Olga Mikhailovna Veselkina ( August 9, 1873 [1] - December 31, 1949 [1] ) was the last head of the Alexandrovsky Women's Institute (1909 - 1918), in Soviet times she was the founder and head of the Department of Foreign Languages of USTU-UPI .
| Olga Veselkina | |
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 O. M. Veselkina in 1918-1920 - when she was an employee of the Rumyantsev Museum . | |
| Date of Birth | August 9, 1873 |
| Date of death | December 31, 1949 (aged 76) |
| Place of death | Sverdlovsk |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | Teacher of foreign languages |
| Father | Veselkin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1842-1897) |
| Mother | Veselkina (Stolypina) Meletina (Matilda) Valerianovna (1845-1909) |
| Spouse | did not have |
| Children | did not have |
| Awards and prizes |
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The early years
Born in the family of Privy Councilor M. M. Veselkin . On the part of the mother, she was brought by a relative (second cousin niece) P. A. Stolypin [2] ; mentioned in his correspondence [3] . Brought also by a relative (second cousin's niece) M. Yu. Lermontov [4] .
In 1890, she graduated from the Moscow School of the Order of St. Catherine with a silver medal [5] .
Veselkina also graduated from the historical and philological courses of Professor Guerrier , studied at the Sorbonne , and trained in pedagogy at universities in Germany and Switzerland [6] .
Service in the Russian Empire
In 1909, Olga Veselkina became the successor of her mother as head of the Alexandrovsky Women's Institute and held this position until its dissolution in 1918 [5] [7] .
She was the chairman of the Council of the Saratov branch of the Guardianship of Empress Maria Alexandrovna about the blind , the trustee of the Saratov School of Blind Children [8] .
In 1911 - 1917, Veselkina was the chairman of the committee and the trustee of the Iversk community of sisters of mercy in Moscow [8] . As a sister of mercy she was summoned to the mortally wounded P.A. Stolypin to Kiev and was with him until his death [9] .
Soviet period
After the October Revolution, she continued to live in Moscow for some time (in a communal apartment in Afanasyevsky Lane), in 1918-1920. worked in the Rumyantsev Museum , as an assistant to the head of the technical department of the library [10] . In the initial period of the NEP, by decision of the collegium of the OGPU, she was exiled to Sverdlovsk for three years, but then she remained to live there voluntarily [11] .
Since 1929 - the main librarian of the fundamental library of the Ural Industrial Institute [8] . Created and headed regional courses of foreign languages for the training of technical translators [8] .
Since 1930 - the head of the department of foreign languages of the same university, which she founded [8] . To death, she was also the Chairman of the Sverdlovsk Regional Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages [12] .
She died in 1949. She was buried at the Mikhailovsky cemetery in Yekaterinburg [13] .
Family
- Father - Privy Councilor Mikhail Mikhailovich Veselkin, served as governor.
- Mother - Melitina (Matilda) Valerianovna Veselkina (nee Stolypin), second cousin at the same time M. Yu. Lermontova and P. A. Stolypin , head of the Alexandrovsky Women's Institute of Noble Maidens until 1909 [14] .
- Brother - Mikhail Mikhailovich Veselkin, Rear Admiral of the Suite of His Imperial Majesty, from 1908 - the adjutant wing of Nicholas II , in 1916-1917 the commandant of the Sevastopol Fortress [6] .
Interesting Facts
- Sometimes Olga Veselkina is called in the media the maid of honor of the Empress Alexandra Fedorovna [12] . Historians NB Neuimin and O.N. Potemkin found out that Olga Veselkina was not a maid of honor [12]
- According to legend [15] , O. M. Veselkina taught German in Sverdlovsk to the future famous Soviet intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov . The reliability of this legend has been called into question by a number of researchers [16] .
- The famous artist M.V. Nesterov planned in 1931 to paint a portrait of O. M. Veselkina when she was relaxing in Muranovo , the museum-estate of F. I. Tyutchev . However, nothing came of this for reasons that M. V. Nesterov himself described in a letter to his friend S. N. Durylin as follows:
| What to tell you about yourself? I live, living my life, sometimes I work, but not much. And what is especially annoying is that the portrait I had planned for this summer was not painted: the model, Olga Mikhailovna Vesyolkina, had been ill for more than a month in Muranovo and left for the place of service yesterday [17] . |
- About O. M. Veselkina there is a mention (with many biographical distortions) in the book-memoirs of M. I. Zelikin “History of evergreen life”:
| I remember the story of Nikolai Nikolaevich [18] about the daughter of Admiral Veselkin (in fact, the admiral was her brother, not her father), who was the maid of honor of the Empress and the abbess of the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens [19] . Immediately after the revolution, she, away from sin, left [20] for Yekaterinburg, where, oddly enough, she was not touched. Moreover, the party bosses treated her with reverence, and she headed the German language department at the Ural Polytechnic Institute. In her behavior, the leaven of the lady mentor was clearly felt. For example, she might unexpectedly interrupt her lecture with a remark: “Young man in the third row, would you please stop stopping your nose in your finger!” When she went to the lecture, and the woman was prominent and burly, she was accompanied by an escort of assistants who sat in the back row and recorded her lectures [21] . |
Rewards
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1944) - “... For an outstanding contribution to the training of specialists for the national economy” [22] ;
- Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" [12]
Bibliography
- Veselkina OM. How to study foreign languages at a technical university. - M .: Owls. Science, 1945. - 32 p. -, circulation: 3000 copies. [23]
- Veselkina O. M. Technique of translation from German into Russian (Rules for the order of translation of words in the German sentence using numbering). Sverdlovsk - Moscow: ONTI-NKTP-USSR, 1935. - 26 p.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Veselkina Olga Mikhailovna . Skorbim.com (June 29, 2010). Date of treatment July 28, 2013. Archived on August 20, 2013.
- ↑ Garkavenko O. V. TO THE QUESTION OF THE RELIABILITY OF THE IMAGE Nicholas II IN THE “RED WHEEL” A. I. SOLZHENITSYNA
- ↑ Stolypin P. A. Letter from O. B. Stolypin from October 17, 1903
- ↑ Goncharova T.P. P.I. Petrovichev in Muranovo and the artistic life of the museum in 1920-1940. (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment August 13, 2008. Archived February 12, 2009.
- ↑ 1 2 Semakova I.A. (publ., Note.). Moscow Alexander Institute . Russian Archive: History of the Fatherland in evidence and documents of the XVIII — XX centuries: Almanac . runivers.ru. Date of treatment July 28, 2013. Archived on August 20, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 Neuimin N. B., Potemkina O. N. Olga Veselkina - “Sverdlovsk maid of honor”? // Fifteenth Romanov readings: All-Russian scientific-practical conference (Yekaterinburg-Alapaevsk, July 16-17, 2015): materials. - Yekaterinburg: Square, 2015 .-- S. 225.
- ↑ Neuimin N. B., Potemkina O. N. Olga Veselkina - “Sverdlovsk maid of honor”? // Fifteenth Romanov readings: All-Russian scientific-practical conference (Yekaterinburg-Alapaevsk, July 16-17, 2015): materials. - Yekaterinburg: Square, 2015 .-- S. 225—226.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Neuimin N. B., Potemkina O. N. Olga Veselkina - “Sverdlovsk maid of honor”? // Fifteenth Romanov readings: All-Russian scientific-practical conference (Yekaterinburg-Alapaevsk, July 16-17, 2015): materials. - Yekaterinburg: Square, 2015 .-- S. 226.
- ↑ Neuimin N. B., Potemkina O. N. Olga Veselkina - “Sverdlovsk maid of honor”? // Fifteenth Romanov readings: All-Russian scientific-practical conference (Yekaterinburg-Alapaevsk, July 16-17, 2015): materials. - Yekaterinburg: Square, 2015 .-- S. 228.
- ↑ Veselkina Olga Mikhailovna. Employee of the Rumyantsev Museum . Rumyantsev Museum . Date of treatment July 28, 2013. Archived on August 20, 2013.
- ↑ Raevsky S.P. Five centuries of Raevsky (inaccessible link)
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Neuimin N. B., Potemkina O. N. Olga Veselkina - “Sverdlovsk maid of honor”? // Fifteenth Romanov readings: All-Russian scientific-practical conference (Yekaterinburg-Alapaevsk, July 16-17, 2015): materials. - Yekaterinburg: Square, 2015 .-- S. 227.
- ↑ Kulikova E. To smithereens (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Neuimin N.B., Potemkina O.N. Olga Veselkina - “Sverdlovsk maid of honor”? // Fifteenth Romanov readings: All-Russian scientific-practical conference (Yekaterinburg-Alapaevsk, July 16–17, 2015): materials. Yekaterinburg, 2015. S. 225–226.
- ↑ Awards of the maid of honor of the Russian Imperial Court and Stalin's autograph - - News and the poster of museums of Russia - - www.Museum.ru
- ↑ Reichel, Yuri. Not everything is clear with the scout Kuznetsov . Day // InoSMI.ru (02/12/2011). Date of treatment July 31, 2013. Archived on August 20, 2013.
- ↑ Durylin S.N. Nesterov in life and work
- ↑ Academician N.N. Krasovsky
- ↑ In reality - Alexandrovsky
- ↑ Originally exiled
- ↑ Zelikin M.I. Evergreen Life Story Archived February 10, 2009 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Sverdlovsk maid of honor (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Book publishing of the war years 1939-1945 (inaccessible link)