Figure 1.-- The image here shows Kerensky with his sons, Oleg (8 years old) and Gleb (6 years old). The picture was taken on the family's last pre-war holiday in 1913 at Kainki in Kazan Province, Russia. Oleg, the older boy, wears a Russian blouse with a band around the neck and buttons up the left side. The blouse is worn outside his rather short knee pants and cinched in tightly with a belt. Oleg wears long black stockings and high top shoes. The younger boy, Gleb, seems to be bare legged and shirtless.

Kerensky married Olga Lvovna (nee Baranovskaya). The image here shows Kerensky with his sons, Oleg (8 years old) and Gleb (6 years old) (figure 1). The picture was taken on the family's last pre-war holiday in 1913 at Kainki in Kazan Province, Russia. Oleg, the older boy, wears a Russian blouse with a band around the neck and buttons up the left side. The blouse is worn outside his rather short knee pants and cinched in tightly with a belt. Oleg wears long black stockings and high top shoes. The younger boy, Gleb, seems to be bare legged and shirtless. He appears to be wearing suspender short pants but it is hard to tell. Father and sons seem to be sitting on a piece of farm machinery somewhere in the country. Notice the boys' shaved heads. This may have been a school custom to prevent infestation by lice. We notice the same style, for instance, in Polish orphanages.

Marriage

Kerensky married Olga Lvovna (nee Baranovskaya). Although his father was loyal to the Russian Orthodox Church, his mother Olga had no use for the traditional religion of Russia and refused to let her sons be raised in the Church.

Children

The image here shows Kerensky with his sons, Oleg (8 years old) and Gleb (6 years old) (figure 1). The picture was taken on the family's last pre-war holiday in 1913 at Kainki in Kazan Province, Russia. Oleg Alexandrovich, the older boy, was born 4 April 1905.

Education

Oleg began his schooling in 1913 at a progressive Russian school and was in the same class as the famous Russian composer, Dimitri Shostakovich. He attended Oxford University and was twice treasurer of the Oxford Union.

Clothing

Oleg, the older boy, wears a Russian blouse with a band around the neck and buttons up the left side. The blouse is worn outside his rather short knee pants and cinched in tightly with a belt. Oleg wears long black stockings and high top shoes. The younger boy, Gleb, seems to be bare legged and shirtless. He appears to be wearing suspender short pants but it is hard to tell. Father and sons seem to be sitting on a piece of farm machinery somewhere in the country. Notice the boys' shaved heads. This may have been a school custom to prevent infestation by lice. We notice the same style, for instance, in Polish orphanages.

Adult Lives

Both sons, Oleg (1905-84) and Gleb (1907- ), chose nonpolitical careers. Their father would have liked them to follow him into politics, but he accepted their choice with resignation.

Oleg

Oleg eventually became an internationally renowned bridge builder, studying engineering and gaining a doctorate. Oleg married Nathalie Bely, the daughter of a prosperous Russian bourgeois family. His career was based mainly in England. Although Alexander Kerensky was not an ideal father to his sons, especially as they grew older and were separated from him geographically, he did play with them lovingly when they were still little boys and the family was living together in Russia.

Gleb Alexandrovich

Gleb the younger son, was born 24 November 1907. He married an English woman, Mary Hudson, from Yorkshire and eventually settled in Southport, England. He translated two of his father's books including The Crucifixion of Liberty (1934). He held a business position with the English Electric Company and also served in the British Army (the Royal Engineers). He volunteered for the military in 1940, expecting to be posted to Finland where he hoped to check up on and assist Russian emigres who had fled from Stalin's tyranny.

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