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Tamara Natanovna Eidelman (Russian: Тамара Натановна Эйдельман) is a Russian historian, honored teacher of Russia, translator, blogger and an editor for Russian Life.
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She is a daughter of historian and writer Natan Eidelman and wife of Russian writer, archeologist and TV presenter Peter Aleshkovsky and mother of Russian photographer Dmitry Aleshkovsky. She has a YouTube channel on world history in Russian. Chair of History Department of Moscow School #1567; presenter at EUROCLIO (European association of history teachers), with the experience of familiarisation with which she organised in Moscow Association of History Teachers (Rus. Ассоциация учителей истории (Объединение преподавателей истории)) which she headed. An author and editor of Mozaika kultur (Rus. Мозаика культур "Mosaics of Cultures") study guide. Teaching since 1981.
In 2014, she criticized Russian politicians for their military intervention in Ukraine. On April 9 she said that she would like to teach patriotism in her classes but only if she can do it her way, referring to mass deportation of Crimean Tatars in World War II which according to her is still not a part of curriculum. On August 31 of the same year, she criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for disregarding the rule of law.
She authored a Russian translation of the book The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort.
