Milda Draule: biography, achievements and interesting facts

Mankind knows a lot of stories about fatal women. Often their role in history is greatly exaggerated, and sometimes the actions attributed to them are in fact a fiction and a figment of the sick imagination of writers, journalists and the crowd, always ready to invent a legend. Of course, Milda Draula can not compete with Mata Hari, Anna Boleyn or literary Carmen. However, if what is said about her, it is true, the history of our country has suffered a lot because of her relationship with her husband and Sergey Kirov.

Milda Draule: a short biography (childhood)

Little is known about this woman's childhood. So, Milda Petrovna Draule was born in 1901 in St. Petersburg, in the family of former Latvian laborers. At least, it was written in her party biography. According to other sources, before the October Revolution her father was the manager of the estate in the Luga district. Whatever it was, the girl managed to learn in one of the St. Petersburg women's gymnasiums, and then graduate from the real school.

Marriage

At the age of 19, Milda Draula joined the Bolshevik Party. Six years later, in Luga, she met Leonid Nikolayev, who at that time worked as a head of the local district committee of the Komsomol. The young man was very small and had a strange appearance, as in his childhood he had rickets. Milda, on the contrary, was a pretty pretty and charming brown-haired woman. Leonid fell in love with the girl and even promised to kill her if she did not respond to his feelings. Perhaps such a passion flattered the pride of Milda Draule, since she accepted his offer. In addition, Nikolayev was going to return to Leningrad, where his mother and sisters lived with him, and the girl did not want to vegetate in the provincial Luga.

Life in the Northern Capital

Soon the young family moved to the northern capital, and in 1927, Milda Petrovna Draule gave birth to the son of Marx. In Leningrad, the couple had, at that time, extremely good living conditions. If half the town was in communal apartments, they lived in a cooperative house on Batenin Street in a separate apartment of 3 rooms! Moreover, Milda Draule worked in the Leningrad Regional Party Committee in Smolny and received a decent salary, so the family needed nothing.

S. M. Kirov

Sergei Mironovich in the early 30's was already a member of the Politburo and the first secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU (b). His family life did not go well, and everyone knew about it. The first wife of the party functionary died very early, and the civil wife Maria Marcus broke paralysis by 1933. Kirov was not a monk, and his adventures with artists of the former Mariinsky Theater were legends.

Relations with SM Kirov

According to rumors, a pretty Latvian who works in the regional committee could not help attracting the attention of the first secretary. It is known that she was repeatedly invited to attend obkomovskih parties as someone like a hostess-waitress. They even told me that one day a woman spent her vacation with Kirov. In addition, Sergei Mironovich was credited with paternity of the younger son of Milda - Leonid, who was not at all like Nikolayev. For the sake of justice, it must be said that there is no documentary evidence of the connection between Milda and Kirov. However, indirect evidence is the fact that she was in the regional committee on the day of the murder, although as early as 1933 the first secretary transferred Milda to the management of heavy industry for a position with a higher salary. Quite possibly, this was done in order to put an end to rumors about their novel.

The situation in the family of Milda

Spouse Milda Draula, whose biography remained unknown for a long time to the public, was from the breed of people with high self-esteem. In 1933 he was given a party task to go to the province to work with the railwaymen. In those days, the refusal meant a gross violation of party discipline. However, Nikolayev, apparently, believed that without him in Leningrad can not do, and did not go on a business trip. As a result, he was deprived of membership in the commission of the Institute of Party History and dismissed from all posts. So Nikolaev not only became unemployed, without means of subsistence, but also lost food cards. A family of four was completely at the mercy of Milda, who did not complain, made a career, took care of her sons and, according to rumors, she was not deprived of the attention of the first person in the city.

First try

As Nikolaev himself later claimed, he was planning to make the first attempt to kill Kirov on October 15, 1934, at the house of the latter in Krasnye Zory Street. However, he was detained by the guards. Nikolaev presented a membership card and a permit to carry weapons, after which he was released. He had to wait for a month and a half to get comfortable. And during this time he managed to make several attempts to recover at work, and also asked to give him a ticket to the sanatorium. Nikolayev was not denied, but he did not want to go to the suburbs, since he had originally hoped to visit the Black Sea.

Murder

December 1, 1934, presenting a sentry party ticket, the husband Draula entered the Smolny. At about 16:30 he saw Kirov in the corridor of the third floor, not far from his office and shot him in the back of his head. Then Leonid tried to commit suicide. However, from the excitement, he missed and lost consciousness. The criminal was detained and taken to psychiatric hospital No. 2, where Nikolayev came to his senses at about 9 pm. Subsequently, the assassin claimed that he was going to shoot at Kirov in the presence of the crowd and shout out something to be remembered. However, a chance meeting in the corridor radically changed his plans.

Investigation

In the first days after the murder of Kirov among those who were members of the highest party circles, and personally knew the family of Nikolaev and Kirov, there were various rumors. So, they said that Matilda was going to ask for a divorce, so the spouse removed the rival. This was especially gossiped in the Opera and Ballet Theater, as some artists could not forgive Draula such an achievement as her success with Kirov.

Until December 6, L. Nikolaev insisted that he had committed a murder without accomplices. Then it turned out that he had "assistants" from among the Zinovievites, as initially, almost during the first interrogations, Stalin "predicted".

All the "ballet women," who were whispering about the love affairs of the first secretary of the regional committee, were punished for spreading slander about Comrade Kirov. Nikolaev and his "accomplices" were shot on December 28.

The fate of Matilda

Draule was brought for interrogation in the very first hours after the murder of Sergei Kirov. She said that the husband was in the strongest depression, and he had health problems. The woman was released, but almost immediately expelled from the Communist Party. In December 1934, she was arrested and shot in March 1935.

Affected and children Milda Draule. They were both given to an orphanage. The eldest son of Marx in 2005 won recognition of his victim of political repression, what happened to his brother Leonid - it is not known.

In 1990, Milda Petrovna Draule was posthumously rehabilitated, since no evidence of her involvement in the murder of Sergei Mironovich Kirov was established.

Now you know where Milda Draula lived, what she did, what achievements she had on the love front, and who her husband Leonid Nikolayev was. Probably, we will never know for sure whether the husband's jealousy caused the tragedy that launched the flywheel of the monstrous machine of political repressions of the Stalin period.