Anatoly Mikhailovich was born on May 1, 1932 in Blagoveshchensk, Amur region, in the family of an employee. Soon his family moved to Yaroslavl. The Great Patriotic War left an indelible mark on Anatoly Mikhailovich's memory. All the hardships of the war years fell to his lot, he remembers well the German bombing of Yaroslavl. One of the German bombs fell near the house where he lived, and his mother died of a broken heart. The mother's sister, who had previously worked for many years as a freelance doctor in the Kolyma GULAG camps, took on the burden of raising three children. From her, Anatoly Mikhailovich heard stories about the horrors of Stalin's GULAG and from then on and forever became an implacable opponent of despotic regimes. Anatoly Mikhailovich recalls that the family had a lot of books, and often arranged reading aloud. The first serious book that a 10-year-old boy read on his own was Giovagnoli's Spartacus, and this book made such a strong impression on him that he decided to definitely become a historian. In 1950, A. M. Khazanov graduated from high school in Yaroslavl and, having passed all the exams for "excellent", entered the History Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. He was lucky - his student years fell on the" golden age " of the Moscow State University Faculty of History. He attended lectures by famous professors-B. A. Rybakov, V. I. Avdiev, K. K. Zelin, A. G. Bokshchanin, A. V. Artsikhovsky, M. O. Obliquen, S. D. Skazkin, S. P. Tolstov, Z. V. Udaltsova, N. E. Zastenker, A. A. Huber, I. M. Reisner, V. B. Lutsky, V. M., Khvostov, and A. S. Yerusalimsky. After a successful defense in 1955, written under the guidance of the future akad. RAS G. N. Sevostyanova thesis on the topic: "US Far Eastern Policy in 1941-1943" A.M. Khazanov was enrolled in the graduate school of Moscow State University at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History. His scientific adviser was an outstanding orientalist, then Director of the Institute o ... Читать далее