In Peskov's official biography, published by the TASS agency, there is not a word about his mother. It only says that he was born into the family of a Soviet and Russian diplomat Sergei Peskov. In fact Nadezhda Zevina (this was the name of the mother of the president's press spokesman) was a person of very interesting origin and came from the elite of Soviet society.
What are Dmitry Peskov's family roots?
Who was Dmitry Peskov's grandfather?
What did Pieskov's mother do?
Where did Peskov's father work?
Her grandfather Yakov Zevin was an outstanding revolutionary, one of the 26 Baku commissars shot by the White Guards in 1918. After his death, Vladimir Lenin personally assigned Peskov's great-grandmother an apartment in Moscow. Zevin's widow became a family friend to the founder of the Soviet state and worked side by side with Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin's wife, in the Commissariat of Education (i.e. the Ministry of Education).
Later, Nadezhda Zevina headed the Academy of Communist Education and took part in mass repressions in the army – she was a member of the commission for purifying the party organization of the Red Army Air Force.
Already in her old age, Zevina wrote memoirs about Lenin's family while working in his museum in Moscow. Her son, Dmitry Peskov's grandfather, also became a famous figure of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he worked, among others, as deputy director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, a very important institution in Soviet times.
Peskov's mother probably served in the secret services – at least in state databases there is no information about her places of work, which happens in the case of security service employees. The Peskov family lived in a privileged service house in Moscow, where employees of the KGB and the Ministry of Foreign Trade lived (which in the USSR meant one and the same).
Father of the president's press spokesman, Sergei Peskovmost likely worked in intelligence. He came from Mukachevo in Ukraine, graduated from the Institute of Asia and Africa, a university that was a training ground for intelligence personnel, and worked for many years in the Middle East as an activist of “friendship associations” and “committees of solidarity with the countries of people's democracy”. This was a standard cover for Soviet intelligence during the Cold War. During his travels around the Middle East, Peskov was accompanied by his wife and young son, Putin's future spokesman.
The official biography of Dmitry Peskov states that he was born into the family of the USSR ambassador to Pakistan and Oman. In fact, Sergei Peskov received these positions only after his son began to climb the ranks in the Kremlin.
The mother of the future spokesman was the second wife of Sergei Peskov. ️His first wife was the granddaughter of Soviet Marshal Semyon Budyonny, Anastasia. This marriage helped Peskov senior go on his first foreign delegation to Turkey: in the Soviet and then Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs there was an unwritten rule that priority in being sent on foreign delegations was given to married men and married women.
In Turkey, Peskov's first marriage broke up – Anastasia left him for a British man working in Ankara. She took her son Mikołaj with her. Sergei Peskov immediately became involved with the 14-year-old daughter of Russian diplomat Vladimir Solotsinsky, Yekaterina, who was studying at the school at the embassy. Sołocińska herself mentioned this years later in an interview for a Russian newspaper. Sergei Peskov married the future mother of the Kremlin spokesman when she turned 18.
