Lichnaia zhizn' - El'tsina Naina Iosifovna

"Personal Life" is a memoir by the wife of the first Russian president Boris Yeltsin. The book was originally written for children and grandchildren. But the relatives persuaded the author to decide to publish the manuscript. The memoirs cover a long period of time, from the 1930s to the present day. Naina Yeltsin remembers the history of her family, whose roots go back to the village of Titovka, located in the Southern Urals. Most of the memoirs are related to the name of Boris Yeltsin, with whom Naina Iosifovna lived for more than fifty years. We learn about how they met, how their relationship developed, how their family grew. There are many details in the book related to the author's personal life - Naina Josephovna is very careful about the details. She is observant, accurate and does not accept artistic exaggerations.The fate of Naina Yeltsin has developed so that her personal life became part of the history of the great country at the turn of the epochs. The president's wife has seen many historical events from a very close distance. The memoirs give us an opportunity to look at these events through her eyes - the first national elections of the President of Russia, the August putsch of 1991, the collapse of the USSR, the political crisis of 1993, the default of 1998 and many others.