Nina Lugovskaya
Nina Lugovskaya | |
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Нина Серге́евна Луговская | |
Born | Nina Sergeyevna Lugovskaya December 25, 1918 SFSR |
Died | December 27, 1993 | (aged 75)
Alma mater | Serpukhov Art School |
Occupation | Artist |
Spouse | Victor L. Templin |
Nina Sergeyevna Lugovskaya (
Family and early life
Nina's parents were educated professionals. Her father, Sergei Rybin-Lugovskoi, was an economist[3] and passionate supporter of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, while her mother, Lyubov Lugovskaya, was an educator. Nina had two older twin sisters, Olga and Yevgenia (also called Lyalya and Zhenya), born in 1915.[4]
Sergei was first arrested in 1917, prior to the revolution, and after it held a government position, only to be arrested and exiled again in 1919. After three years, he returned and the family located to Moscow where he ran a bakery cooperative, employing 400 people. After economic nationalization in 1928, the business was closed, and Sergei was arrested and exiled again to a town north of Moscow. This is where Nina began writing her diaries.[4] In 1935 Sergei was arrested and imprisoned in Moscow, where Nina visited him shortly before his exile to Kazakhstan.[3]
Although she had many friends, Nina suffered from
Arrest
On January 4, 1937, Nina's diary was confiscated during an NKVD raid on the Lugovskoy's apartment. Passages underlined for prosecutorial use included Nina's suicidal thoughts, her complaints about Communist indoctrination by her teachers, her loyalty to her persecuted father, and her often-expressed hopes that someone would assassinate Joseph Stalin.[1]
Based on the "evidence" in her diary, Nina, her mother and her two sisters were arrested and sentenced to five years'
Marriage
In Magadan, Nina married Victor L. Templin, an artist and fellow survivor of the GULAG.[1][4]
Career
Nina worked as an artist in theaters at Magadan, Sterlitamak, in the Perm region. While decorating the Magadan theater, Nina met with painter Vasili Shukhayev, and began to consider herself his pupil.
After 1957, Viktor and Nina lived in
Death
Nina Templina died on 27 December 1993 and was buried in the Ulybyshevo cemetery near Vladimir.[citation needed]
Diary
After Nina's death, her diary was found in Soviet archives by
In 2003, the Moscow-based publisher
Throughout her diaries Nina showed contempt for the Bolsheviks, writing "These bloody Bolsheviks! How I hate them! All hypocrites, liars, and scoundrels", "I could feel my fury with the Bolsheviks rising in my throat, my despair at my own powerlessness", "These lousy Bolsheviks! They don't think about us young people at all, they don't think about the fact we are human beings too"! In one passage she recounted "sixty-nine White Guards were arrested and shot in Leningrad without any investigation or trial".[1]
Her diaries reflect a nationalist patriotism, in which she wrote about the SS Chelyuskin incident: "wanted to cry for happiness and sympathy with these great heroes...to participate in the general celebration". On her country she wrote: "How can it be? Great Russia and the great Russian people have fallen into the hands of a scoundrel. Is it possible? That Russia, which for so many years fought for freedom and which finally attained it, that Russia has suddenly enslaved itself."[7]
Sources
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia", Nina Lugovskai︠a︡. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006. p. 16, 21, 30, 42, 35-36, 56, 59-60, 61, 62, 71, 80, 119, 130, 253-254. Retrieved 6 feb 2017
- ^ "Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory", Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Jeffrey Shandler. Indiana University Press, 2012. p. 12. Retrieved 6 feb 2017
- ^ a b "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union", Martin McCauley. Routledge, Jan 14, 2014. p. 146. Retrieved 6 feb 2017
- ^ a b c d e f g "Girlhood: A Global History", Jennifer Helgren, Colleen A. Vasconcellos. Rutgers University Press, 2010. pgs. 142-161. Retrieved 6 feb 2017
- ^ "The Diary of a Soviet Schoolgirl: 1932-1937 (Glas, No. 32)", Nina Lugovskaya. Glas; 1 edition (September 1, 2003). Retrieved 6 feb 2017
- ^ "I Want To Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia", Nina Lugovskaya. Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (June 18, 2007). Retrieved 6 feb 2017
- ^ "Pessimism and Boys", Sheila Fitzpatrick. London Review of Books. May 6, 2004. Retrieved 6 feb 2017
External links
- Nina Lugovskai︠a︡ at Library of Congress, with 3 library catalogue records
- Lucia Gangale, Le journal de Nina Lugovskaya 1932-1937. Link: https://lepartageculturel.wordpress.com/2023/10/04/le-journal-de-nina-lugovskaya-1932-1937/