Benjamin Shaposhnikov Biography

We are primarily interested in the details of the genealogy, since the roots of the head of state on the maternal line are located in the city of Alekseevka of the Belgorod region. The efforts of the Kursk historian Yevgeny Karpuk compiled the genealogical tree of the President of Russia on the paternal line. He studied the pedigree Medvedevs since the year, established more than a hundred ancestors of the head of state who lived in the Kursk outback.

The family roots of Dmitry Medvedev recreated the Moscow Union of Renaissance of the Family Traditions. But he seems to be limited to the traditional scheme. We are interested in filling this scheme with living content. In this direction, online publications and metropolitan newspapers worked, but so many genealogical versions and biographies of relatives are walking in them that an attempt to make the ends to make ends with ends will drive him into a dead end.

Meanwhile, there are not so many opportunities to make a generated maternal painting, which is rooted in the former settlement, now the city of Alekseevka. Part of the archival materials in the 19th century exterminated the fire that occurred in the settlement, the later part disappeared from negligence, part of the Soviet periods were destroyed during the German occupation in years.

Then there was no trace of church metric records. Today we can be based on post -war archival materials, museum and family documents, memoirs of relatives and fellow countrymen, and start a conversation only with great -grandfathers. Both were artisans and had talking surnames: one sewed hats and therefore - Shaposhnikov, the other was engaged in blacksmithing and therefore - Kovalev was called his old ancestor to the Ukrainian Lad Koval.

In general, Sloboda was famous for crowding and craftsmen for all hands. In addition to the Skornyaks and blacksmiths, tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, bondari, potter, pottering, woodcuters, gilders, even icon painters were zealous in it. The Shaposhnikovs of the great-grandfather of the Russian President Sergei Ivanovich Shaposhnikov with his wife Ekaterina Nikitichina, in girlishness, Segidinenko lived in Alekseevka on the family courtyard according to the current 3rd lane of Karl Marx, as he was called before, no one remembers.

In a wooden house under the reed roof there were four cramped rooms and a veranda. The floors are earthen, in the local dialect, “Valley”. Believers are small, given the number of inhabitants. In front of the porch of the summer, the flower garden was sometimes fragrant, and then there was a small garden of apple trees, cherries and drain. Near the veranda there was a Persian lilac.

In the corner of the courtyard was a shed, and in fact - a workshop. Sergei Ivanovich was engaged in the usual artisanal affair, since his father and grandfather, who lived at the same address, contained families due to sewing hats. The same Scorny craft was owned by his brother Efim, who had a courtyard in the neighborhood. Sergei Ivanovich remained in the memory of old-timers and grandchildren by an economic and energetic master, a sociable and friendly person, capable of accepting Carochka and two in the good years for the company.

He had a good voice, he sang a baritone in the choir of the Holy Trinity Temple. After the death, fate divorced him with his wife: Ekaterina Nikitichna rested in the Central cemetery in Alekseevka, and he was on a graveyard in the southwestern district of Voronezh, since the last days was under the look of the daughter of Efrosinya. In the March of the year, the family of Ivan Sergeyevich Galyapina acquired the tribal compound.

The small house of four windows along the facade has changed little since then: the foundation is concreted and replaced with a slate on the roof of reeds. The turn of the story came to a conversation about the grandfather and grandmother of the President of Russia. Veniamin Sergeyevich Shaposhnikov found a life partner in his native settlement. With Melania Vasilievna Kovaleva, they got married in the pre -war time.

According to the unwritten rule of that time of registration in marriage, they did not attach importance, so they issued the documents much later. They began a life together in the parental house of the head of the family on the 3rd lane of Karl Marx. According to the memoirs of relatives, Veniamin Sergeyevich, who had four elementary school classes and courses behind the current ideas, civil defense, was distinguished by versatile knowledge, therefore he worked in the police, headed the passport office.

Melania Vasilievna, who graduated from the Cooperative Institute, held the positions of a commodity department, the head of the warehouse. In November, the spouses were born in Julia’s daughter Julia the future mother of the president and Seraphim among his parents caused disagreement, his father perceived him as an angelic one, but in the end, Elena, Elena, was recorded in the birth certificate.

The daughter of Seraphim still retained at baptism. At the beginning of World War II, Veniamin Sergeyevich went to the front, fought in the infantry. Wounded in one of the villages he was saved by peasants, otherwise the Germans who were scouring their homes would have shot him. This dangerous case later he recalled in conversations with the girls.

Melania Vasilievna with her daughters was evacuated to the distant Stalinabad now Dushanbe.

From the front, Veniamin Sergeyevich went to Tajikistan to the family. There he began to work as a disinfector in the railway sanitary and epidemiological service. And then, with the help of a relevant department, a family transferred a family to Alekseevka in a year.Samo-taught tailor, she in her free time fulfilled orders of local residents. But there was no particular prosperity in the family.

This was noted by teachers who, on duty of educators, attended the house of the Shaposhnikovs. The schoolboy girls looked elegantly dressed at that time, which created a deceptive impression of comfortedness. The merit in this Melania Vasilievna, who pretended them with the help of a sewing machine. Mentally turning over the childhood, matured daughters recall the mother: “She was too ingenuous and did not know how to benefit from such a bread place.

To the customer’s question: “How much should I? The relatives called her dear, because it was really cute, feminine and pretty. By nature - a kind, well -read, all -around, as others said, the saint to the front went as a volunteer. He fought in the Leningrad direction, was captured and fled to his. He was awarded combat awards. After several years of housing, Alexandra Petrovna, with his wife, settled in Litvinov Lane.

He worked in the State Strakh Inspection, the Zagotkontor of the district consumer union, the commandant of the railway turntable in the DSU, the eldest of them, after serving in the army, drove a bus in Alekseevka on city routes, but unexpectedly handed over his heart and died young. Next to him in the cemetery found the last shelter Father and mother. Daughter and two sons are hello.

Lyubov Ivanovna, in marriage, Shvets, before retirement, filed an accounting business in the Soyuz Printing department, and then was a kioskor in the branch of Rospping-Foliant. Now, as a grandmother, he is happy to take care of her grandchildren. Vyacheslav Ivanovich Shaposhnikov transports goods in the gas service, Yuri Ivanovich regularly performs security duties in the Alekseevsky branch of Sberbank.

In their free time, both also engage in grandchildren. Little is known about the sisters of the grandfather of the President of Russia. The age of Claudia Sergeyevna Shaposhnikova and her husband Vasily Korneevich Fedorov, who died from an accident, was short -lived. They rest in the cemetery in Alekseevka next to Ekaterina Nikitikova. Her heirs remained daughter Nadezhda Viktorovna and son Sergei Viktorovich.

The Kovalevs of the Kovalev dynasty Street Sukhoparov’s last name for today “advanced” to the depths of the President - Peasant Alexander Ivanovich and his wife Evdokia Ivanovna. Perhaps the volost foreman Ivan Kovalev, who organized the construction of a two -year school in the settlement in the Sloboda, was adjacent to the related line. They were listed in the peasant class, but the head of the family was engaged in blacksmithing.

In the corner with the current Gorky Street, a brick one -story house was built in the year, skillfully decorated with stone “carvings”. His son Vasily Alexandrovich continued his father’s business in the imperial fleet in Sevastopol, as a particle of the family hearth grabbed a liter one, we would say now, an exclusive samovar. He was a rectangular shape and did not resemble any of the Tula counterparts, but correctly carried the tea service, brightening up the sailor everyday life with a fragrant drink.

With him, Vasily Alexandrovich returned to Alekseevka. In addition to the blacksmith, he mastered a locksmith, learned to shine, so he did not decrease orders. The master of all hands, he could fix any dishes, church utensils and even put the stove. In Soviet times, he worked as a miner-mother at the air factory. In his wives, Kovalev chose Anfiya Filippovna Vlasenkova - from a family in which a sense of civil dignity and military honor was developed.

The brother of Anfiya Alexander Filippovich on the German front during the First World War became the St. George Cavalier. Kovalevs equipped their small compound in the manner of enlightened residents. They installed a gazebo, hammock, summer shower. Against the backdrop of the usual bushes of currants, Barberis stood out. The yard was drowned in flowers - it was the care and affection of Anfia Filippovna.

She was known as a passionate flower grower, the neighbors went to her for seeds and bouquets. She was even asked to break the flower garden in front of the building of the railway station. Summer in the fresh air was inflated by summer evenings. At a large table they gathered for a traditional tea party. Through the courtyard there was a trodding path into a small wooden forge, in which sometimes it was distributed even during the Orthodox holidays.

The house, like a courtyard, was also not spacious: the hallway, the hall and two small bedrooms. All four children, the Kovaleva spouses tried to give a good education. Their first -born Nikolai Vasilievich graduated from the Voronezh State University, fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, ended the war in Potsdam, was awarded combat awards for valor. He lived in Orel, taught at a railway technical school, and died there.

His daughter Elena, Valentina, Lyudmila grew up from him. The next most age was the grandmother of the President of Russia Melania Vasilievna. It is said about it and another conversation ahead. Her sister Sofia Vasilievna received a pharmaceutical education.