“At times he was very normal” – Kultura – Kommersant
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In February, a summary of Prince Harry’s memoirs Spare, in which he criticizes his family a lot, was published in Russia. What the children of famous people told about their parents before – in the selection of “Kommersant”.
About the physicist Albert Einstein
“Sometimes it’s hard to have such an important father because you feel so insignificant… People who fill their time with intellectual work give birth to sickly, nervous, sometimes even completely idiotic children (for example, you me)”.
From Eduard Einstein’s letters to his father, 1910-1965.
About People’s Commissar Lavrenty Beria
“As a boy, I was a militant atheist and one day I broke an icon… Grandmother Marta was very upset. She was a believer and until the end of her life helped both the church and the parishioners. Returning from work father cooled my atheistic ardor and… painted a new icon. I remember that conversation for a long time: “Other people’s beliefs must be treated with respect.”
From Sergo Beria’s book “My father is Lavrenty Beria”, 1994.
About actress Marlene Dietrich
“I often saw little girls in the park who hugged their mothers, took them by the hand, pressed against them. With my mother, this number would not work … My mother was like ‘her royal majesty’.”
From Maria Riva’s book The Life of Marlene Dietrich as Told by Her Daughter, 2022.
About entrepreneur Steve Jobs
“Mom reported this (pregnancy.— “b”) father the next day, both of them were standing in the middle of the room next to the kitchen. There was no furniture, only carpet. When she told her father, an angry expression appeared on his face, he gritted his teeth and ran out into the street, slamming the door. Mom decided that he went to a lawyer who advised him not to talk to her, because after that he did not say a word to her.
From the book by Steve Jobs’ daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs “Little Fish”, 2019.
About Generalissimo Joseph Stalin
“He was a man of great intelligence. Without such, he would not have been able to raise Russia to such a height … He came from an environment of poor peasantry and violence. This origin made itself felt when he became party leader. But as a leader, he did not create anything: terror, purges – all this was created under Lenin.
From an interview with Joseph Stalin’s daughter Lana Peters (Svetlana Alliluyeva) for the Daily Mail, 1987.
About director Woody Allen and actress Mia Farrow
“(Mia.— “b”) loved to hold me upside down so that the blood rushed to my head. Because she thought or read somewhere (God knows where) that a rush of blood to the brain would make me smarter … (Woody.— “b”) were not interested in children. These feelings were mutual. We didn’t want to meet him either. I hated him because he dated my mother, and I didn’t understand how it was possible to be with such a harmful, evil person.”
From an interview with Woody Allen and Mia Farrow’s stepdaughter and later Woody Allen’s wife Sun-Yi Previn for Vulture, 2018.
About Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy
“It can’t be that my mother looked at me when I was born and said, ‘I’m so glad, because I always wanted to have a child that I could hit.’ They intended to love, but if they didn’t learn unconditional love in childhood, then they can’t give it… The sad thing about this family is that there is no basis for relationships in it. And when we got together, usually during elections or something like that, I had an image, like we’re trying to build a house on the sand without a foundation.”
From the autobiography of Reagan’s daughter Patti Davis, “The Way I See It,” 1992.
About the poet Joseph Brodsky
“The last time I saw my father was at the age of five. Then he left the country forever. But I remember him … When I was 22, he invited me to visit the USA … Contact did not work out: I was young and sharp, and he had no experience of communicating with his own children … He interacted with me as with his students.”
From an interview with the son of Joseph Brodsky Andrey Basmanov for Komsomolskaya Pravda, 2018.
About singer Frank Sinatra
“Your parents are everything to you. Mine was just a parent from a little more distance. At times he was very normal… He was the guy who didn’t want to admit you broke the window.”
From an interview with the singer’s daughter Tina Sinatra for The Republic, 2015.
About singer Michael Jackson
“I was the only girl among boys for the first 10, 11 years of my life. My dad loved to play dress up. I looked like a porcelain doll. I hated it.”
From an interview with the singer’s daughter Paris Jackson in the film “Unfiltered: Paris Jackson & Gabriel Glenn”, 2020.
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