N. S. Khrushchev. Having received an excellent upbringing and education, she worked for more than half a century in the publication "Science and Life". Today Rada Nikitichna is on a well-deserved rest. Despite her advanced age, the 87-year-old woman eagerly shares her memories of her life with journalists.
Parents are glad
Adzhubey Rada Nikitichna (nee Khrushcheva) was born in 1929 in a nomenklatura family. Her father was who at the time was the secretary of the party committee at the Industrial Academy in Moscow. Subsequently, he worked as First Secretary of the Kiev Regional Committee of the CPSU (b), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Committee of the CPSU (b). In 1953-1964, Rada's father was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and in essence - the main person in the state. The girl's mother, Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, at the time of her acquaintance with Khrushchev, worked as a political economy teacher at the party school in the city of Yuzovka (now Donetsk). The parents of Rada Nikitichna played a wedding with their family in 1924, but they officially registered their marriage only in 1965.
Brothers and sisters
In addition to Rada, Nina Petrovna and Nikita Sergeevich had two more children. In 1935, the couple had a son, Sergei, and in 1937, a daughter, Elena. Before Kukharchuk, Khrushchev was married to Efrosinya Pisareva, who died in 1920 from typhus. From marriage with her, he had a son, Leonid, and a daughter, Julia. Thus, Rada had 2 brothers and 2 sisters. became an engineer, was engaged in cybernetics and rocket science, after the collapse of the Soviet Union he emigrated to the USA, where he received the title of professor
Rada Nikitichna's younger sister Lena chose the profession of a lawyer, worked in the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, and died at the age of 37. Stepbrother Leonid was a military pilot, died in an air battle near Kaluga in 1943. Rada's older sister by her father, Yulia, chose journalism as her profession, but, disillusioned with the profession, began to work as the head of the literary department at the Yermolova Theater.
Childhood, studying at school
How did the fate of Khrushchev's middle daughter develop? Rada Adjubey, whose biography will be described in this publication, was born at a time when her father began to make a rapid political career. Despite being constantly busy at work, Nikita Sergeevich found time to communicate with his family. Soon after the birth of Rada, Khrushchev was transferred to Moscow. The family of the future secretary general of the USSR settled first in a hostel on Pokrovka, and then in a separate apartment in a government building on Naberezhnaya Street. The Rada often spent weekends with their parents at the recreation center in Ogaryovo, where the families of many party workers gathered. Her best childhood friends were the daughters of Bulganin and Malenkov, Vera and Volya.
Khrushchev's daughter Rada Adzhubey grew up as an independent girl. Her mother held the position of head of the party cabinet at the Moscow radio tube plant and was often at her workplace from early morning until late at night. She continued to work even after the birth of her son Sergei. Nina Petrovna left work only in 1937, having given birth to her youngest daughter Lena. The girl was born very weak and demanded increased attention. Taking care of her, she could not devote enough time to the other children. While Rada was little, her Julia looked after her. As she grew older, she found herself completely on her own. Rada went to the nomenklatura school located in Arbat lanes. The youngest son of Anastas Mikoyan Sergo, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, studied in the same class with her. The girl really liked the educational institution, she attended it with pleasure, studied well. After Nikita Sergeevich was appointed First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, the Rada transferred to a Kiev school, which she subsequently graduated with a gold medal.
Rada was not surrounded by luxury in childhood. Despite the high position of Khrushchev, his household lived quite modestly. They did not eat delicacies, did not drive expensive cars, and all the furniture in the apartment occupied by the family of Nikita Sergeevich was state-owned and had tags with inventory numbers. Nina Petrovna preferred to get to work by tram, and many of her colleagues did not even realize that she was Khrushchev's wife. She was helped by a housekeeper who ran away from the village and, having no place of her own, slept on a chest in the corridor with her masters.
Admission to Moscow State University
After graduating from school in 1947, she came to Moscow to enter Moscow State University Rada Nikitichna Adzhubey. Her biography contains facts proving that the influential father did not provide any assistance to her when entering the university. Rada was distinguished by independence unusual for her age and decided to choose her future profession without the guidance of her parents. She dreamed of becoming a journalist, but there was no faculty at Moscow State University that trained such specialists. Then the girl, who since childhood had a weakness for literature, chose the Faculty of Philology. However, Rada Nikitichna was incredibly lucky: having entered the philological faculty, she learned that a new department of journalism had opened on its basis. Without thinking twice, Khrushchev's daughter transferred to him and began to master the profession of a correspondent. The girl graduated from Moscow State University in 1952.
Marriage, having children
In 1949, immediately after the second year, Rada married her classmate Alexei Ivanovich Adzhubei. Nikita Sergeevich and Nina Petrovna believed that it was too early for their daughters to start a family, but they did not oppose her desire. The wedding at Khrushchev's daughter was purely student: instead of a restaurant, young people walked in the dacha of a friend of the groom, and the tables were laid right in the yard. In 1952 Rada Adjubey gave her first-born son Nikita to her husband. In 1954, the couple had a son, Alexei, and in 1959, Ivan.
Adjubey's relationship with his influential father-in-law was excellent. In 1950 Nikita Sergeevich helped his son-in-law get a job as a trainee in the sports department of the all-Union newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", and a few years later Alexey Ivanovich was appointed its editor-in-chief. In 1959, the husband of Rada Nikitichna headed the editorial office of the Izvestia newspaper, in 1961 he became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. After Khrushchev was ousted from power in 1964, Adjubey lost all high posts. His place of work was the journalism department of the Soviet Union magazine.
Career
After graduating from Moscow State University and having given birth to her first son, Rada Nikitichna Khrushcheva-Adjubey came to work in the journal "Science and Life" as head of the department of medicine and biology. In 1956 she was appointed deputy editor-in-chief of this publication. She worked at her post until she retired in 2004. After Khrushchev was removed from office, Rada Nikitichna was able to stay as deputy editor. Among her colleagues, she enjoyed great authority and was a de facto leader at her work. Under her, Science and Life from a boring, second-rate publication turned into one of the most interesting and readable magazines in the Soviet Union.
Overseas trips
During the reign of Khrushchev, Rada Adzhubey was repeatedly able to travel outside the Soviet Union. Nikita Sergeevich was the first in the history of the USSR to take his wife and children on his business trips abroad. The most memorable was the trip to Washington and New York, where her father was on a long working visit. Rada also visited the USA with her husband, who also went on business trips abroad. During one of these visits, the Adzhubeev couple were invited to the White House, where Khrushchev's daughter met John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline personally.
Life of Rada Nikitichna today
Rada Adzhubey, whose photo is presented in this article, lived with Alexei Ivanovich until his death in 1993. Their family union, which many considered a marriage of convenience and predicted a quick disintegration for it, turned out to be surprisingly strong. The couple managed to live in perfect harmony for 44 years and raise three sons. Today Rada Nikitichna is retired. Because of it, she rarely appears in public. Khrushchev's daughter devotes most of her time to putting in order the family archives, which contain many interesting documents and photographs. She is absolutely not interested in politics and tries not to lose touch with her younger brother Sergei, who constantly lives in the United States.
August 27, 2016 10:26 pm 
We all remember the famous photograph of Nina Khrushcheva, wife of Nikita Khrushchev, with Jacqueline Kenedy.
Looking at this photo, only the lazy one did not kick Khrushchev's wife. Still, the external comparison was far from in her favor. Especially in comparison with the trendsetter Jacqueline Kenedy, who was at the service of all the leading designers of the time. But, by the way, Nina Khrushcheva is in the same dress or suit. And here it looks more solid. It can be seen that the fabric is not cheap, but the colors let down.
We all know the sad fate of Jacqueline, and her husbands, and her children. But we know practically nothing about Nina Khrushcheva, who all her life remained in the shadow of her husband, quietly and calmly taking care of the house, raising children. Having accidentally stumbled upon an article about the fate of the children of the first leaders of the USSR in Ogonyok, I decided to follow the life and fate of both Nina Khrushcheva and their children with Nikita Khrushchev.
Khrushchev - a rarity among members of the Politburo - was a father of many children, raising five children. As a very young man in Yuzovka (now Donetsk), he married Efrosinya Ivanovna Pisareva, a beautiful red-haired woman. She died in 1919 of typhus, leaving Nikita Sergeevich with two children - Yulia and Leonid. He married again Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, a calm woman with a strong character, who gave birth to three - Radu, Sergei and Elena.
Elena was in poor health and died at 35.
Leonid Khrushchev, a military pilot, died at the front.
Yulia Khrushcheva (1916-1981) - was married to the director of the Kiev Opera, was a chemist by profession.
Information about Radu and Sergei will be below.
A little about Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva, nee Kukharchuk.
Nina Kukharchuk was born into a Ukrainian family in the village of Vasilev in the Kholmsh region, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Her father, Pyotr Vasilievich, was an ordinary peasant. Mother - Ekaterina Grigorievna Bondarchuk - also came from a simple peasant family.
Nina Kukharchuk met Nikita Khrushchev in 1922 in Yuzovka. There she worked as a teacher at the district party school. There they actually began to live as a family. And they will register their marriage only after Khrushchev's retirement, in 1965.
When Nina Khrushcheva became the "first lady" of the state, she participated in Khrushchev's foreign trips, met with the leaders of other states and their wives, which was not accepted in the USSR before her. Nina Khrushcheva was fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and French. Wikipedia says she was still studying English, but does not indicate her level of proficiency. But I found a photo in which John Kennedy says something to Nina Khrushcheva, and she smiles knowingly. So, it is possible that she still had a good command of English.
Nikita Sergeevich and Nina Petrovna were good parents, and they had a happy family. Nina Petrovna survived Nikita Sergeevich (died in 1971) and her daughter Elena. She lived in a state dacha in Zhukovka and had a pension of 200 rubles.
In the photo - Nina Khrushcheva with US President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife in the United States, 1959.
Photos from other events. In my opinion, she looks quite decent on them. Not worse than others.
In the photo: The Khrushchev family in 1959, while visiting the United States. From left to right - N. P. Khrushcheva, USSR Ambassador to the United States Mikhail Menshikov, Nelson Rockefeller, N. S. Khrushchev, Rada Khrushchev and Sergei Khrushchev.
Now a little about the two most famous children of the Khrushchevs: Rada and Sergei. They have achieved a lot in this life. There is no doubt that their parents gave them a good start. But, as we know, no parental status will help if the parents did not take care of the child and if he has no abilities. And Nina Khrushcheva, the same woman in a simple chintz dress, was able to raise worthy and good children.
Rada Khrushchev(pictured on the right).
I have repeatedly listened to interviews with her. She was an intelligent and educated woman. Lived a decent life. She passed away this year at the age of 87.
Rada graduated from school with a gold medal in Kiev. After leaving school, she entered the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, subsequently transferred to the created Faculty of Journalism, which she graduated in 1952. During her studies, she met Alexei Adjubey, whom she married in 1949. In this marriage, she gave birth to three sons (Nikita, Alexei and Ivan). With her husband, they had a great relationship while they were together. Alexey Ivanovich was affectionate and tender towards his wife.
Rada Khrushchev always behaved modestly. No one would have thought that she was the daughter of the master of the country. All her life she worked in the journal "Science and Life", headed the department of biology and medicine, then became deputy editor-in-chief. Deciding that journalism education is not enough, she graduated from the biological faculty of Moscow University.
In 1956 she was appointed deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine. During her work, the magazine became one of the best popular science magazines in the Soviet Union. After Khrushchev was removed from his post, her husband fell into disgrace and began to work as a department editor in the magazine "Soviet Union", as well as to publish in various publications under a pseudonym, Rada Adjubey continued to work in the editorial office of the magazine until 2004.
True, for more than twenty years her surname was not mentioned in the list of the editorial board of the magazine ...
Sergey Khrushchev
Second child of Nina and Nikita Khrushchev a Soviet and Russian scientist, publicist, doctor of technical sciences, professor, Hero of Socialist Labor.
In 1952 he graduated from Moscow School No. 110 with a gold medal, graduated from the Faculty of Electrovacuum Engineering and Special Instrumentation at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute with a degree in Automatic Control Systems. He worked at the Chelomey Design Bureau as Deputy Head of Department, Deputy Director of the Institute of Electronic Control Machines (INEUM), Deputy General Director of NPO Elektronmash.
When his father was removed, Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev also lost his favorite job. He did a great job - persuaded his father to dictate memories. The four-volume notes of Nikita Sergeevich are an invaluable source on the history of the Fatherland.
In 1991, S.N. Khrushchev was invited to Brown University (USA) to lecture on the history of the Cold War, which he currently specializes in. Remained permanently in the United States, currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island, has Russian and American (since 1999) citizenship. He is a professor at the Thomas Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
He published a number of his own books with recollections of historical events, which he witnessed, and with his own balanced assessment of what was happening: "Pensioner of Union significance", "The birth of a superpower." In his works he adheres to a clear anti-Stalinist position. He is currently working on books about "Khrushchev's reforms." The books have been translated into 12 foreign languages. One of the screenwriters of the film "Gray Wolves" (Mosfilm, 1993).
With his first wife - Galina Shumova - divorced. The second wife, Valentina Nikolaevna Golenko, lives with Sergei Nikitich in the USA. The eldest son Nikita, a journalist and editor of Moskovskiye Novosti, died on February 22, 2007 in Moscow. The youngest son Sergei lives in Moscow.
He volunteered for the army during the Soviet-Finnish war. In 1943 he was already a senior lieutenant in the Guard, a fighter pilot. In March, he went on a combat mission from which he never returned. In April, Stalin ordered that he be considered dead. A decree was issued on awarding the brave officer with the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree. But a few years after Nikita Khrushchev's campaign against Stalin's personality cult began, rumors began to circulate that Leonid Khrushchev was not a hero at all.
Death in battle
The official version of the death of Leonid Khrushchev is set out in his personal file. A combat officer, already in November 1941 nominated for the Order of the Battle Red Banner, from December 19, 1942, commanded a link in the 18th Guards Fighter Regiment.
On March 11 of the following year, his plane was shot down near the town of Zhizdra. Then it was Smolensk, and now - Kaluga region.
The squadron commander wrote in the report: “Two of our aircraft (the leading guard senior lieutenant Zamorin and the guard senior lieutenant Khrushchev) were attacked by two Focke-Wulfs 190. An air battle started at an altitude of about 2500 meters - a couple for a couple. " The German plane fired at Khrushchev's plane. Zamorin began to shoot at the enemy with a machine gun: “The German, seeing his disadvantageous position, rolled away from Khrushchev and, attacked by Zamorin, went south. When Zamorin returned, he did not find Khrushchev. Our planes were flying in the distance, Zamorin decided that Khrushchev was among them and joined the general formation. "
However, Khrushchev did not return to duty. Searches for the body or the wreckage of the aircraft also yielded no results. A sad letter came to my parents. The commander of the 1st Air Army Khudyakov wrote: "The circumstances under which he did not return, and the period that has elapsed since that time, force us to conclude that your son died a heroic death in an air battle."
Later, the fact that no one saw the fall of the plane, and the wreckage was not found, was the subject of many speculations. However, during the war, the number of fighters that passed on the column "did not return from the mission" went to thousands. The planes were often of poor quality, assembled in difficult conditions, and the pilots from the squadron concentrated on controlling their aircraft and did not have time to notice what was happening around. According to Zamorin's report, Khrushchev's plane went into a tailspin. But he had the opportunity to use a parachute, and with a good coincidence, to take the plane out of a spin. These formulations later provided food for many versions.
Shot for crimes
In 1941 Leonid Khrushchev was wounded in battle. He was able to reach the neutral zone and land the plane. For this he was nominated for an award. He went to Moscow to receive it. There, at a party, he was rumored to have killed an officer while drunk. According to another version, the murder took place in Kuibyshev, where Leonid was treated in a hospital. Khrushchev allegedly killed one of his circus friends.
The authors of such versions write that Leonid Khrushchev had a difficult relationship with the law back in the 30s. Allegedly, he once contacted the Kiev bandits. For example, counterintelligence agent Vadim Udilov wrote: “Even before the war, he contacted the bandits in Kiev. They were caught and executed by a court sentence, and the son of Nikita Sergeevich, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, "miraculously" escaped punishment. " Sergo Beria even hinted that Leonid managed to serve ten years for having a connection with the gang, despite the fact that there is no evidence of this.
However, in the Komsomol description for 1940, the most terrible offenses of Leonid Khrushchev were "indiscipline and drunkenness" (1937) and "arrears of membership fees" (1940).
They wanted to send Leonid Khrushchev to court for the murder while drinking, but, as supporters of the version write, Nikita Khrushchev was lying at Stalin's feet and begged to spare his son. Here again the discrepancies begin. According to one version, Stalin spared young Khrushchev and sent him to the front, and according to another, he refused to pardon. The author of the second version is KGB General Dokuchaev. “Stalin was told that Khrushchev’s son Leonid, a military pilot, had committed a serious crime, for which capital punishment is imposed
Khrushchev burst into tears, and then began to sob. They say, the son is to blame, let him be severely punished, just not shoot ... Stalin said: in the current situation, I can do nothing, "- said Dokuchaev.
Shot for treason
An equally high-profile version is brought to life by Zamorin's cautious report. It is believed that Leonid Khrushchev was able to land the plane, but was captured. Then the story becomes almost detective. Stalin allegedly ordered the kidnapping of Khrushchev's son so that he would not tell the enemy valuable information about the life of the Kremlin elite. The famous Pavel Sudoplatov was entrusted to "steal".
Documents were collected confirming the betrayal, and the tribunal of the Moscow military district sentenced Leonid Khrushchev to death. However, no supporting documents were found in the archives of the institutions. Sudoplatov himself bluntly stated that he did not participate in the operation to “kidnap” Leonid Khrushchev, moreover, “Stalin personally decided to consider Leonid Khrushchev dead during the execution of a combat mission, and not missing. In those conditions, this was of great importance for the political career of NS Khrushchev, excluding the possibility of compromising one of the members of the Soviet leadership by this episode. "
According to other versions, in captivity, Leonid Khrushchev went over to the side of the Germans. And he was not kidnapped, but exchanged for a German prisoner of war. A supporter of this version, N. Khotimsky, wrote: “The exchange took place, but as the KGB workers established, when Leonid Khrushchev was in the filtration camp, he behaved badly in captivity. In the aggregate of the crimes he committed, LN Khrushchev was convicted by a military tribunal and sentenced to death. "
Supporters of the execution version believe that the fight against the personality cult of Stalin was on the part of Khrushchev revenge for his son.
According to the son of Leonid Khrushchev, the search teams made an important find: “Bryansk search engines found the wreckage of an aircraft identical to the one on which his father flew, approximately at the site of his last battle. The remains of the pilot, or rather his uniform, were also found. They correspond to the official list of clothing items that Leonid Khrushchev wore on the last flight. " Perhaps, in fact, Leonid Khrushchev died the way many thousands of not so famous soldiers and officers died during the war.
In mid-March 2016, the world media exploded with the news "Stalin's granddaughter starred in a shocking photo shoot!"
The photos, which users found on social networks, showed an extravagant lady with bright makeup, ripped tights, short shorts, “armed” with a toy machine gun.
The fact that this is how the granddaughter of the Soviet leader might look amazed many. However, this is due to the fact that ordinary people know little about the descendants. Joseph Stalin.
The woman whose pictures rocked the world are called Chris Evans, and she is indeed the granddaughter of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.
43-year-old American woman who lives in Oregon and owns an antiques store, is the son of Stalin's only daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva.
In 1966, Svetlana Alliluyeva asked for political asylum in the United States, where she married William Peters... In 1973, the couple had a daughter, whom her mother named Olga at birth. At the same time, the girl also had an American name - Chris. Svetlana almost never raised her daughter, having sent her to a boarding school.
Chris, who bears her husband's surname today, does not like to talk about his grandfather. One hundred percent American, Stalin's granddaughter, and her own mother did not communicate often, until her death in 2011.
Stalin's granddaughter, Chris Evans. Lives in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. He does not speak Russian. pic.twitter.com/IFu4rlJcoU
- The same Ternovsky (@dternovskiy) March 14, 2016
"To be Stalin's grandson is a heavy cross"
Stalin has quite a lot of grandchildren - his eldest son, Jacob, had three children, Vasily - four, at Svetlana - three. Some of the leader's grandchildren are no longer alive today.
Eldest son of Vasily Stalin Alexander Burdonskyperhaps the most famous of the second generation of the leader's heirs. The 74-year-old director of the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army bears the title of People's Artist of Russia. In one of his interviews, he said about his grandfather: “Being Stalin's grandson is a heavy cross. I will never go to play Stalin in a movie for any money, although they promised huge profits. "
Theater director Alexander Burdonsky. Photo: RIA Novosti / Galina Kmit
The eldest son of Svetlana Alliluyeva from her marriage with Grigory Morozov Joseph Alliluyev was a doctor of medical sciences, a renowned cardiologist, awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the RSFSR. He rarely spoke to journalists and preferred not to discuss his grandfather. Iosif Alliluyev died in November 2008 at the age of 64.
Most of Stalin's grandchildren and great-grandchildren prefer to stay away from the press to protect their privacy.
Nikita Khrushchev Jr. dedicated his life to journalism
The offspring of the Soviet leaders were scattered around the world. The youngest son of the personality cult debunker Nikita Khrushchev Sergey lives in the USA since 1991. The great-granddaughter of the Soviet leader also lives there, Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva.
The most famous of Khrushchev's grandchildren was his full namesake Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev. He lived and worked in Russia. Graduate of the Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University, Nikita Khrushchev Jr. from 1991 he worked in the newspaper "Moscow News", where he was the editor of the "Dossier" department - an electronic archive and reference information - and also dealt with the history of the newspaper and the "Calendar" column.
Nikita Khrushchev Jr. did not have a family, did not want to use his famous surname for career purposes, and did not seek to go to his father in America.
In January 2007, he went to work for the Soyuznoye Veche newspaper, the organ of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Literally a month later, at the age of 47, he died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage.
Molotov's grandson writes books about his grandfather
Of all the descendants of the Soviet leadership, the grandson of one of the closest Stalinist associates rose above all along the political line Vyacheslav Molotov— Vyacheslav Nikonov.
Vyacheslav Nikonov at the plenary session of the Russian State Duma. Photo: RIA Novosti / Vladimir Fedorenko
Vyacheslav Nikonov, 59, is a State Duma deputy and a member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party. She holds a doctorate in history and is Dean of the Faculty of Public Administration at Moscow State University. Among the works of the historian Vyacheslav Nikonov there are also books about the life of his grandfather.
Brezhnev again, CPSU secretary again
Grandson of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Andrey Brezhnev since the late 1990s he has been actively involved in politics. In 1998 he headed the All-Russian Communist Social Movement (OKOD). Later, Andrei Brezhnev was a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, headed the "New Communist Party", and in 2012 became the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Social Justice (CPSU). He repeatedly participated in elections at various levels, but he did not succeed in getting elected anywhere. Today Andrei Brezhnev is 54 years old, he has two sons from his first marriage - the elder Leonid works as a translator in the military department; junior Dmitry - in the field of software sales.
Party card of the Communist Party member of the grandson of Leonid Brezhnev Andrei Brezhnev. Photo: RIA Novosti / Dmitry Chebotaev
Andropov's grandson was beaten on the street after returning from the USA
About the grandchildren of one of the most closed Soviet leaders, Yuri Andropov, little is known.
Granddaughter Tatyana graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography, worked at the Bolshoi Theater, then left for the United States with her family. In 2009, she returned to her homeland, became the head of the Andropov Foundation for the Preservation of Historical Heritage. She had big plans, but in 2010 he died at the age of 42 from cancer.
Grandson of Andropov Konstantin also lived in the United States for a long time, where he graduated from college as a designer-architect. Then Konstantin returned to Russia, where he studied at the law faculty of one of the capital's universities. The media recalled him in 2011, when the name of 31-year-old Konstantin Andropov appeared in the criminal news reports. Unidentified persons attacked him in the street and beat him. As a result, the grandson of the Secretary General ended up in the hospital. Most of all, the journalists were interested in the fact that an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs named Brezhnev was instructed to handle the attack case. True, he had nothing to do with the Soviet secretary general.
Gorbachev's granddaughters exchanged social life for family life
Granddaughters of the first and last president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, unlike the rest of the descendants of Soviet leaders, are fairly well known to the general public.
Ksenia Virganskaya-Gorbacheva now 36 years old, Anastasia Virganskaya - 29. Both of them in their youth tried themselves on the podium, but then settled down. Ksenia was married to a businessman Kirill Solod, but this marriage fell apart. In 2009 she got married Dmitry Pyrchenkov, the former concert director of the singer Abraham Russo.
Ksenia Virganskaya, granddaughter of ex-president of the USSR M. Gorbachev. Photo: RIA Novosti / Valery Levitin
In 2010, Anastasia, a graduate of the journalism faculty of MGIMO, an editor-in-chief of one of the online media, tied the knot. A PR specialist became her chosen one Dmitry Zangiev, at that time a graduate student of the Russian Academy of Civil Service under the President of the Russian Federation.
The granddaughter of Mikhail Gorbachev Anastasia Virganskaya. Photo: RIA Novosti / Ekaterina Chesnokova
Journalists noted that the weddings of Gorbachev's granddaughters were magnificent and on a grand scale and cost a tidy sum.
Recently, the names of Ksenia and Anastasia have disappeared from the gossip column. Rumor has it that they focused on family concerns and lead a rather secluded lifestyle.
There are many legends about the death of Leonid Khrushchev, the eldest son of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev from his first marriage. According to one of the versions, the fighter pilot, Guard Senior Lieutenant Leonid Khrushchev died as a hero in an air battle in 1943. According to the other, he was shot by order of Stalin as a traitor to the Motherland. These are just two of several assumptions that researchers, historians and journalists still argue about.
All the greatest mysteries of history / M.A. Pankova, I. Yu. Romanenko, etc.
Most readers know only one son of Nikita Khrushchev - Sergei, a very prosperous person who has been living in the United States for a long time. Few had heard of the existence of his older half-brother Leonid until about the end of the 1980s. Nikita Khrushchev himself never mentioned him. However, in memoirs, documentary books, newspaper and magazine publications of recent years, a huge amount of information has appeared on the fate of Leonid Khrushchev. Officially, Senior Lieutenant Leonid Khrushchev is listed as missing during an air battle on March 11, 1943 near the village of Mashutino near the town of Zhizdra, Oryol Region. Most of the published materials not only refutes the death of the pilot in battle, but also claims that he voluntarily surrendered, and then was shot as a traitor. The numerous arguments given by the authors do not complement, and often simply contradict each other. Which version is genuine, or at least somewhat close to the truth?
In the late 1990s, first Leonid's half-brother Sergei, and then Leonid's son Yuri and granddaughter Nina living in the United States, publicly announced that all published materials about Leonid Khrushchev's betrayal were a lie, and demanded refutation through legal authorities. The Khrushchevs argued that during the life of Nikita Sergeevich there were no publications about the betrayal of his son, since he would have refuted them; there is also no documentary evidence of Leonid's conviction. In addition, the family never talked about anything like that - the children always knew from their parents that Leonid died heroically in an air battle.
Indeed, the documents, one way or another confirming the guilt of Leonid Khrushchev, have never been found anywhere by any of the researchers. Some explain this by a thorough cleaning of state and party archives, which was carried out by NS Khrushchev at the very beginning of his reign. All materials incriminating him in any way were seized and, most likely, destroyed. Some of the former employees of the Kremlin security claim that a special plane of a special squadron often ply between Kiev and Moscow, delivering documents to Nikita Sergeyevich, which he disposed of with relief.
Nevertheless, documents concerning L. Khrushchev, stitched and numbered, are stored in the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the city of Podolsk. An appeal to them, and in particular to the personal file of Senior Lieutenant L.N. Khrushchev, does not provide any evidence that he was ever convicted. In the original autobiography written by Leonid Khrushchev on May 22, 1940, you can read: “Born in Donbass (Stalino) on November 10, 1917 in a working class family. Before the revolution, my father worked as a locksmith in the mines and the Bosse factory. He is currently a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. There are no relatives abroad. Married. His wife works as a navigator-pilot of a squadron of an aero club in Moscow. The wife's father is a worker. Brother - Air Force serviceman, Odessa. Sister is a housewife. He received general and special education while studying in the seven-year school, FZU, the GVF pilot school, in the preparatory course of the Academy. Graduated from the Civil Air Fleet school in 1937. In the RKKA voluntarily since February 1939, he is a student of the preparatory course of the VVA them. Zhukovsky. From February 1940 - EVASH (Engels Military Aviation School). I haven’t been abroad, I haven’t been on trial ”.
Although there is no information about a criminal record in his autobiography, some legends, of which there are many not only about the death of Leonid Khrushchev, but also about his whole life, say that he was convicted, and more than once. Many authors portray Leonid Khrushchev as a person capable of both betrayal and murder. So, Sergo Beria in his book "My Father - Lavrenty Beria" claims that the son of Nikita Khrushchev, even before the war, got in touch with a gang of criminals who traded in murder and robbery. For the crimes committed, his accomplices were shot, and Leonid himself, being the son of a high-ranking statesman, got off with ten years in prison. However, there are no traces of ten years of imprisonment mentioned by the son of Lavrenty Beria in any of the documents.
As you know, after training at EVASH, Leonid Khrushchev, having received the first military rank of lieutenant, was appointed a junior pilot in the 134th air regiment of high-speed bombers of the Moscow Military District. And already in the first months of 1941 he bravely fought, for which there is documentary evidence. In the submission of the commander of the 46th Air Division for the award of the Order of the Red Banner it is said: “Comrade. Khrushchev has 12 sorties. Courageous, fearless pilot. In an air battle on 06.07.41, he bravely fought enemy fighters up to repelling their attack. From the battle comrade. Khrushchev came out with a riddled car. " No less positive is his combat characteristic of January 9, 1942: “Disciplined. The piloting technique on SB and AR-2 aircraft is excellent. Calm and calculating in the air. Tireless in battle, fearless, always eager to fight. He stayed on the Western Front for two months in the initial period, that is, in the most difficult period when the regiment flew without cover. He flew 27 sorties over enemy troops. In battle he was shot down by the enemy and broke his leg while landing.
The injured Leonid Khrushchev was immediately taken to a hospital in Kuibyshev, where the families of many leading employees were then evacuated. It was to this period of his life that another story belongs, the reliability of which is still in question. She says that in 1942 in Kuibyshev, in a drunken stupor, Leonid Khrushchev allegedly shot a naval officer, was convicted and sent to the front line. In her book "Children of the Kremlin" Larisa Vasilyeva writes about this: "Stalin was informed that the son of Khrushchev, Leonid, a military pilot with the rank of senior lieutenant, in a state of strong alcoholic intoxication, shot a major of the Red Army." Stepan Mikoyan, the son of AI Mikoyan, clarifies: “There was a party, there was a sailor from the front. Well, they began to say who shoots how. The sailor insisted that Leonidas knock the bottle off his head. Shot and beat off the neck. The sailor insisted: hit the bottle. And he fired a second time and hit that sailor in the forehead. He was given 8 years to serve at the front. " The tragic case of shooting a bottle is confirmed by other eyewitnesses of the event. However, all of them only heard that "either Lenya was shooting, or he was shot, or he was only present." Therefore, the version of the murder of a naval officer, again, has no documentary evidence.
In addition, after his recovery, Leonid Khrushchev was sent not to the penal battalion, as many wrote, but for retraining in a training aviation regiment, after which he was appointed flight commander of the 18th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment. The regiment had a good training base, and the young pilot, who had previously fought in bomber aviation, quickly got used to his new place. Soon he began to participate in combat missions on the Yak-7B aircraft. It was rumored, however, that Leonid Nikitovich allegedly went to the front to avoid punishment for a brawl with a brawl and accidental murder. Others resolutely did not believe such a slander: "Leonid is a man of the most honest soul, he just fell into the millstones of circumstances at a time when they were not even such." In any case, the son of an important statesman did not sit in the rear and went to the front himself - this is already worthy of respect.
Leonid Khrushchev got to the new air regiment just a few days before his last departure. In the fatal battle for him, Khrushchev on his Yak-7B was the wingman, the leader - one of the best combat pilots of the regiment Zamorin. The flight was attacked by two German Focke-Wulf-190 fighters. At an altitude of 2500 meters, an air battle began - a couple for a couple. There are still too many legends about the last battle of the guard of Senior Lieutenant Khrushchev. The most popular are two versions. According to the first, he was shot down, he managed to jump out with a parachute, landed on the territory occupied by the Germans and surrendered. According to the second, he was not shot down, but simply voluntarily flew to an enemy airfield. One newspaper even wrote that “I flew over to the Germans with my entire unit ...”.
The leader, Senior Lieutenant Zamorin of the Guard, gives three versions of that fatal battle, and all are different! As Zamorin himself later admitted, it was scary - both he and the regiment command were afraid of punishment for not saving the son of a Politburo member. Therefore, in the first report Zamorin writes that Khrushchev's plane went into a tailspin, in the second - that Leonid, saving him, substituted his plane for the Focke-Wulf line, in the third - that in the heat of battle he did not notice what happened to his wingman ... After the war, and even after the death of the former head of the USSR Nikita Khrushchev, Zamorin sent a letter to Marshal of the Soviet Union Ustinov, in which he admitted: “I did not mention in my report that when the German FV-190 rushed to my car in attack, coming under my right wing from below, Lenya Khrushchev, in order to save me from death, threw his plane in front of the Fokker's salvo. After the armor-piercing strike, Khrushchev's plane literally crumbled before my eyes! .. That is why it was impossible to find any traces of this disaster on the ground. Moreover, the authorities did not immediately order to look for them - our battle took place over the territory occupied by the Germans. " Yet, in Zamorin's letter, one thing is indisputable - the former presenter did his best to save the reputation of the deceased follower, tried to protect his partner from accusations of treason and explain why nothing was found on the ground.
In a sad message, with which exactly a month after the incident - April 11, 1943 - the commander of the 1st Air Army, Lieutenant General Khudyakov, addressed a member of the Military Council of the Voronezh Front, Lieutenant General Khrushchev, a picture of the battle was reproduced and a version was put forward that Leonid Khrushchev fell into a tailspin: “For a month we did not lose hope for the return of your son,” Khudyakov reported, “but the circumstances under which he did not return, and the period that has passed since that time, force us to conclude that your son is the guards senior lieutenant Khrushchev Leonid Nikitovich died a heroic death in an air battle against the German invaders. "
The most thorough searches organized by Khudyakov from the air and through partisans (was the Soviet pilot captured by German captives?) Did not yield any results. Leonid Khrushchev seemed to have fallen through the ground - neither the wreckage of the plane, nor the remains of the pilot were found. What happened to the plane of L. Khrushchev has not yet been reliably found out and is unlikely to succeed. Probably, information about this does not exist at all, or they are in archives that are inaccessible for research. According to some reports, exhaustive information was contained in the dossier on NS Khrushchev, which was kept in Stalin's personal archive, but where this dossier is located and whether it is intact is unknown.
The search for the deceased pilot continues to this day. In May 1998, members of the Kosmopoisk association, combing the Kaluga forests to find meteorites, accidentally found parts of the Soviet fighter Yak-7B. The technique of the times of the Great Patriotic War is not uncommon in these parts. However, this time the search engines were expecting a sensation. Having rummaged through the archival documents, they came to the conclusion that the wreckage they found could be parts of the plane on which Leonid Khrushchev flew. The search engines interviewed local residents, and some of them confirmed the Cosmopoisk hypothesis. According to their information, in April 1943, they, at that time quite boys, saw how the plane crashed and exploded on the ground. One of them, P.F. funnel and managed to find three fingers of the pilot and some documents. They could no longer dig into the wreckage - the Germans who had arrived on motorcycles drove away. We buried our fingers in the garden, and hid the documents in the closet at my house. After the release, the documents were handed over to Soviet officers. They praised us, but when they saw the name in the certificate (“Looks like the name was important!”), They strictly ordered to be silent about what they saw. Of course, this was the son of Khrushchev, otherwise why such strictness !? Thus, the members of the Kosmopoisk expedition were almost sure that the fragments of the plane they found belonged to the combat vehicle of Leonid Khrushchev, although it is certainly impossible to assert this unequivocally.
The search results were commented on by close relatives of Leonid Khrushchev. His son Yuri said: “The last time I saw my father was in 1941, when he went to the front. I was six years old. Since then, I have been surrounded by continuous rumors and speculation about him: he “fled” to the front from his term for hooliganism, flew over to the side of the Germans and, in general, he didn't know how to fly ... All this is nonsense. My father went to the front, being a career soldier: even before the war he was an instructor pilot in the flying club. In 1941 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner - such awards are not given just like that. Could the search engines have stumbled upon the remains of his plane? I guess, yes. But expertise is required before approving anything. Although I know without any expertise that my father died like a real hero. He was a good man, a great pilot. I followed in his footsteps and became a test pilot. He retired only four years ago with the rank of colonel, with the rank of Honored Test Pilot of Russia. " But RN Adzhubey, the sister of L. Khrushchev, treats such “finds” with great caution: “We have been looking for the remains of Leonid's plane with the help of experienced specialists for a long time, but so far nothing definite can be said. Several years ago, in the Kaluga region, fragments of a Soviet combat aircraft and the remains of a pilot were indeed discovered. But it was not possible to identify him, although the famous Russian geneticist Ivanov was engaged in this - the same one who identified the remains of the royal family in Yekaterinburg. Yes, and there is a lot of military equipment: intense battles were going on here. There are a lot of rumors and gossip around my brother's name. I've never believed in dirty fiction. When he was wounded in one of the first battles, I was in his hospital. He behaved well, although he almost lost his leg then. If I could find at least something that was left of him and bury it, I would be happy. But it's too early to talk about it yet.
As for the legend of the betrayal of Leonid Khrushchev, it is based, in particular, on the story of Colonel General I.A.Kuzovlev, former deputy chief of the Main Personnel Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense. According to his version, Leonid Khrushchev was captured by the Germans in 1943. At the urgent request of Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin agreed to exchange his son for a German prisoner of war. The exchange took place (according to some reports, Khrushchev was captured by partisans, and some even claim that he was ransomed, and the capture was simply staged). But, as the KGB officers established, when L. Khrushchev was in a filtration camp for former military personnel, he went to cooperate with the Nazis. Based on the totality of the crimes committed, LN Khrushchev was convicted by a military tribunal and sentenced to death. Nikita Khrushchev begged Stalin to spare his son, but received a harsh refusal. Numerous publications contain vivid descriptions of their meeting. For persuasiveness, the authors, as a rule, refer to the memoirs of P. Sudoplatov, A. Poskrebyshev, M. Dokuchaev, and others, although none of them was a direct witness to the conversation, but only "heard something from someone."
In 1999, the General Military Prosecutor's Office conducted its own investigation. The conclusion, which was signed by Colonel of Justice L. Kopalin, says that "the Main Military Prosecutor's Office has no information about the commission of any crimes by Senior Lieutenant L. N. Khrushchev." But people continue to argue about the fate of Leonid Khrushchev to this day. Everyone defends his opinion, believing that it is precisely this - the truth. Probably L. Vovenargue was right when he said: "Between people there can be as many truths as there are delusions, as many good qualities as bad ones, as many pleasures as grief."
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September 11, 1971, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev passed away. For a quarter of a century, his ill-wishers of all stripes have continued to take revenge on him, already dead, for his report at the XX Congress of the CPSU, for the subsequent defeat of the "anti-party group", for taking out (by decision of the XXII Congress of the CPSU) Stalin's body from the Mausoleum on Red Square. Those who hate Khrushchev are trying to convince public opinion that the main reason for Khrushchev's criticism of Stalin and Stalinism was personal motives associated with the death of his eldest son Leonid. The author of this article, using archival documents and eyewitness accounts, tried to trace the true story of Leonidas and the roots of rumors about his death.
From time to time in the Russian press, desperately fighting for circulation, various "sensations" appear. These include stories about the extraordinary fate of Khrushchev's son from his first marriage. The echoes of these stories even flew over the ocean. The newspaper Novoye Russkoe Slovo (January 26, 1996), published in the US, reprinted from the December 1995 issue of the Moscow Express Gazette a note by former KGB general Vadim Udilov about how Khrushchev's son Dmitry was allegedly stolen from German captivity by a general KGB Sudoplatov and shot for treason - he de agreed to cooperate with the enemy. Everything in this publication is a lie.
Let's start with the fact that Nikita Sergeevich did not have a son, Dmitry. One can only guess that we are talking about Khrushchev's son from his first marriage (his first wife died in 1919 from typhus) named Leonid. A pilot, senior lieutenant, he took part in combat missions from the first days of the war. He managed to make a couple of dozen sorties, was presented for an award, but on July 26, 1941, his plane was shot down after the bombing of the Izocha station and barely made it to the neutral strip. When the plane landed on the field, Leonid broke his leg, then lay for a long time in a hospital in Kuibyshev. Here, as General Stepan Mikoyan says (he was then treated as a lieutenant in the same hospital), the following happened:
“Once a sailor was in the company of the wounded. When everyone was very “under the degree”, someone said that Leonid Khrushchev was a very well-aimed shooter. The sailor - on a dare - offered Leonid to knock the bottle off his head. He refused for a long time, but then he still fired and knocked off the neck of the bottle. The sailor began to argue, to prove that the neck “does not count”, it is necessary to get into the bottle itself. Leonid fired again and hit the sailor in the forehead.
A simple pilot for this "game of Wilhelm Tell" (such a game was in use in hospitals, in the rear retraining, etc.) would be punished severely. But in this case, it was about a combat pilot who was being treated after a serious injury, and even the son of a Politburo member. All eyewitnesses showed that the initiative in this sad story came not from Leonidas, but from the deceased sailor. The tribunal sentenced Leonid to a penal battalion (according to other sources - to 8 years in the camps), but as a concession he allowed him to serve his sentence in aviation.
Leonid asked for a fighter and fought desperately. On March 11, 1943, his plane was shot down near the village of Zhizdra over the occupied territory. The front commander offered Nikita Khrushchev to send a search group, but he refused: the risk of finding nothing, but killing people was too great.
There were no documents and no information that Leonid Khrushchev was allegedly taken prisoner. In February 1995, "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" in the article "Found the grave of Khrushchev?" (a more complete version of this article, entitled "The son of NS Khrushchev died in the Bryansk region?" was published in "Bryansk Rabochy" on January 20, 1995) reported that in a dry swamp near the town of Fokino (45 kilometers from Zhizdra) a local search group (headed by Valery Kondrashov) found the wreckage of the plane, and in it - the remains of the pilot. According to some signs (a type of Yak-7 fighter, a fur helmet of the same type that Leonid wore, the date on the machine gun is 1943) it looks like this is Leonid's plane. I write so carefully because the type of fighter is the same, but this is not the modification that Leonid usually flew. Perhaps he went on this flight on a different plane. Unfortunately, it has not yet been possible to find documents for the plane that died near Fokino; if it is possible to verify the engine number with the form (it should have been preserved in the archives of the Ministry of Defense), it will be possible to say for sure about the fate of Leonid.
And now about the fate of the legend about his imaginary capture, abduction and execution.
There was no talk of this until 1969. But in 1969, “at the top” they began to lean towards the need to rehabilitate Comrade Stalin - his 90th birthday was approaching. In Pravda, a jubilee laudatory article was prepared on the occasion of Stalin's "outstanding" services to the revolution, the country and the world. Upon learning of this, a group of prominent scientists and writers wrote a sharp protest to the Central Committee (the well-known publicist Ernst Henry was very active). The letter worked, the article was removed from the issue. But the matrix of the newspaper was already flying to the Far East. And the Far Eastern issue came out with an article! Then they joked: we have two truths about Comrade Stalin.
The supporters of Stalin's rehabilitation tried to "plausibly" explain the reasons for the exposure of the personality cult at the XX and XXII Congresses of the CPSU. Philip Bobkov, deputy chairman of the KGB, in those years headed the 5th department (the fight against dissidents). There is information that it was he who had a hand in creating the legend about the "traitor, the son of Khrushchev." His subordinate, General Vadim Udilov, speaking in Express-Gazeta with a "revelatory" anti-Khrushchev essay, continues the same line: "Khrushchev's son" collaborated with the enemy, campaigned for the surrender of Soviet soldiers to the Germans ... Of course, the "organs" could not remain in To the side: Sudoplatov's group kidnapped Khrushchev's son from German captivity, and a merciless, but humane and just Soviet tribunal decided to shoot him like a mad dog. Stalin, as presented by Udalov, looks harsh, but noble. He tells Khrushchev, who allegedly asks for leniency: "If the same happens to my son, I will accept this harsh but just sentence." Not a tyrant, but downright Taras Bulba! Some comrades, alas, still remember how the body of Comrade Stalin was taken out of the Mausoleum, and they are trying to create a myth about why this "disgrace" happened. It's very simple: Khrushchev was allegedly angry at Comrade Stalin for shooting his son, offended that he did not hear his tearful request. And as soon as he got hold of power, he immediately imprisoned Sudoplatov, spat on the "great" Stalin and orphaned Lenin in the Mausoleum ...
In November-December 1994, Komsomolskaya Pravda published three publications by the editor-in-chief of Rosinform, Evgeny Zhirnov, entitled The Red Prince, which sets out the same version of Khrushchev's son: captivity, traitor, abduction, execution. But Zhirnov, at least, correctly names the name: Leonid (not Dmitry). And the newspaper can be understood: circulation is needed, sensations are needed. But why is there such a stir around a long-known plot over and over again?
Udilov's article clearly indicates where the point is directed: the text is accompanied by a photograph of Nikita Khrushchev of the war years with the caption "General Nikita Khrushchev, father of a traitor to the motherland?" But it is noteworthy that in the book of the former Stalin's guard AT Rybin "Near Stalin", first published in the form of an article in 1949, there is not a word about "the traitor, the son of Khrushchev." And it is clear why: there was still nothing to stigmatize Khrushchev at that time. But in the second edition of "Next to Stalin" (1992, no imprint), this story, sucked from the finger, already appears. And the moral is still the same: Nikita Khrushchev allegedly slandered the "great leader" out of malice and for revenge. But in reality, everything turns out to be just the opposite: these are Stalin's fosterlings out of malice and in order to revenge they are trying to slander Khrushchev for debunking the crimes committed by their owner.
Material by Valery Lebedev
