Timur Gaidar: biography. 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 life and take place in their profession.

Childhood and youth

Born December 8, 1926 in Arkhangelsk. His mother, Liya Lazarevna Solomyanskaya, was the first wife of the writer Arkady Gaidar. In his famous story "Timur and his team", the writer creates prototypes of teenagers of that time. So the son's name became associated with one of his best works.

Arkady Gaidar, by occupation, often went on very long and distant business trips. His departures became the reason that the writer saw his son for the first time, returning to Arkhangelsk, when Timur was already two years old.

Timur Gaidar: biography, mother's nationality

The documents of the famous writer included the double surname Golikov-Gaidar. At the same time, he used the second part as a literary pseudonym. His son Timur in childhood bore his mother's surname and was Solomyansky. Upon receiving a passport, he took the sonorous pseudonym of his father "Gaidar". It is this surname that all subsequent generations of their family still bear.

However, recently there have been many rumors that his mother, Liya Lazarevna Solomyanskaya, who was actually called Rachel, not only deceived in this. It was rumored that her son Timur was not at all the son of a famous writer. Allegedly, while living in Perm with her family, father and mother, who were Jews by nationality, she met Arkady Gaidar when she already had a three-year-old son, Timur. But, as they say they were only rumors. Just 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 business trip, from which he returned only two years after the birth of his son.

Professional activity

When Timur was 14 years old, his father died. The boy began working at a military factory, but dreamed of fighting the Nazis at the front. But this dream was not destined to come true.

Timur Arkadievich studied at the Leningrad Higher Naval School, graduating in 1948. And 6 years later (in 1954) he became a certified journalist, having studied at the Lenin Military-Political Academy.

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

The vicissitudes of fate: meeting Bazhov's daughter

His wife was the daughter of the 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 teacher of history. She has already been married and divorced so far. She had a son, Nikita, who at the time of her acquaintance with Timur Arkadyevich was 6 years old. This could not frighten Gaidar, who truly fell in love with Ariadna Pavlovna. A year before they met, Ariadne's father, Pavel Bazhov, passed away. She missed him very much. Longing for his father, like an unhealed wound, always tormented Timur. Arkady Gaidar left the family when his son was very young, and after the divorce, he rarely spoke with Timur. And when his father died, fourteen-year-old Timur suffered greatly that he did not have time to tell his beloved dad how much he loved and waited for him. Perhaps it was these facts from life that brought Timur and Ariadne so close. He proposed to her three weeks after they met. She agreed, but for some time the bride and groom lived in different cities: she - in Yekaterinburg, he - in Moscow. But nevertheless they got married, and after 4 years, on March 19, 1956, their son Yegor was born, 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 being very busy, he devoted a lot of time to his son.

famous wife 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 the almost complete absence of mutual love in his works, was loved by his wife in life and himself called his wife his soul mate, destined for him in heaven. Their love was tested enough. He is a teacher, she is a student. They were discussed, 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 Ariadne herself and her husband Timur Gaidar could not live without each other. The biography of this family proves that you can be completely different in character, but at the same time live happily with each other all your life: 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. The other two surviving sisters, along with Ariadne, always supported and pitied their parents, knowing how much grief they had to endure.

Son - Yegor Gaidar

When Timur Arkadyevich Gaidar, whose biography connects the history of two famous families, was a war correspondent in other countries, his wife and son always traveled with him. As his son Yegor recalled, life in Cuba was especially memorable and vivid. The father, according to him, knew Ernesto Che Guevara quite well, and communicated with them "on a short footing." Several times, little Yegor was with his father in military units and garrisons, where he was allowed to climb tanks and armored personnel carriers.

Brothers Nikita and Yegor have always been very friendly, despite the fact that the age difference was quite large - 10 years. Egor, having lived abroad for a significant part of his childhood, read a lot. Books were available to him that were not available in the Soviet Union. Studied well. Only, as his mother admitted, from childhood he had very poor handwriting. It is not surprising, because for all representatives of the Gaidar family he was terribly sloppy and illegible. Yegor learned several foreign languages ​​during his school years. Despite the fact that Yegor's grandfather was the famous writer Arkady Gaidar, and his father was the famous military journalist Timur Gaidar, his biography (see family photo below) is not related to literature. He entered politics. His mother was ambivalent about his desire to build a political career. In an interview, she expressed the opinion that it was politics that caused his early death. The ambiguity of the state system of the 90s, which was the peak of Yegor Gaidar's activity, caused many contradictions, which affected not only his professional life, but also his state of health.

He was first married to a childhood friend, Irina Mishina, and entered into a second marriage 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, as he became the first representative of the profession to receive a rank higher than a colonel, resigned, already being a rear admiral. And I must say that not all of his colleagues were happy when he received this title. In those difficult times, Timur Arkadyevich had many envious people who believed that his successes and merits were undeserved and were mainly due to his famous surname.

In the last years of his life, Timur Gaidar, whose biography is full of dangerous events associated with the professional activities of a military journalist, was an Honored Guest and actively helped the Moscow Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren. A. P. Gaidar, which is located in the Moscow district Tekstilshchiki. At this time, he and his wife lived in the writer's village of Krasnovidovo, over which, after his death, his ashes were scattered.

"Three Gaidars"

In his book Crown Princes as Squires. Notes of a speechwriter ”V. A. Alexandrov devotes one of the chapters to the Gaidar family. Arkady Gaidar, Timur Gaidar: biography, family, professional activities of representatives of three generations of this family. This is what the author talks about in his book.