Andronikov, Yassa Nikolaevich

Origin

Father - Georgian Prince Ivan (Niko) 3akharievich Andronikashvili (1862-1947), agronomist and public figure. A graduate of the Moscow Forest Academy in 1887, after which for thirteen years he was the chief expert of the Caucasus Committee for Protection against Phylloxera . In 1902-1916 he was the head of the city of Batumi ^[1] . Mother - Lidia Nikolaevna Plescheeva-Muratova (1861-1953), the great-granddaughter of the poet A.N. Plescheev , when she met I.Z. Andronikashvili, was in her first marriage. She had three children who died in tragic circumstances. Having fallen in love with Ivan Zakharyevich, she left Petersburg and her first husband, and moved to Tiflis , where she lived until the end of her life. There were also three children in this marriage: Salome , Mariam (or Maria, Maroussia) and Iasi. The family estate was in Kakheti ^[2] .

Before World War I

Iasi was born in 1893 in Tiflis. He graduated from Batumi gymnasium ^[1] . In 1912, Iasi entered the law faculty of St. Petersburg University ^[3] . In 1913 he wrote poems dedicated to Anna Akhmatova , according to Andrei Aryev , he might have been in love with her ^[4] . In September 1915 in St. Petersburg he married Elena Konstantinovna Vakhter, a Lutheran by religion ^[4] , the daughter of Privy Councilor and businessman Konstantin Loginovich Vakhter ^[1] (1837-1917) ^[5] . The wedding was modest, the groom did not even have money for an engagement ring ^[2] . On July 16, 1916, a son Konstantin was born in Petrograd.

On world and civil

In the summer of 1916, after graduating from university and after the birth of his son, Iasi Andronikov volunteered for the front and entered the Wild Division . The head-captain of the Russian army ^[6] . Fell on the Romanian front . In early 1917, during the assault on the Austrian bastion, he was wounded, and was awarded the 4th degree St. George Cross . After being wounded, he was evacuated to the rear. Once in Petrograd, Iasi entered the Page Corps . This turned out to be his last expedited release. In September 1917, Andronikov had already finished the Page Corps and was promoted to ensign ^[1] .

In 1918, his wife and son, fleeing hunger and Bolshevik terror , went to the south of Russia ^[2] . Iasi went to Tiflis. In 1919, Iasi arrived with a Georgian passport in Novorossiysk , occupied by whites . The commandant’s office explained to him that he, as a warrant officer of the Russian imperial army, should be mobilized, and if he wants to remain a citizen of Georgia, he must renounce Russian citizenship and his Russian passport will be taken from him. Andronikov said that he would not abandon Russia and entered the Volunteer Army ^[1] . Senior officer in the Denikin army ^[7] . In August 1919 he was wounded again, evacuated to Feodosia , where he reunited with his family. From there he was sent to Kislovodsk for further treatment ^[1] . February 1920, his wife and son on an American destroyer evacuated from Crimea to Constantinople , and then to Paris ^[2] . Iasi returned from Russia to Georgia. He worked as an economist ^[8] .

Life and death during the Soviet era

First Arrest

In 1921, Andronnikov participated in battles against the Red Army , which invaded Georgia ^[1] . In April of the same Bolshevik forces occupied the whole country. Andronikov was ready for evacuation and was on a ship leaving Batum for Europe. But members of the Bolshevik government appeared on the pier, who began to discourage passengers from leaving, assuring that there would be no reprisals against them. Upon returning to Tiflis, Andronikov was arrested on the same day. He spent seven months in the Metekhi prison ^[2] , released at the end of 1921 thanks to a petition from his aunt, who hid a prominent Bolshevik in his estate before the revolution , who had become a member of the government by that time ^[2] . Upon his release, Iasi was deprived of the right to seek work in Georgia ^[1] . He left for Moscow, where he became an actor, and later a director of the Buffonade Theater ^{[2] [9]} . He earned a living as a dance teacher and playwright ^[1] .

Second Arrest

April 2, 1926 - arrested for "counter-revolutionary relations with foreign mission employees" ^[10] , sentenced to prison and sent to the Tobolsk political isolator in the fall. April 13, 1927 released ^[11] , the case is dismissed ^[8] .

Iasi married the actress of her theater, Nina Kind ^[12] . He worked in the theater as an actor and dancer. He got a place as a permanent teacher of modern dance and plastic at GITIS . He toured a lot with the theater around the country, and tried himself in directing. Throughout his life from his earliest youth until his death, he wrote poetry ^[13] , the surviving of which were published in 2009, 72 years after the death of the author.

Third Arrest

On July 11, 1931 he was again arrested on charges of espionage. A few months before the arrest, he met with the guest of honor of Georgia, the editor of the magazine, the French journalist Vozhel ^{[8] [14]} . According to other partially coinciding information, the reason for the arrest was that Salome sent a letter to her brother with an opportunity through a French journalist ^[15] . October 28, 1932 - sentenced to 10 years in prison and sent to Karlag . He spent several months in Tashkent , then was sent to the state farm Narpai ( Uzbekistan ), on a peninsula near the Syr-Darya river ^[2] . October 25, 1935 - was sent to work in Balkhashstroy , but in January 1936 - in connection with liver disease after suffering from malaria, he was placed in a hospital in Karaganda . In early March 1936 - was discharged from the hospital and in April sent to the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp (in May he was in Kemi ) ^[8] .

At first he worked as a freelance director in the Solovetsky Theater. After a quarrel with L. Kurbas and L. Privalov , he was sent on a long business trip ^[13] .

Doom

In autumn 1937 transferred to prison regime. On October 9, 1937, the Special Troika of the NKVD of the Leningrad District was sentenced to death . Shot on October 27, 1937, buried near the Sandarmokh tract in Karelia ^[16] .

• Sister - Salome on the first marriage of Andreev, on the second Halpern (1888-1982) - the muse of many poets and artists of the Silver Age .
• Sister - Mariam (Maria, Maroussia) in the marriage of Sharashenidze (1891-1976 ^[17] ), worked at the Institute of Geography in Tbilisi ^[18] .

• The first wife (since 1915) - Elena Konstantinovna nee Vakhter (1890-1938)
  • Son - Constantine (1916-1997) - French diplomat, Orthodox theologian and translator.
• Second wife (s?) - Nina Alexandrovna Kind

• Andronikov Iasi. I just walked without knowing where ...: narration in letters and poems; will accompany. text by M.K. Andronikov. - St. Petersburg: The Star Journal, 2009. - 211 p. - ISBN 978-5-7439-0146-3
• Andronikov Iasi. Alyosha, a novel. // “Star” 2012, No. 10 , ending // “Star” 2012, No. 11.

• Tbilisi, 43 Atarbekova St.
• 1926 - Moscow, st. Stankevich, d. 15, apt. 3.

• Yass Ivanovich Andronikov b. 1893 d. 27 octobar 1937 // Rodovid