Timur Gaidar: biography. The family of Timur Arkadyevich Gaidar

Timur Gaidar, whose biography and life are inextricably linked with the name of his famous father Arkady Gaidar, managed to prove that the children of famous parents can independently achieve great success in their lives and take place in their profession.

Childhood and youth

He was born on December 8, 1926 in Arkhangelsk. His mother - Leah Lazarevna Solomyanskaya - was the first wife of the writer Arkady Gaidar. In his famous novel "Timur and his team" the writer creates prototypes of teenagers of that time. So the son's name began to be associated with one of his best works.

Arkady Gaidar often went on trips to very long and distant business trips. His trips caused the writer's son to see the first time, when he returned to Arkhangelsk, when Timur was already two years old.

Timur Gaidar: biography, mother's nationality

In the documents of the famous writer was the double surname Golikov-Gaidar. In doing so, he used the second part as a literary pseudonym. His son Timur had a mother's surname as a child and was Solomian. When he received his passport, he took the sonorous nickname of his father, Gaidar. This family name is worn by all subsequent generations of their family until now.

Nevertheless, recently there have been many rumors that his mother - Leah Lazarevna Solomyanskaya, who in fact was called Rachel, not only deceived her. It was rumored that her son Timur was not at all the son of a famous writer. Allegedly, living in Perm together with his family, father and mother, who were Jewish by nationality, she met Arkady Gaidar when she already had a three-year-old son Timur. But, according to their contemporaries, it was only rumors. Simply Timur Gaidar, a biography whose nationality is certainly connected with the Jewish origin of his mother, was born when Arkady Gaidar was on a long trip, from which he returned only two years after the birth of his son.

Professional activity

When Timur was 14 years old, his father was killed. The boy began to work at a military plant, but he dreamed of fighting the fascists at the front. But this dream was not destined to come true.

Timur Arkadevich studied at the Leningrad Higher Naval School, which he graduated in 1948. And six years later (in 1954) he became a certified journalist, having studied at the Lenin Military-Political Academy.

For a long time he combined activities in the military field with journalistic and literary work. Timur Gaidar, whose biography proves that he was a fully developed man, served on a submarine in the Pacific and Baltic fleets. After that, he completely focused on working in the military press, leaving the service in the army. At first, he worked in the Soviet Navy and the Red Star. Since 1957 he worked in the most popular at that time edition, the newspaper Pravda. There he proved himself both as an editor of the military department, and as his own correspondent in Cuba, in Yugoslavia, in Afghanistan. Also his publications appeared in the newspapers Moskovskie Novosti and Izvestia, for a time he was one of the members of the editorial board of the Pioneer magazine.

The vicissitudes of fate: the acquaintance with her daughter Bazhova

His wife was the daughter of a famous writer - storyteller Pavel Bazhov. They met on vacation in Gagra, when Timur Arkadyevich was 26 years old. Ariadna Pavlovna worked at the Ural University as a history teacher. She has already managed to be married and divorced until this moment. She had a son, Nikita, who at the time of her acquaintance with Timur Arkadievich was six years old. This could not frighten Gaidar, who really loved Ariadna Pavlovna. One year before their acquaintance Ariadna's father, Pavel Bazhov, had passed away. She missed him very much. The yearning for his father, like an unresolved wound, always tormented Timur. Arkady Gaidar left the family when his son was very young, and after a divorce he communicated with Timur quite rarely. And when his father died, fourteen-year-old Timur was very afflicted that he did not have time to tell his beloved father how he loved him and waited. Perhaps it was these facts from life that brought Timur and Ariadne so close together. He proposed to her three weeks after the meeting. She agreed, but for a while the bride and groom lived in different cities: she is in Yekaterinburg, he is in Moscow. But still they were married, and four years later, on March 19, 1956, they had a son, Yegor, who later became a famous politician.

Timur Gaidar, a biography whose personal life proves his self-sufficiency, despite the drama in his relationship with his father, has always been proud of whose son he is. He himself was a very caring dad, despite the intense employment, devoting a lot of time to his son.

Famous wife's family

Ariadna Pavlovna herself was one of the three surviving daughters of the writer Pavel Petrovich Bazhov and his wife Valentina. Her famous father, despite the gloomy atmosphere and almost complete lack of mutual love in works, was loved by his wife in life and he himself called his wife his half, destined for him in heaven. The trials of their love were abound. He is a teacher, she is a student. They discussed them, whispered behind their backs. Later, Ariadna Pavlovna admitted that the love of their parents was an example for her. They could not live without each other, just as Ariadna and her husband Timur Arkadievich Gaidar could not without each other. The biography of this family proves that one can be completely different in character, but at the same time live happily with one another: in love, in harmony, in tenderness.

Ariadna Pavlovna was the youngest child in the family. She had many brothers and sisters, but three brothers and one sister died for different reasons and in different years. Two other surviving sisters, together with Ariadna, always supported and pitied their parents, knowing how much grief they had to endure.

Son - Yegor Gaidar

When Timur Arkadievich Gaidar, whose biography connects the history of two well-known families, was a military correspondent in other countries, his wife and son always traveled with him. As Yegor remembered, life in Cuba was especially memorable and bright. The father, he said, knew Raul Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara quite well, and communicated with them "on a short leg". Several times Yegor visited the military units and garrisons where he was allowed to climb tanks and armored personnel carriers.

The brothers Nikita and Egor were always very friendly, despite the fact that the difference in age was quite large - 10 years. Egor, having lived abroad a significant part of his childhood, read a lot. For him books were available, which were not available in the Soviet Union. He studied well. Only, as his mother admitted, had a very bad handwriting since childhood. It is no wonder, after all at all representatives of family Gaidar he was awfully sloppy and illegible. Egor learned several foreign languages at school. Despite the fact that Egor's grandfather was the famous writer Arkady Gaidar, and his father - the famous military journalist Timur Gaidar, his biography (photo of the family see below) is not related to literature. He took up politics. Mother ambiguously reacted to his desire to build a political career. In one of the interviews she expressed the opinion that it was the policy that caused his early death. The ambiguity of the state system of the 1990s, which was the peak of Egor Gaidar's activity, caused many contradictions, which affected not only his professional life, but also his health.

He was married first to a childhood friend of Irina Mishina, and the second married with the daughter of the famous science fiction writer Arkady Strugatsky, Maria.

last years of life

Timur Gaidar, whose biography entered the history of journalism, since he became the first representative of the profession, who received the rank above the colonel, resigned, being already a controversial. And, I must say that not all his colleagues were happy when he received this title. In those difficult times, Timur Arkadyevich had many envious persons who believed that his successes and merits were undeserved and conditioned mainly by the famous surname.

In the last years of his life, Timur Gaidar, whose biography is full of dangerous events connected with the professional activities of a military journalist, was an Honorary guest and actively assisted the Moscow Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren them. AP Gaidar, which is located in the Moscow region Tekstilshchiki. At this time he lived with his wife in the writer's village Krasnovidovo, over which, after his death, his ashes were scattered.

"Three Gaidar"

In his book "Crown Prince in the role of squires. Notes of the Speech Writer "VA Alexandrov devoted one of the chapters to the Gaidar family. Arkady Gaidar, Yegor Gaidar, Timur Gaidar: biography, family, professional activity of representatives of three generations of this family. This is what the author tells about in his book.