Nikolai Svanidze is one of the most famous domestic journalists. His copyright programs reflect the historian's own views on the course of events in Russia. Many listeners are accustomed to hearing Svanidze’s voice on the waves of Ekho Moskvy radio. Education and professional experience help Nikolai Karlovich convey his point of view to a wide audience.
From the biography of Nikolai Svanidze
The future historian and public figure was born on April 2, 1955 in the capital of the USSR. His father was named Karl in honor of the leader of the world proletariat Karl Marx. My father was a historian by education. He went through the war, and began his career as a guide in the Metropolitan Polytechnic Museum.
Mom Nikolai Karlovich was also a specialist in the field of history. She seriously studied the issues of the European Middle Ages. Being a professor and a doctor of sciences, Adelaide Anatolyevna was also engaged in creativity - she wrote poetry.
Nikolai Svanidze’s grandfather was repressed and sentenced to death in 1937. Grandmother by nationality was Jewish. She was a member of the circle of revolutionaries, was familiar with Trotsky and Kamenev, was friends with his wife Bukharin.
Nikolai Karlovich decided to follow the path that his parents laid. After graduating from school with an in-depth study of English, the young man entered the Moscow State University. In the third year, he joined the Communist Party, which he left after the collapse of a great power.
For about ten years, Svanidze taught history at the Institute of North America at the USSR Academy of Sciences. He also gave lectures at the Humanitarian Institute of Moscow. Svanidze has been to the United States more than once.
