Alexander Arosev Biography

The page on the website "Stalin's shooting lists" Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev was born in the year in Kazan in the family of a tailor and seamstress, was the eldest of seven children. Alexander was rather carried away by revolutionary ideas, largely under the influence of his grandfather, the people of Augustus Johann Goldshmidt, and mother, Maria Augusts Goldshmidt, who shared the views of her father.

In the year, he joined the Socialist -Revolutionary Party and even participated in revolutionary events. For party activities, Alexander was expelled from the real school. He was arrested in the year. He spent eight months in prison - together with Vyacheslav Skryabin and other single -party people. Then they were exiled to the Vologda province, from where Arosev fled abroad in six months, where he spent two years.

He was a free listener at the Faculty of Philology of Liege University. In exile, he met Lenin and Gorky, to whom Arosev read the drafts of his first stories. In the year, Alexander secretly returned to Moscow and again engaged in political activities. Soon he was arrested again and exiled - first to the Vologda province, where he had once left for the link, then to the Arkhangelsk province, from where he fled, then to the Yaroslavl province - and he fled again.

The last place of the link is the Perm province. In the year, Arosev returned from exile and entered the Petrograd Psychoneurological Institute, but did not graduate from him - in December he was drafted into the army, and in February he was again arrested - for concealing the revolutionary past - and sent to the disciplinary battalion to Nizhny Novgorod. After the February Revolution, Arosev was restored at the school of warrant officers, and he actively joined the revolutionary struggle.

Arosev was sent to Tver, where he was elected chairman of the Council of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies and was engaged in the creation of the Bolshevik military committee. Returning to Moscow in July, he became part of the military revolutionary committee, led the transition of the troops of the Moscow garrison to the side of the Bolsheviks. His signature is under the order of the artillery shelling of the Moscow Kremlin.

In the fall of the year, in Spassk, Belochekhs shot Arosev’s mother. Upon learning of the tragedy, he burst into Spassk for several days and moved his mother’s body to Kazan, where he buried. Three daughters were born in their marriage: Natalya year, Elena year and Olga year. The second passion of Arosev after revolutionary ideas was literature. He began to write even during the first link, in Totma.

But these early manuscripts fell into the hands of the gendarmes and disappeared. In the year, his first story “Carpenters” and the poem “Beloshweik” were published. In the year, several more stories were published in the magazine “Creativity” - “provocateur”, “A year ago”, “Love leisurely”. In the year, Arosev was sent to work in Kharkov, where he headed the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal of Ukraine for two years.

Then, in Kharkov, the first collection of his stories “Revolutionary Sketches” was published. In the year, he returned to Moscow and became deputy director of the Institute of History of Party and Revolution. After the death of Lenin, he personally brought to Moscow from the slides the brain and heart of the leader. He wrote the first biographical works about Lenin. In the year, he married a second time - at Czech Gertrude Froind, who became married to Gertrude Rudolfsky aroseva.

In the year, Arosev was recalled to Moscow, where he returned with his new wife. For almost a year, he was without work, in the year they had a son Dmitry. Returning to Moscow, he found a completely different picture. His friends of youth - Vyach Molotov, Klimushka, so he called Voroshilov, with whom he fled from exiles, became completely different. These were the leaders.

They sat in the Kremlin, behind the strong walls, surrounded by a barrier from the Oblast officials. Father was completely solitude. Having lived for many years abroad, he met with difficulties that he simply could not understand. He did not understand why, in order to buy sausages, you need to take some kind of larynx card and it was necessary to bother in the government.

To buy a stove in a cold apartment, you need a special solution to almost the Council of People's Commissars of the People’s Commissar of Trade. In general, he was completely not prepared for the realities of a new life, where everywhere he came across a deaf wall of a mocking office. In Bridges, in the beret, he naturally did not fit into the environment. And I suffered very much.

A foreign wife, three children, and at first he has neither an apartment nor work. Yes, by that time Gertrude gave birth to a son, our brother Dmitry. He tried to find out - there is an indistinguishable letter to Stalin in the diaries - why he was surrounded by such a wall of alienation, ”wrote Arosva, Olga, who became one of the leading actresses of the Satisha Theater, much later in her memoirs.

He held this position before the arrest of the year. Here he could use his diplomatic experience, and knowledge of languages, and acquaintance with European society in general. The writer himself and a creative person himself, he could conduct a dialogue with representatives of the Culture of the West on an equal footing. Having hungry for real work, Arosev energetically set to work, finding a field here for the application of his outstanding organizational abilities, ”Natalya wrote his daughter in her memoirs“ A trace on Earth.Documentary story about the father.

" Arosev continued his literary activity. He wrote and published more than 30 books: stories, stories, including stories for children “First Star”, “Pig and Petka”, memoirs, was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. In the year, he participated in writing a collective fantastic romance-commercial “Big Fires”, published in the magazine “Spark”. The first story in it - about the fictional Soviet town of Zlatogorsk - wrote Alexander Green.

The task of the rest of the literary experiment was to continue this storyline set by Green. Its part was called "Martian." In the year, Arosev was a delegate of the first All -Union Congress of Writers. During the arrival of the French writer Roman Rollan to Moscow, Arosev was his translator at a meeting with Stalin. A little later, Stalin entrusted Arosev’s delicate and responsible business - to buy the archive of Karl Marx.

The formal owner of the archive was the Central Committee of the German Social Democratic Party, which had a residence in Prague. But the archive itself was stored in several places, including in Paris and Copenhagen. As a result of long negotiations and almost detective history, some of the archives were brought to Moscow, where they are still stored in the RGASPI. All forces went to fight in defense of their honest name, ”writes Olga Aroseva in her memoirs.

People were led by fear. The father’s diaries describe meetings that took place in a station where intelligent people with rich biographies, people with whom he lived and worked for many years side by side, wrote denunciations to each other. The father retained documentary evidence of those attacks on him that were in the press, in particular in Pravda. There are two notes in the diaries, from which it is clear what he was accused of.

Now it’s ridiculous to read it: he was accused of wearing a tailcoat and talking in foreign languages. He replied that he knew when, where and what to wear. In the summer of the year, Arosev and his wife, son and daughter Elena went on vacation to Sestroretsk. On the way, he drove to Leningrad to his sister and left her diaries with her, thanks to which they were preserved.

The memoirs of the daughter of Alexander Yakovlevich, Elena, about the last day spent by Alexander and Gertrude together: “One evening, they knocked on us. Two young people came in, both military, one of them is a sailor. They announced that they had come for Gertrude, as she was arrested. Hera cried, her father, on the contrary, got angry, said that he would not let her go, that he would go with her.

They forbade this, then he said that they would have to wait, and called a car from Leningrad, from the Voks branch. Oddly enough, they agreed to this. Some strange, unnatural pause reigned. There was a feeling that life stopped, or rather, a piece was pulled out of it, as from the film with scissors. It lasted quite a long time. There was a beep of the car, it was necessary to go.

Father and the hero began to say goodbye. They stood, clinging to each other, did not hug, but simply stood without movement. Maybe they said something to each other without words, maybe they promised ... I don’t know. They said goodbye. Hera started and went to the bedroom to say goodbye to her son.

She stopped, turned around ... I saw her face. I remembered this face for life. Indescribable flour. Lord, why do you give such tests?! Arosev tried to save his wife. Returning to Moscow, he called his friend Molotov several times. Here is how Elena recalls this: “Dad tried to get to Molotov, he hung up or breathed silently. Roman Rollan stood behind the aros. He wrote a letter to Stalin, which, of course, remained unanswered.

In a letter, he wrote: “Dear comrade Stalin, I learned from newspapers about the arrest of Alexander Arosev and his wife. Naturally, I do not have the opportunity to know the reasons for this and do not allow myself to give their assessment.