DAUGHTER OF THE ADMIRAL OF THE BLACK SEA FLEET

The article deals with the fate of Maria Alexandrovna Myazgovskaya, the daughter of the Admiral of the Black Sea Fleet, A.I. Myazgovsky, who was assassinated in Nikolaev, Kherson province, during the Civil War. In 1920, M.A. Myazgovskaya, along with her mother and brother, were able to hide in Odessa, then leave for Constantinople and from there move to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. After the Second World War, M.A. Myazgovskaya moved to North Africa, to Tunisia, where she died in 1989 at the age of 95. Shortly before M.A. Myazgovskaya’s death, Mikhail Nikolaevich Darwin Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities met with her. Several conversations took place during which she recalled her childhood years in Russia, the horrors of the Civil War and her life abroad. Though in exile, the Admiral’s daughter did not forget the Russian language and retained the Russian culture. Summing up her life, she noted that “she had always been a passionate patriot, loving Russia”. M.N. Darwin managed to record one of the meetings on a video camera. It was that very conversation that became fundamental when writing the present article.