Vasily Stalin: biography. Personal life, wives, children

Vasily Stalin, the future lieutenant general of aviation, was born in Joseph Stalin's second marriage to Nadezhda Alliluyeva. At the age of 12, he lost his mother. She shot herself in 1932. Stalin was not involved in his upbringing, shifting this concern to the head of security. Later Vasily will write that he was raised by men “not distinguished by morality......He began to smoke and drink early.”

At the age of 19, he fell in love with his friend's fiancée Galina Burdonskaya and married her in 1940. In 1941, the first-born Sasha was born, two years later Nadezhda.

After 4 years, Galina left, unable to bear her husband’s spree. In retaliation, he refused to give her the children. For eight years they had to live with their father, despite the fact that a year later he started another family.

The new chosen one was the daughter of Marshal Tymoshenko, Ekaterina. The ambitious beauty, born on December 21, like Stalin, and who saw this as a special sign, did not like her stepsons. The hatred was manic. She locked them up, “forgot” to feed them, and beat them. Vasily did not pay attention to this. The only thing that bothered him was that the children should not see their own mother. One day Alexander met with her secretly, the father found out about it and beat his son.

Many years later, Alexander recalled those years as the most hard times own life.

In his second marriage, Vasily Jr. and daughter Svetlana were born. But the family broke up. Vasily, along with the children from his first marriage, Alexander and Nadezhda, went to the famous swimmer Kapitolina Vasilyeva. She accepted them as family. The children from the second marriage remained with their mother.

After Stalin's death, Vasily was arrested.

The first wife Galina immediately took the children. Nobody stopped her from doing this.

Catherine renounced Vasily, received a pension from the state and a four-room apartment on Gorky Street (now Tverskaya), where she lived with her son and daughter. Either due to severe heredity, or an equally difficult situation in the family, their further fate was tragic.

Both did poorly at school. Alone because I was sick all the time. The other one was not interested in studying at all.

After the 21st Party Congress and the exposure of the cult of personality, negativity towards all of Stalin’s relatives intensified in society. Catherine, trying to protect her son, sent him to Georgia to study. There he entered the Faculty of Law. I didn’t go to classes, spent time with new friends, and became addicted to drugs.

The problem was not immediately recognized. From the third year, his mother took him to Moscow, but could not cure him. During one of his “breakdowns,” Vasily committed suicide at the dacha of his famous grandfather, Marshal Timoshenko. He was only 23.

After the death of her son, Catherine withdrew into herself. She did not love her daughter and even refused custody of her, despite the fact that Svetlana suffered from Graves' disease and progressive mental illness.

Svetlana died at 43 years old, completely alone. They learned of her death only a few weeks later.

Vasily's children from his first marriage were more successful.

Alexander graduated from the Suvorov Military School. He was not interested in a military career, and he entered the directing department of GITIS. Played in the theater, received the title people's artist. Worked as a theater director Soviet army. He considered his grandfather a tyrant, and his relationship with him “ heavy cross" He loved his mother very much, lived with her most of the time and bore her last name Burdonsky. Died in 2017.

Nadezhda, unlike her brother, remained Stalin. She always defended her grandfather, claiming that Stalin did not know much of what was happening in the country. She studied at the theater school, but she did not become an actress. She lived in Gori for some time. Upon returning to Moscow, she married her adopted son and mother-in-law, Alexander Fadeev, and gave birth to a daughter, Anastasia. Nadezhda died in 1999 at the age of 56.

Vasily had no other children.

The last wife was nurse Maria Nusberg. He adopted her two daughters, just as he had previously adopted the daughter of Kapitolina Vasilyeva.

Stalin's children did not choose their father, but they were part of this family - and lived under the control and cold cruelty of the most odious tyrant in the history of the USSR.

Stalin's son - Yakov Stalin

Stalin changed after the death of his first wife Catherine. At her funeral he said: “My last warm feelings for humanity died with her.” He became colder, more irritable, and moved away from Yakov. Stalin did not become softer after his marriage to Nadezhda Alliluyeva. At times, life with the tyrant became so unbearable that Nadezhda went to live with her parents. She took the children with her, but left Catherine's son Yakov alone with the drunken rage of his father.

Life with Stalin was so unbearable that in 1930, left alone in the apartment, Yakov shot himself in the chest. He was taken to the hospital, where doctors saved his life. Stalin was called to look at his son, whom he had driven to suicide. The father said: “He can’t even shoot accurately.” When the Great Patriotic War began, Yakov was sent to the front. In 1941 he was captured. To torture Stalin, the Germans sent him a photograph of his captured son. However, Stalin had by that time already issued a decree according to which anyone who surrendered was accused of malicious desertion, and his family was to be arrested - and did not provide for exceptions for his own family.

When the Second World War was coming to an end, Hitler tried to negotiate an exchange of Jacob for the German Marshal Friedrich Paulus. Stalin had the opportunity to save his son, but he did not. “I will not change the marshal for a lieutenant,” he replied. Jacob's father left him to die in German concentration camp. There his only friends were other prisoners, many of whom were Poles. Jacob's situation in the camp worsened after it was discovered that his father had killed 15,000 Polish officers in Katyn. Yakov was bullied by the guards and despised by the prisoners. Deprived of hope, he walked up to an electrified barbed wire fence, got caught on it and died.

While Yakov was a prisoner of the Germans, Stalin arrested his wife Yulia, who was then sent to the Gulag. He finally said goodbye to Yakov: intelligence confirmed the fact of death and even sent a protocol of interrogation of the Frenchman who had been toiling with Yakov in the camp. He reported that Stalin’s son did not lose his honor and said to his enemies’ eyes that the Soviet Union would win. This was the only thing Jacob did that made his father proud of him.

Stalin's daughter Svetlana was seventeen years old when she met 38-year-old director Alexei Kapler. Stalin did not like Kapler at all, he was angry. Telephone conversations between Svetlana and Alexei were tapped, and then Kapler was exiled to the Gulag, where he spent ten years. Svetlana’s second lover was her fellow student at Moscow State University, Grigory Morozov. The young people got married, Svetlana gave birth to a child, but Stalin never met his son-in-law. Over time, the marriage of Svetlana and Gregory fell apart. This time, in an effort to please her father, she married the son of one of his confidants, but there was no difference in the reaction. He still didn't notice his daughter.

After divorcing Grigory Morozov, Svetlana moved to the Kremlin. She was still lonely, in some ways repeating her father's loneliness. But this young woman wanted love. She really liked Beria's son, Sergo. Stalin saw her as the husband of Zhdanov’s son, Yuri. The Zhdanovs came from a different cultural environment. The Politburo member's great-grandfather was the rector of the Theological Academy, his father was the master of the Theological Academy; There were several university professors in the Zhdanov family. Andrei Alexandrovich himself was a widely educated person who believed in the ideals of communism. Stalin treated him very cordially.

In the spring of 1949, Svetlana married thirty-year-old Yuri Zhdanov, head of the science sector of the Central Committee, and moved in with his family, contrary to Stalin’s wishes for the children to live with him at the Near Dacha. Svetlana, unlike Vasily, had not yet lost her spiritual attachment to her father, but all the time she was balancing dangerously close to a break. Svetlana later admitted to her friend: “My father has completely lost interest in me.”

Svetlana called her father a “moral and spiritual monster” and hated him. She also did not accept the path along which the country was moving. In 1967, Svetlana decided to escape and chose the United States to emigrate. In front of a New York crowd, Svetlana declared: “I came here to seek self-expression, which was not available to me for many years in Russia.” The main source of income for Svetlana during emigration was literary activity. The status of the daughter of the “Leader of Nations” ensured her memoirs a colossal success for “ iron curtain" According to some reports, her first book, “Twenty Letters to a Friend,” brought her about two and a half million dollars.

She was unable to take her children with her, but in 1984 she visited the Soviet Union to see them. She then returned to the United States and died there in 2011 at the age of 85. As the last living member of the Stalin family living in a country that was an enemy of the Soviet leader, Svetlana found in America the freedom she had been waiting for her whole life. A year before her death, she told a reporter, “I’m so happy here.”

Stalin's favorite son, according to Svetlana, was Vasily. That's what he was given Special attention. After Yakov was captured, Vasily was returned home - to protect Stalin from losing another son. Vasily became the object of hunting by the Germans. On the one hand, as the son of the rival leader, he could not help but become an important “target” for German troops. On the other hand, Vasily caused considerable problems to the enemy, making 26 combat missions and shooting down several aircraft.

Vasily married early. In 1941, he gave birth to a boy, Sasha, and in 1943, a girl, Nadya. His service description states that he is a good pilot, a brave man, but unrestrained, he can even afford a fight with NKVD workers. At the beginning of 1946, Vasily married again, to the daughter of Marshal Timoshenko.

Vasily Stalin was one of the symbols of the Stalin era. When the era ends, the symbols will be thrown away. The rebellious, generous, extravagant, loving young man, even becoming commander of the aviation of the Moscow Military District, did not calm down. One could only wonder when he would grow up. In the meantime, Stalin tolerated his son’s artistry, especially since there were no complaints about Vasily’s service; on the contrary, MVO aviation became the best in the army.

Having matured, Vasily began to take advantage of his status. He used his position to gain additional privileges. Stalin ordered his subordinates not to show special treatment to Vasily, but his son was still in a special position. In 1950, when Vasily was in charge of the Soviet hockey team, a plane carrying all the hockey players crashed. The accident killed all eleven players and eight people accompanying them. Vasily was horrified, imagining what his father could do to him. He instantly replaced the entire team, banned public funds mass media talk about the crash and tried to pretend that nothing happened.

But still, to some extent, the expectation was realized in Vasily better life characteristic of post-war society. In Stalin’s relationship with his son, this circumstance must be taken into account, otherwise how can one explain the fact that in 1949 Vasily became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and headed the USSR Equestrian Federation. The leader expected his son to live up to his expectations. Can we say that Vasily, breaking out of the general pattern, rebelled? Exactly. Deviation from generally accepted norms is rebellion. Major General Stalin was outside the system, opposed himself to society not at the level of ideas, but at the level of everyday life, love relationship, sports.

From time to time the leader seemed to look around and notice his children somewhere on the outskirts of the empire, send them some kind of sign, and they again got lost behind him. global problems and wars. Only once in 1952, when the USSR first participated in Olympic Games, which took place in Helsinki, he entrusted his son with a serious political task. But Vasily could not cope with it. The Soviet team did not overtake the American team, as expected, but only shared first and second places with it, and the football team, composed mainly of Air Force club players, lost to the Yugoslav team. Stalin took this as a personal insult. “An army that has lost its banner must be disbanded,” he said, and Vasily’s command was disbanded.

In general, unpleasant things happened among young people. The boys and girls who grew up in the strict and exalted atmosphere of the war years had special hopes and views for the future. The reality of everyday life, with its economic difficulties and strict ideological control that affected their spiritual freedom, seemed, if not hostile, then accidental or erroneous. No, they were not anti-Soviet, they wanted improvement. Therefore, more than a dozen young people came to the attention of both party bodies and state security. The authorities fought, even to the point of criminal prosecution, against any attempts to deviate from the “main path.”

Vasily knew that he was not popular. He understood that, having lost his father's protection, he could find himself in trouble - and he was right. Stalin died in 1953, and immediately after his death Vasily found himself in prison on charges of misappropriation of state property. Khrushchev released him in 1960, but a year later Vasily was back behind bars due to an incident on the road. When he came out, he was immediately exiled to Kazan. Soon after this, Vasily died - alone, despised by everyone in his country, consumed by illnesses caused by years of chronic alcoholism.

Biography of the adopted son of Artem Sergeev

Stalin's adopted son Artem received his name in honor of the underground nickname of his father, revolutionary Fyodor Sergeev. “Artem” died shortly after the birth of his son, and he was raised in Stalin’s family along with other children. The war left Artem Sergeev with a lot of memories, namely traces of 24 wounds, as well as more than 20 awards and medals. Among the wounds there were two very serious ones, and among the medals were “For Military Merit”, “For the Defense of Stalingrad”, “For the Capture of Koenigsberg” and others.

Artyom was hit hard by the war. Back in the winter of 1941, near Moscow, his right hand was almost torn off by an explosive bullet, but the great surgeon Alexander Nikolaevich Bakulev sewed it back on. After a bayonet blow to the stomach, surgeon Vishnevsky saved him. Then Artem fought again, was captured for several days, escaped from execution, fought as a partisan in the Belarusian forests, then fought again in active army. He received three more wounds. In 1945, at the age of 24, he became a lieutenant colonel, commander of an artillery brigade.

Artem was much more serious than Vasily. He studied at the Artillery Academy, where, despite all his efforts, the professors were often not satisfied with his knowledge. The young front-line soldier was very worried until it became clear that he was suffering because of Stalin: he ordered to be “stricter” with his pupil. Artyom became a major general only in 1957. Stalin had two illegitimate children.

In the winter of 1910, while in exile in Solvychegodsk, Koba took up quarters in the house of the widow Matryona Kuzakova. Solvychegodsk, this godforsaken town, in those years was the “center of revolutionary life”: for every two thousand of its inhabitants there were 450 exiles. The young woman Matryona lost her husband on Japanese war and raised several children alone. To earn money for her family's needs, she rented out rooms to exiles.

Koba stayed with Matryona for six months. In the summer of 1910 he was transferred to Vologda, and he never saw Matryona again. And she soon allegedly gave birth to a dark-haired boy. In the metrics he was recorded by Konstantin Kuzakov. The fate of the poor widow's son turned out like in a fairy tale. After school, on a Komsomol ticket, he easily entered the Financial and Economic Institute in Leningrad. Over time, he completed graduate school and became a teacher. And then he was transferred to work in Moscow, in the apparatus of the CPSU Central Committee. Konstantin Kuzakov held high positions all his life, corresponding to the rank of deputy minister; he was the director of the publishing house “Iskusstvo”, the head of a department in the Ministry of Culture, and the deputy head of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.

Konstantin never communicated with Stalin. But when the threat of reprisals loomed over him in 1947, his “father” saved him. Beria insisted on the arrest of Kuzakov (who was even temporarily expelled from the party and removed from his job), but Stalin said: “I see no reason for the arrest of Kuzakov.” And Konstantin’s career took off again, and it did not stop even after the death of Stalin.

Konstantin Kuzakov revealed the secret of his origin only in 1996. He gave the only interview newspaper "Arguments and Facts", where he said that since childhood he knew who his real father was...

Alexander Davydov

Life was not kind to the second contender for son of the leader. His name was Alexander Davydov, he was born in 1917 in the village of Kureika, Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Here, in a remote corner of the taiga, Joseph Dzhugashvili was sent in 1913, into his last – sixth – exile. There was no way to escape from here. In Kureika there were eight houses and several dozen residents who hunted and fished. The climate here was harsh, and the residents of Kureika did not engage in gardening.

They treated Joseph well in the village: after all, he was not a murderer, but a political one. Koba quickly fit into the simple life here. He lived in an apartment in the house of the Pereprygins - growing children left without parents. Joseph allegedly began a relationship with one of the orphans, 14-year-old Lida Pereprygina. When it became clear that her sister was expecting a child, Lida’s brothers almost hacked Joseph to death with an ax.

Joseph returned to the village only when the gendarmes found him, hiding in the forest. The exile was pressed against the wall. They left him only after he made a promise to marry the girl. However, the wedding never happened: Joseph received a summons to the front (the First World War was in progress). And while he was getting to the front from his wilderness, a revolution took place in Russia, after which a lot changed in Koba’s fate.

In Kureika, meanwhile, the failed wife Lida gave birth to a son, Sasha. He was soon adopted by a local fisherman, Yakov Davydov, whom Lydia married. Together they gave birth to more children. At first, according to Lydia, she received letters from Joseph. And then there was silence. There were rumors in the village that Dzhugashvili died at the front. It was only in the 20s that someone brought a woman a newspaper with a photograph of her former boyfriend. This is how she learned that Joseph had become a great man.

According to rumors, in the 20s, “people” from Stalin came to Lydia and offered to take the child to Moscow, to his father, but she allegedly refused to give up her son. Alexander graduated from a communications college and worked as a radio operator before the war. After the war, which he went through from bell to bell, he was in charge of a canteen in Novokuznetsk. He passed away in 1987.

Alexander allegedly knew that his father was Stalin. And he told his children about this. Including the eldest son, Yuri Alexandrovich. “Stalin’s grandson” came to Moscow for the TV show “Live”, where he stated that he close relative Stalin. A DNA examination, which was carried out at the request of television crews, showed that the engineer from Novokuznetsk is 99.99 percent a relative of the leader.

IN Soviet years on children political leaders it was not customary to draw attention. But the people have always been interested in the life of the “Kremlin princesses and princes.” The most incredible rumors circulated about them, sometimes very far from the truth.

The life of the offspring of top officials in the USSR was not always heavenly, and for some its end was truly terrible. U Vladimir Lenin there were no children, so we will start our story with three children Joseph Stalin: Jacob, Vasily And Svetlana.

Yakov: died, but did not betray

Stalin's eldest son Yakov Dzhugashvili was born in the Georgian village of Badzi on March 18, 1907. His mother was Stalin's first wife Ekaterina Svanidze. The boy was only six months old when his mother died of tuberculosis. Joseph, who madly loved his Kato, rushed into the grave after the coffin at the funeral. For the future leader, the death of his wife was a great shock.

Gone headlong into revolutionary activity the father had no time to raise his son. Yakov grew up with his mother's relatives. He moved in with his dad when he was 14. Their relationship was complicated. In 1925, Yakov almost committed suicide when his father did not approve of his intention to marry. After this, Stalin made it clear that his son was free to live his own life, in which he would not interfere.

In 1936, Yakov married a ballerina Julia Meltzer. In February 1938, Julia and Yakov had a daughter, who was named Galina.

In 1941, Yakov Dzhugashvili, a graduate of the Red Army Artillery Academy, went to the front. The farewell to his father, as far as one can judge from the evidence that is known today, turned out to be quite dry. Stalin briefly said to Yakov: “Go fight!”

On July 16, 1941, while trying to escape from encirclement near the city of Liozno, Senior Lieutenant Dzhugashvili went missing. As it turned out later, he was captured.

Today we can say for sure that Stalin’s eldest son did not agree to any cooperation with the Germans, despite the pressure. Without betraying either his homeland or his father, on April 14, 1943, Yakov Dzhugashvili made a deliberately suicidal escape attempt at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Vasily: dashing pilot and victim of new repressions

In his second marriage, Joseph Stalin found a real family and was happy. He adored his youngest children: Vasily and Svetlana. Suicide of the leader's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva In many ways, it also destroyed his relationship with his children.

Vasily grew up under the supervision of assistants and guards and began to notice too early that adults were trying to please him as Stalin’s son. Joseph Vissarionovich himself did not make concessions to Vasily, demanding strict discipline. But in reality, Vasily Iosifovich was allowed too much. Stalin Jr. himself admitted that he started drinking and smoking early.

In 1938, he entered the Kachin Military Aviation School named after. A. Myasnikova. After six months of service in the 16th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 57th Aviation Brigade of the Moscow Military District Air Force, he was accepted into the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy. Vasily Stalin did not like to study, but both his colleagues and teachers recognized that he was a talented pilot.

During the Great Patriotic Wars Stalin's son fought at the front, showed courage and courage. However, his rapid career connected not so much with exploits, but with the desire of the command to protect the leader’s son. But as soon as Stalin was left without fighting, he began to violate discipline.

Vasily Stalin ended the war as commander of the 286th Fighter Aviation Division of the 16th Air Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. In 1948, he became commander of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District. Stalin Jr. patronized sports, gathering teams of the best athletes under the flag of the Air Force, which jokers deciphered as “Vassily Stalin’s gang.”

In 1952, he was removed from his post after he appeared drunk at a gala reception and became rude Air Force Commander-in-Chief Pavel Zhikharev.

But Vasily Stalin's real problems began after the death of his father. Hot-tempered and knowing too much, he became a problem for the new management. Vasily Iosifovich publicly stated that his father was poisoned. As a result, he was arrested and received 8 years for “anti-Soviet propaganda.” He was released in 1960, but continued to behave provocatively. Stalin was sent to prison again, and after his release, his last name was changed to Dzhugashvili and deported to Kazan. Stalin's youngest son died in March 1962, five days before his 41st birthday.

Svetlana: her father’s favorite ended her life in a nursing home

Daughter Svetlana, Joseph Stalin’s favorite, did not cause her father the same problems as her brothers in childhood. She graduated from school with honors, then studied at Faculty of History Moscow State University.

But the father’s headache was his daughter’s numerous novels. At the age of 18 she married her brother Vasily’s classmate Grigory Morozov. Birth of a son Joseph did not prevent the spouses from separating in 1948. Svetlana's second husband was Yuri Zhdanov, son Politburo member Andrei Zhdanov. In this marriage, a daughter, Ekaterina, was born.

Official marriages are just the tip of the iceberg. Svetlana Alliluyeva had an incredible number of hobbies.

In 1966, having gone to India to bury the ashes of her next husband, this time an Indian, Svetlana came to the US Embassy to ask for political asylum. At the same time, she abandoned two of her children to the USSR.

In 1970, Svetlana married the American architect William Peters, with whom she gave birth to a daughter, Olga.

In 1984, she suddenly returned to the USSR, but the children left behind did not forgive her. Two years later, she wanted to go to the USA again, and she was released.

Stalin's daughter's struggles ended in an American nursing home in Wisconsin on November 22, 2011. She was 85 years old.

Children do not choose the families they are born into; they get used to their parents, who accompany every event in their lives and form their character traits.

When a child comes under the care of monsters, they most often become an extension of their parents. The children of tyrants often stand trial after their fathers are overthrown. However, their lives can be as terrible as the lives of anyone under a dictatorial regime

Joseph Stalin had three children - Yakov, Vasily and Svetlana. His children did not choose their father, but they were part of this family - and lived under the control and cold cruelty of the most odious tyrant in the history of the USSR.

Stalin drove Nadezhda to suicide

Nadezhda Alliluyeva committed suicide through the fault of Stalin - but about that for a long time Even her children didn’t know

Stalin endlessly insulted Nadezhda and cheated on her, however, she always returned home - until one day her patience came to an end. At a celebration in the Kremlin in honor of the fifteenth anniversary of the October Revolution, Nadezhda refused to drink when the guests raised their glasses to her husband.

"Hey, you!" - Stalin shouted at his wife. - “Drink!”

“You don’t dare talk to me like that,” Nadezhda answered him.

Alliluyeva literally fled from the Kremlin. At home, she wrote a letter in which she described Stalin as a tyrant who tortured his people and his family. Then she's in last time climbed into bed and shot herself.

Stalin hid the fact of his wife's suicide from the people and from the children. Svetlana learned about what happened only ten years later. On the day of the funeral, Stalin bitterly said that Nadezhda “left as an enemy.” But he was not present at the funeral itself and never visited her grave.

While Yakov was a prisoner of the Germans, Stalin arrested his wife

Wanting to destroy the marriage of Yakov and Yulia, Stalin exiled her to the Gulag while his son was captured by the Germans

Jacob was married to Jewish girl named Julia. At first, Stalin did not approve of this alliance. He called Julia nothing more than “that Jew” and tried to end their marriage. Over time, he began to like her - but this did not stop him from sending Yulia to the Gulag.

When Russia was overtaken by the Second World War, Yakov was sent to the front. He led troops against Germany, fought until he was captured, and was forced to surrender in 1941. To torture Stalin, the Germans sent him a photograph of his captured son. However, Stalin had by that time already issued a decree according to which anyone who surrendered was accused of malicious desertion, and his family was to be arrested - and did not provide for exceptions for his own family.

Following this decree, he exiled Yulia to the Gulag. Over the next two years, Yakov's three-year-old daughter, Galina, was torn away from both her parents, who were suffering in the camps.

Stalin sent Svetlana's first love to the Gulag

Director Alexey Kapler was also unjustly convicted by the tyrant - but was later rehabilitated

While Yakov was in prison, Svetlana fell in love. On the tenth anniversary of her mother's death, a seventeen-year-old girl met thirty-eight-year-old director Alexei Kapler. He cheered her up, danced with her and gave her several books that had been banned by her father.

Stalin was angry. He was bugging telephone conversations Svetlana with her lover, and then sent him to the Gulag for ten years.

Having gotten rid of Kapler, Stalin accused his daughter of having affairs while Russian people were dying in the war. Svetlana did not listen to him and told her father that she and Alexei were in love with each other. Stalin hit her in the face. “Look at you,” he told his daughter. -Who will want you? You're a fool."

Vasily fished from a fighter

After getting drunk, Vasily and his comrades threw shells directly into the lake

According to Svetlana, Vasily was Stalin’s favorite son, “his prince.” He was given special attention, and after Yakov was captured, Vasily was urgently returned home from the war - to protect Stalin from losing another son.

Having matured, Vasily began to take advantage of his status. He was famous drunk, who used his position to gain additional privileges. Stalin ordered his subordinates not to show special treatment to Vasily, but his son was still in a special position.

In 1943, Vasily and his friends went fishing - by plane. After getting drunk, the friends began throwing shells into the lake to watch the fish die. One of the bombs detonated in the wrong place, killing the officer.

“Immediately dismiss Colonel V.I. Stalin,” the leader wrote to his son’s commander, “and point out that Colonel Stalin was dismissed due to heavy drunkenness, rowdyism and corruption of the military.”

Jacob and the concentration camp: the fate of the first child

According to rumors, Stalin refused Hitler's offer to exchange his son for Marshal Paulus

As World War II came to an end, Hitler tried to negotiate an exchange of Jacob for the German Marshal Friedrich Paulus. Stalin had the opportunity to save his son, but he did not. “I will not change the marshal for a lieutenant,” he replied.

Jacob's father left him to die in a German concentration camp. There his only friends were other prisoners, many of whom were Poles. Jacob's situation in the camp worsened after it was revealed that his father had killed 15,000 Polish officers at Katyn. Yakov was bullied by the guards and despised by the prisoners. Deprived of hope, he walked up to an electrified barbed wire fence, got caught on it and died.

This was the only thing Jacob did that made his father proud of him. Stalin showed his wife photographs of Yakov after his suicide. “Look,” he said proudly. “This is the worthy end of a noble man.”

Stalin refused to meet with Svetlana's husband

Stalin never met his daughter's husband, with whom she had a child.

Svetlana's next lover was Grigory Morozov, her classmate from Moscow State University. Jewish origin. The young people got married, Svetlana gave birth to a child, but Stalin never saw Grigory. After the news of the wedding, he promised: “I will never meet your Jew.”

Over time, the marriage of Svetlana and Gregory fell apart, and she found herself new love. This time she tried to please her father and married the son of one of his confidants, but there was no difference in Stalin’s reaction. He still didn't notice his daughter.

Svetlana later admitted to her friend: “My father has completely lost interest in me.”

Vasily hid the death of the hockey team, fearing Stalin's wrath

Vasily, who is in charge of the USSR hockey team, hid the fact of her death from his father

Vasily was impudent and unpleasant person. He pulled scams, beat his wife, drank heavily and seemed to fear no one - except his father. In the presence of Stalin, Vasily shook with fear and did not dare to utter a word.

In 1950, when Vasily was in charge of the Soviet hockey team, a plane carrying all the hockey players crashed. The accident killed all eleven players and eight people accompanying them. Vasily was horrified, imagining what his father could do to him. He immediately replaced the entire team, banned state media from talking about the crash and tried to pretend that nothing had happened.

And it worked. Stalin never noted that new faces and names appeared on the hockey team.

After Stalin's death, Vasily went to prison

Having lost his father's protection, Vasily Stalin found himself in an extremely disadvantageous position

Vasily knew that he was not popular. He understood that, having lost his father's protection, he could find himself in trouble - and he was right.

Stalin died in 1953, and immediately after his death Vasily found himself in prison on charges of misappropriation of state property. To impress a girl, he built a sports complex in the very big swimming pool Russia. For his own pleasure, he also built a luxurious private hunting reserve. He carried out all construction at the expense of the Soviet Air Force.

Khrushchev released him in 1960, but a year later Vasily was back behind bars due to an incident on the road. When he came out, he was immediately exiled to Kazan.

Soon after this, Vasily died - alone, despised by everyone in his country, consumed by illnesses caused by years of chronic alcoholism.

Svetlana emigrated to the United States

Svetlana Stalina found peace and freedom in the United States

Svetlana hated her father, whom she called a “moral and spiritual monster,” and the path along which her country was moving. Finally, in 1967, she decided to escape and chose the United States to emigrate. In front of a New York crowd, Svetlana declared: “I came here to seek self-expression, which was not available to me for many years in Russia.”

She was unable to take her children with her, but in 1984 she visited the Soviet Union to see them. She then returned to the United States and died there in 2011 at the age of 85.

As the last living member of the Stalin family living in a country that was an enemy of the Soviet leader, Svetlana found in America the freedom she had been waiting for her whole life. A year before her death, she told a reporter, “I’m so happy here.”

His manner of communicating with those closest to him can say a lot about a person’s personality: but unlike Adolf Hitler, who in life gave the impression of being friendly and nice person, Joseph Stalin was a cruel tyrant even at home, fully justifying his name. This is what the Soviet dictator really was - uncompromising, calculating and incapable of compassion - and he was not going to mislead his inner circle and his people.

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Joseph Stalin's different time there were two wives. Children were born from these marriages. They did not choose their father, they were born into a family and lived under the total control of the odious ruler of the Soviet empire. Unfortunately, the fate of Stalin's children after his death was mostly tragic... Some consider this a natural phenomenon, and some believe that children should not be responsible for the actions of their parents. How many children Stalin had and their fate - we will talk about all this in the article.

Firstborn

So, how many children did Stalin have? So it’s difficult to answer right away. Let's go in order...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the future ruler of the Soviet empire married for the first time. He was twenty-nine. The chosen one is 21. Her name was Ekaterina Svanidze. This marriage lasted only sixteen months. The wife died. But one month before her death, she gave her husband her first child, Jacob.

The deceased wife's relatives had to raise an heir. Father and son saw each other fourteen years later, already in the era of the USSR. By this time, the Leader of the Nations already had a second family. Yakov's stepmother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, treated her stepson with warmth. But his father treated him like a nonentity. He didn't like almost everything about him. He punished him severely for the slightest offenses. Sometimes he wouldn’t even let the boy into the apartment, and he would spend the night on the stairs.

When Yakov was eighteen, he decided to marry his classmate, which is what happened. The father was categorically against this marriage. Because of this conflict, Yakov even tried to commit suicide. After unsuccessful attempt suicide, the relationship between Stalin and Yakov completely deteriorated. The son began to live with relatives in Northern capital. It was then that the newlyweds had their first child - daughter Elena, who, unfortunately, died in infancy. After some time, the couple decided to separate.

Return to the capital

Returning to Moscow, Yakov entered the Institute of Transport Engineers and after graduating he worked at one of the power plants. True, he worked very little in his specialty, since his father persistently recommended that he choose a different field. As a result, Yakov became a cadet at the Artillery Academy. Over the years of study, he gained fame as one of the best and most talented students.

Meanwhile, Dzhugashvili met Olga Golysheva. She was born in Uryupinsk, and in the capital she studied at an aviation technical school. Thus, the acquaintance turned into a love affair. However, Stalin was again against this relationship. Olga returned to her homeland, where she gave her lover an heir, Eugene. Relatives from the Golyshev side began raising the child. And the young mother returned to Moscow. But her relationship with Stalin’s son did not work out at all. After some time, they decided to separate.

In 1939, Yakov married again. His wife was ballerina Yulia Meltzer, who soon gave birth to a daughter, Galina. Surprisingly, the all-powerful Stalin did not put obstacles in the way of the young. But, predicting the course of events, let’s say that during the war, Yakov’s wife received a sentence in the Gulag.

Captivity

When the war broke out, Yakov was among the first to go to the front. His father, of course, a priori could have given him a staff position. But he did not do this.

Dzhugashvili found himself in the thick of it - near Vitebsk. He took part in one of the major tank battles. He was even nominated for an award. However, he did not manage to receive it...

The fact is that his battery broke out of the encirclement twice. But the third time Yakov failed to do this. He was captured.

For two years the Germans tried to persuade him to cooperate. But Yakov categorically refused. At the same time, during interrogations, he spoke of deep disappointment associated with unsuccessful actions Soviet troops at the beginning of the war. But he did not provide the information necessary for the Nazis. In addition, bad things about the homeland and state system he never spoke.

The Germans offered Stalin to exchange his son for someone from the big German officers. But the leader was adamant.

...Yakov passed away in mid-1943. He was shot by a sentry in one of the death camps.

Stalin's children and their fate, photos from the archives - all this is of interest to those people who are not indifferent to our history. So we will continue.

Barchuk

In the first years of Soviet power, Stalin married again. He was already forty, and his chosen one was 17. Nadezhda Alliluyeva was the daughter of Stalin’s associates. At the same time, in her youth, an affair began between Stalin and her mother. Thus, after a while she became the mother-in-law of the Leader of the Nations.

Initially, this marriage was happy, but later it turned out to be simply unbearable. And for both. At the end of the autumn of 1932, after another argument with her husband, the wife closed the door to the bedroom and shot herself.

As a result, after the death of his wife, Stalin was left with their two common children - twelve-year-old son Vasily and six-year-old daughter Svetlana. They were looked after by nannies, housekeepers and security guards.

Vasily grew up as a rather mischievous boy. The father repeatedly told the teachers to behave very strictly with him. It was probably not for nothing that the leader called youngest son"Barchuk".

In 1938, Vasily became a cadet at the Kachin aviation school. He enjoyed great authority and was considered a friendly person in the team. But most importantly, he loved to fly. Although he constantly argued with his superiors.

On the eve of the war, Vasily got married. His wife was Galina Burdonskaya. Her great-great-grandfather is a soldier in the Napoleonic army. During the battles of 1812, he was wounded and settled in Russia.

The marriage with Burdonskaya lasted four years. Did Vasily Stalin have children? Their fate (photo in the article) was not the best. Parents separated. Vasily forbade his wife to communicate with his offspring. She saw her children only eight years later.

War

In 1941, being a twenty-year-old officer, Vasily went to the front. He flew twenty-seven missions throughout the war. In addition, he was awarded prestigious military decorations for his participation in military operations.

At the same time, he repeatedly received penalties for hooliganism. He was also demoted. So, one day he was removed from command of the regiment. The fact is that he and his fellow soldiers went fishing. During fishing he used air shells. As a result, weapons engineer Vasily was killed, and one of the pilots was injured.

In 1944, Vasily married again. His chosen one was his daughter Soviet Marshal Tymoshenko. Two children were born in this marriage.

In 1947, Vasily was appointed commander of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District. By this period, he was already seriously suffering from alcoholism and did not take part in flights.

But he had a completely new hobby. He began creating “pilot” football and hockey teams. He provided more than generous financial assistance to these athletes.

In addition, Vasily began to build a sports center. However, during one of the May Day demonstrations, he ordered several planes to fly over Red Square. Some of them, unfortunately, crashed. After this, Stalin fired his own son from the post of commander...

Opal

When Stalin died, Vasily’s life went downhill. At first they decided to appoint him to a position away from the capital. But he did not obey the order. Then he was transferred to the reserve. And just a month and a half after the death of the head of state, he was completely arrested. There was only one reason. During one of the feasts with British citizens, Vasily outlined his version of his father’s death. He believed that he had been poisoned.

As a result, the former combat pilot and general spent eight years in prison. In 1961, ruler Khrushchev returned his awards, title and pension. But 2.5 months after his release, Vasily had a minor car accident. After this, he was banned from living in the capital. So he ended up in Kazan. He lived in this city for very little time, since in the early spring of 1962 Vasily died. He was only forty years old.

Only daughter

The only daughter of the Leader of the Nations, Svetlana, was born in 1926. Initially, Stalin himself doted on her.

However, as a high school student, she began to have romance novels. So, at the age of sixteen, she was in love with the forty-year-old screenwriter A. Kapler. Her lover managed to introduce the girl to good literature and poetry. He was able to cultivate her artistic taste. But the head of state was outraged. A case was opened against Kapler and he was sent to a camp.

Svetlana’s new chosen one was her brother Vasily’s friend G. Morozov. The father allowed his daughter to get married. In their marriage they had their first child. Despite this, after some time the couple separated. A ex-husband were immediately removed from the capital. For three years he could not find a job.

Meanwhile, Svetlana met the son of Soviet leader A. Zhdanov, Yuri. Stalin loved the Zhdanov family very much and sincerely wanted these families to become related. And so it happened. Children appeared. By the way, at one time it was the head of state who helped appoint Yuri to the position of head of the department of the Central Committee. But the personal life of Stalin’s children did not work out... And this marriage also fell apart.

Defector

Svetlana's third husband was Raj Brij Singh. This old man was a Hindu by nationality. Their acquaintance took place in the Kremlin hospital. And after some time, Singh died. The inconsolable widow was allowed to take her husband's ashes to India. After this, she decided to seek asylum at the British Embassy. Then she moved to the United States. Note that she fled abroad without children. By and large, they did not expect such an act and betrayal then.

There she got married again. Her husband was the architect Peters from the USA. From this marriage a daughter, Olga, was born.

After some time, this marriage also broke up. Svetlana returned to the shores of Foggy Albion. And in mid-1984 she was allowed to return to the USSR. Alas, neither close people nor distant relatives she was not forgiven. For this reason, she went abroad again.

In recent years she lived in one of the nursing homes. She passed away in 2011. She was eighty-five.

Foster-son

But these are not all the children of Joseph Stalin. He also had Foster-son Artem. His biological father, a close friend of the leader, comrade-in-arms Fyodor Sergeev died in At that time, Artem was only three months old. Stalin adopted him and took him into his family.

The boy was the same age as the middle son of the head of state. They became best friends. Stalin barely set him up as an example, unlike Vasily. Artem was actually very interested in learning. Although the Leader of the Nations never made any concessions to him.

After school, Artem entered one of the artillery schools. He graduated from it in 1940. Just like Vasily, he went to the front. He was captured, but fortunately his escape attempt was successful. He ended the war as a brigade commander.

In 1954, Artem studied at the General Staff Academy and became a great military leader. Many believe that he is one of the founders of anti-aircraft missile forces Soviet Union.

He rose to the rank of major general. Before last days he was a devoted communist. He died in 2008.

Happy son of the leader

In addition to the official ones, Stalin’s illegitimate children are known to history (photos are in the article). By and large, in his youth, Stalin was seriously interested in the fairer sex. At one time, he even intended to get engaged to one of the noblewomen from Odessa.

So, the future leader was sent to Solvychegodsk. He was sheltered by Maria Kuzakova. From this connection a son, Konstantin, was born. Stalin practically did not remember his son, but for some reason Kostya was always lucky in his professional career.

Kuzakov, in fact, was a very modest person. He was, in fact, the happiest son of the leader. He grew up without a father and learned about his relationship with Stalin when he grew up.

After school, Konstantin became a student at the Institute of Finance and Economics in the Northern capital. After receiving his diploma, he remained at the university and worked as a teacher. Later he lectured at the regional party committee of Leningrad, and then in Moscow. Since 1939, he became the head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Assistant to the head of state Poskrebyshev treated him well. And sometimes he gave him instructions from Stalin himself.

In 1947, in the wake of yet another repression, he was removed from all posts and expelled from the party. Beria generally demanded that he be arrested. But, as it turns out, the leader himself stood up for Konstantin. As a result, party membership was restored and Kuzakov's career resumed.

In subsequent years, Konstantin focused on working on television. His last position was as Deputy Minister of Cinematography of the Soviet Union. It was under him that the editorial staff of literary and dramatic programs on Central Television became truly elite. His subordinates sincerely respected, appreciated and loved him. He was truly an intelligent and smart leader. At the same time, Kuzakov’s origin was not a secret at all. Apparently, promotion career ladder was associated primarily with his extraordinary abilities.

Kuzakov died in 1996.

The ordinary life of Stalin's son

We continue to talk about Stalin’s illegitimate children and their fate. To others illegitimate son the leader was Alexander Davydov.

Finding himself in yet another exile, the future head of state cohabited with Lydia Pereprygina. At that time, the girl was only fourteen. The gendarmes intended to punish the lustful revolutionary. But he swore to them that he was going to marry Lida. However, this did not happen. Stalin escaped from exile. A future bride The revolutionary was expecting a child at that time.

After some time, she gave birth to a son, Sasha. According to several sources, Stalin first corresponded with Pereprygina. Then rumors spread that Dzhugashvili died at the front. As a result, Lydia did not wait for the groom and married Yakov Davydov, who worked as a fisherman. Pereprygina's new husband adopted Alexander and gave him his last name.

They say that in 1946, Stalin unexpectedly gave an order to find out information about the fate of his son and his mother. The leader's reaction to the results of this search is unknown.

By and large, illegitimate son the leader lived long enough simple life. He fought on the fronts of the Korean and Great Patriotic Wars. He rose to the rank of major. IN post-war period he lived with his family in Novokuznetsk. Davydov worked as a foreman and also managed the canteen of one of the city enterprises. He passed away in 1987.

Now you know all of Stalin’s children and their fate (photo in the article). It's time to look at some more moments from the life of his descendants.

Children and grandchildren of Stalin. Their fate

You can see photos of Stalin’s huge family in the article. The leader had eight grandchildren. But he saw with his own eyes only three. Their fates are quite different. There are tragic ones, and there are happy ones. Their attitude towards their grandfather was also more than ambiguous.

Stalin's eldest son Yakov had two children. Evgeniy was born in 1936. He was destined to become a military historian. At first he studied in one of Suvorov schools, then - at the Engineering Academy. For ten years he worked in the system of military representations at various enterprises in the capital and region. He took part in the preparation and launch of several space objects.

In 1973, he defended his dissertation and began working as a teacher. He passed away in 2016.

Yakov's daughter Galina became a translator and philologist. She specialized in Algerian literature. By the way, her husband is Algerian. At one time he worked as a UN expert. From this marriage a deaf-mute son was born. Galina died in 2007.

Vasily Dzhugashvili had four children and three adopted ones.

The life of the eldest son turned out to be the most successful. He became a famous director. He served in the capital. It was he who managed to stage a number of excellent performances. It's about about such productions as “Vassa Zheleznova”, “The Lady with Camellias”, “Orpheus Descends to Hell”, “The Snows Have Fallen”, “The Last Ardently in Love” and many others. The talented director died in 2017.

Daughter Nadezhda studied at one of the theater schools, but she was unable to complete her studies. She moved to Georgia, but then returned to her homeland, to the capital. By this time, she met the writer’s son and they soon became husband and wife. They had a daughter, Nastya. At the end of the 90s, Nadezhda died.

The second son Vasily lived only nineteen years. As a student, he decided to take his own life. On the day of his death he was in a drugged state.

Daughter Svetlana died in 1989. She was only forty-three.

Three adopted daughters were adopted by Vasily Dzhugashvili. They say they kept this surname even after their marriage.

Svetlana Alliluyeva had two daughters and a son.

Joseph was the eldest. He was born in marriage with G. Morozov. But when Svetlana married his surname passed to his son Joseph. Joseph became a famous cardiologist. He is considered a true authority in his field. And his patients still idolize him.

Daughter Ekaterina, after studying at a university, became a volcanologist. She got married. From this marriage a daughter was born. When her husband died, Catherine moved to Kamchatka. They say she still works there.

The youngest daughter Olga was born in 1971 in America. In 1982, his mother and Olga moved to the UK. Olga studied there at Cambridge. Then she returned to her homeland, the USA. According to some sources, she is engaged in business. She has her own haberdashery store in Portland.