subject: Biography Of My Family [print this page] 1919-1920 GG Nestor Lakoba held in Batumi1919-1920 GG Nestor Lakoba held in Batumi. In his autobiography he wrote: "The Caucasian Bureau is to appoint a troika to lead the Bolshevik organization in Batumi, I organized the assassination of General Lyakhov, explosion Kobuleti bridge explosion steamer" Revival ", loaded with ammunition and weapons designed to assist gene. Wrangel ... ". During this period he became acquainted with our family.
Family Dzhih-oglu (to the conquest of western Georgia, Turkey, my ancestors were Dzhihashvili name, but the Turks forcibly altered the names of the inhabitants of the conquered territories in their own way), lived in a big house on the corner Asatianovskoy and Sheremetievskaya streets, but in fact my ancestors belonged to a number of buildings in this area. Part of the premises surrendered traders, however, and we were engaged in some business activity - had several bakeries. When the British, they even increased the baking of bread, as received a contract to supply bakery British troops stationed in Batumi.
My grandfather Memed Dzhih-oglu died in 1913, several months before the birth of his youngest son and my father, Mustafa. Naturally, after his death became the de facto head of the family's eldest son Hakki.
Hakki was attracted to revolutionary ideas, and once brought into the house of Nestor Lakoba. So the family Dzhih-oglu got a very ambiguous situation. On the one hand our economically dependent on Britain, on the other hand, provide a table and harbor terrorists (at least according to current notions Nestor was no different from terrorists) and the main enemy the British occupation policy Abkhazians Lakoba.
Here in our house for Asatianovskoy occurred the first meeting of Nestor with his future wife, Sariey (elder sister of my father). I must say that Lakoba found refuge in the family Dzhih oglu also because my grandfather's stepmother, Zahid Dzhikirba as Nestor was born in Gudauta and brought the famous Bolshevik, a distant relative of the Abkhaz. This woman was interested in marriage, Nestor and Sarie. Said that she played the role of matchmaker. Despite the intervention of "third force", we can safely say that Sarie has chosen quite freely, and mediation Zahid Khanum was believed to only push for bold action, because Sarie, leaving home was not just young and inexperienced, but constrained, as the poet said, "the fortress citadel of Islam". Therefore, an act of my aunt many subsequently estimated as heroic.
Around the same time dad with a group of peers has been sent to study in Turkey, according to the custom prevalent in many families, Muslim Georgians. He studied in Ankara.
Upon returning from the Turkish Republic's father went to study in Sukhumi - to her sister and brother-in. Here he lived until the collapse of the family, minus my student years in Moscow and Novocherkassk.
My father had four brothers and two sisters. After the mysterious death of Nestor in 1936, all of them relatives of the "enemy of the people" and "Trotskyite" Lakoba, were arrested, five were shot or tortured to death in prison of the NKVD. Lost was only his father and his younger sister, Nazie. Were shot were uncles and relatives Sarie - Ali and Osman Dzhih-oglu. In bloody slaughter killed young son of Nestor and Sarie - Rauf, sons of brothers Lakoba, the Abkhaz leader's mother Shahusna. Were repressed almost all our relatives and friends.
Soon after the death of Nestor Lakoba NKVD assignment Lawrence Beria was produced in the home of former leader of Abkhazia, a search for the search warrant to find and delete the richest archive Lakoba. Immediately after the first raid, in which nothing substantial secret police could not find, as my Aunt Sarie to predict the behavior of the NKVD, hid the papers of her late husband at the bottom of an old hot water tank - immediately after the first attempt FSB Aunt Sarie and father perepryatali most Archive Lakoba were hidden under the floor of the kitchen. A small, but no less valuable part of the securities Lakoba, consisting of her father's stories of photographs, letters and notes of Leon Trotsky, Sarie and father carried out into the yard and burned as the most dangerous part of the archive, announcing to neighbors that they had destroyed all documents Nestor.
In 1954 his father returned from prison. A year later he was able to visit the former home-in-law and sister and find a place where there was a hidden file. Soon after this event his father with the help of the Regional Party Committee Secretary of Abkhazia Mikhail Timurovich Bgazhby, who was not only his high school friend, but also a great admirer of Nestor Lakoba come back often lakobovskogo mansion and lived there with his new family.
Recollections of my life and the tragedy of families Lakoba and Dzhihashvili father began writing in 1986, but soon fell ill and it affected the pace of work on his memoirs. Finish the memories he has until the end of 1990, shortly before his death.
