Smiling girl in the hands of Stalin - the symbol of a happy childhood in the Soviet Union. Handing a bouquet to the leader, the 6-year-old Marquis Gel did not suspect that a year later, she would have to change his surname, and his face to give Mamlakat Nahangovoy - the most famous pioneer of the country.

... 1936. Kremlin. The Delegation of the Buryat-Mongolia came to report to Stalin. Photo baby in a sailor who decided to send greetings to the leader of the children of Buryatia, a year later would become the main Agitplakat - proof of a happy childhood in the Soviet Union. But shtampuya million images, the Soviet "spin doctors" had no idea that made a major baby daughter enemy of the people of the Union ...

"MK" has found a unique interview with the girl-legend, and not wait till its audience on Russian TV.

"In 1936 something happened that turned my whole life - we have got with the pope at the reception to Stalin ..." - on television looking at me Marquis Gel. Grid wrinkles stretched across his face, his eyes a little tired. A smile is the same - if he had not flown six decades.

All my life Engelsina Dorbeeva wanted to tell the world his story. The story of how her father lied and murdered, and her - to 6-year-old girl, the legend - was forced to change the name and biography.

Belarusian documentary filmmaker Anatoly Alai lifelong dream to find the girl with the most etched in my memory Poster "Thank you, Comrade Stalin for our happy childhood." In 2004 they met. Recorded a 10-minute interview. We agreed to shoot a documentary. And parted forever.

"MK" asked for permission to transfer to paper documentary filmmaker shot them ten minutes confession. After all, no one can tell the story better than a poster girl with her own.

"God Himself has sent us this buryatochku ..."

"In addition I have a very nice - my mother bought me a new sailor, and gave the shoes that my father, of course, I forgot to change it. I then and stood on the podium in the boots. When we got to the Kremlin, the pope was very nervous, but the time said that the children were allowed without a permit. We went into the room, all seated at the tables. And then began performances farmers. These endless speeches lasted very long. I was terribly bored. I have suffered, endured, and then got up and went ... "

- Where are you going? - Only a little girl and asked the party ranks, crowded behind the "Great Leader".

- For Stalin!

- Well, go, go ...

"Stalin was sitting back on me. Voroshilov patted him on the shoulder and said, "you've got." Stalin turned around and very happily put me on the desk of the Bureau. Voroshilov asked me to say it. "This is for you greetings from the Buryat-Mongolian children" - I blurted out quickly. Stalin replied: "Hello" - and took both the bouquet ... Then they began to shout: "Kiss it, kiss." I kissed her. All at once shone - reporters were filming a historic moment ... "
These few minutes and then make the gel most famous child of the USSR.

- Then the chief editor of "The Truth" Lev Mehlis said, "God Himself has sent us this buryatochku! We will make it a living symbol of a happy childhood "- plays the historic words, the remaining entries in the chroniclers, Anatoly Alai.

And they did. Millions Agitplakat depicting Stalin and gels dispersed throughout the country.

"I've met, then how the astronauts'

"The next day, when I went into the hotel lobby, I saw that all the newspapers published a picture of this girl with Stalin. So I became very famous. All brought me gifts. The room was crowded with simple toys ... "

Ten minutes confession director Engelsina Ardanovna reservation several times to say "that girl" instead of "I". Or maybe it was not a reservation - a habit, genetic memory. For six decades, it has firmly separated himself from that girl in the photo. Forced herself to renounce, to forget ...

Well ... and then, back in 1936, Marquis Gel is a real idol of all Soviet children. Selling blue and white matrosok - such as the gels in the photo - is growing exponentially. In the barber's parents are their children with only one request - "vows, as a girl in the photo with Stalin." Six-year baby, touching legend, bathed in glory.

"Return to Ulan-Ude was a triumph - meet me, as later astronauts. Invited to all bureaux. I was very popular during the year and a half ... "

On the wave of popularity of the Buryat girl famous sculptor George Lavrov, creates sculptural composition "Stalin and the gel." The author did not know what price he will pay for their desire to please the authorities.

- The widow of George Dmitrievich told me that once the sculpture was finished, done three million copies - says Anatoly Alai documentary filmmaker. - They are found everywhere - in school yards, parks, public gardens, hairdressing salons. "Is that the toilets did not plaster the leader of the girl in his arms," ​​- at the time of the interview she joked.

"I wrote a letter to Stalin"

Thank Buryat baby breaks off as suddenly as it fell on her head. In 1937 his father's arrest - the People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Buryat ASSR. It is only then, decades later, an adult Gel Marquis will have access to the classified archives of the NKVD and find the indictment.

"In October and November 1937 in the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic eliminated the bourgeois-nationalist, anti-Soviet, pan-Mongolian organization that conducted on the instructions of the Japanese intelligence insurgent, subversive activity ... One of the leaders of this organization was the Marquis Marquis ... Under the leadership of great villainy was conducted Zootechnics in construction, in which animals exposed to cold-related illnesses and death. The departure of young was 40 000 head ... "

During those forty thousand head of cattle would fall not a human. Arrest - and then shot - all the Buryat government. At that time only a little girl of legend believed that her father - no not a Japanese spy, was not an enemy of the people. You just need to say about this Uncle Stalin: he remembers smiling girl, her shy father and figure everything out.

"Under the dictation of my mother, I wrote a letter to Stalin. I wrote that my father - a member of the party, the Civil War. I wrote that I was with him at the reception. And the sign - to the Kremlin. Stalin ... "

There was no answer.

June 2, 1938 Ardant Marquis shot. Gel, along with his mother sent into exile in Turkestan.

The leader could not hug his daughter enemy

And yet ... Marquesas packed up their belongings, the Kremlin has been brewing scandal. It turns out that Agitplakat and sculptures glorifying the happy childhood in the Soviet Union, the great leader's daughter hugs ... the enemy of the people.

- In the hastily gathered a meeting to solve the main issue: what to do with the millions of posters of "Stalin and Gel"? Destroy? But who will rise to the hand of "sacred"? Then, seated, even for a person accidentally pushed the bust of the leader. And so on, to burn all the posters and demolish statues, and the speech was not. Cut a girl? But then it turns out that Stalin was hugging air. Again the confusion ... - recreates the events of that time Anatoly Alai. - A solution was found: to find a similar girl and replace her gel. Moreover, a "clone" should be unblemished reputation: Pioneer, athlete ...

After a brief search on the role of selected gels Mamlakat Nahangovu - Pioneer-Stakhanovite who first learned to pick cotton in both hands.

- Across the Union, are beginning to interrupt the writing on Lavrovsky sculptures. Now it means not on a pedestal, "Stalin and Gel" and "Stalin and Mamlakat" - explains the Alai. - Widow told Lavrov that Mamlakat even led to the studio to her husband, photographed, and then gave this "fraud" in the newspapers. Signed under the frame was like this: grown-up Mamlakat came to look at "his" sculptural portrait of the father of nations.

The focus of Kremlin spin doctors failed. In the minds of the Soviet people's image of the happiest girls are tightly fused with the image of the Tajik-Stakhanovite pioneers. A little gel, which has taken away the person who was ordered to remain silent.

- I do not see anything incredible - assesses the story that has occurred with the mother, the daughter of Marquis Engelsiny - the famous psychoanalyst Lola Komarova. - And the mother, and was Mamlakat Mongolian section of the eye. And the fact that Mamlakat this time it was already 13 years old - also not a problem. We can say that with Stalin Nahangovu photographed in early childhood.

"Not your mama stood shame, that's cut her throat"

The case has risen for small - to eliminate witnesses to the change. In 1938 my mother died suddenly gels. The girl from the care of her that life was explained simply: "Not your mama stood shame, that's a cut throat." Truth Engelsina Ardanovna learned only after 50 years.

"I learned the truth after her case was looked at the FSB. There I found a document that finally revealed the mystery of her death. NKVD chief Beria Turkistan sends a request with the following content: "There is an exile Marquis, which keeps the gifts from the five portraits of Stalin and the leader of her daughter. What should I do? "And it is written in blue pencil at the side is very clear:" CORRECT. " Then I realized that she was not killed herself - she's just been eliminated, murdered. With a slit throat found her in the hospital ... "

Of the witnesses happy Gelin debut in 1938 to live there is only one man - sculptor George Lavrov. He easily could expose a substitute - for a pretty girl for a long time posed for him. And sculptors, as you know, visual memory is not lame.

Making Lavrov decided to remain silent in the spirit of the time - on paper and 15 years in the camps.

- The widow of George Dmitrievich during our conversation with her remembered that night, drove to their house, "funnels" the apartment was searched thoroughly and found some French catalogs. Alleged prohibited. And the sculptor was taken, - recounts a conversation with his wife, Anatoly Lavrov Alai. - He was then still could not understand, for what it took. I told my wife that this is a mistake. What about all sorted out and let him go.

Portrait of a lifetime pursuing the gel

"If anything happens to me, take brother and go to Moscow - to Aunt" - as if foreseeing his fate, like a mantra repeated gels mother before her death. The girl did.

- In Moscow, at the time of our relatives lived Sergey Dorbeev and his wife, a girl, just 12 years older than the mother - explains Lola Komarova. - Despite the danger, they have adopted a mother.

Since none of the Gele Marquis did not hear anything. Now she had a new name - Engelsina Dorbeeva. The new middle name. New life ... That was the last, step-father ordered to keep silent. And the girl herself has realized that how much in this world.

- Grandpa - and I called Sergei Dorbeeva - then sacrificed for the sake of the mother career - explains Lola Erikovna. - At that time he was an employee of the NKVD in a small office like a caretaker. No, he was not fired. Simply, in spite of his promise, did not give raises. It is up to the end of life and remained as assistant warden.

"After the death of my mother, my life was completely invisible. I was totally excommunicated from this portrait. Nobody had to say that it's me. Because nobody would believe it. I almost forgot about this episode, and lived like an ordinary Soviet citizen ... "

But the portrait of life did not give Gele rest, pursued her. That girl in the clinic to meet incognito look to itself, the park will see his fragile figure, raised by the leader in the clouds. One day, though almost open, but the incident was hushed up.

"When, after the death of my mother, we come to Moscow, I went to school, which was in our yard. And the first thing I saw on the stairs - it is a huge portrait of a girl with Stalin. Most likely Aunt accidentally let slip the director, it's me. It began this pilgrimage to children - everybody wanted to look at me. Then the teacher locked me in class, and all the children said: "It is impossible that the whole school was on the 4th floor ..."

- Maybe mom and then she said she - suggests a daughter. - It is not by nature a secretive man. And I know what effort it cost for life to keep silent.

Classmate Svetlana Alliluyeva

After high school, enrolled at MSU Gel. On the History Faculty. There also was credited and the chief's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. What is it - irony of fate or chance to rehabilitate his name?

"We learned in one department. I knew that she - the daughter of Stalin. And she knew that I was - the girl that was at a reception at her father. But the closer we had not tried. If our fathers - the enemies, how can we communicate with her ... "

After the History Faculty was the marriage of Soviet cultural attaché in India. Again, public life, communication with the powers of this world. Her pictures of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Khrushchev went around a lot of newspapers.

- As soon came a delegation, led out of her picture taken. She was so beautiful that any party biscuit soften under the spell of her smile, - says Anatoly Alai.

With politicians it is readily photographed. But no one has admitted that the main photo in her life had already been made. In 1936.

- Mom really wanted to tell the truth about his fate, but could not. She is not interested, it was forgotten. The first who dug up this story, was a German journalist. It was in the midst of restructuring - says his daughter Lola. - So when I saw my mother in the doorway of his apartment director Anatoly Alai was glad not to joke.

- With an I had only 300 yards of the film. We shot a test and agreed to take the second interview - more debt. I returned to Minsk for the film. But when call Engelsine Ardanovne again - to warn of his arrival - he heard from his son: "Mom died." She wanted to look more beautiful on television and went to Turkey to tan. She was found on a lawn chair without moving. The cause of death, the doctors have not been established.

After the first and last interview Engelsina Ardanovna determined to restore his name. She called Mamlakat Nahangovoy to dot the "i". But the conversation did not happen. The best-known pioneer of the country, according to the whim of someone else stole the girl's face in a sailor suit, did not want to talk.

Anastasia Gnedinskaya MC
18.05.09 17:27