Jewish women of the Famous Russians.

Jewish women of the Famous Russians.


The wives of Sergei Kirov, Plekhanov, M.G. Pervukhin were Jewish. Jewish wife of Yezhov, Rykov (sister of the architect Iofan), Kamenev (Trotsky's sister), were killed by Stalin before the war. Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, had not one but even two Jewish wives, Esther Isaevna Gurvich and the daughter of a Bolshevik Larin ( Michael Lurie), Anna.

Kliment Voroshilov in exile married Golda Gorbman (in order to register their marriage officially, converted to Orthodoxy under the name Ekatenina). They did not have children of their own and raised five adapted kids two of which were Mikhail Frunze’s children.

At the end of 1948 by the Stalin’s orders all Jewish wives of Soviet government officials were arrested: The list included wives of :
Andreyev - Dorah Moiseyevna Hazan,
Poskrebyshev - Bronislawa Solomonovna, she was the Trotsky’s sister in law, imprisoned for 3 years and later executed in a same prison
and
Molotov – Polina Zhemchuzhina (Pearl Karpovsky .)

For many years the Rosa Kaganovich (Lazar Kaganovich’s sister or niece) was a Stalin’s mistress (even their medical records were kept together in the Kremlin clinic). According to Beria’s son Sergo Beria, their proximity was the direct cause of suicide of Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Rosa had a Stalin’s child, the boy's name was Yuri, and he grew up in a Kaganovich’s family.

One time, Lily Brik was the wife of the Civil War hero the corp commander V. M. Primakov (who led the invasion of the Red Army in Afghanistan( back in a 30’s).
Nikolai Shchors was married to a Jewess Fruma. Their daughter, Valentina married the famous Soviet physicist Isaac Markovich Khalatnikov.

Jewish women were the wives of:
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (himself a Jew by his father),
Leonid Andreyev,
Arkady Gaidar
and Vladimir Tendryakov.

Vladimir Nabokov had serious relationships with two Jewish women and a third, Vera Slonim, became his wife.

The famous song of Alexei Surkov:

"Ты сейчас далеко, далеко.
Между нами снега и снега.
До тебя мне дойти нелегко,
А до смерти четыре шага...",

"You're far, far away.
Between us snow and snow.
It is hard for me, to reach you,
But the death is four steps away ... "

was addressed to his wife, Sophia Abramovna Krevs.

Chukovsky wrote in his diary : "May 13, 1956. Fadeev shot himself. I just thought about one of his widow, Margaret Aliger who loved him very much."

Valentin Kataev - wife Esther Davidovna. Their daughter Eugenia married a Jewish poet Aron Vergelis, who was an editor of "Sovetish geymland" for many years, the official Soviet Jewish anti-Zionist-collaborator.

Composer Alexander Serov was the son of a converted Jew from Germany Karl Gablitz, who later became a Russian Senator and vice-governor of Tavrias district (Crimea and area north of it next to the Black Sea). Serov had married a woman of Jewish descent, pianist Valentina Bergman, with whom he had a son – famous Russian impressionist painter Valentin Serov.

Wife of the official Soviet composer Tikhon Khrennikov, the head of the Composers' Union in the Stalin’s years was Jewess Clarah Arnoldovna.

Innocent Smoktunovsky in an interview to Israeli media was saying: "My wife is - a Jew. Her name is Shlomit. She was born in Jerusalem, near the Western Wall. In the 1930 then she was little, her mother took her to Crimea, where the Jewish farming commune was formed by that time. There they were stripped of everything , and half of them ended up in the jail. My wife's mother returned to Jerusalem just two years ago… "

The wife of Boris Savenkov was – E. L. Silberg.
Wife of Sergei Witte was a Jewish woman. He himself was a descendant of one of the daughters of Peter Shafirov.

We probably could go on and on, but it is supposed to be a small article not to over burden you with many names. But it is big enough sample to get a picture.