Narochnitskaya, Natalia Alekseevna

Father - Academician-historian Alexei Leontyevich Narochnitsky (1907-1989), a native of Chernigov , married after World War II . Mother, Lidia Ivanovna Narochnitskaya (1922-2012), a native of Smolensk region , a historian, a teacher by the first profession, during the war years of a 19-year-old woman found herself in occupied territory, joined an underground organization, partisan , was captured by the Nazis, imprisoned, and escaped from a concentration camp. Since 1960, she worked for 30 years in the Russian Foreign Policy History sector of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (since 1968 - the Institute of History of the USSR ) and was awarded government awards ^[1] . Natalia Narochnitskaya’s maternal grandfather is the full Cavalier of St. George , the ensign of the Russian army ^[2] .

Natalia is the eldest daughter; her younger sister Ekaterina (born 1959), also a historian, now works at the INION RAS ^[3] . The girls' childhood passed in Moscow, on Gogolevsky Boulevard . A governess lived in the family, who spoke with children exclusively in German. At 7, Natasha recited Heine in the original language. Then the Narochnitsky moved to the area of Leningradsky Prospekt . She studied at the German special school number 3 in Chapaevsky Lane , danced well, played the piano exclusively Mozart . She graduated from school with a gold medal ^[4] .

Graduated with honors from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations , then was distributed at IMEMO . Candidate of Historical Sciences (1974, dissertation "The USA and the New Eastern Policy" Germany ") ^[5] . In 1982 - 1989, she worked at the UN Secretariat in New York .

In the 1990s, she was an activist in the Constitutional Democratic Party - the Party of People’s Freedom, the All-Russian National Right Center, the World Russian People’s Councils , the Power movement, and the Zemsky Cathedral. Co-Chair of the First and Second World Russian Councils, co-author of their main documents, including the “Act on the Unity of the Russian People”, proclaiming the Russians a divided people, having the right to reunion (adopted by the II Council in the Holy Danilov Monastery in February 1995 ) ^[6] .

In 2002, she defended a doctoral dissertation at Moscow State Pedagogical University “Russia in the ideological and geopolitical projects of world history (late 19th – 20th centuries): in the light of the religious and philosophical foundations of history”.

In 2003, she was elected to the State Duma from the Rodina electoral bloc. She was a member of the faction " Fair Russia -" Motherland "(national-patriotic union)." She held the posts of deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, chairman of the Commission for the Study of the Practice of Ensuring Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and control over their ensuring in foreign states.

In 2004, she founded and headed the Historical Perspective Fund .

In 2008, by decision of President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, she headed the European Institute for Democracy and Cooperation (Paris) ^[7] . This is one of two existing Russian non-governmental organizations abroad, funded from the Russian Federation. Putin first announced the establishment of the Institute for Democracy in Europe at the 20th Russia-EU Summit in Portugal on October 26, 2007 ^[8] . When creating the institution in October 2007, Russian Presidential Aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky said that Russia was ready to allocate about 70 million euros for the needs of the Institute for Democracy in Europe ^{[7] [9] [10] [11] [12]} . In an April 2013 interview with the German broadcaster ARD, Putin confirmed that the Institute for Democracy in Paris, as a non-governmental organization, is funded from Russia ^[7] . Narochnitskaya herself in an interview with Radio Liberty specified that every time she “ has to wallow in front of banks and production associations in Russia, ” with trepidation and trembling , collecting a million euros a year for the Institute. Deputy Narochnitskaya John Lokland and an expert from the New York branch of the institute Nikolai Pakhomov, on the contrary, argue that all funding comes from the Moscow Fund, but at the same time “the fund does not affect the organization’s activities ” and does not require the Institute of Democracy, as well as others donors, no reporting of funds spent ^[8] .

Between 2008 and 2012, the Institute for Democracy in Paris, led by Narochnitskaya, hosted about 50 events, the most successful of which its staff finds debate between Narochnitskaya and the Georgian ambassador in Paris Mamuka Kudava, meetings with Czech President Vaclav Klaus and with the former Foreign Minister France Roland Dumas ^[8] .

In March 2017, she became a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation ^[13] .

The author of a number of developments on Russian foreign policy , the problems of the relationship between the Russian national-state consciousness and the philosophy of Western European liberalism .

She was one of the initiators and co-chairs of many forums and associations of the Russian public, the author of their conceptual programs, statements in defense of the indivisibility of Russia, in support of the Russian Orthodox Church , actions of the Russian army in Chechnya in 1994-1996 , against NATO eastward expansion and NATO military operation against Yugoslavia in 1999 .

He considers an indispensable condition for the success of Russia's foreign policy in the modern situation a return to its traditional foundations and the study of the experience of Russian diplomacy acquired in situations of complex confrontation on the world stage in the 19th century.

Natalia Alekseevna herself considers herself a conservative on a Christian basis in socio-political views ^[4] . The Orthodox missionary encyclopedia characterized Narochnitskaya as being close at the same time to secular Christianity and to reformed Marxism ^[14] .

Narochnitskaya maintains scientific and public relations with European scientists and research centers (Germany, Great Britain , France , Italy , Greece ), which advocate the preservation by European countries of their sovereignty , against globalization and the dictatorship of supranational ideological, financial and military mechanisms ^{[15] [ specify ]} . In Belgrade, her book, Orthodoxy , Russia, and the Russians on the Threshold of the Third Millennium, was prepared for publication. Supervises the activities of the Bureau of Promotion of Fiction. He speaks four foreign languages: English, German, French and Spanish ^{[16] [17]} .

Since 2009, he has been a member of the Inter-Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church ^[18] . He is also a member of the Council of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society and the editorial board of the Actual History series.

February 6, 2012 was registered as a confidant of the candidate for President of the Russian Federation and the current Prime Minister V.V. Putin ^[19] . Due to the unwillingness of her candidate to participate in the debate, she represented him at this event, discussing with Vladimir Zhirinovsky ^[20] .

The Canadian political analyst Marxist Oleg Arin reproached Narochnitskaya for misinterpreting the texts of F. Engels ^[21] .

In a polemic with Narochnitskaya, Boris Nemtsov criticized her thesis that Russia is an exclusively Orthodox country, and in order to survive in Russia, everyone “ needs to feel confidently Russian ”; at the same time, Nemtsov pointed out that the inherent opposition of the Russian people to everything else in Narochnitskaya is “the path to a civil war ” ^[16] .

The historian, the author of studies on the Decembrist movement , Sergei Erlikh drew attention to the fact that Narochnitskaya in her 2007 speeches repeatedly accused Pavel Pestel of wanting to divide Russia into 15 republics, following the example of the United States ^[22] . He noted that Pestel was a supporter of a rigidly centralized state ^[23] .

Student marriage lasted for many years, but ended in divorce. The son Aleksey (born 1978) is a diplomat who serves as the attache of the Russian consulate in Edinburgh ^[4] .

• Laureate of the national Olympia Women's Public Recognition Award, Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship for 2007 ^[24] .
• On November 3, 2008, on the eve of the celebration of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and the Day of National Unity , she was awarded the Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga of the III degree ( Russian Orthodox Church ) ^[25] .
• Certificate of honor of the President of the Russian Federation (January 18, 2010) - for active participation in research, journalistic and popularizing work to counter the falsification of history to the detriment of Russia's interests ^[26]
• Gold medal “For Merits” of the Republic of Serbia (2013, Serbia ) - for special merits in social and cultural activities ^{[27] [28]} .
• Order of Honor (December 21, 2013) - for a great contribution to the preservation of Russian history and culture, many years of fruitful activity ^[29] .
• The Order of Alexander Nevsky (August 9, 2019) - for the achieved labor successes, active social activities and many years of conscientious work ^[30] .

• Narochnitskaya N. A. USA and the new "Eastern policy" of Germany. M .: Nauka , 1979.
• Narochnitskaya N. A. Russia and Russians in World History. M .: International Relations , 2005.536 s. - 6,000 copies, ISBN 5-7133-1132-5
• Narochnitskaya N. A. For what and with whom we fought. Past, 2005.80 s. - 27,000 copies, ISBN 5-902073-37-5
• Narochnitskaya N.A. Russian world. Aletheia, 2007.320 s. - 5000 copies, ISBN 978-5-91419-046-7
• Narochnitskaya N. A. The Great Wars of the 20th Century. Publisher: Iris-Press, 2007. 248 p. - 5000 copies, ISBN 978-5-8112-2912-3
• Narochnitskaya N. A. Russia and Russians in the modern world. Publisher: Algorithm, 2009. 416 p. - 5000 copies, ISBN 978-5-9265-0657-7
• Narochnitskaya N. A., Falin V. M. et al. Score of the Second World War. Who started the war and when? M .: Veche, 2009.416 s. - ISBN 978-5-9533-4298-8 .
• Narochnitskaya N. A. The Great Wars of the 20th Century. Revision and the truth of history. M .: Veche, 2010.352 s. - (Actual story). - 3000 copies, ISBN 978-5-9533-4887-4
• Yalta-45. Inscriptions of the new world / ed. ed. N.A. Narochnitskaya. M .: Veche, 2010 .-- 5,000 copies, ISBN 978-5-9533-4615-3
• Narochnitskaya N. A. Russian development code. M .: Book world, 2013 .-- 352 p. - (Serve Russia). - 2000 copies, ISBN 978-5-8041-0603-5

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