central Committee.

Primakov chose his personal doctor himself. Irina Borisovna spoke about this much later in a newspaper interview. Primakov called her:

- Irina Borisovna, in my current position I am entitled to a personal doctor. Don't want to become one?

She replied with lightning speed:

It was undoubtedly a happy occasion.

After the death of Laura, Primakov did not marry for a long time and did not even think about it. But Irina Borisovna turned out to be exactly the woman he needed. Relations between them developed over several years.

- Evgeny Maksimovich, - Irina Borisovna said, - was stopped by a big, as he then imagined, age difference. I was frightened that his relatives and friends might come up with the idea: I do not need a person, but what is behind this person. position, position...

After the August putsch of 1991, the institute of personal doctors was abolished. Relations between them acquired a purely personal character.

Irina Borisovna:

- When I had to return home, I usually sighed: "How I don't want to leave." In one of those moments, he said: “No need. Stay forever." This is how the proposal that Yevgeny Maksimovich made to me two years before the wedding looked like.

They got married, and Primakov, one might say, got a second wind. If there hadn't been such a person next to him, he would hardly have coped with the trials that he had to go through in the late nineties.

Compensation for all the sorrows was the abundance of devoted friends surrounding Primakov. He has many comrades both here and in the Caucasus. He loves his friends, his friends love him. This style is so Caucasian, Tbilisi.

Vitaly Ignatenko:

- His courageous behavior is probably leaven from childhood, he is in hard times grew up without a father. But they were true friends. And they were always monolithic, he had a good rear. Nothing could happen. He could always return to wonderful comrades. Everywhere he was always expected and now they are waiting. It is very important to feel that comrades are behind you, who do not care who you are, where you are, what car you drive, whether you even have this car. It gives vitality...

On TV screens, Primakov often appeared gloomy, it seemed that he was constantly dissatisfied. When he became Minister of Foreign Affairs, he first appeared in public in impenetrable dark glasses. It didn't make a very good impression. And I, I remember, wrote a strip material in Izvestia about Primakov under the heading "Dark glasses prevent you from seeing the true face of the minister." Apparently, someone else told him about it, and he soon changed his glasses so that you could see his eyes.

On the day when Primakov was approved in the State Duma for the post of prime minister and he spoke to the deputies with the words “I am not a magician,” his friend Valentin Zorin was taken to the hospital with suspected peritonitis. In the evening, having learned about this from his wife, the head of the government, Primakov, came to the hospital to visit his comrade.

When the new building of the Research Institute of Cardiac Surgery named after V. I. Burakovsky was opened at the intersection of Rublevsky and Uspenskoye highways, the head of government, postponing other business, visited the opening and said a few kind words. The TV cameras showed the face of Primakov, who sadly looked at the bust of his late friend, after whom the institute is named. Primakov did not play last role that this construction, which began during the life of Burakovsky, was completed.

When Academician Alexander Yakovlev was celebrating his seventy-fifth birthday, Primakov, of course, arrived. Everyone left, left them alone to talk at the set table. Primakov faced difficult negotiations with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Michel Camdessus. This did not prevent Primakov from making a few toasts and drinking a certain number of glasses of vodka to the health of the hero of the day - without prejudice to complex relationships Russia with the International Monetary Fund.

On December 25, 1998, the day after the State Duma approved the draft budget submitted by his government in the first reading, Primakov arrived at the Izvestia building on Tverskaya at nine in the morning to congratulate Stanislav Kondrashov on his seventieth birthday. I drank tea with him, sat for an hour, and only after that I went to the government, where he was expected to meet with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.

If he believed someone, friendly relations developed, then at least something - even if a person is removed from his post, mixed with dirt - Primakov will still not change towards him. He continues to call up this person, to meet. One of the politicians, whose name not so long ago thundered, and now almost forgotten, deprived of his posts and, it seems, of his job in general, says about Primakov:

I appreciate what a good friend he is. When he is in our area, he comes to me. These are always pleasant meetings. Primakov is a broad-minded person. Accepts and respects someone else's opinion - so it seems to me, anyway. Cheerful, sincere, cheerful person. It's easy with him.

Being friends in Primakov's way means not only kissing each other three times and raising glasses to each other's health. He cherishes the memory of the departed. Usually people get lost in the turmoil of life. And he is not. He always remains close to the families of those who have passed away. For him it is very important.

Margarita Maksimova, widow of Academician Inozemtsev:

“My granddaughter literally died. In the hospital where she was lying, there was no necessary pediatrician, but it was necessary to urgently pump out the pus. And she could not be transferred to a children's clinic. I could not stand it and called Primakov's assistant Robert Vartanovich Markaryan with a request for help. Yevgeny Maksimovich was then in the Supreme Soviet and headed the Council of the Union. Fifteen minutes later, the hospital was instructed to immediately contact the children's clinic, the child was sent, the pus was drained and saved. I am grateful to him for the coffin of life.

Yevgeny Maksimovich kept all his friends, including those from his school days. And no matter what position he holds, it does not change anything in his attitude towards friends. He walked with them through life without losing anything.

Leon Onikov said:

We have our own code of friendship. In friendship, neither nation nor religion matters. Age must be respected - nothing more. That's all Primakov absorbed from childhood.

Wherever he was, he made friendship with people, strong, for a long time. They became friends with Robert Markarian since Primakov was the director of the Institute of Oriental Studies. Grigory Morozov became his friend at IMEMO, ex-husband Svetlana Alliluyeva. On the radio - Valentin Zorin. In Pravda - Thomas Kolesnichenko.

“One person is babbling that politics and friendship are incompatible,” Onikov said. - I answered him: quit politics, unfortunate, make friends! We may have different views, their likes and dislikes, but they are not a hindrance to friendship.

It is as if Primakov transfers the cordiality of his attitude to his friends to everyone else. When he became head of intelligence, minister, head of government, Primakov's entourage noted with amazement his obvious mistakes in personnel matters and wrong appointments.

Primakov's first wife, Laura Vasilievna, was very worried that Yevgeny Maksimovich was poorly versed in people, being overly trusting. They loved everyone, they had many friends. They came to their house, but she did not like everyone. Someone didn't like it at all. Laura believed that Yevgeny Maksimovich was incapable of recognizing the bad in people, and she was very worried that this could harm him.

Mistakes happen to everyone. But his assistants were really surprised sometimes: and he appointed this person to such an important position? How could this happen?

Tatyana Samolis worked with Primakov in the Foreign Intelligence Service:

– He paradoxically combines the statesman's mind and the soul of a naive child. Sometimes I thought I was older than him by God knows how many years. He is amazingly naive in relation to people ... He proceeds from the presumption of decency of any person - this is how I would define it. People can be conditionally divided into two categories - some evaluate a person based on the fact that everyone is good until it becomes obvious that he is bad, while others believe that everyone is bad until he proves that he is good. For Primakov, absolutely everything is good. All my comrades are smart, brilliant, wonderful. But then something accumulates - one thing, another. He creaks for a long time. He does not want to say out loud that this man is not so good. But then he will come to terms that he needs to leave ... But for him to get so angry at someone that he does not want to talk about him - this is a rare case! ... I had to be with him in situations where a narrow circle of people gathered whom he trusted and, apparently, said what he thinks, with the exception of some incredible state secrets, recalls Tatyana Samolis. - But he never said bad things about those who spoke of him, to put it mildly, disapprovingly ... When he was accused of something, he was always so upset, he threw up his hands. He understood that there could be a divergence of views. Undoubtedly. But why so much dirt and insults were swirling around - he did not understand this.

Primakov is such an experienced administrator. He constantly faced serious conflicts, and you want to say that it was strange for him that someone was engaged in intrigues? I asked Tatyana Samolis.

- No, of course, theoretically, he knew about it. And he practically knew - he may have had a thousand conflicts at work. But he still had a naive belief that all people are not bad. And any of my attempts to reason with him did not please him very much. Until he himself was convinced that he was wrong about this or that person. This is a paradox for me. The combination of such life experience and naivete towards people ... And in any situation - when some intrigues bubbled around him and God knows what else, and people bathed in it - he retained such naivety. When he talks about people, he breaks into a smile. It is a pleasure for him to say the name of his friend, and he has an incredible number of them. Yes, I would get tired of this, I would physically not be able to communicate with them all. And then, I wouldn't be able to love so many people. I would limit myself to a narrow circle of friends. He - no, he can love everyone. He needs to feel them all from time to time, touch, talk, meet.

- So what, he is not able to part with a worthless worker?

“It depends on how this person pushed him away from himself,” says Tatyana Samolis. - This can happen very quickly - if a person is such a hindrance to business that every day he spends in an important post is dangerous. He will quickly remove it. Primakov can be tough. He is quite capable of it. He knows what he wants, where he is going. Otherwise, his life would have been different. But he is quite capable of working with a person who is personally unpleasant to him. For example, Primakov noticed some shortcomings in someone, but considers him a good professional. Primakov will tolerate such a person. And moreover, it will create a good working environment around him, will not allow others to play on these shortcomings and set themselves up against this person. The principle is simple - since we need it, it does a good job - everyone, guys, stop empty talk.

It seemed that Primakov was an indecisive person. This is true?

- Well, this is a delusion, - says Vitaly Ignatenko. - He is a very determined person and very strong-willed in carrying out his ideas, policies. When he became head of government, this was probably felt on a global, geopolitical scale. We can say that according to the words he is soft - he does not raise his voice. But he is an exceptionally determined and principled person. This is his strength.

- Have you ever seen him sad, dreary?

“Never,” Ignatenko says firmly. - He, perhaps, of course, like any other person, is subject to doubts, sadness, sadness - he has many reasons for sadness and sadness in life. But in public he is always optimistic, next to him you feel any of your failures so small. This is a trait of his character - the confidence that everything can be overcome, reversed. This character trait, I think, helps him in all his work, in any undertakings. And I am sure that in his current work she will help him.

Leon Onikov:

- Most often we gathered at Volodya Burakovsky's while he was alive. Two or three times a week they called each other in the evening, met with him at the institute. We drank. And in a long bath, in which syringes were once disinfected, sausages were cooked. They always gathered when someone from Tbilisi came. And they often came - his school friends. Many people stayed at his house. If someone came to him, they called me. If they came to me, I called him. They talked about friends, about loyalty, about values, who is a friend, who needs help, who is a scoundrel. Or joked, told jokes.

Primakov is a big fan of jokes. Here is one of his favorite jokes.

Two old men meet. One says:

- Trouble with me! Completely lost his memory. Everyone forgot what they knew.

The second reassures him:

- Don't be afraid. I had the same. But they sent me pills from America, and now everything is in order.

- God bless. What are the pills called?

The second thought:

- You know, there are such flowers, a tall stem, ends with a white or red flower ... What are they called?

- Carnations.

No, not carnations. Thorns on the stem...

Roses, right?

Exactly, rose!

He turns his head and shouts towards the kitchen:

- Rosa, Rosa, what are the names of the pills that completely restored my memory?

Leon Onikov:

- For us, a feast is a pastime, these are conversations. We don't drown ourselves in strong drinks. Caucasian feasts are not booze: they quickly spilled, come on, let's go, let's go and that's it. Caucasian toasts - mutual communication. Our conversations were at the table, but not at the standard table, as in Moscow. I do not want to offend anyone, but the Caucasian feast has its own principles, its own goals. When we were young, we only drank wine. When he changed tastes, I didn't follow. But now they put vodka next to it. Even if there are many different drinks - cognac, whiskey, vodka, wine, he prefers vodka. Drunk, when they lose their heads, I never saw him.

We have a cult of toasts. He is a very good toastmaster, but when we were together, I usually am a toastmaster. And when he wants to make a toast, he always looks back at me. What is important in a toast? Firstly, the highlight is not just “for the health of such and such”, you need to come up with something original. He can. Secondly, sincerity. Thirdly, benevolence. And laconic. Loquacity is not good. There are exquisite toasts, there are obligatory ones. Here, for example, is a toast: let's drink to the health of those who drink to our health in our absence.

“At the Russian table, it is believed that everyone should say,” said Leon Onikov. - If someone is not given a word, he is offended. We have the opposite in the Caucasus. Only the toastmaster speaks, and the one for whom they did not drink is offended. They adopted the expression "Alaverdi" in Moscow. In the order of Alaverdi ... And now what? I drink to your health, and he, in the order of “alaverda”, drinks to mine. You can not do it this way. One toast for one person - as it should be ...

According to Primakov's friends, he was not interested in fishing, he never had a passion for the game. Backgammon, cards, checkers, chess - this is not for him. Primakov rested in the south. He loves the sea. Still, he almost became a naval officer.

I made this digression, spoke about the personal life of Yevgeny Maksimovich, quite deliberately, so that the motives for his actions and decisions were clearer.

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Evgeny Maksimovich held the highest government posts: Chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Head of the Central Intelligence Service of the USSR, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Prime Minister Russian Federation. But even these titles do not reflect the scale of Yevgeny Maksimovich's personality, the highest level his professionalism and the contribution he made to the development of our country.

Yevgeny Primakov was directly involved in state building new Russia, guiding its foreign policy in a highly turbulent international environment. A skillful and wise diplomat, he always skillfully combined toughness and flexibility, defending the country's interests in the international arena.

He was not only an incredibly skillful statesman, but also a brilliant scientist and thinker. His scientific works and journalism have always been read and will be read with the interest that only the sharpest, critical and profound works on the paths of Russia's development and its role in the modern world deserve.

Yevgeny Maksimovich has always taken an active part in the development of the RIAC development strategy and in determining the priorities of the Council's activities. He was very attentive to initiatives and supported our projects. He enthusiastically worked with young people, headed the jury of the competition of international journalists.

Today Russian and global community diplomats, scientists and politicians suffered an irreparable loss. We can only carefully study the colossal legacy that Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov left behind, and try to make his work become an incentive for our new undertakings.

On behalf of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), its members and staff, we express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Yevgeny Maksimovich.

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Brief biographical note

Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Chairman of the RIAC Board of Trustees.

Graduated from the Arabic department of the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economics.

Has the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia.

He worked at the USSR State Radio and Television as a correspondent, executive editor, deputy editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief of broadcasting to Arab countries; staff correspondent of the Pravda newspaper in the Middle East; Senior Fellow, Deputy Director and Director of the Institute of World Economy and international relations USSR Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences; Academician-Secretary of the Department of World Economy and International Relations of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

He held high government positions, including: Chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR; head of the Central Intelligence Service of the USSR; director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation. He was President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the federal network operator in the field of navigation activities "NIS GLONASS". Head of the Center for Situational Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences; President, Chairman of the Board of the discussion "Mercury Club".

Sphere scientific interests: world economy and international relations; foreign policy Russia; theory and practice international conflicts and crises; socio-economic and political problems developing countries.

Laureate State Prize THE USSR. Winner of the "Person of the Year" award,
He has Soviet, Russian, foreign awards and prizes.

The ex-Prime Minister of Russia hid his real father all his life

The ex-Prime Minister of Russia hid his real father all his life

Only in his last autobiographical book did Evgeny PRIMAKOV shed light on his childhood. Former politician and the scout calls a certain NEMCHENKO the father. Before that, other surnames were found in various sources - KIRSHENBLAT and BUKHARIN. Express Gazeta conducted its own investigation.

In memoirs Evgeny Primakov wrote: "My father's surname Nemchenko- My mother told me about it. I never saw him. They parted ways with their mother, in 1937 he was shot. From birth, I bore my mother's surname - Primakov.

In Tbilisi, where Yevgeny Maksimovich partially spent his childhood, his distant relatives and friends remained. It was they who told the truth about the "secret father" of the former prime minister and head of foreign intelligence.

committed suicide

In the birth certificate in the column "Paternity" Primakov has a dash. According to relatives, Evgeny Maksimovich's mother, Anna Yakovlevna, married an engineer in her youth Maxim Rozenberg, so the patronymic of the son is Maksimovich. Primakov, however, did not mention this name in his memoirs.

Because of this dash, many versions have appeared, says an elderly Tbilisi friend of the family Tamara Chelidze. - In one book they wrote that Evgeny Maksimovich was the son Bukharin. This was assumed after Primakov said that his biological father was shot in 1937. Some external similarity of both confirmed this version. However, the same complete nonsense version that his father is a doctor David Kirshenblat.The great-granddaughter of Kirshenblat, whose mother grew up with Eugene, shared her memories.“Primakov is his mother's surname,” says Karina. - Evgeny Maksimovich writes everywhere that her mother's name was Anna Yakovlevna, but her relatives called her Hanoi. And his grandmother on the mother's side was called Berta Abramovna. Khana was a well-known gynecologist in Tbilisi. Evgeny Maksimovich also changed his place of birth for some reason: he was born not in Kyiv, but in Moscow. According to relatives, Kirshenblat was still related to Yevgeny. He lost his wife early and married the governess of his two children, Faina, who had a sister, Khana, Primakov's mother. Since Zhenya's mother had only an 11-meter room in a communal apartment, he grew up in his aunt's house.

Kirshenblat treated Zhenya like his own, Karina assures. - And the mother's husband, Maxim Rosenberg, Evgeny Maksimovich does not mention for certain reasons. The fact is that Khana and Maxim did not have children for a long time. And she, as her mother said, had an affair with another man. When Zhenya was nine months old, Rosenberg committed suicide. The tragedy happened during a family dinner: Khana and Maxim had a fight, the husband got up from the table, ran down the corridor and jumped out of the window. Kirshenblat was just returning home and found the body of Maxim on the street: he died in his arms. Khana never remarried after Maxim's death. But she was a bright woman ...

The "Jewish trace" pursued Primakov. During the perestroika years, denunciations were written against him more than once. So, at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Yevgeny Maksimovich was accused of involvement in the Zionist conspiracy. “Anti-Semitism has always been a tool for persecution of stupid party officials,” wrote Yevgeny Maksimovich. - Both chauvinism and nationalism have always been alien to me. Even today I do not believe that God chose any nation to the detriment of others. He chose us all, whom he created in his own image and likeness ... ”Evgeny Maksimovich did not spread about relatives who emigrated to Israel, but after the end of his political career he visited and supported.

Beal of Laura's fans

Primakov met his first wife in Tbilisi. Laura grew up in the family of her father's sister, an opera singer. Nadezhda Kharadze and her husband - conductor Alexis Dimitriadi because her parents were shot.

At the age of 14, Zhenya entered the Baku Naval School, but fell ill and returned to Tbilisi, - said cousin Laura, professor at the conservatory Nana Dimitriadi. That's why he graduated from high school. And when he entered the Institute of Oriental Languages ​​at Moscow State University, everyone was perplexed. From Moscow, he often came to Tbilisi, where he still had friends. Zhenya was familiar with Laura, and became close on vacation in Gagra. They were 19 then. He often fought because of Laura. Once my mother could not stand it and said: “Either you get married, or you, Zhenya, leave.” Laura was charming, played the piano beautifully, could turn anyone's head. She then left the Tbilisi Polytechnic University, where she studied at the Faculty of Chemistry, transferred to the Institute. Mendeleev and left for Moscow. They celebrated the wedding in Moscow, in a narrow circle. They lived modestly with Zhenya: they rented a corner in the janitor's room. When the first-born son Sasha was born, he was brought to his grandmother - Anna Yakovlevna ... Laura has always been by Zhenya's side. I went with my beloved to Egypt, where he was sent as a correspondent. Despite the congenital heart disease and the prohibition of doctors to give birth to a second child, after returning from Egypt, she made her husband happy with her daughter Nana. When Boris Yeltsin in 1999, eight months after Primakov's appointment as prime minister, he dismissed him, the politician went to a hockey match as if nothing had happened. But family is another matter. He did not experience a single political situation as much as the death of his son.

“Alexander died at 26,” recalls Nana Dimitriadi. - Handsome, graduated from MGIMO, completed an internship in the USA. But during the May Day demonstration, he became ill ... When they did an autopsy, it turned out that the guy had suffered two micro-infarcts. Six months before this happened dark story in Moscow. He went out with a friend to smoke, and he was beaten. Sasha then had to restore his nose ...

Another unpleasant story that happened to Sasha is the loss of his dissertation. It is possible that these events caused heart problems.

Nana, like her parents, was very upset by the death of her brother. She named him after him. eldest daughter Alexandra. - Zhenya then took to drink, - says a friend of the Primakov family - Tamara Chelidze. - I spent long hours every day at the Kuntsevo cemetery. Grief brought him even closer to his friend, the director George Danelia, whose son Nikolai almost at the same time died under strange circumstances. Their sons knew each other, and they are buried in the same cemetery... Granddaughter Sasha became a translator and photographer, and then started breeding dachshunds. She never boasted of her grandfather: she dressed simply, almost never put on makeup. She married a good intelligent boy - Anton Lenin. “Grandfather spoiled his granddaughter Sasha, but not so much,” said Karina, a distant relative of the Primakovs. - And here is the grandson of Eugene, who was born from the son of Sasha (TV journalist Evgeny Sandro. - N. M.), bought several apartments. When the grandson got divorced, the apartment remained with his wife, and a new one was bought for him.

daughter blessed

Distant relatives of the Primakovs remember their first wife, Laura, as a hospitable woman who was fond of antiques and theater.

She drove an old "Zaporozhets" and did not want to get into an expensive car, - said her Tbilisi friend Sofiko. - Attended all general premieres. She died when she and her husband were going to the concert. Gennady Khazanov. Heart. She died six years after the death of her son, in 1986. At the Kuntsevsky cemetery, Evgeny then bought four places at once. He always said that he wanted to be buried next to his son and wife. We were surprised that the second wife, Irina, recently agreed to be buried at Novodevichy. Perhaps the authorities decided so ... After Laura's death, many wanted to marry him, but for a long time nothing worked, until a young blue-eyed Irina appeared in his life - his personal doctor. Because of a new love, she divorced her husband. Once Irina admitted: “He is so beautifully caring! Now they can't do that." And what poems he dedicated to her! Irina and Evgeny Maksimovich asked for blessings from Nana. She was friends with Primakov's daughter, and she was not against it. When the family found out new spouse closer, they adopted her into the family. It is interesting that Anna, Irina's daughter from her first marriage, took the surname Primakov. If Yevgeny Primakov did not leave a will, not only the widow, children from two marriages, grandchildren, but also illegitimate offspring can claim the inheritance of Yevgeny Primakov.- Primakov has illegitimate daughter Anya, he officially introduced her at one of his anniversaries. He helped Anya all her life. She looks like the daughter of Evgeny Maksimovich - Nana, - Karina shared.

AND THIS IS ALL WITH HIM

Remembering Yevgeny PRIMAKOV, journalists mainly noted two of his achievements. A sensational U-turn over the Atlantic on March 24, 1999 (when the NATO fascists bombed peaceful Yugoslav cities) and the salvation of Russian foreign intelligence. In the fateful 1991, Primakov saved her from large-scale purges. But for some reason not a single media outlet appreciated Yevgeny Maksimovich's initiatives as prime minister. Our columnist Elena KREMENTSOVA tried to remember what Primakov managed to do as head of government in just 8 months, when the country after the 1998 default needed emergency resuscitation. There were many merits, and perhaps the most important are these:

* Prevented a repeat of the bloody October 1993. MPs demanded resignation Yeltsin and began the impeachment process. There was a threat of dissolution of parliament or abandonment of market relations. Primakov through compromises, he removed the tension between the president, the liberal government and the State Duma, calmed the people.

* He did not succumb to pressure from the governors and the military-industrial complex, who demanded money from the government, and refused to turn on printing press, preventing the promotion of inflation. * He forbade issuing loans to everyone who received them and did not return them. And he kept the ruble from falling further.* He proved that the state has enough money and there is no need to increase debts. His government, for the first time since the collapse of the USSR, drew up an honest budget in which revenues exceeded expenses.* Although he carried out the devaluation of the ruble, he immediately took a number of tax measures small towns Russia, where the remains of existing production were concentrated.* For the first time since August 1991, salaries and pensions began to be paid on time.

* He restored the work of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia, which, after eight years of Yeltsin's reforms, fell into extreme decline and served the "opportunistic political preferences" of the rarely sober head of state and his team. * He insisted on the development of Soviet Islamic studies and the expansion of domestic peaceful Islam to the countries of the Arab world. And in every possible way promoted the interests of our country in the Middle East. For this alone, Yevgeny Maksimovich deserved a monument during his lifetime.

Estimate!

In 1975, Primakov brought billionaire David Rockefeller to Tbilisi. And I decided to invite him to visit relatives. Calling his mother-in-law, Evgeny Maksimovich said: “We’ll drop by in the evening!” The woman began to panic: they put the apartment in order in a fire order, set the table, but they did not manage to repair the entrance. Then the guards, who arrived ahead of time, got out of the situation: they turned off the light in the entrance so that the walls could not be seen. Assessing the set table, Rockefeller went to a portrait of Ernest Hemingway hanging on the wall. Pushing the picture aside, he saw a faded spot on the wallpaper: “So it really hung ...”

Bear in mind

CPSU member Yevgeny Primakov was never a religious person, but at the end of his life he came to God and was baptized.

Primakov loved tricks

The politician showed children circus tricks

In 2000, Yevgeny Maksimovich stopped by a politician Stepan Sitaryan in Yerevan, - said the businessman Narine Davtyan. - He had not only many friends among Georgians, but also Armenians. Stepan Sitaryan was my relative. Yevgeny Primakov saw that my 6-year-old son had strabismus. He immediately called the ophthalmologist Svyatoslav Fedorov and instructed to begin treatment immediately. Doctors began to treat their son on time according to the new methods of that time, and thanks to this, they managed to avoid surgery. He loved children: he immediately began to show my children different tricks: circus tricks with falling coins from the sleeves. My daughter, who is fond of painting, then painted a portrait: Primakov is in a turban, and coins are falling from his sleeve. We solemnly presented it to him.

Evgeny Primakov was born on April 29, 1976 in Moscow. The boy grew up in intelligent family and is the grandson statesman Russia Yevgeny Primakov. At the age of five, he lost his father, Alexander. In the future, for work in the press, he took a pseudonym in honor of his father: "Evgeny Sandro". Having received a certificate of secondary education with honors, in 1999 the young man graduated with honors from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Russian State humanitarian university majoring in History.

Having become a certified specialist, Evgeny worked for some time on the Ekho Moskvy radio, in the Kommersant-Dengi magazine, and published in the Obshchaya Gazeta. He came to TV in 2002. Initially, he worked on the TVS channel as a war correspondent for the news programs Novosti and Itogi. He was one of the journalists of the TV channel covering the Iraq war, was a correspondent in Israel.

In May 2003, he left TVS and went to work for the NTV channel, where he worked for the programs “Today”, “Country and World” and “Profession - Reporter”. In the initial period, he most often worked in Moscow, sometimes traveling as a special correspondent to the Middle East. From 2005 to 2007 he was the chief of the NTV Middle East bureau. In his reports, he covered the Second Lebanese War. He retired from the channel in June 2007.

From autumn 2007 to October 2011, he served as a correspondent for the Directorate of Information Programs on Channel One: Novosti, Vremya, Other News. In parallel, until 2011, he was the head of the Channel One bureau in Israel. Since March 2015, Evgeny Aleksandrovich has been the author and host of the International Review program on the Russia-24 TV channel. He worked in the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Turkey and Jordan.

While in the Middle East, with like-minded people, he organized an agency of an autonomous non-profit organization"Russian Humanitarian Mission", the purpose of which is to help people who are in trouble due to wars and disasters. Primakov is the director of this organization.

Evgeny Alexandrovich from 2015 to 2017 was the Deputy Head of the Complex of Communications and Work with Government Authorities in the open joint-stock company “Radiolocation. Technology. Information".

Since March 2017, for a year and a half, Evgeny Primakov has been a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation. In July 2017, he became an adviser to the Chairman of the State Duma of the VII convocation Vyacheslav Volodin on international affairs and humanitarian projects.

At the XII Congress of the Union of Journalists of Russia, which was held in Moscow on November 25, 2017, Primakov Evgeny Aleksandrovich entered the secretariat of the Union of Journalists of Russia.

In 2018, he was a confidant of Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.

At the by-elections to the State Duma of Russia of the VII convocation September 9, 2018 Yevgeny Alexandrovich Primakov received the mandate of a deputy in the Balashov single-mandate constituency No. 165.