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Alexander Vasilyevich Kosarev
State and party leader
Date of Birth:
Moscow, Russian Empire
Citizenship:
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Date of death:
Moscow, USSR
Awards and prizes:
The order of Lenin
Alexander Vasilievich Kosarev (1903-1939) - Soviet statesman and party leader of the 1920-1930s, head of the All-Union Communist Youth Union.
In 1934, Kosarev was a delegate to the XVII Congress of the CPSU (b) and was elected a member of the Central Committee, a member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). In 1935 - a delegate to the VII Congress of Soviets of the USSR, was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. In 1936, he was a delegate to the 10th Congress of the Komsomol, elected General Secretary of the Central Committee.
Participated in the investigation into the circumstances of the murder of Sergei Kirov.
At the VII plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (19-22 November 1938), Kosarev was removed from the post of general secretary on false charges. At the plenum, he declared: “I do not consider myself an enemy and will not consider myself ... No one can prove that I am an enemy of the people ... Personally, I feel absolutely calm, because my conscience is clear. I have never betrayed either the party or the Soviet people, and I will not change.
In 1954, Kosarev was posthumously rehabilitated and reinstated in the party.
The autumn of 2008 connected, like a crown of a log house, three round dates associated with the Komsomol: 90 years since it was formed, 105 years since the last general secretary of this youth organization, Alexander Vasilyevich Kosarev, was born, and 70 years since he was arrested on a false accusations of espionage. After the assassination of the outstanding leader of the youth of the 30s and the majority of the Central Committee, his like-minded people, there were no more general secretaries in the Komsomol - only the first ones.
He was born on November 14 (November 1, according to the old style), 1903, on the outskirts of Moscow, into a poor, large family of workers in a shawl and knitwear factory. At the age of nine, poverty sent Sasha to work at a galvanizing plant, and after two years of work in a hazardous industry, he had rough hands for the rest of his life. Before the First World War, the parents took their eleven-year-old son from the pickling shop and placed him in their own factory. Exhausting child labor, the predatory greed of the rich, unfair wages resented the teenager, and he joined the class struggle early.
After the creation of the Komsomol at the 1st All-Russian Congress of Unions of Workers' and Peasants' Youth on October 29, 1918, Kosarev joined this organization in November. In October 1919, he became a member of the RCP(b) and, at the age of less than sixteen, went to Petrograd to defend the proletarian revolution. A few months later, the Petrograd Provincial Committee sent him, who had a 2-class parochial education, to the district political school for 3-month courses. After their graduation, Kosarev headed political courses at the Central Komsomol School, but already in early March 1921, an energetic party member was appointed instructor of the Vasileostrovsky District Committee of the RKSM.
Apparently, the Zinoviev clan did not like Alexander Kosarev: at the end of 1921, he returned to Moscow and got a job as an organizer in the Bauman district committee of the RKSM. In less than a month, he had already become the first secretary of this district committee. In the spring of 1924, he was elected a member of the bureau of the RKSM MK, and he was a delegate to the XIII Congress of the RCP (b). After the congress, Kosarev makes a swift rush to the post of general secretary - Joseph Vissarionovich is closely watching the smiling and executive leader of the Moscow Komsomol, and already in July of the same year he was sent to the Communist University, and in early September he was transferred to the Executive Committee of the Communist Youth International.
Kosarev quickly changed the situation, and the opposition Moscow-Narva district committee elected him as its first secretary. However, already on April 23, 1926, Alexander was recalled to Moscow to work as the head of the organizational and distribution department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League and introduced to the bureau of the Central Committee of the Komsomol (Tsekamol), and on March 25, 1927 he was elected secretary. Already in May of the same year, he was sent as secretary of the Central Committee
VLKSM to strengthen the Moscow Committee of the Komsomol and is delegated to the fifteenth congress of the CPSU (b). On March 24, 1929, at the plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, Alexander Kosarev was elected general secretary.
So impetuous was his movement to the highest position in the communist youth organization of the Soviet Union. He became the third and last general secretary in a row: the first was Nikolai Chaplin from March 1925 to May 1928, the second was Alexander Milchakov from May 1928 to April 1929. All three during the Great Terror years of Comrade Stalin were repressed by his oprichnina.
In 1936, Kosarev was re-elected General Secretary of Tsekamol and survived the terrible year of 1937, although in August at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks a resolution was adopted that he showed intolerant political carelessness and condoned the subversive work of the enemies of the people in the Komsomol. At that time, Comrade Stalin did not hand him over to Yezhov, but a year later he did not prevent his arrest on the obviously false accusation of espionage brought by Lavrenty Beria and the physical destruction of Komsomol leaders throughout the country.
Kosarev was shot on February 23, 1939, and he became the last general secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee - all subsequent leaders of the communist youth, starting with Nikolai Mikhailov, were elected first. But why did Joseph Vissarionovich decide to lower the status of the head of the Komsomol
On October 29, 1938, Alexander Kosarev sat next to Comrade Stalin at the anniversary plenum in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the Komsomol.
Thunderous applause and praises of greetings to the "father of all times and peoples", the eyes of the youth shone with enthusiasm, shouted: "Komsomol cheers to beloved comrade Stalin."
How the cynical tyrant of the naivety of inexperienced Komsomol members had to smile in his soul, knowing full well that Lavrenty Beria, with his approval, had already prepared an accusation against the General Secretary of Tsekamol and his other associates of espionage, threatening the death of many young lives.
The great leader and mentor of the Soviet youth was well aware of all the intricacies of the impending repressions against the Komsomol members. Comrade Stalin also knew about the upcoming plenum, at which Kosarev was to be removed along with other secretaries of the Central Committee, and about the election of the successor to the third general secretary of the Komsomol, Nikolai Mikhailov, as first secretary. The arrest of the wife of the leader of the Komsomol with Lavrenty Beria, the daughter of Viktor Naneishvili, the "personal enemy" of both of them, was also agreed upon.
Over the past ten years, Joseph Vissarionovich treated Alexander Kosarev with special sympathy, the leader of the Komsomol members was considered his favorite. Comrade Stalin liked the provocative readiness of the young general secretary, the instigator of various Komsomol affairs, to successfully carry out undertakings approved by the CPSU (b), his energetic, cheerful
character, boundless devotion to the communist idea, honesty and disinterestedness. The third general secretary of the Komsomol became in the thirties not only an authoritative leader of the Komsomol, but also a very respected member of the party
With the approval of Comrade Stalin, border outposts, educational institutions, and sports clubs were named after Alexander Kosarev. Kosarev's energy was enough for the development of FZU, and for the organization of Komsomol construction projects, and for mass sports work among young people. In 1933, in Paris, at the World Anti-War Congress, he was elected to the International Committee for the Struggle Against
fascism and war. He saw the main tasks of the Komsomol in the upbringing of a healthy lifestyle, patriotism, selfless work of youth in the name of a bright future for mankind.
Comrade Stalin's first doubts about the absolute devotion of Alexander Kosarev to him personally could appear after the assassination of S. M. Kirov. Investigating in the commission, together with Nikolai Yezhov, the circumstances of the case, the Secretary General of Tsekamol doubted the correctness of the final conclusions, not realizing that they were all agreed with Comrade Stalin. However, in 1936, the leader of the party was still favorably disposed towards the leadership of the Komsomol, and Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko, chairman of the shakhsector of the executive bureau of the VSFC, successfully resolved the issues of financing the third Moscow International Tournament through Kosarev.
With the beginning of the Great Terror, Iosif Vissarionovich strongly advised the general and other secretaries of the Komsomol Central Committee "... to lead the fight against the enemies of the people." However, Alexander dared to defend his cadres after their arrest, and Comrade Stalin was greatly enraged. At the height of the repressions in August 1937, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, it was noted by a special resolution that Tsekamol, and first of all Comrade Kosarev, "... showed intolerant political carelessness and overlooked the special methods of subversive work of the enemies of the people in the Komsomol."
But the leader of the Komsomol did not understand anything, he imagined himself to be a real general secretary of youth in the system of one-party tyranny, and in October 1937 he dared to send a memorandum to Comrade Stalin condemning mass terror:
“Self-insurance is beneficial to the enemies of the Party, because honest people, on the basis of mere rumors, indiscriminately, without being subject to verification, are expelled from our ranks, thereby exasperating them against us.” Twenty days after the anniversary evening, which solemnly celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the formation of the Komsomol, on November 19, 1938, an extraordinary plenum of the Central Committee of the Komsomol was held according to a letter from Mishakova.
It was most likely a provocation on the instructions of the general secretary of the party. For some unknown reason, the instructor of the Central Committee Mishakova, sent to the Chuvash regional conference, suddenly began to expose the secretary of the regional committee, as well as other Komsomol workers little known to her, as enemies of the people and bourgeois nationalists. Kosarev discussed at the bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League the behavior of Mishakova, who did not have the authority to dissolve the conference, and she was released from work for "gross mistakes ...". The instructor wrote a letter to Comrade Stalin, accusing General Secretary Tsekamol of complicity with the enemies of the people.
Comrade Stalin came to the extraordinary November plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League together with Kaganovich, Zhdanov, Molotov, Malenkov and Andreev. Kosarev, Bogachev, Pikin were removed from the secretaries of the Central Committee. A few days later they were arrested, accused of espionage. Kosarev did not admit to anything, did not betray anyone, and at the last interrogation he prophetically threw in the face of investigator B.V. Rhodes: “... you are destroying the Soviet government: you will answer for everything anyway, you bastards.” On February 23, 1939, the last general secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee was shot.
Comrade Stalin was given Kosarev's dying letter, in which he edifyingly taught the "father of all peoples" that "... to destroy the cadres brought up by the Soviet government is madness." After Kosarev, Joseph Vissarionovich stopped appointing the leaders of the Komsomol as general secretaries so that they would not be arrogant and know their place in the system of a one-party dictatorship.
A swarthy, smiling face, friendly, slightly slanted eyes, and a naughty dark tuft at the top of her head. This is how it can be seen in the miraculously preserved archival photographs. There are no home albums left lovingly kept by relatives. They were confiscated and destroyed by the NKVD.
He was Sasha for the working guys, and for the writer Maxim Gorky, and for Stalin and the entire Politburo. He was called "the mind, honor and conscience of the Komsomol." In a short time, he went from a working guy to the General Secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee.
On the same night, from November 28 to 29, 1938, two more secretaries of the Komsomol Central Committee were arrested: Valentina Pikina and Serafim Bogachev. So the Komsomol was declared a forge of spies.
The purpose of this article is to renounce the collisions of the higher text, to show how meanness is laid - execution in the code of the FULL NAME OF ALEXANDER KOSAREV.
Watch in advance "Logicology - about the fate of man".
Consider the FULL NAME code tables. \If there is a shift in numbers and letters on your screen, adjust the image scale\.
11 26 44 45 62 68 71 72 84 90 101 119 120 134 139 156 159 160 178 188 200 229 235 238 248 272
K O S A R E V A L E K S A N D R V A S I L E V I C
272 261 246 228 227 210 204 201 200 188 182 171 153 152 138 133 116 113 112 94 84 72 43 37 34 24
1 13 19 30 48 49 63 68 85 88 89 107 117 129 158 164 167 177 201 212 227 246 247 263 269 272
ALEKSANDR V A S I L E V I CH K O S A R E V
272 271 259 253 242 224 223 209 204 187 184 183 165 155 143 114 108 105 95 71 60 45 27 26 9 3
Let's carry out the traditional reading of individual words and sentences:
KOSAREV = 71 = FAST.
ALEXANDER VASILIEVICH \u003d 201 \u003d OUTCOME SHOT.
201 - 71 = 130 = DESTROYED.
272 \u003d 130 + 142 - HIT by a BULLET.
KOSAREV ALEXANDER \u003d 156 \u003d SHOT FROM NAGAN \ a \.
VASILIEVICH \u003d 116 \u003d 1-A + 115-FATAL
272 = DEATH SHOT FROM NAGAN.
VASILIEVICH KOSAREV \u003d 187 \u003d EXECUTED BY SHOT \u003d DISASTER OF BULLETS \u003d KILLED WITH A BULLET IN THE HEAD.
ALEXANDER = 85 REVENGE.
187 - 85 = 102 = SHOT.
272 = 102 + 70-EXODUS.
DATE OF BIRTH code: 1.\14\.11.1903. This is \u003d 1 + 11 + 19 + 03 \u003d 34 \u003d DEATH \ b \, NAGAN.
272 = 34 + 238-\ 175-HEADSHOT + 63-DEATH \.
Code DATE OF DEATH: 02/23/1939. This = 23 + 02 + 19 + 39 = 83 = DEAD.
272 = 83 + 189 - HUMAN MURDER.
Code of the DEATH DAY = 86-TWENTY, WILL DIE + 96-THREE, DIE + 92-FEBRUARY, DEAD = 274 = KILLED BY A SHOT FROM THE NAGAN.
FULL DATE OF DEATH code = 274-TWENTY-THIRD OF FEBRUARY + 58-BULLETS \ YEAR OF DEATH code \ = 332 = KILLED BY A SHOT OF A BULLET FROM A NAGAN.
332 - 272-\ FULL NAME code \ = 60 = IN PERSON.
Code of COMPLETE YEARS OF LIFE = 123-THIRTY, DISASTER + 96-FIVE, DYING = 219 = DEATH.
Addition:
272 = 103-SHOT + 169-KILLED WITH A REVOLT BULLET = 78-BULLET + 194-HEAD BRAIN PUNCH = BULLET HEAD = 152-HEAD PUNCH + 120-END OF LIFE = 16-BEND + 256-HEAD BULLET = 133 -KILL + 139-BULLET DIE = 82-SHOT + 120-END OF LIFE + 70-EXECUTIVE = 72-HEAD + 200-FORTAL WOUND = 218-BULLET-WOUND TO HEAD + 54-BOAT = 80-BULLET + 103-SHOT + 89-KILLED = 170-SENTENCED + 102-SHOT = POSE SHOT OUTCOME
34-\ code of DATE OF BIRTH \ + 219-\ code of COMPLETE YEARS OF LIFE \ = 253.
253 - 83-\ code DATE OF DEATH \ \u003d 170 \u003d SHOOTING.
On August 13, 1954, at a meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU (Prot. No. 78, item XIV), it was decided to “accept Comrade Rudenko’s proposal to terminate the case of A. V. Kosarev and rehabilitate him” (RGANI, F. 3, Op. 8 D. 135. L. 38). On August 24, 1954, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR rehabilitated A. V. Kosarev.
272 = 85 - INNOCENT! + 129-FALSELY ACCUSED! + 58-In vain.
272 = 129-FALSELY ACCUSED! + 58-in vain + 85-revenge!
Reviews
Albert Alexandrovich!
Is it possible, using your method, to show the author of the article about Secretary Kosarev that he deservedly punished? Or undeserved?
What's strange? Until now, many documents about the repressed have not been disclosed.
In (Lubyanka. Stalin and the NKVD-NKGB-GUKR "Smersh". 1939-March 1946.- M .; MFD, 2006, C590) it is stated that Kosarev pleaded guilty.
But, unfortunately, the protocols of interrogations, court hearings, etc. are not available to researchers until today?
Isn't it strange?
Why not show the public the documents justifying Kosarev?
Who does not allow?
Kosarev did not admit to anything, did not betray anyone, and at the last interrogation he prophetically threw in the face of investigator B.V. Rhodes: “... you are destroying the Soviet government: you will answer for everything anyway, you bastards.”
Comrade Stalin was given Kosarev's dying letter, in which he edifyingly taught the "father of all peoples" that "... to destroy the cadres brought up by the Soviet government is madness."
In 1959, Kosarev was posthumously rehabilitated and reinstated in the party. The ashes were buried at the Donskoy Cemetery, in the Mass Grave No. 1. Next to it is the cenotaph of A.V. Kosarev, installed on the grave of his wife Neneishvili M.V.
Repressed on November 29, 1938, arrested, by the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on February 22, 1939 sentenced to death, shot on February 23 of the same year.
Albert Semyonovich!
I do not want to offend you, but this is all that you have brought, as the people say, chatter!
Society in Russia cannot see all the documents and materials confirming the correctness of Kosarev's rehabilitation. As well as the documents on the basis of which he suffered! Why not present these documents to the public? Who slows down and why? Today!
Research scientist Grover Furr seriously doubts the correctness of the rehab certificate for Kosyrev. His questions are very serious and conclusive! Try to answer them...
See Grover Furr "Anti-Stalin meanness", Moscow: Algorithm, 2008, p. 160-164 - A. V. Kosyrev
The book is on the Internet, you can download it for free!
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R. A. RUDENKO’S NOTE TO THE CPSU Central Committee ON THE REHABILITATION OF A. V. KOSAREV
Thus, the above circumstances indicate that Beria dealt with Kosarev as an objectionable and dangerous person for him.
I would have thought to bring a protest about the termination of the Kosarev case for his posthumous rehabilitation.
I ask for your instructions.
USSR Prosecutor General R. Rudenko
AP RF. F. 3. Op. 24. D. 439. L. 135–140. Script. Typescript
58 On August 13, 1954, at a meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU (Prot. No. 78, p. XIV), it was decided “to accept Comrade Rudenko’s proposal to terminate the case of A. V. Kosarev and rehabilitate him” (RGANI, F. 3, Op. 8. D. 135. L. 38). On August 24, 1954, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR rehabilitated A. V. Kosarev.
Albert Alexandrovich!
Thank you!
But there are no facts! Where are the facts! Facts are a stubborn thing, as J. Stalin liked to say!
Grover Furr, with all his talent as a researcher, has not been able to unearth the facts for many years. It looks like they are hiding from us. But the questions the researcher asks cast doubt on Kosarev's rehabilitation!
Check out his questions...
And it is interesting to read Izvestia of the Central Committee of the CPSU after 1989, when we already know "who is who" ... and who was on the editorial board.
I found information about rehabilitation on the Internet and brought it to you after a link to Izvestia. The search took less than five minutes.
Ask a question: the rehabilitation of Alexander Kosarev and you will receive the answer that I gave you.
EDITORIAL COUNCIL:
A.N.Yakovlev (Chairman), E.T.Gaidar, V.P.Kozlov, V.A.Martynov, S.V.Mironenko, V.P.Naumov, V.F.Petrovsky, E.M.Primakov , E.S. Radzinsky, A.N. Sakharov, G.N. Sevostyanov
REHABILITATION: HOW IT WAS
Albert Alexandrovich!
You are referring to minor things, not facts.
The current and previous authorities do not spread the facts to us. And this is the materials of the investigation, the court. They are ORIGINAL! Stalin is no more. He doesn't hide anything. There are no more Stalinists. They don't hide anything. Why are historians not allowed to access source materials? Who is behind this? Why are they not allowed? Doesn't anyone care about this question???
And if there is no access to the source materials, then why, and is it possible to trust the rehabilitation certificates, to which dubious individuals put their hands?
And you. Do you have a method that allows you to numerically calculate the fate of a person?
Is it known that Kosarev was killed?
Is he guilty?
He himself pleaded guilty during the investigation. And if some of those under investigation refused their testimony at the trial, he did not refuse.
He was a favorite of I. Stalin. I. Stalin. was "killed" by his deed and instructed all the materials of the investigation to be checked by some members of the Central Committee. The case was not cooked according to the instructions of I. Stalin ... At the end of the case, I. Stalin was convinced of the betrayal of the "favorite" ...
Why are the materials of the investigation and trial still classified? Who needs it?
You are wrong on three points: firstly, Stalin suggested that Alexander organize a total purge among the leaders of the Komsomol, to which his favorite did not agree, and secondly, Kosarev had his own opinion on repression, but he did not know, did not think, did not suspect, that Stalin is a coward and paranoid. Thirdly, when Stalin found out that Kosarev had married a Georgian woman, he directly told Alexander that her father was a personal enemy of Stalin and Beria.
Read the biography of Alexander and everything will be clear to you.
Articles in the popular press, as it has become clear to everyone today, are unreliable. Sometimes different articles report absolutely opposite things. Mgeladze, who respected Kosarev and turned to I. Stalin with questions about Kosarev, informed the public of I. Stalin's opinion that everyone made mistakes, but especially many of them were committed in 1937, but this does not apply to Kosarev's case.
There are facts (documents) in the Kosarev case that are still hidden! Why?
Why do you think he is innocent without citing facts-evidence? Why the facts of his case have not yet been made public. I. Stalin, I think, would not mind if today the peoples of Russia learned about the Pravda, saw the actual materials of the case. Why, starting from the Khrushchev era and until now, the facts are being hidden? Who needs it?
Have you thought about it?
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Soviet party and statesman of the 1920-1930s, long-term leader of the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union.
A.V. Kosarev was born on November 1 (14), 1903 in Blagusha, the northeastern outskirts of pre-revolutionary Moscow, into a working-class family. He graduated from two classes of the parochial school. However, all his life he was engaged in self-education, exclusively reading a lot, seriously studying mathematics and chemistry. He began his career at the age of 10 at the Anisimov galvanizing plant. Since 1914, Kosarev worked on knitting machines at the Richard-Simon and Co. factory. At the age of 11, he gave a nickel from his paycheck to the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda. Together with the workers, he advocated improving conditions and increasing wages, participated in workers' strikes, and showed proletarian solidarity. In the fall of 1917, Sasha joined the III International Union of Working Youth organized by the Bolsheviks - the predecessor of the Moscow Komsomol. From that time on, his whole life was connected with the youthful communist movement. Immediately after the creation of the Komsomol in November 1918, he joined its ranks and, at the request of the Lefortovo district committee of the RKSM, switched to Komsomol work.
In the fall of 1919, Sasha Kosarev, as part of the Moscow Komsomol detachment, volunteered to go to the front, to defend Petrograd from the white troops of Yudenich. The detachment was in reserve and stationed in Petrograd itself, carrying out guard duty and communications. By the decision of the Petrosoviet, the detachment was declared partisan: in the event of the Whites entering St. Petersburg, it was supposed to conduct partisan operations. In October 1919, during the "Party Week", Kosarev, at the age of 16, joined the ranks of the RCP (b). "Party week" was, at the suggestion of Lenin, announced at the most difficult moment of the Civil War, when the existence of Soviet power was in doubt, and when the party ticket most likely promised in the near future not positions and rations, but torture and the gallows. Then they were accepted into the party even without recommendations, believing that those who accepted the title of communist at such a moment are the most reliable people, and you can rely on them in the future. Kosarev did not participate in the battles, but was wounded by some random bullet.
In the spring of 1920, in the direction of the Petrograd Provincial Committee of the RKSM, Alexander studied at a three-month regional political school. He worked as the head of political courses at the Central Komsomol School in Petrograd. On March 4, 1921, he was approved as an instructor by the Vasileostrovsky District Committee of the RKSM. At the end of 1921 he returned to Moscow, worked as an organizer in the Bauman district committee of the RKSM. On January 15, 1922, the Moscow Committee of the RKSM transferred him to work as the first secretary of the Bauman district committee, from December Kosarev was the deputy head of the organizational department of the MK RKSM. Since May 1923 - again the first secretary of the Bauman RK RKSM. On April 30, 1924, he was elected a member of the bureau of the MK RKSM. On September 30, 1922, Kosarev became a member of the Bauman Republican Committee of the RCP (b), a delegate to the XIII Congress of the RCP (b) (May 23-31, 1924).
In July 1924, Kosarev was sent to study at the Communist University. On September 2, 1924, he was transferred to the Executive Committee of the Communist Youth International (KIM). On November 15, the Central Committee of the RKSM sends him to work as the first secretary of the Penza provincial committee of the RKSM. In December 1925 - a delegate to the XIV Congress of the CPSU (b).
In January 1926, as part of a brigade of the Central Committee of the RLKSM, he was sent to Leningrad to explain the decisions of the XIV Congress of the CPSU (b), taking into account the fact that the leaders of the regional committee and district committees of the Komsomol actively supported the "Leningrad" Zinoviev left opposition. Alexander was introduced to the North-Western Bureau of the Central Committee of the RLKSM. The conference of the former opposition Moscow-Narva district committee of the Komsomol elected him the first secretary of their district committee. At the VII Congress of the Komsomol (March 11-22, 1926) he was elected to the Central Committee of the Komsomol (he remained a member of the Central Committee until 1938). On April 23, 1926, he was transferred to work as the head of the organizational and distribution department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League and introduced to the bureau and secretariat of the Central Committee. On March 25, 1927, he was elected secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee. At the request of the Moscow Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, in May 1927 he headed the Moscow Committee of the Komsomol, while remaining secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, and from 1928 a member of the executive committee of the Kim. In December 1927, at the XV Congress of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, he was elected a member of the Central Control Commission of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. On March 24, 1929, the plenum of the Central Committee of the Komsomol elects Kosarev as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. On August 16, 1929, he solemnly opens the first All-Union rally of pioneers.
In 1929, at the V All-Union Congress of Soviets, A.V. Kosarev was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. In July 1930, at the 16th Congress of the CPSU(b), he was elected a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b). In July 1929, he participated in the international anti-imperialist youth congress in Frankfurt am Main. In 1933, he headed the delegation of Soviet youth at the world anti-war congress in Paris, was elected to the International Committee for the Struggle against Fascism and War.
On October 28, 1933, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR awarded A. V. Kosarev the Order of Lenin as "a proven leader of the Lenin Komsomol, an outstanding organizer of the Komsomol masses in their struggle under the leadership of the party for the victory of the five-year plan."
In 1934, Kosarev was a delegate to the XVII Congress of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks - the "Congress of the Victors" (more precisely, the "Congress of the Executed Victors" and was elected a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and a member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks). In December 1934, as part of a special Commission, headed by I. V. Stalin, traveled to Leningrad to participate in the investigation into the circumstances of the murder of S. M. Kirov.
In 1935 in Paris A.V. Kosarev participated in the work of the International Youth Conference for Peace, Freedom and Progress and in the extended meeting of the International Bureau for the preparation of an international gathering of youth; headed the delegation of the Komsomol at the VI Congress of the KIM. In 1936, he participated in the work of the International World Association of Youth for Peace, Freedom and Progress in Paris; at the World Youth Congress in Geneva. With the participation and under the leadership of Kosarev, the All-Union Committee for International Relations of Youth (1937) and the All-Union Committee of Youth of the USSR for Peace (1938) were founded and worked.
Deputy of the Supreme Soviets of the USSR and the RSFSR of the first convocation. At the first session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (January 1938) he was elected a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. For a long time I.V. enjoyed great personal favor. Stalin: he could at any time dial the Stalinist telephone on the “turntable” and was accepted without delay. At one of the Kremlin receptions, Stalin hugged Kosarev, kissed him and said: “Sasha, I love you like a son!”
Kosarev did not like to sit in offices. He traveled a lot around the country, trying to personally find out the state of affairs and correct it for the better. So he spent a long time at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, participating in the organization of the development of its production facilities.
Under the leadership of Kosarev, the Komsomol is doing a lot to train and educate future defenders of the Motherland. A significant contribution to strengthening the country's defense capability was the patronage of the Komsomol over the Navy and the Air Force. Many future famous heroes of the Great Patriotic War left the "Komsomol appeals" for aviation and the navy. Calling on Komsomol members to jump with a parachute, Alexander wanted to jump first, but he was forbidden to do this by the top leadership in the order of party discipline, which upset Sasha very much.
Alexander Kosarev made a significant contribution to cultural construction. In April 1936, Kosarev was approached with a number of interesting proposals for the development of book publishing in the USSR by A.M. Gorky: “...take over the supervision of all serial publications, such as, for example, The Life of Remarkable People, Historical Novels, and all publications of this type in general.” Kosarev responded vividly to the words of the writer. Since 1938, the books of the ZhZL series began to be published under the brand name of the Komsomol publishing house "Young Guard", under which they are published to this day.
Alexander Vasilyevich was very concerned about the publication of good children's books. At his insistence, the Central Committee of the Party transfers the Children's Publishing House to the Central Committee of the Komsomol, which has since become one of the best Soviet publishing houses. Literary classics and works by Soviet children's writers are being published, Camille Flammarion's "Popular Astronomy" and Alfred Brehm's "Animal Life" are returning to Soviet children. "The Life of Insects" by Jean Fabre, magnificent geographical annuals "Globe" appear. In 1936, the first Soviet "thick" magazine for children "Pioneer" appeared, which opened with the story "Blue Cup" by Arkady Gaidar.
Kosarev stood at the origins of the birth of TRAMs - Theaters of Working Youth in Moscow and Leningrad, the future famous theaters of the Lenin Komsomol. However, he considered M.A. Bulgakov's "Days of the Turbins" and was indignant that the Komsomol organizations did not protest against the showing of this performance. Kosarev also raises questions of the development of film art for children, sets the task of creating a children's film industry. With his participation, the Soyuzdetfilm studio is being created. By the way, the legendary film "Children of Captain Grant" (1936) was created with the support of the Komsomol Central Committee.
In 1928, Alexander Kosarev married Maria Naneishvili, the daughter of the old revolutionary Viktor Ivanovich Naneishvili, one of the founders of the social democratic movement in Transcaucasia (who later became the “personal enemy” of I.V. Dzhugashvili and was shot in 1940). They had a daughter, Lenochka. In the 1930s, the Kosarev family settled in the House on the Embankment, where a memorial plaque is now installed in memory of A.V. Kosarev. Alexander loved to spend his free time hunting.
In life, he was rude. At meetings and meetings, he called Komsomol workers axes, janitors, porters. (True, for the sake of justice, it should be noted that many Komsomol workers deserved such words in their address.) He could have gone on a spree. But what! Alexander Kosarev was a living person, with his own strengths and weaknesses.
As you know, the cult of personality I.V. Stalin was accompanied by "small" personality cults of leaders of a lower rank. Such a cult was created in the Komsomol to Alexander Kosarev. Unctuous words and glorifications poured into his address. When he appeared in the presidiums of Komsomol events, thunderous applause and shouts of "hurray" were heard. The Central Aero Club of the USSR, an oil tanker on the Volga, a settlement and a mine in the gold mines of Aldan, a research mining and exploration institute, a railway station, an Air Force squadron, border outposts and detachments were named after him. But at the same time, he continued to be Sasha, as members of the Politburo, cultural figures, and ordinary Komsomol members called him.
Man and leader of his time. Kosarev took an active part in the repressions of the 30s, like many others. He actively accepted and supported Stalin's thesis of "aggravation of the class struggle."
At the February-March Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in 1937, Kosarev (as, indeed, I.E. Yakir) supported the “extreme” proposal: N.I. Bukharin and A.I. Rykov "to be brought to trial and shot." (Even Stalin himself then took a more moderate position.) He personally authorized the arrest of many leaders and workers of the Komsomol. However, Alexander, it seems, began to open his eyes: he fired Olga Mishakova (a mentally ill lady), an instructor of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, after she tried to dissolve the regional Komsomol conference in Chuvashia, because there “poorly launched work on crush the enemy." However, Mishakova suddenly found powerful patrons.
At the extraordinary VII Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (November 19-22, 1938), where the entire Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks was present, headed by Stalin, who personally supported Mishakov, A.V. Kosarev was removed from the post of General Secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee. At the plenum, he declared: “I do not consider myself an enemy and will not consider myself ... No one can prove that I am an enemy of the people ... Personally, I feel absolutely calm, because my conscience is clear. I have never betrayed either the party or the Soviet people, and I will not change.
On the night of November 29, 1938, Alexander Kosarev was arrested at his dacha in Peredelkino. The arrest was made personally by L.P. Beria. As a result of cruel "measures of physical coercion", he "confessed" to "counter-revolutionary, espionage and terrorist activities." Admitted like thousands of others...
On February 23, 1939, Alexander Vasilyevich Kosarev was shot by the verdict of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR in Lefortovo prison. The body was cremated in the Donskoy crematorium. His wife, Maria Viktorovna Naneishvili, was subjected to repressions (she was sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp as “a member of the family of a traitor to the Motherland”). Daughter Elena Alexandrovna Kosareva, a student at the Timiryazev Academy, was arrested in 1947 and sent into exile in Norilsk, and the formal reason for the arrest was “keeping a photograph of an enemy of the people”: Lena kept a portrait of her father under her pillow. In 1954, Kosarev was posthumously rehabilitated.
Only in August 1991, on the eve of the collapse of the USSR, the wife and daughter of Alexander Kosarev officially learned that the ashes of their husband and father rest in the grave of unclaimed ashes No. 1 of the new Donskoy cemetery in Moscow.
In June 1993, Maria Viktorovna Naneishvili passed away. She was buried near "grave No. 1". Here, a cenotaph was arranged for Alexander Vasilyevich Kosarev, indicating on the tombstone that the ashes were in a mass grave nearby.
Kosarev Alexander Vasilievich(11/14/1903 - 2/23/1939), leader of the communist youth movement. Member of the RKSM since 1918, member of the CPSU since 1919. Born in Moscow in a working-class family, at the age of 15 he volunteered for the Red Army; participant in the Civil War of 1918-20. After the Civil War, he was secretary of the Bauman district committee of the Komsomol in Moscow, the Moscow-Narva district committee of the Komsomol in Leningrad and the Penza provincial committee of the Komsomol. In 1926 he was secretary of the Moscow Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. In 1927 secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee. From March 1929 to 1939 General Secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee. Delegate of the 13-17th party congresses, at the 15th congress he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, at the 16th - a candidate member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, at the 17th congress - a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. He was a member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. Awarded the Order of Lenin.
At the 7th plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, on false charges, Kosarev was removed from the post of general secretary. At the plenum, he declared: “I do not consider myself an enemy and will not consider myself ... No one can prove that I am an enemy of the people ... Personally, I feel absolutely calm, because my conscience is clear. I have never betrayed either the party or the Soviet people, and I will not change.
Arrested December 1st. On February 23, 1939, he was shot by the verdict of the visiting session of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court in Lefortovo prison. The body was cremated at the Donskoy Monastery. His wife Maria Viktorovna Naneishvili and daughter Elena Aleksandrovna Kosareva were subjected to repressions. In 1959, Kosarev was posthumously rehabilitated and reinstated in the party.
Alexander Vasilyevich Kosarev along with Starostins stood at the origins of the creation " Spartacus", he made the creation of a sports society a reality" Spartacus".
Here is what he wrote Andrey Starostin in his book "Meetings in Football Orbit":
The Komsomol paid a lot of attention to our team. There was nothing surprising in this. After all, on Presnya, where the progenitor of today's " Spartacus”, the team of the ISS, it was organized on the initiative of the football players living in the area, and with the direct participation of the district committee of the Komsomol.
Youth leaders of the thirties, secretaries of the Komsomol Central Committee - Dmitry Lukyanov, a recognized Komsomol speaker, Sergei Saltanov, Pavel Gorshenin - were frequent guests in our team. However, the idea of creating a voluntary sports society following the example of Dynamo was given to us by Alexander Vasilyevich Kosarev.
What an extraordinarily attractive man he was! In the struggle for a just life and the people's truth, Kosarev, a boy from a poor working-class family in the Moscow outskirts, went a long and difficult path from an auxiliary worker at a pre-revolutionary factory to a universally recognized leader of the youth.
I had to meet Alexander Vasilyevich many times when he was already the secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. This also happened at official receptions, when he was dressed "according to the protocol" - in an excellent civilian suit, in a white shirt with a tie. As if the Komsomol of the times of the Civil War took hostility to such an outfit of his. But time fled quickly, and the norms of life changed in step with it. He suddenly appeared at the apartment of both Nikolai and me, fortunately, my brother and I lived in the same entrance, in a more casual suit, without a “gavrilka”. However, no matter how he was dressed, I always remembered him from the first meeting - a sly sparkle in his eyes, a slightly raised right eyebrow and a rebellious cockerel on the back of his head.
The very nature of the meetings spoke of the simplicity of Alexander Vasilyevich. Probably, this sincerity, spiritual purity was the irresistible force that so attracted young people to Kosarev.
So, one of the meetings took place at the corner of the Sandunovsky baths. Right there at the entrance to the alley. I was warned by Nikolai that Alexander Vasilievich might come to take a steam bath in Sanduny, having heard, they say, about your records on the shelf.
Back in Pogost, my grandfather taught me to steam on straw in a Russian stove. I really freaked out a lot. With the Tatars, inveterate lovers of the steam room, he withstood the competition. Once grabbed in the steam room with a wizened old man. Skinny, like a deserter from a cemetery. He didn't want to give in. And you know, he lies with his eyes closed on the bench and won't even look at me. After the last sacrifice, all the spirit went out of me - I barely got out of the steam room. He experienced defeat, like at the gate to Dr. Sedov. Moreover, my competition began in front of the guys. As soon as I confessed to them in the locker room, I lost, and now I hear some kind of noise. I look - they carry my competitor. It turns out that he lay unconscious on the shelf while I smoked him out of the steam room. The old man just left. And yes, I was a little overwhelmed. In football circles, then a lot of people laughed about it. It was this incident that Nikolai told Alexander Vasilyevich, inviting him to take a steam bath with the players.
I look, Nikolai comes up, and next to him is an average height, well downed young man. In a cap, in a white coat with an unbuttoned collar, and in summer canvas shoes. “Instead of Kosarev, Nikolay brought some newcomer football player”, I thought.
Noticing my sour face, Nikolai asked disapprovingly: “Didn’t recognize Alexander Vasilievich, did you?”
I felt myself blushing, absurdly fussed, mumbled something, apologizing, and Kosarev, holding out his hand, smiled so kindly that all embarrassment disappeared from me.
We got on really well. While getting dressed, Alexander Vasilyevich reminded that he was waiting for proposals on the organization of a new society and its name.
I already wrote how it was born, this name, in my book "Big Football". Here I will only remind you that after lengthy disputes and an endless number of proposals, the fate of the name was decided by the book Giovagnoli " Spartacus» , which caught the eye of Nikolai when an initiative group of football players gathered at his apartment to discuss this issue.
- We need a motto that reflects the best qualities of an athlete's personality: courage, the will to win, resilience in the fight, dexterity and strength, loyalty to the idea. The leader of the Roman gladiators had all these virtues. I propose to name the society " Spartacus"! - said Nikolai, lifting the book up.
Everyone liked it. That's what they decided on.
Together with the new name, which has found unconditional approval Kosarev, « Spartacus"Received a suburban sports base - Tarasovka, which has been serving the team without fail to this day.
Kosarev Alexander Grigorievich - Russian writer, author of adventure novels and short stories. Favorite topic - the search for treasures. In this article, we will present the biography of the author and talk about the most famous works.
Biography
Alexander Kosarev was born in 1948, on April 16, in the city of Moscow. After graduating from high school, he went to work in a computer center. Then he was drafted into the army. He served in the main intelligence unit of the USSR in Kamchatka. His service time coincided with the start of the Vietnam War, and Kosarev went to the war zone as part of a small group of Soviet soldiers.
When the service in the army was over, Alexander Grigorievich entered the Moscow Chemical-Technological Institute. Mendeleev, after which the writer went to work at the research institute. The collapse of the USSR greatly changed the life of Kosarev. He had to leave science and change several jobs, including being a shuttle and a security guard.
Creation
Alexander Kosarev during his work and service visited many places in Russia, Turkey, China, Greece, Libya. He used the impressions and information accumulated during these trips to create action-adventure novels. It is noteworthy that the writer personally took part in many of the events described. The favorite topic of the writer is the treasures that disappeared during the Patriotic War of 1812.
Kosarev is one of the correspondents for Miracles and Adventures magazine, in which he publishes his original versions explaining mysterious cultural, natural and historical events. Now let's talk about the most famous works of the author.
"Cardboard Stars"
This novel stands apart from all the works of the writer. The fact is that Alexander Kosarev took events from his life rich in adventures as the basis for this book. In particular, the time of service in the special forces of the GRU of the USSR, as well as the Vietnam War, in which Kosarev took part. The novel gives the reader the opportunity to see historical events through the eyes of a direct participant. Much of the published information and facts in this book are unique and cannot be found in the pages of history textbooks.
The novel was included in the series "Military Adventures" of the publishing house "Veche".
"Mysteries of ancient treasures"
Alexander Kosarev appears in this book as a professional treasure hunter. It contains various stories about extreme situations in which the people who made history found themselves. And only the discovery of material evidence of these incidents can refute or confirm what was considered historical fact or dubious legend. The book tells about such famous and mysterious Russian treasures and related secrets as the cross of Euphrosyne of Polotsk, "Batu's Silver", Kolchak's echelons, the secrets of Lavrenty Beria and others.
The work will appeal to lovers of not only adventure, but also history.
"Messenger of Death"
In the center of the book is a story that began in ancient times in Tibet and medieval China and unexpectedly continued during the Second World War, and reached its logical end only today.
The protagonist of the novel, a Russian treasure hunter, finds ancient writings and mysterious objects of unknown origin, for which the fighters of the Nazi team from the famous Ahnenerbe, which was considered destroyed, begin to hunt. Paranormal phenomena and mysticism begin to intertwine with terrible secrets from the history of the world's largest states.
The book is amazing in that it combines a detective story, a documentary story and an adventure novel.
Alexander Vasilyevich Kosarev was born in Moscow into a working-class family. He was educated in a two-year elementary school. He was 9 when his mother took him to the zinc factory. Pickling baths were dug into the floor in the dark barn; on his knees, he washed the workpieces in acid. Then he worked at a knitwear factory. At the age of 11, he gave a nickel from his paycheck to the workers' newspaper Pravda. At the age of 15, he fled to the front under a wagon bench, participated in the defense of Petrograd in 1919. In 1918 he joined the Komsomol, in 1919 he joined the party. He was one of the founders of the Komsomol.
Demobilized due to injury, he went to study at a political school. Then he returned to Moscow to work in the Bauman district committee of the Komsomol, was its secretary from 1921. Then he headed the Moscow-Narva district committee in Petrograd, from 1924 the secretary of the Penza provincial committee of the Komsomol, in January-April 1926 the secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol in Leningrad , in 1926-29. 1st Secretary of the Moscow Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. From 1928 secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee, from March 1929 general secretary of the Komsomol. In 1927-1930. member of the Central Control Commission of the CPSU (b). Since 1930, a candidate member, since 1934, a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee. In 1938 he was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. He had unquestioned authority in the Komsomol, enjoyed wide popularity, being considered one of the most promising party leaders. At one time, he was even considered a favorite of I.V. Stalin. True, the marriage of Kosarev to Maria Naneishvili, the daughter of Viktor Naneishvili, who, being secretary of the Karakalpak regional party committee, had a heated argument with Stalin on the national question, was not approved by the leader: "I know Viktor Naneishvili. He is my personal enemy."
Back in 1937, after the arrest of 3 secretaries of the Komsomol Central Committee Saltanov, Lukyanov and Fainberg (the first two lived in the House on the embankment), Kosarev and the secretaries of the Komsomol Central Committee P. Gorshenin and V. Pikin (all of them also lived in the House) were summoned to Stalin. Stalin reproached Kosarev for the fact that the Central Committee of the Komsomol does not help the internal affairs bodies to expose the enemies of the people. Alexander Vasilyevich replied that the Komsomol did not have any compromising materials in relation to those arrested and, therefore, could not provide assistance to the authorities. Stalin was dissatisfied: "Kosarev, I see that you do not want to lead this work."
For 3 quarters of 1937, more than 72 thousand people were expelled from the Komsomol throughout the country. Of these, as hostile elements - 34.5 thousand. The denunciation of Kosarev was made with the help of Olga Mishakova, instructor of the Komsomol Central Committee. She wrote a denunciation to Stalin on October 7, 1938. On November 19, a plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League was convened. Kosarev was charged with numerous charges, to which he replied: "My conscience is clear."
In November 1938, Kosarev was removed from the post of 1st Secretary and expelled from the Central Committee of the Komsomol "for a gross violation of intra-Komsomol democracy, a soulless bureaucratic and hostile attitude towards honest Komsomol workers, patronage of morally decomposed, drunken aliens to the party and Komsomol elements". On November 29, 1938, he was arrested at his dacha. Beria himself came to arrest him. At the same time, he ordered the arrest of his wife, Maria Naneishvili. Seven-year-old Lena stayed with her grandmother Alexandra Alexandrovna Kosareva, and in 1948 she was also arrested.
In February 1939, after a bloody investigation and torture in Sukhanovka, Kosarev was sentenced to death on charges of anti-Soviet and terrorist activities. Shot on February 23, 1939, cremated in the Donskoy crematorium. His ashes were buried in the common grave No. 1 at the Donskoy cemetery.
In 1954, Alexander Vasilyevich Kosarev was rehabilitated, in 1989 he was reinstated in the party.
In plain text:
The Komsomol paid a lot of attention to our team. There was nothing surprising in this. Indeed, in Presnya, where the progenitor of today's Spartak, the MKS team, arose, it was organized on the initiative of the football players living in the area, and with the direct participation of the Komsomol district committee.
Youth leaders of the thirties, secretaries of the Central Committee of the Komsomol - Dmitry Lukyanov, a recognized Komsomol speaker, Sergei Saltanov, Pavel Gorshenin - were frequent guests in our team. However, Alexander Vasilyevich Kosarev gave us the idea of creating a voluntary sports society following the example of Dynamo.
What an extraordinarily attractive man he was! In the struggle for a just life and the people's truth, Kosarev, a boy from a poor working-class family in the Moscow outskirts, went a long and difficult path from an auxiliary worker at a pre-revolutionary factory to a universally recognized leader of the youth. I had to meet Alexander Vasilyevich many times when he was already the secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. This also happened at official receptions, when he was dressed "according to the protocol" - in an excellent civilian suit, in a white shirt with a tie. As if the Komsomol of the times of the Civil War took hostility to such an outfit of his. But time fled quickly, and the norms of life changed in step with it. He suddenly appeared at the apartment of both Nikolai and me, fortunately, my brother and I lived in the same entrance, in a more casual suit, without a “gavrilka”. However, no matter how he was dressed, I always remembered him from the first meeting - a sly sparkle in his eyes, a slightly raised right eyebrow and a rebellious cockerel on the back of his head.
The very nature of the meetings spoke of the simplicity of Alexander Vasilyevich. Probably, this sincerity, spiritual purity was the irresistible force that so attracted young people to Kosarev. So, one of the meetings took place at the corner of the Sandunovsky baths. Right there at the entrance to the alley. I was warned by Nikolai that Alexander Vasilievich might come to take a steam bath in Sanduny, having heard, they say, about your records on the shelf. Back in Pogost, my grandfather taught me to steam on straw in a Russian stove. I really freaked out a lot. With the Tatars, inveterate lovers of the steam room, he withstood the competition. Once grabbed in the steam room with a wizened old man. Skinny, like a deserter from a cemetery. He didn't want to give in. And you know, he lies with his eyes closed on the bench and won't even look at me. After the last sacrifice, all the spirit went out of me - I barely got out of the steam room. He experienced defeat, like at the gate to Dr. Sedov. Moreover, my competition began in front of the guys. As soon as I confessed to them in the locker room, I lost, and now I hear some kind of noise. I look - they carry my competitor. It turns out that he lay unconscious on the shelf while I smoked him out of the steam room. The old man just left. And yes, I was a little overwhelmed. In football circles, then a lot of people laughed about it. It was this incident that Nikolai told Alexander Vasilyevich, inviting him to take a steam bath with the players.
I look, Nikolai comes up, and next to him is an average height, well downed young man. In a cap, in a white coat with an unbuttoned collar, and in summer canvas shoes. “Instead of Kosarev, Nikolai brought some newcomer football player,” I thought. Noticing my sour physiognomy, Nikolai asked disapprovingly: “Didn’t you recognize Alexander Vasilyevich?” I felt myself blushing, absurdly fussed, mumbled something, apologizing, and Kosarev, holding out his hand, smiled so kindly that all embarrassment disappeared from me. We got on really well. While getting dressed, Alexander Vasilyevich reminded that he was waiting for proposals on the organization of a new society and its name.
I already wrote how it was born, this name, in my book "Big Football". Here I will only remind you that after lengthy disputes and an endless number of proposals, the fate of the name was decided by Giovagnoli's book "Spartacus", which caught the eye of Nikolai when an initiative group of football players gathered at his apartment to discuss this issue.
- We need a motto that reflects the best qualities of an athlete's personality: courage, the will to win, resilience in the fight, dexterity and strength, loyalty to the idea. The leader of the Roman gladiators had all these virtues. I propose to call the society "Spartacus"! - said Nikolai, lifting the book up.