Brief biography of Vyshinsky

Alas, our city endowed the world not only with bright geniuses. Andrei Andzhy Vyshinsky was born on December 10 in Odessa in a wealthy noble family. Father - a native of the old Polish gentry kind, is connected by direct related bonds with Cardinal Stefan Vyshinsky. He was a successful pharmacist. Mother was a pianist, a music teacher. Literary and musical evenings were often arranged in the Vyshinsky house.

Vyshinsky from childhood mastered two languages ​​- Russian and Polish. He will also speak a little late in French, learned in the first -class tsarist gymnasium.

In the year, when Andrei Vyshinsky turned five years old, the family moved to a new place of residence in Baku, where the father opened his own pharmacy and began to work in the Caucasian partnership of the pharmaceutical goods trade. Here Vyshinsky graduated from the first male classical gymnasium. At the gymnasium ball, he met his future wife, Kapitolina Isidorovna Mikhailova, with whom he later lived all his life.

At the end of the gymnasium, he entered the law faculty of Kyiv University, but he was expelled and returned to Baku for participating in student unrest. In the year, for participation in the revolutionary events of the year, he served a year in the Baku Bailov prison. While in it, he met and got closely with I. Dzhugashvili Stalin, who was in the same cell. Vyshinsky was able to graduate from Kiev University only by the age of thirty, in the year, then he was left at the department to prepare for a professor’s rank, but was removed by the administration as a politically unreliable.

In the year, the ambitious Vyshinsky moved to Moscow and soon was able to get a job as an assistant to the famous lawyer P. But they remained unanswered. In the archival affairs of Vyshinsky, there is no layer of documents related to his youth. And this is because he had something to hide. After the February Revolution of the Year, Vyshinsky was appointed Commissioner of the police of the Yakimansky district of Moscow.

In this post, he signed an order in the area for the search and arrest of Lenin and Zinoviev hiding and arrest. After the October Revolution, up to a year, Vyshinsky worked in the Moscow Food Directorate and the People's Commissariat of Education. Only then did the convinced Menshevik joined the ranks of the Bolsheviks. He taught at Moscow University, the Institute of National Economy.

In gg. In the year - the prosecutor of the USSR. Stalin needed a legal substantiation of his lawlessness, and he found them in the person of Vyshinsky. He served with merciless fury, leading his past comrades to the shooting wall. An ominous, terrible figure, Vyshinsky was a smart, educated, erudite, incredibly efficient and absolutely immoral person. Vyshinsky was not just the executor of the will of Stalin - he was his co -author.

For almost all the accused, the executioner Vyshinsky demanded the death penalty. And at the same time he was a faithful husband and gently loved his daughter Zinaida. In the year, having received the title of academician, Vyshinsky became deputy chairman of the USSR Government, in the year - Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs. On the day of the death of Stalin, he was relieved of this position and withdrawn from the Presidium of the Central Committee.

It was an honorary link, but Vyshinsky, despite his solid age, worked at the UN very actively. For his deeds, Vyshinsky was awarded six orders of Lenin. Having learned about the beginning of the rehabilitation of convicts under Stalin, Vyshinsky suddenly died of a heart attack on November 22 in the United States.