Tyrkova-Williams, Ariadna Vladimirovna

Born in an old Novgorod landowner family . Sister of the Volunteer A.V. Tyrkov . Revolutionary S.A. Leshern von Herzfeld is the cousin of the mother A.V. Tyrkova-Williams.

She studied in St. Petersburg at the gymnasium of Princess Obolenskaya together with N.K. Krupskaya , then in 1889 they simultaneously entered the Bestuzhev courses . In her memoirs, she wrote ^[1] :

The three founders of Russian Marxism , M. I. Tugan-Baranovsky , P. B. Struve and V. I. Ulyanov , were married to my school friends. All three had a strong, friendly, steady family life. Thanks to them, I early became acquainted with Russian Marxism, or rather, not with Marxism, but with Marxists. I never studied their theory and the more I listened to long conversations about Karl Marx , his teachings, his letters to Engels, indicating in which edition, on which page a particular quotation is located, the less I had a desire to study it.

- A.V. Tyrkova-Williams. "On the paths to freedom." New York, 1952.

In 1890 she married shipbuilding engineer Alfred Nikolaevich Borman; from this marriage a son Arkady and a daughter Sonia were born. Seven years later, the couple divorced.

The winter of 1902/1903, she lived in Yaroslavl , was published in the Yaroslavl newspaper " Northern Territory ". In the fall of 1903 ^{[2] she was} arrested for attempting to smuggle 400 copies of the journal “ Liberation ” by Peter Struve . The court sentenced Tyrkov to 2.5 years in prison, however, due to a hand illness, she was released on bail and soon emigrated illegally through Sweden to Stuttgart , where the editorial board of the Liberation magazine was located, with whom Tyrkova spoke closely. In the editorial office of Liberation, she met with the correspondent of the British newspaper The Times , Harold Williams , and married her in 1906 .

After the amnesty declared by the Manifesto on October 17, 1905, she returned to Russia. She lived in the village of Novgorod county . Member of the Cadet Party, member of the Central Committee of the Cadet Party (was the only woman in its composition until the election of Countess S. V. Panina in the Central Committee in 1917).

As a journalist, she collaborated with the Pridneprovsky Krai publication, and later worked as an editor in such magazines and newspapers as Niva , Russian Thought , and Vestnik Evropy . She published novels “Life Path” and “Production”, a collection of short stories , a book “ Anna Pavlovna Filosofova and her time”, a collection of essays “Old Turkey and Young Turks” ^[3] .

During the First World War, she worked in the All-Russian Union of Cities, organized sanitary detachments, was in charge of the economy in one of them, and traveled to war zones.

In 1917 , after the February Revolution , the vowel of the Petrograd City Council.

Since 1918 in exile in the UK .

In July 1919 , she returned to Russia (Williams, who had previously returned, was accredited to the headquarters of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia as a correspondent for the Times and Daily Chronicle newspapers) and became involved in the work of the White propaganda body ( OVAG ).

After the defeat of the whites, Tyrkova and Williams returned to London .

During World War II, she lived with her son's family in France , and in March 1943 the Germans interned for a short time as a British citizen.

Since 1918, she worked on the biography of A. S. Pushkin “Pushkin’s Life”, published the first volume in 1929, and the second in 1948.

In 1951, she moved to the United States with her son's family, settled in New York , then in Washington . Actively worked in the Russian emigrant press and was engaged in charity work in the interests of Russian refugees ^[4] . Published three volumes of memoirs: “That which will no longer be” (1954); “On the paths to freedom” (1952), “Rise and collapse” (1956).

She died in Washington in January 1962. The son of Tyrkova-Williams Arkady Borman worked at the Voice of America radio station.

• Old Turkey and Young Turks : A Year in Constantinople. Petrograd: type. B. M. Wolf, 1916.
• "Life of Pushkin." Paris: YMCA-Press, vol. 1, 1929; T. 2, 1948.
• "On the paths to freedom." New York, 1952.
• "That which will no longer be." Paris, 1954.
• From Liberty to Brest-Litovsk, the First Year of the Russian Revolution. London, Macmillan, 1919, 526 p.
• Cheerful Giver: the Life of Harold Williams, by his wife, Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, London, P. Davies, 1935, xii, 337 p.

• Page dedicated to Ariadne Vladimirovna Tyrkova-Williams
• Ariadna Tyrkova (1869-1962)
• Borman, Arkady Alfredovich A.V. Tyrkova-Williams according to her letters and memoirs of her son - Louvain; Washington, 1964 .-- 336 p.
• “Lenin promised to hang up his girlfriend’s girlfriend on the street lamp ” Izvestia 05/29/2009