Anastasia Alexandrovna Shirinskaya-Manstein ( August 23 [ September 5 ] 1912 , the Nasvetevich estate in the former village of Rubezhnoye , Russian Empire (now the city of Lysychansk [1] , Lugansk region , Ukraine ) - December 21, 2009 , Bizerta , Tunisia ) - the elder of the Russian community in Tunisia, witness of the evacuation of ships of the Black Sea Squadron from Crimea during the Civil War in Russia. Anastasia Alexandrovna made a great contribution to the preservation of historical relics and the memory of the Russian squadron and its sailors.
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| Birth name | Anastasia Alexandrovna Manstein | ||||
| Date of Birth | August 23 ( September 5 ) 1912 | ||||
| Place of Birth | former village of Rubezhnoye, Russian Empire (now Lysychansk | ||||
| Date of death | December 21, 2009 (97 years old) | ||||
| A place of death | Bizerta , Tunisia | ||||
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire → Russia | ||||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 family
- 3 Bibliography
- 4 State and public awards
- 5 See also
- 6 notes
- 7 References
Biography
At the age of 8, she came to Bizerte with her mother on the destroyer Zharkiy . The ship's commander was her father, A. S. Manstein, whose family dates back to General Christoph-Hermann von Manstein , author of Memoirs of Russia ( XVIII century ).
In 1929 she graduated from Lacor High School and was admitted to the penultimate grade of Stephen Pichon College thanks to good exam results. Since that time, she began to give private lessons.
She received further education in Germany and returned in 1934 to Bizerte.
All these years, at her modest means and the means of a few Russian Tunisians, she looked after the graves, renovated the temple, built by immigrants who arrived in Bizerte with her.
May 5, 1997 by decree of the President of the Russian Federation received the citizenship of the Russian Federation [2] .
She returned to her homeland in 1990. She visited her former family estate in Lysychansk .
“I was waiting for Russian citizenship. Soviet did not want to. Then she waited for the passport to be with a double-headed eagle - the embassy offered with the emblem of the international, I waited with the eagle. I’m such a stubborn old woman. ”
- [1]
She lived with her Nansen passport for 70 years.
In 2000, during a new visit to Russia, she met with the Russian public at the Friendship House in Moscow [3] .
In 2006, the municipality of Bizerte renamed one of the squares of the city where the Orthodox Church of St. Alexander Nevsky is located , and named it after Anastasia Shirinskaya [4] .
In the measurements of time, 70 years is nothing. Therefore, our generation knew that such a country, such a millennial civilization with such qualities of the Russian people cannot perish. But I want to say thanks to my French teachers who taught me how to write in French, because I could write a book in French.
She wrote a book of memoirs “Bizerta. Last parking ”, published in French and in Russian. In 2005, for this book, Anastasia Alexandrovna was awarded a special award of the All-Russian Literary Prize "Alexander Nevsky" "For Works and Fatherland" [5] [6] .
In April 2009, the full-length documentary Anastasia , based on Shirinskaya’s memoirs, received the Nika film award from the Russian Film Academy as the best non-fiction film in Russia in 2008.
She died on December 21, 2009 in her house in Bizerte at the age of 97 years [7] .
Family
In 1935 she married and gave birth to three children.
Her husband is Murza Server Murtaza Shirinsky, a direct descendant of the Crimean Tatar clan Shirinsky .
Son Sergei (born September 17, 1936) lived for a long time with his mother in Tunisia, and died on May 4, 2013. The daughters of Tamara (1940) and Tatyana (1945) moved to France , as Anastasia insisted that they leave and become teachers of physics and chemistry. Tatiana was born grandchildren Georges (George) and Stefan (Stepan).
Bibliography
Shirinskaya A.A. Bizerte. Last parking .. - M .: Military Publishing House, 1999. - 246 p. - ISBN 5-203-01891-X.
State and Public Awards
- Order of Friendship ( Russia , April 16, 2003 ) - for great merits in strengthening friendship between the peoples of the Russian Federation and the Tunisian Republic [8]
- Pushkin Medal ( Russia , December 3, 2008 ) - for his great contribution to the development of cultural ties with the Russian Federation, the preservation of the Russian language and Russian culture [9]
- Anniversary medal "300 years of the Russian fleet" (Russia) [10]
- Commander of the Order of Culture ( Tunisia )
- Honorary diploma of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg (2005) - for his outstanding personal contribution to the cultural development of St. Petersburg and the strengthening of friendly relations between the peoples of Russia and Tunisia [10]
- Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga of the III degree ( Russian Orthodox Church ) Decree of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, 1996.
- Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh (Russian Orthodox Church) [10] Decree of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, 1996.
- Order of St. Innocent of Moscow (Russian Orthodox Church) Decree of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, 2007 [11]
- Patriarchal Charter (Russian Orthodox Church) 1997
- Jubilee Patriarchal Charter (Russian Orthodox Church) 2001
- Special award "For Works and Fatherland" of the All-Russian Literary Prize "Alexander Nevsky" (Russia)
- Litke Medal of the Russian Geographical Society [10]
- Order of Merit (Maritime Assembly of St. Petersburg )
- Small Cross of the Order of St. Catherine (Russian Imperial House)
See also
- Anastasia (film, 2008)
Notes
- ↑ http://nedelya.net.ua/news/vremya-nazad/serbskiy-sled-na-karte-luganshchiny
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 5, 1997 No. 450 “On Admission to the Citizenship of the Russian Federation”
- ↑ Victor Pogadaev . The woman who connected Russia with Tunisia. - " Evening Moscow ", 01/25/2000
- ↑ The area of the Arab city is named after the Russian Christian Anastasia Shirinsky
- ↑ Laureates 2004-2005
- ↑ Prize "Alexander Nevsky"
- ↑ Anastasia Shirinskaya, an elder of the Russian community, died in Tunisia - Rossiyskaya Gazeta
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of April 16, 2003 No. 439 “On the Awarding of the Order of Friendship by A. Shirinskaya”
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated December 3, 2008 No. 1722 “On Awarding with State Prizes of the Russian Federation” (inaccessible link)
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Biography on the site svpg.ru
- ↑ Shkarovsky M.V. Russian Orthodoxy in Tunisia. - SPb. : Publishing house of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, 2012 .-- S. 89 .-- 396 p. - ISBN 5-9625-0019-9 .
Links
- Serbian footprint on the map of Lugansk region. From Lugani to Bizerta .
- Lisichansk centralized library system. Shirinskaya Anastasia Alexandrovna
- About the documentary Anastasia. Angel of the Russian squadron "
- About the documentary 2 Anastasia. Angel of the Russian squadron
- Shirinskaya A. Bizerta. Last parking. - M .: Military Publishing House, 1999.
- Monastyreva Galli. Bizerte. Anastasia Shirinskaya Square
- The stubborn Russian old woman from Bizerta // Nevsky time 11.06.2008
- Nikolai Sologubovsky. Excerpts from the script of the movie "Anastasia"
- An article about the Alexander Nevsky Temple in Bizert and how Anastasia Alexandrovna and parishioners preserved the Temple
- House A. A. Manstein-Shirinskaya
- Foundation for the Preservation of Historical and Cultural Heritage A.A. Manshtein-Shirinskaya .
- Shkarovsky M.V. Russian Orthodoxy in Tunisia. SPB, 2012