Paradoxical as it may seem, but the most famous woman on a global scale in Ukraine over the past decade has not become an actress, singer or literary figure. This proud title is rightfully borne by the female politician Tymoshenko Yulia Vladimirovna.
Gas Princess, Lady Yu, the country's former chief political prisoner, the most influential Ukrainian woman - whatever they call her!
Yulia Timoshenko is surrounded by a huge number of secrets from all sides. Biography, nationality and even the personal life of a politician excite many, becoming the cause of gossip.
The one that is always there
Probably, the public will never be indifferent to her bright person. All of Ukraine talks about it every day. Yulia Tymoshenko appears on the TV screen, and her photo - in newspaper articles, on roadside posters. Ukrainians see her face several times a day. It seems that it has long become an integral part of the life of every citizen of this country.
Despite the strong and strong-willed character, without which such a rise incareer ladder would be simply impossible, she appears before her constituents in the form of a gentle benefactress. For many, she personifies a mother, a faithful friend and, of course, a true Ukrainian woman with a wide open soul. It seems that Yulia Vladimirovna is absolutely frank in front of people. However, every year her unsolved secrets become more and more.
And the most confusing secret is Yulia Tymoshenko's nationality.
The question that worries everyone
It is rather difficult to find the truth about the origin of ancestors in every family of the post-Soviet period. People moved to the territory of a vast country, the blood mixed, and as a result, few people can unequivocally answer the question of their nationality. Now citizenship has become more important. It is it that determines the attitude of a person to a particular country, society, ethnic group.
The family of Yulia Vladimirovna is no exception. A lot has been said about her. Yulia Tymoshenko herself almost immediately refuted some of the statements.
Who is a politician by nationality became a question for most after she dramatically changed her image in the early 2000s. It was then that Lady Yu first braided her famous braid. Her whole appearance unequivocally began to resemble the image of the poetess Lesya Ukrainka. What did Yulia Tymoshenko want to achieve with such changes? Photos "before and after" are so bright and eloquent that they involuntarily push the public to the national question. She has been repeatedly accused of pretense and falsehood. Peoplewanted to know the truth about the politician's true attitude towards their country and were convinced that truthful information about her origin would help to "reveal all the cards."
What truth is hidden by her ancestors, and Yulia Tymoshenko herself? Biography, nationality, some facts from life and a number of publications, most likely, will help to understand this complicated story.
So let's go!
Beginning of life
Yulia Timoshenko's maiden name is Grigyan. She was born in the city of Dnepropetrovsk on November 27, 1960 in the family of Vladimir Abramovich Grigyan and Lyudmila Nikolaevna Telegina.
Yulia Tymoshenko's parents divorced when she was 3 years old. Mother worked as a dispatcher in a taxi depot. In addition to the little daughter, her mother and sister's family needed to support her.
Of course, there was not enough money for almost anything. However, as Yulia Tymoshenko herself later said, despite the difficult living conditions, her mother was able to surround all her loved ones with warmth, attention and care. Little Julia grew up surrounded by love from all sides.
Years of study
Education in primary and secondary grades took place at school number 37 in the same Dnepropetrovsk. However, she spent the last two years of her studies at secondary school No. 75. Having become a well-known politician, Yulia Vladimirovna will also come here with one of her election visits.
According to the recollections of Tamila Furman (class teacher of the senior classes), she studied without triples, but she was not an excellent student.
Yulia Vladimirovna was actively fond of sports in her childhood and youth. She isattended the rhythmic gymnastics section. Everyone who knew the girl was convinced that she was “threatened” with a career in big-time sports.
Just before finishing school, Yulia replaces her father's surname Grigyan with her mother's. In all documents, the graduate is called Telegina.
After graduating from school, in 1978, she entered the Dnepropetrovsk Mining Institute. But after studying there for only one year, she takes the documents and is transferred to the Faculty of Economics of Dnepropetrovsk State University. In this educational institution, Yulia receives a diploma of higher education in the speci alty "Economic Cybernetics".
Tymoshenko's personal life
Yulia Grigyan-Telegina got married very early - at the age of 18. She was in her first year at university then.
There are many versions of meeting her future husband, Alexander Timoshenko. The most common one, which the participant in the events herself also talks about, says that the future spouses were brought together by an erroneous phone call. One evening, the telephone rang in Yulia's apartment, on the other end of the wire there was a benevolent young man who made a mistake when dialing the number. A conversation ensued, as a result of which the young people agreed on the first meeting.
After a year of happy marriage, the daughter of Evgenia was born in the Timoshenko family.
Marriage with Alexander Timoshenko is the only one in the life of Yulia Vladimirovna. However, like all famous people, she is credited with many novels on the side. Such rumors are born due to the long separation of the spouses (Alexander was imprisoned for a long time), moreover, Lady Yu herself, on dutyservice is always surrounded by spectacular and influential men. And the slight sexual connotation, always present in the appearance of a politician, seems to confirm public speculation.
However, analysis of gossip about novels will not help to find out what nationality Yulia Tymoshenko is.
Popular version
For a long time it was generally accepted that the well-known politician is of Russian-Armenian origin. In confirmation of her Armenian roots, the surname Grigyan was cited, which was nee Timoshenko Yulia Vladimirovna.
Nationality, of course, can not be determined based only on the surname. Therefore, it is worth analyzing some statements of the politician and facts from her life.
Tymoshenko herself has repeatedly stated that in her paternal family, everyone “up to the tenth generation” is Latvian. The misunderstanding with the surname was due to the fault of the employees of the passport office. It was they who accidentally changed the B altic surname Griganis to Grigyan. There is also a version that the original sound of the surname was Grigyas.
It is also possible that the ending was deliberately changed to avoid negative publicity.
Latvian girl Yulia Timoshenko
Who by nationality is Julia's ancestors from her father's side, it is not easy to make out. If you believe the words of the politician about the many generations of Latvian ancestors, not one or two families of Grigyanis (or Grigyas) should live on the territory of modern Latvia. But no such evidencediscovered. Such a surname is simply not typical for residents of the B altic countries. This fact is confirmed by Latvian philologists, who claim that the form Griganis can only be derived from an Armenian surname.
But if Yulia Vladimirovna Timoshenko speaks the truth about her Latvian roots, and there is no reason not to trust her, then where did all her distant B altic relatives disappear to?
Were there any boys?
The absence of namesakes in the territory of modern Latvia can only be explained by the fact that for several generations only girls were born in the family, due to which the surname was practically lost. Only grandfather and father of Yulia Vladimirovna became its happy owners.
But where did Tymoshenko's ancestors come from?
Grandpa Abram
Yulia Vladimirovna's father bore the name and patronymic of Vladimir Abramovich. And if he is in fact a full-blooded Latvian, then why was his father's name Abram? It is almost impossible to find a person with such a purely Jewish name and surname Grigyanis (Grigyas) in Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia. With a high degree of certainty, it can be argued that the roots of Vladimir Grigyan (Timoshenko's father) are of Jewish origin.
Armenian ancestors
All attempts to find relatives of the politician on the territory of modern Armenia failed. The surname Grigyan turned out to be very rare in this country. Only one such family is registered in Yerevan.
At the same time, it is reliably known that quite a lot of families with the surname Grigyan live in Nagorno-Karabakh. This genus hasancient, even aristocratic origins.
There is also evidence that the surname Grigyan is quite common among Bessarabian Jews, as well as among Gypsies. This information again brings the search to the "Jewish trace".
Studying information about paternal relatives gives only half of the answers to the question of what nation Yulia Timoshenko belongs to.
Who is the mother of politics by nationality
Yulia Vladimirovna's mother was born in Dnepropetrovsk on August 11, 1937, in the Nelepov family. She married for the first time at the age of 18, taking her husband's surname Telegin. The marriage quickly fell apart. After a while, the second husband of Lyudmila Nikolaevna was Yulia's father, Vladimir Abramovich Grigyan. However, this marriage did not last long. Mother returned to the surname of her first husband, and Yulia herself bore her father's surname almost until graduation.
This, in fact, is all the information about the family ties of Lyudmila Nelepova-Telegina-Grigyan. Neither Lady Yu herself nor her mother ever went into detail about their family. Even the most agile journalists could not get more information about this.
Aunt Writer
Some light on this half of Tymoshenko's relatives is shed by her mother's sister, Antonina Ulyakhina. She dedicated two whole books to her famous niece: "Julia, Yulechka" and "Julia, Yulia Vladimirovna" (both were published in Dnepropetrovsk in 2007). They contain memories of Antonina's parents and grandparents (great-grandfathers of Yulia Vladimirovna). However, the author managed not to make a single mention of their surnames and patronymics. Onlysentimental stories and childhood memories.
Reliable facts about the nationality of the mother of the "gas princess" from this book, of course, cannot be obtained. However, after careful reading, you can come to some conclusions.
Yulia's great-grandmother speaks Ukrainian phrases on some pages of the book. But neither Tymoshenko's mother nor her sister speak the national language. Also, Yulia Vladimirovna herself did not speak it until 1999. All of her early interviews were recorded exclusively in Russian. In addition, Lady Yu herself has repeatedly stated that she mastered the Ukrainian language during this period of time.
These facts suggest that the great-grandmother "speaks" Ukrainian on purpose to unobtrusively suggest (prove) the Ukrainian origin of the politician to the reader.
The occasional mention of names in the book is also suggestive. Grandmother calls the author Tosha, and her name is Dasha. Such names are unique to the Russian-speaking population. In the Ukrainian village, Dara, Odarka, Tusya, Darina are more applicable.
In addition, it can be said with certainty that Nelepov's family name has exclusively Russian roots.
All of the above can rightfully be considered evidence of the Russian origin of Yulia Timoshenko's mother.
Who is she - Yulia Timoshenko?
Who is a famous politician by nationality, it was not possible to find out even after a thorough study of the origin of all the blood members of her family. Unfortunately, the main reason is Tymoshenko herself, whoshe kept that part of her identity securely hidden.
Certainly, in the modern world, nationality has absolutely no meaning. Citizens of Ukraine do not even have such a column in their passport. After all, at least two or three different bloods are mixed in each. Thanks to such a “cocktail”, they do not affect either the character, or the tastes and preferences of a person … Therefore, the issue of nationality has become practically unimportant for others.
However, a successful and unsophisticated politician must be honest and frank with his constituents, including in matters of his origin. Especially when they excite more than one hundred people. Moreover, if this active interest is provoked by the political person himself. Yulia Vladimirovna herself knows this very well.
Without a doubt, Yulia Vladimirovna would have received a lot of positive feedback and even an increase in her political rating if she had at least partially revealed this secret.
