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Early Years. A carpenter's son, Mikoyan says that he "came from a long line of Armenian traders." According to his fiction-varnished official biography, he studied at an Armenian seminary in Tiflis (where Stalin studied for the priesthood at a Russian Orthodox seminary two decades earlier), showed daring as a youthful Red leader in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, was wounded at the barricades, narrowly escaped execution when captured by anti-Bolshevik forces. Escaping execution proved to be a special Mikoyan talent, highly useful for a man who managed to survive for a quarter-century as a high...
Official Career. Sharing the legendary Armenian gift for trading, Mikoyan became Stalin's chief trade commissar at 30, overseeing not only Soviet foreign trade but also domestic distribution of goods. After World War II, he set up the Soviet economic apparatus for milking the captive nations of Eastern Europe. During the shifting struggle for power and survival after Stalin's death. Mikoyan shrewdly sided with Nikita Khrushchev when the other schemers from the old Stalin gang joined forces against the upstart. When Khrushchev won out, the wily Armenian emerged as No. 2 man, with the title of Deputy...
Personality & Family. Mikoyan is a fluent talker (but speaks little English), likes dancing, cooking Armenian dishes and horseback riding, is more amiable-or at least more ingratiating -than most Soviet chieftains. After three decades as a foreign trade specialist, and numerous trips abroad, he is also more knowledgeable about the West than most of his fellow commissars. "Unlike the others," a veteran Western diplomat says of Mikoyan, "he has a rational image of the U.S." Mikoyan has four children, numerous grandchildren. His brother Artem is one of the U.S.S.R.'s top airplane designers (the MI in MIG stands...
Supporters of the proposed Armenian Church on Brattle St. have received the backing of the Superior Court in their efforts to construct an edifice which would exceed the allowed building height in the residential area...
...asked for a diplomatic visa permitting Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan to visit the U.S. for a fortnight or so early next month. One of three members of the old Stalin gang (the others: Premier Khrushchev, President Voroshilov) still surviving in the top ranks of the Soviet hierarchy, wily Armenian Mikoyan, 63, will officially be visiting the U.S. as the guest of Ambassador Mikhail A. ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, but Mikoyan's obvious purpose in making the trip is to talk to top U.S. officials, possibly the President. The U.S. has "no information" on Mikoyan's plans, announced...