Lydia Gromyko
{{Short description|Wife of Soviet leader Andrey Gromyko (1911–2004)}}
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| birth_name = Lydia Dmitrievna Grinevich
| birth_date = 14 April 1911
| birth_place = Minsk Region, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|3|9|1911|4|14|df=y}}
| death_place = Moscow, Russia
| nationality = Belarusian
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| children = 2
| alma_mater = Minsk Institute of Agricultural Science
| known_for = Wife of Andrei Gromyko
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Lydia Gromyko ({{langx|ru|Лидия Громыко}}; {{née}} Grinevich (Гриневич); 14 April 1911 – 9 March 2004) was a Belarusian teacher who was the wife of Soviet diplomat Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989).
Biography
Lydia Dmitrievna Grinevich was born in a village in the Minsk region on 14 April 1911.{{cite web|title=Соседи по парте (Neighbors on the desk)|language=ru|work=Rosenbloom|access-date=3 September 2013|url=http://rpp.nm.ru/zemliaki/so_a-d.html|archive-date=10 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310060301/http://www.rpp.nm.ru/zemliaki/so_a-d.html|url-status=dead}} She was a daughter of Belarusian peasants.{{cite news|title=Andrei A. Gromyko: Flinty Face of Postwar Soviet Diplomacy
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0718.html|access-date=3 September 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=4 July 1989|author=Craig R. Whitney}}
She met Andrei Gromyko in Minsk where they were both studying agriculture at the Minsk Institute of Agricultural Science.{{cite news|title=Soviet Statesman Andrei Gromyko, 79|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/07/04/soviet-statesman-andrei-gromyko-79/|access-date=3 September 2013|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=4 July 1989|author1=Thom Shanker|author2=Vincent J. Schodolski}}{{cite web|title=Biography of Andrey Andreyevich Gromyko|work=Ford Library Museum|date=31 May 1974|access-date=3 September 2013|url=http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/exhibits/vladivostok/gromyko.pdf}} They married in 1931.{{cite web
|title=Cold War: Biographies|url=http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/samples/sp676632.pdf|access-date=3 September 2013|work=GALE}} {{dead link|date=June 2023|bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The marriage was harmonious{{cite book|author=Ilya Zemtsov
|title=Chernenko. The Last Bolshevik: The Soviet Union on the Eve of Perestroika|url-access=registration|year=1989|location=New York
|url=https://archive.org/details/chernenkolastbol00zemt|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-1945-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/chernenkolastbol00zemt/page/183 183]}} and affectionate. They had two children: a son, Anatoly, and a daughter, Emilia. Anatoly (1932–2017) served as a diplomat and was an academic.{{cite book|title=Who's Who in Russia since 1900|year=1997|publisher=Routledge|location=London|page=100|author=Martin McCauley
|author-link=Martin McCauley (historian)|chapter=Gromyko, Anatoly Andreevich|isbn=978-0-4151-3898-7|chapter-url=https://www.routledge.com/Whos-Who-in-Russia-since-1900/McCauley-Mccauley/p/book/9780415138987}}
Lydia worked as a teacher and was fluent in English. In addition, she was learned in politics and literature. Her major interest was painting. Her husband was the head of the Supreme Soviet from 2 July 1985 to 1 October 1988. She was regularly seen in public which was not common in the Soviet Union.{{cite news|title=Gromyko, Always A Loyalist In The Soviet Leadership, Dies At 79|newspaper=Philly|date=4 July 1989|url=http://articles.philly.com/1989-07-04/news/26132615_1_gromyko-foreign-policy-soviet-leader|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408221358/http://articles.philly.com/1989-07-04/news/26132615_1_gromyko-foreign-policy-soviet-leader|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 April 2014|access-date=3 September 2013|author=Steve Goldstein|agency=AP|location=Moscow}} There were rumours that she and Raisa Gorbacheva did not get along.{{cite news|title=Gromyko's Wife, Not Raisa, to Escort 1st Lady
|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-25-mn-3282-story.html|access-date=3 September 2013|date=25 May 1988|agency=Reuters|location=Moscow|url-status=live|archive-date=21 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221073804/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-25-mn-3282-story.html}} Lydia died on 9 March 2004, at age 92.{{cite book|author1=Мікалай Зяньковіч|author2=Николай Зенькович|title=Самые секретные родственники (The Most Secret Families)|publisher=OLMA-Press|year=2005|isbn=978-5-94850-408-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXJEF6HHyH0C&pg=PA100
|page=100|language=ru|location=Moscow}}
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Category:20th-century Belarusian women
Category:People from Minsk region