Biography
Suzanna Massey - American writer, former US President Ronald Reagan Advisor. The lady played an important role in the Cold War, convincing the government of his country to come closer to the USSR.Childhood and youth
Suzanna Liselotta Massey (in Maja Rorbach) was born on January 8, 1931 in New York, USA. Father, Moritz, was born in Switzerland, Mother, Susanna Henrietta Nobs, - Labor, in the French-speaking canton Neuchatel.
Grandfather Mascas on the motherboard at the beginning of the 20th century was a representative of the watch industry, often traveled to the Russian Empire. Susanna Henrietta in his youth got sick, the doctors advised the change of climate, and the family sent a girl to this mysterious Eastern country. It was 1914, the First World War began, Nobs could not return and remained in Russia for a long time. She survived the revolution and ran away in 1921 through Sevastopol in Athens. From there I got home, hitting parents who considered the daughter of missing.
A woman wore a whole life on a chain of an Easter egg, a donated ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater. When Massey turned 5 years old, the mother gave her a book with a Russian fairy tale about Baba Yaga, introduced his friends, and they said that the girl had a Russian soul. In his youth, Susanna herself was fond of ballet and studied this dance for 10 years.
Career and creativity
Many years of their biography of Massey gave the study of Russian history and culture, many times have been in the USSR. In 1983, Susanna flew to Moscow from Paris, and the Soviet officials warned the writer that the nuclear war is close as ever. In 1984, no negotiations were held between superpowers for the first time in 14 years.The lady achieved a meeting with President Ronald Reagan thanks to a friend, Senator William Cohen. A man called Robert McFarlene, who just became an adviser on national security, and he made it all. At the meeting, the head of state struck with restraint, no one, even the wife of Nancy, did not know how he made decisions. Massey told him about the Russian people, his love for this country and persuaded the president to establish peaceful relations with the Soviet leadership.
Suzanna worked on the art exhibitions of the leading museums of the United States and Russia, including the Hermitage, State Russian, the National Gallery of Arts and the Metropolitan. I read lectures about Russia academicians, military, businessmen, government members and religious organizations.
The book of Mascas of the 1980s "Land of Firebirds: The Beauty of the Country of Russia" about the pre-revolutionary history of the country, works of literature, music and ballet, inspired the whole world was caused.
In 1990, labor "Pavlovsk: the life of the Russian Palace" on how the culture of Russia, and the challenges facing this country originated. In 2013, the book "Trust, but check: Reagan, Russia and I", where the writer outlined his vision of the Cold War and spoke about cooperation with the president.
Personal life
At the age of 23, Suzanna married Robert Massey. The spouse studied in Yale and Oxford Universities, worked as a journalist Newsweek and was published by Saturday Evening POST. As president of the Guild of the authors from 1987 to 1991, called Writers to boycott any store, where Satanic poems were sold to Salman Rushdi.
Their son Robert Kinloh was born on August 17, 1956 in Somerville, became a politician, a public figure and a priest of the Episcopal Church, fought with apartheid in South Africa. From birth, the child was sanging spontaneous hemophilia, mother spent hours and nights in hospitals, the boy could not walk for a long time and suffered from terrible pain. Neighbors-Americans, suspended on the cult of success, youth and external beauty, learning about the suffering of the family, stopped communicating with her.
In two years, a little Bobby had a hemorrhage in the brain, the child could die. For some reason, Susanna remembered Russia at this difficult time, the woman began to visit the Russian community, and there they understood her suffering, they had human support and consolation. So the tragedy in personal life led her to the decision to devote the lives to the study of this country.
In 1971, the film "Nikolai and Alexander" on the book of spouses, who received two Oscar awards. In 1981, Robert Massey won the Pulitzer Prize for Roman about Peter the First, in 1986 they shot a mini-series NBC, where the husband of Natalia Andreichenko Maximilian Shell, Vanessa Reong, was playing played played.
The second spouse Suzanne, Seymour Popert, was a mathematician, an employee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a popularizer of personal computers among children. Popper grew up in South Africa, where he studied Mukh Tsets along with the father-entomologist. The scientist died in 2016 from the kidney infection and bladder. His health worsened after an accident in Hanoi, where he flew to the conference of mathematicians. Seimir knocked a motorcycle, a man spent a month in a coma, had to learn to go, talk and read.
Suzanna Massey now
In May 2021, the American writer flew to Moscow to celebrate the Victory Day and asked Vladimir Putin to give her citizenship in an interview with the NTV channel. Massey sharply criticized the policies of the American government, stated that the highest circles hate Russia and need it to create an image of an "external enemy". According to the ladies, the CIA pursued it and called the traitor. She also suggested that the current president Joe Biden uses drugs, like his son Hunter.Bibliography
- 1967 - "Nikolai and Alexander"
- 1972 - "Live Mirror"
- 1975 - "Travel"
- 1980 - "Fire-bird land: the beauty of the ancient Russia"
- 1990 - "Pavlovsk: Life of the Russian Palace"
- 2013 - "Trust, but check: Reagan, Russia and I"