The mysterious fate of Nikita Khrushchev's son. Descendants of general secretaries and political figures of Russia and the USSR Khrushchev’s son lives in America

Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, as a young man, married a girl from the family where he “fed.” Frosya died of typhus very young, leaving two children - Yulia and Leonid.

Khrushchev’s second wife, with whom Nikita Sergeevich married only after his overthrow (which did not prevent her from attending official events before), accepted them into the house. Daughter Rada was born in 1929. Then Sergei and Elena appeared. The family also raised a granddaughter, Yulia, the daughter of Leonid, who died in the war (his wife was arrested). Until entering university, she considered her grandparents to be her parents.

As a child, Rada was unhappy with her name. In elementary school, she was teased: in Ukrainian, “rada” means advice. And they named her that because her parents were simply very happy when their daughter was born.

They raised children harshly, as is customary in peasant patriarchal families: in respect for the head of the family, even reverence. When the father came home from work, the children did not dare to disturb him.

Back then, children of high-ranking parents did not have guards. The exception was Sergo Mikoyan, who had an assigned security guard with him; this unnerved him. During the heyday of their careers, the heads of the Khrushchev family lived as a large family in a mansion on the Lenin Hills.

Rada's husband, Alexei Adzhubey, is a journalist who worked for Komsomolskaya Pravda. When the head of the family became deputy editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, the couple bought Moskvich. The crowning achievement of the career of the son-in-law of the First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee was the position of editor-in-chief of Izvestia, from which he was dismissed immediately after the removal of his high patron. Until perestroika, he was forbidden to publish under his own name. As he joked, “I spent twenty long years behind bars at the magazine “Soviet Union”, where, however, I held far from the last position.

Brezhnev promised Khrushchev that nothing would happen to his children, and they really were not touched. Rada Nikitichna remained to work in the journal “Science and Life”, enjoying constant authority and respect from both authors and colleagues.

Rada Adzhubey does not condemn brother Sergei, who left for the United States, although he changed not only the country, but also his family and profession. However, she would not have left on her own. “I have everything here. And there is such a thing as the Motherland..."

Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev received US citizenship in 2000. His wife Valentina Golenko lives with him in America.

The emigrant explained his action this way: “I thought about this decision, and I am free to make this decision. I've lived here for seven years, work at Brown University, and plan to continue living here. If I live in this country, then I think that I must be its citizen, and not a foreigner who came for temporary residence. But I'm not a defector. Our countries are no longer enemies, we are now on the same side.”

Sergei Khrushchev, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor at Moscow Higher Technical University. Bauman, came to the USA in the fall of 1991 as part of an exchange program for scientists between the USSR and the USA to lecture at Brown University. The following year, he applied to the authorities for permission to permanently reside in the country, which he received in 1993 thanks to the support of former US presidents Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.

According to Khrushchev's lawyer Dan Danilov, when applying for US citizenship, Sergei Khrushchev was very worried about how his father would react to this. “Dad will never know about this,” the lawyer reassured the future American.

Khrushchev gives lectures in educational institutions in the United States on the topics of political and economic reforms carried out in Russia, Soviet-American relations in the period 1950 - 1964, as well as the importance of Nikita Khrushchev’s reforms in the field of economics, politics and international security.

Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, grandson and namesake of the First Secretary, journalist at Moscow News, decided to stay in Russia. He doesn’t blame his father: “I think it’s just that US citizens have some benefits in the form of medical and other assistance that he needs before retirement. I don’t know any other reasons.”

The fate of Khrushchev's eldest son, Leonid, is shrouded in secrecy.

This story is explored by N. Zenkovich in the book “Secrets of the Outgoing Century: Power. Strife. The background. (OLMA-PRESS, 1998). There is a legend that the real reason for Khrushchev’s attacks on Stalin was revenge for his executed son. Stalin allegedly did not respect the request of Nikita Sergeevich, who was literally on his knees begging to spare Leonid.

Lenin took revenge on the royal family for his brother, but I won’t forgive even the dead Stalin for my son,” Nikita Sergeevich, distraught with grief, allegedly said among his loved ones.

According to one version, Leonid was accused of shooting an army major while heavily intoxicated. Stalin was informed that this was not the first time that Leonid, being very drunk, pulled out a pistol. There had never been a fatal outcome before.

Leonid lived in Kyiv, worked at a pilot school. During the war he took part in massive raids on Germany. He was seriously wounded and was in a hospital in Kuibyshev, where the entire Khrushchev family was evacuated. As Rada Adzhubey said, “Leonid lay in the hospital for a long time, in the same room with Ruben Ibarruri. They were friends. It took a long time for my brother to recover. They drank in the hospital, and the brother, drunk, shot a man and ended up on court martial. He was sent to the front line."

A. Mikoyan’s son Stepan met in Kuibyshev with the recovering Leonid Khrushchev: “We spent more than two months meeting almost every day,” recalls Stepan Anastasovich. - Unfortunately, he is used to drinking. At that time, a friend of his who was on business, who had connections at the distillery, was living in a hotel in Kuibyshev. They received drinks there for the week and drank almost every evening in the hotel room. Although I hardly drank, I went there often. Other guests also came, including girls. We met him and then became friends with two young dancers from the Bolshoi Theater, which was evacuated there. Leonid, even after drinking heavily, remained good-natured and soon fell asleep.

When I left for Moscow, a tragedy occurred, which I learned about later from a friend, Leonid. One day a sailor from the front was in the company. When everyone was very “under the weather”, in a conversation someone said that Leonid was a very accurate shooter. On a dare, the sailor suggested that Leonid shoot the bottle off his head with a pistol shot. Leonid, as this friend said, refused for a long time, but then he finally shot and knocked the neck off the bottle. The sailor considered this insufficient and said that it was necessary to get into the bottle itself. Leonid fired again and hit the sailor in the forehead."

There is another version, which is presented by Sergo Beria: the son of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine N.S. Khrushchev was involved in a dubious company. His friends turned out to be criminals who traded in robberies and murders. Most of the members of the criminal group were sentenced to capital punishment and shot. Nikita Sergeevich's son got off with ten years in prison.

When the war began, Leonid was told to ask to go to the front. He did just that. Khrushchev’s son’s request was granted, but he was sent not to the front as an ordinary soldier, but to an aviation school. Having become a pilot, Leonid courageously fought the enemy and died in battle. Sergo Beria indicates the time when this happened: in the spring of forty-three.

In the personal file of Senior Lieutenant L.N. Khrushev, stored in the archives of the Ministry of Defense, there is no evidence of trials - neither the pre-war one, nor the one that allegedly took place in 1943.

Leonid was born in Donbass (Stalino) on November 10, 1917. My wife worked as a navigator-pilot of a flying club squadron in Moscow. He started in civil aviation. He studied at the Balashov school for four years, after which he was listed as an instructor at the Central Aviation Courses of the Civil Air Fleet in Moscow for a month, then went to Kyiv to join his father. There are no traces of the ten years of imprisonment mentioned by the son of Lavrenty Pavlovich in the documents of the Ministry of Defense.

He graduated from the aviation school in Engels in May 1940 with an excellent certificate. With the beginning of the war, pilot Khrushchev was at the front. He was characterized as a courageous, fearless pilot.

Once during a flight, after the bombing, while leaving the target, our crews were attacked by Messerschmitts. The Germans shot down four planes, including Leonid Khrushchev's. He still managed to land the damaged car. The pilot himself was not saved - he broke his leg and had to lie down in a hospital bed.

He remained in treatment until March 1, 1942. Then for some reason I ended up in fighter aviation. Having retrained to fly the Yak-7 aircraft, Khrushchev in December 1942 became the commander of the 1st Air Army. Next, Senior Lieutenant Khrushchev was assigned to the 18th Guards Fighter Regiment, which was based at an airfield near the city of Kozelsk, Kaluga Region.

His last flight was on March 11, 1943. Khrushchev did not return from this battle. His comrade in arms believes that they could not have shot him down, since the shells were exploding far in the rear. Most likely, he pulled the handle and went into a tailspin. Organized searches from the air and through partisans (was the Soviet pilot captured by the Germans?) did not yield any results. Leonid Khrushchev seemed to have fallen through the earth - neither the wreckage of the plane nor the remains of the pilot have been found to this day.

According to assumptions, Leonid was captured. Stalin agreed to exchange him for a German prisoner of war. The exchange took place, but, as KGB officers established, when Leonid Khrushchev was in a filtration camp for former military personnel, he behaved badly in captivity and worked in the interests of Nazi Germany. Based on the totality of the crimes committed, L. N. Khrushchev was convicted by a military tribunal and sentenced to death. This version seems to be the most likely; it does not deny the fact that Khrushchev harbored a grudge against Stalin for the death of his son. There are no documents confirming that Leonid shot the sailor and was serving time for robbery.

In mid-March 2016, the world media exploded with the news “Stalin’s granddaughter starred in a shocking photo shoot!”

In the photographs that users discovered on social networks, there was an extravagant lady with bright makeup, torn tights, short shorts, “armed” with a toy machine gun.

The fact that this is exactly what the granddaughter of a Soviet leader could look like amazed many. However, this is explained by the fact that ordinary people know little about the descendants Joseph Stalin.

The woman whose photographs shocked the world is called Chris Evans, and she is really the granddaughter of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.

The 43-year-old American woman, who lives in Oregon and owns an antiques store, is the offspring 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 did not raise her daughter, sending her to a boarding school.

Chris, who today bears her husband's last name, does not like to talk about her grandfather. One hundred percent American, the granddaughter of Stalin, she rarely communicated with her own mother, until her death in 2011.

“Being Stalin’s grandson is a heavy cross”

Stalin has quite a lot of grandchildren - the eldest son, Jacob, had three children, Vasily- four, y Svetlana- three. Some of the leader's grandchildren are no longer alive today.

The eldest son of Vasily Stalin Alexander Burdonsky, perhaps the most famous of the second generation of the leader’s heirs. The 74-year-old production 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 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 to Grigory Morozov Joseph Alliluyev was a Doctor of Medical Sciences, a famous cardiologist, awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the RSFSR. He rarely spoke to journalists and preferred not to discuss his grandfather. Joseph 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, protecting their personal lives.

Nikita Khrushchev Jr. dedicated his life to journalism

The descendants of Soviet leaders were scattered around the world. The youngest son of the debunker of the “cult of personality” Nikita Khrushchev Sergei has lived 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 of Moscow State University, Nikita Khrushchev Jr. Since 1991, he worked at the Moscow News newspaper, where he was the editor of the “Dossier” department—an electronic archive and reference information—and also worked on the history of the newspaper and the “Calendar” section.

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 newspaper “Soyuznoye Veche”, the printed organ of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Just 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 Stalin’s closest associates rose highest in the political line Vyacheslav MolotovVyacheslav Nikonov.

Vyacheslav Nikonov at the plenary meeting of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Photo: RIA Novosti / Vladimir Fedorenko

59-year-old Vyacheslav Nikonov is a deputy of the State Duma and a member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party. He has a doctorate in historical sciences and holds the post of dean of the Faculty of Public Administration at Moscow State University. Among the works of historian Vyacheslav Nikonov there are also books about the life of his grandfather.

Again Brezhnev, again secretary of the CPSU

Grandson of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Andrei 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 never managed to get elected anywhere. Today Andrei Brezhnev is 54 years old, he has two sons from his first marriage - the eldest Leonid works as a translator in the military department; Junior Dmitry - in the field of software sales.

Party card of a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, 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 Tatiana Graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography, worked at the Bolshoi Theater, then moved to the USA with her family. In 2009, she returned to her homeland and 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 He also lived in the USA for a long time, where he graduated from college with a degree in design and architecture. Then Konstantin returned to Russia, where he studied at the law faculty of one of the capital's universities. The media remembered him in 2011, when the name of 31-year-old Konstantin Andropov appeared in crime reports. Unknown people attacked him on the street and beat him. As a result, the grandson of the Secretary General ended up in the hospital. Most of all, journalists were interested in the fact that the case of the attack was assigned to an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs named Brezhnev. True, he had nothing to do with the Soviet General Secretary.

Gorbachev's granddaughters traded social life for family life

Granddaughters of the first and last president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, unlike the other descendants of Soviet leaders, are quite well known to the general public.

Ksenia Virganskaya-Gorbacheva now 36 years old, Anastasia Virganskaya— 29. Both of them tried themselves on the podium in their youth, but then settled down. Ksenia was married to a businessman Kirill Solod, but this marriage broke up. In 2009 she got married Dmitry Pyrchenkov, former concert director of the singer Abraham Russo.

Granddaughter of ex-USSR President M. Gorbachev Ksenia Virganskaya. Photo: RIA Novosti / Valery Levitin

In 2010, Anastasia, a graduate of the MGIMO journalism department and editor-in-chief of one of the online media, tied the knot. Her chosen one was a PR specialist Dmitry Zangiev, at that time a graduate student at the Russian Academy of Civil Service under the President of the Russian Federation.

Granddaughter of Mikhail Gorbachev Anastasia Virganskaya. Photo: RIA Novosti / Ekaterina Chesnokova

Journalists noted that the weddings of Gorbachev’s granddaughters were held in a magnificent and grand manner and cost a tidy sum.

Recently, the names of Ksenia and Anastasia have disappeared from the gossip columns. Rumor has it that they focused on family concerns and lead a rather secluded lifestyle.

August 27, 2016, 10:26 pm


We all remember the famous photograph of Nina Khrushcheva, wife of Nikita Khrushchev, with Jacqueline Kennedy.

Looking at this photo, only the lazy one didn’t kick Khrushchev’s wife. Of course, external comparison was far from being in her favor. Especially in comparison with fashion trendsetter Jacqueline Kennedy, who had all the leading designers of that time at her service. But, by the way, Nina Khrushcheva is wearing the same dress or suit. And here it looks more solid. It is clear that the fabric is not cheap, but the colors are disappointing.

We all know the sad fate of Jacqueline, her husbands, and her children. But we know practically nothing about Nina Khrushcheva, who remained in the shadow of her husband all her life, quietly and calmly taking care of the house and raising her children. Having accidentally stumbled upon an article in Ogonyok about the fate of the children of the first leaders of the USSR, I decided to trace the life and fate of Nina Khrushcheva and her 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 from typhus, leaving Nikita Sergeevich with two children - Yulia and Leonid. He married again to Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, a calm woman with a strong character, who gave birth to three children - Rada, Sergei and Elena.

Elena was in poor health and died at the age of 35.

Leonid Khrushchev, a military pilot, died at the front.

Yulia Khrushcheva (1916-1981) - was married to the director of the Kyiv Opera, and was a chemist by profession.

Information about Rada and Sergei will be below.

A little about Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva, née Kukharchuk.

Nina Kukharchuk was born into a Ukrainian family in the village of Vasilev in the Kholm region, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Her father, Pyotr Vasilyevich, 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 began to live virtually as a family. And they would register their marriage only after Khrushchev retired, in 1965.

When Nina Khrushcheva became the “first lady” of the state, she participated in Khrushchev’s foreign trips, met with top officials 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 that she also studied English, but does not indicate the degree of proficiency in it. But I found a photo in which John Kennedy says something to Nina Khrushcheva, and she smiles knowingly. So, it is possible that she spoke English quite well after all.

Nikita Sergeevich and Nina Petrovna were good parents, and they had a happy family. Nina Petrovna survived Nikita Sergeevich (died in 1971) and daughter Elena. She lived at a state dacha in Zhukovka and had a pension of 200 rubles.

In the photo - Nina Khrushcheva with US President Dwight Eisenhower and his wife in the USA, 1959.

Photos from other events. In my opinion, she looks quite decent on them. No worse than others.

In the photo: The Khrushchev family in 1959, during a visit to the USA. From left to right - N. P. Khrushcheva, USSR Ambassador to the USA 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 care for the child and if he does not have the abilities. And Nina Khrushcheva, that same woman in a simple cotton dress, was able to raise worthy and good children.

Rada Khrushcheva(pictured right).

I listened to interviews with her several times. She was an intelligent and educated woman. She lived a decent life. She died this year at the age of 87.

Rada graduated from school with a gold medal in Kyiv. After graduating from school, she entered the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, and subsequently transferred to the established Faculty of Journalism, which she graduated in 1952. While studying, she met Alexei Adzhubey, whom she married in 1949. In this marriage she gave birth to three sons (Nikita, Alexei and Ivan). She and her husband maintained an excellent relationship while they were together. Alexey Ivanovich treated his wife kindly and tenderly.

Khrushchev's Rada always behaved modestly. No one would have thought that she was the daughter of the owner of the country. All her life she worked at the journal Science and Life, headed the department of biology and medicine, then became deputy editor-in-chief. Deciding that a journalistic education was not enough, she graduated from the Faculty of Biology 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 working as a department editor in the Soviet Union magazine, as well as publishing in various publications under a pseudonym. Rada Adzhubey continued to work in the editorial office of the magazine until 2004.

True, for more than twenty years her name was not mentioned in the list of the magazine's editorial board...

Sergei 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 Electrical Vacuum Engineering and Special Instrumentation of 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), and deputy general director of NPO Elektronmash.

When his father was fired, Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev also lost his favorite job. He did a great job - he persuaded his father to dictate his memoirs. Nikita Sergeevich's four-volume notes 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, in which he now specializes. Remained a permanent resident in the United States, currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and has Russian and American (since 1999) citizenship. He is a professor at the Thomas Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University.

He published a number of his own books with memories of historical events that he witnessed, and with his own balanced assessment of what happened: “Pensioner of Union Significance”, “Birth of a Superpower”. In his works he adheres to a clear anti-Stalinist position. 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).

He is divorced from his first wife, Galina Shumova. The second wife, Valentina Nikolaevna Golenko, lives with Sergei Nikitich in the USA. The eldest son Nikita, a journalist and editor of Moscow News, died on February 22, 2007 in Moscow. The youngest son Sergei lives in Moscow.

The personal lives of many of these famous political and public figures were once under seven seals - practically nothing was known about their families and children. But, as time passed, many descendants themselves or with the help of a journalistic investigation lifted the veil of secrecy.
The last direct descendant of V.I. Lenin and his niece Olga Dmitrievna Ulyanova(daughter of Ulyanov’s brother Dmitry) died in 2011. However, Dmitry Ulyanov also had an illegitimate son, whom he later admitted
The descendants of this branch of the Ulyanovs live in Russia today. In particular, Lenin's great-grandson - Evgeny Ulyanov. He works as a programmer and lives in Moscow with his wife and daughter, Lenin’s great-great-granddaughter.
Another interesting detail regarding the related intricacies of the Ulyanov family. Lenin's maternal grandfather Alexander Blank (born Srul Blank) was married to Anna Grosshopf, from this marriage 8 children were born, including Maria, Ulyanov's mother

The Grosshopf family is rich and noble. And among them are many famous personalities, including Field Marshal Walter Model, General Hasso Manteuffel, and former German President Richard von Weizsäcker.
It is noteworthy that all information about Lenin’s Jewish and German roots was carefully classified during Soviet times.
In 2016, Stalin's grandson Evgeny Dzhugashvili died, through Stalin’s son Vasily, leaving behind his great-grandson Vissarion Evgenievich and Yakov Evgenievich, as well as his great-great-grandson Joseph. Stalin’s granddaughter through his daughter Svetlana, Chris, also lives in the United States

Yakov Evgenievich Dzhugashvili, famous public figure

Georgy Malenkov- Soviet statesman and party leader, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. In fact, he led the USSR from March to September 1953. Son Andrey Georgievich

Andrey Georgievich Malenkov - Soviet and Russian scientist, specialist in the field of biophysics; Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Honorary Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences; initiator of the creation and chairman of the section of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences “Noosphere knowledge and technologies”; Director of Science and Head of Noospheric Programs at MAGERIC. Head of the Medical Center for the Treatment of Oncological and Chronic Diseases, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences A. G. Malenkova
Grandchildren of Georgy Malenkov- Anastasia with her son and Dmitry with his father

Son of the former first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev– Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev

in 1991 he went to Brown University (USA) to lecture on the history of the Cold War, in which he now specializes. Remained a permanent resident in the United States, currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and has American citizenship. He is a professor at the Thomas Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University.
Great-granddaughter of the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev, Professor of International Relations at the New School in New York, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of World Policy, Director of the Russia Project Nina Khrushcheva

Grandchildren - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (junior). Born into the family of Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev and Nikita Alekseevich Adzhubey, the eldest grandson of Khrushchev, the son of Alexei Ivanovich Adzhubey, the legendary editor-in-chief of Izvestia. Both died.

Brezhnev's grandchildren.

Leonid Yuryevich Brezhnev graduated from the Chemistry Department of Moscow State University and tried his hand at business. He was involved in the production of drugs at a pharmaceutical company. He was married four times, has two daughters, Alina and Maria, and a son, Yuri.
Andrei Yuryevich Brezhnev graduated from MGIMO, worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and also worked at the Ministry of Trade of the USSR. After his dismissal, he changed several places, and was even a co-owner of a small pub on Krasnaya Presnya. Then - deputy general director of Salavattrans LLC.
Brezhnev's granddaughters- Victoria Brezhneva and Galina Filippova. Both lived their lives in poverty, Galina spent more than 10 years in a mental hospital, today she lives in the Moscow region

Grandchildren Yu.V. Andropova Tatyana Igorevna Andropova is a choreography teacher in Miami. Her brother, Konstantin, also lives in the USA

Chernenko's son In Soviet times, Albert was the secretary of the Tomsk City Committee of the CPSU, and his other son, Vladimir, was an assistant to the chairman of the USSR State Committee for Cinematography.

Today Albert Konstantinovich Chernenko is a Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Law, Professor
Irina Virginskaya- the only daughter of M.S. Gorbachev. She often travels around the world, including periodically visiting the USA. The office of the Gorbachev Foundation is located here, where Irina works as vice president.

Gorbachev's granddaughter - Ksenia

Ksenia graduated from MGIMO (international journalist), worked as a PR specialist in a large company, for some time was a fashion editor in the authoritative glossy magazine L "Officiel. She is married to the former concert director Abraham Russo, lives with her husband and daughter Sasha Gorbacheva (Gorbachev's great-great-granddaughter) in Germany.
Gorbachev's second granddaughter - Anastasia Virginskaya, married, graduated from MGIMO, works in the editorial office of an Internet portal





There are many legends about the death of Leonid Khrushchev, the eldest son of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev from his first marriage. According to one version, fighter pilot, guard senior lieutenant Leonid Khrushchev died as a hero in an air battle in 1943. According to another, he was shot on Stalin’s orders as a traitor to the Motherland. These are just two of several assumptions, the reliability of which researchers, historians and journalists are still arguing about.

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Most readers know only one son of N. S. Khrushchev - Sergei, a very prosperous man who has been living in the USA for a long time. Very few people had heard of the existence of his older half-brother Leonid until around the end of the 1980s. Nikita Khrushchev himself never mentioned him. However, in memoirs, documentary books, newspaper and magazine publications in recent years, a huge amount of information has appeared on the fate of Leonid Khrushchev. Officially, senior lieutenant Leonid Khrushchev was listed as missing during an air battle on March 11, 1943, near the village of Mashutino near the town of Zhizdra, Oryol region. The majority of published materials not only refutes the death of the pilot in battle, but also claims that he voluntarily surrendered and was then 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 USA publicly announced that all published materials about Leonid Khrushchev’s betrayal were lies, and through legal authorities they demanded refutations. The Khrushchevs argued that during Nikita Sergeevich’s life there were no publications about his son’s betrayal, since he would have refuted them; There is also no documentary evidence of Leonid’s conviction. Moreover, the family never talked about anything like this - the children always knew from their parents that Leonid died heroically in an air battle.

Indeed, documents that in one way or another confirm the guilt of Leonid Khrushchev have never been found anywhere by any of the researchers. Some explain this by the thorough cleaning of state and party archives, which N.S. Khrushchev carried out at the very beginning of his reign. All materials in any way compromising him were confiscated and, most likely, destroyed. Some of the former employees of the Kremlin security claim that a special plane of a special air squad often flew between Kiev and Moscow, delivering documents to Nikita Sergeevich, which he was relieved to get rid of.

However, documents relating to L. Khrushchev, bound and numbered, are stored in the Central Archive 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 mechanic at the Bosse mines and factory. Currently a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bolsheviks of Ukraine. There are no relatives abroad. Married. My wife works as a navigator-pilot of a flying club squadron 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 at a seven-year school, a general education school, a Civil Air Fleet pilot school, and at the academy’s preparatory course. He graduated from the Civil Air Fleet School in 1937. In the Red Army voluntarily since February 1939, a student of the preparatory course of the VVA named after. Zhukovsky. Since 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 the autobiography, some legends, of which there are many not only about the death of Leonid Khrushchev, but also about his entire life, say that he was convicted, and more than once. Many authors portray Leonid Khrushchev as a man capable of both betrayal and murder. Thus, Sergo Beria in his book “My Father - Lavrentiy Beria” claims that the son of Nikita Khrushchev, even before the war, got involved with a gang of criminals who traded in murders and robberies. 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 the ten years of imprisonment mentioned by the son of Lavrentiy Beria in any of the documents.

As you know, after training at EVAS, Leonid Khrushchev, having received his first military rank of lieutenant, was appointed junior pilot in the 134th high-speed bomber regiment of the Moscow Military District. And already in the first months of 1941 he fought bravely, for which there is documentary evidence. The presentation of the commander of the 46th Air Division for awarding the Order of the Red Banner says: “Comrade. Khrushchev has 12 combat missions. Courageous, fearless pilot. In an air battle on 07/06/41, he bravely fought with enemy fighters until their attack was repelled. From the battle comrade. Khrushchev came out with a riddled car.” His combat description of January 9, 1942 is no less positive: “Disciplined. The piloting technique on the SB and AR-2 aircraft is excellent. In the air he is calm and calculating. Tireless in battle, fearless, always eager to fight. He spent two months on the Western Front during the initial period, that is, during the most difficult period, when the regiment flew without cover. Made 27 combat missions over enemy troops. In battle he was shot down by the enemy and broke his leg during landing.”

Leonid Khrushchev, who was injured, was immediately taken to the hospital in Kuibyshev, where the families of many senior officials were then evacuated. It is from this period of his life that another story relates, the authenticity of which is still in question. She talks about how 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 Khrushchev’s son, Leonid, a military pilot with the rank of senior lieutenant, shot and killed a Red Army major while heavily intoxicated.” Stepan Mikoyan, son of A.I. Mikoyan, clarifies: “There was a party, there was some sailor from the front. Well, they started talking about who shoots how. The sailor insisted that Leonid knock the bottle off his head. He shot and broke 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 incident of shooting into a bottle is confirmed by other eyewitnesses of the event. However, they all only heard that “either Lenya shot, or they shot at him, or he was just present.” Therefore, the version of the murder of a naval officer, again, has no documentary evidence.

In addition, after recovery, Leonid Khrushchev was sent not to a 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 brawling with a brawl and accidental murder. Others resolutely did not believe such a slander: “Leonid is a man of the most honest soul, he simply fell into the millstone of circumstances at a time when not such people were broken off.” In any case, the son of an important statesman did not sit out in the rear and went to the front himself - this is already worthy of respect.

Leonid Khrushchev joined the new air regiment literally a few days before his last flight. In the fatal battle for him, Khrushchev was a wingman on his Yak-7B, the leader was one of the best combat pilots of the Zamorin regiment. The flight was attacked by two German Focke-Wulf-190 fighters. At an altitude of 2500 meters, an air battle ensued - pair against pair. 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, managed to jump out with a parachute, landed in German-occupied territory and surrendered. According to the second, he was not shot down, but simply voluntarily flew to an enemy airfield. One newspaper even wrote that “he flew to the Germans with his entire unit...”.

The presenter, Guard Senior Lieutenant Zamorin, gives three versions regarding that fateful 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 turn of the Focke-Wulf, in the third - that in the heat of battle he did not even notice what happened to his wingman . After the war, and even after the death of the former leader of the USSR Nikita Khrushchev, Zamorin sent a letter to Marshal of the Soviet Union Ustinov in which he admitted: “I kept silent in the report that when the German FV-190 rushed towards my car in attack, coming under my right wing from below, Lenya Khrushchev, in order to save me from death, threw his plane across the fire salvo of the Fokker. After the armor-piercing strike, Khrushchev’s plane literally crumbled before my eyes!.. That’s why it was impossible to find any traces of this disaster on the ground. Moreover, the authorities did not immediately order a search - our battle took place over territory occupied by the Germans.” Yet, in Zamorin’s letter, one thing is indisputable - the former leader tried his best to save the reputation of the deceased wingman, tried to protect his partner from accusations of betrayal and explain why nothing was found on the ground.

In the 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 went 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 make the sad conclusion that your son is a guard Senior Lieutenant Leonid Nikitovich Khrushchev 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 the Germans?) did not yield any results. Leonid Khrushchev seemed to have fallen through the earth - neither the wreckage of the plane nor the remains of the pilot could be found. What happened to L. Khrushchev’s plane has not yet been reliably determined and is unlikely to be possible. Probably, information about this does not exist at all, or it is located in archives that are inaccessible for research. According to some reports, comprehensive information was contained in the dossier on N.S. Khrushchev, stored 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 Cosmopoisk association, combing the Kaluga forests for meteorites, accidentally found parts of the Soviet Yak-7B fighter. Equipment from the times of the Great Patriotic War is not uncommon in these parts. However, this time the search engines were waiting for a sensation. After rummaging through archival documents, they came to the conclusion that the wreckage they found could be parts of the plane on which Leonid Khrushchev flew. Search engines interviewed local residents, and some of them confirmed the Cosmopoisk hypothesis. According to their information, in April 1943, they, at that time just boys, saw a plane crash and explode on the ground. One of them, P.F. Ubryatov from the village of Vaskovo, Lyudinovsky district, told how, before his eyes, a German fighter came in behind and shot down our plane in two bursts: “No one jumped out of the car, the plane crashed into the ground with a howl, the boys ran to funnel and managed to find three fingers of the pilot and some documents. They couldn’t dig into the rubble anymore - the Germans who arrived on motorcycles drove them away. We buried our fingers in the garden and hid the documents in a closet at my house. After liberation, the documents were handed over to Soviet officers. They praised us, but when they saw the name on the ID (“It looks like it was an important name!”), they strictly ordered us to remain silent about what we saw. It’s clear that this was Khrushchev’s son, otherwise why such strictness!?” Thus, the members of the Kosmopoisk expedition were almost sure that the fragments of the plane they found belonged to Leonid Khrushchev’s combat vehicle, although this cannot be stated unequivocally, of course.

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 “escaped” to the front from being sentenced for hooliganism, flew over to the side of the Germans, and in general he, they say, did not know how to fly... All this is nonsense. My father went to the front as a career military man: even before the war he was an instructor pilot at a flying club. In 1941 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner - such awards are not given for nothing. Could search engines have stumbled upon the remains of his plane? I guess, yes. But expertise is required before anything can be approved. Although I know even without an examination 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 title of Honored Test Pilot of Russia.” But R.N. Adzhubey, L. Khrushchev’s sister, treats this kind of “finds” with great caution: “We have been looking for the remains of Leonid’s plane for a long time and with the help of experienced specialists, but so far nothing definite can be said. Several years ago, fragments of a Soviet combat aircraft and the remains of a pilot were actually discovered in the Kaluga region. 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. And there is plenty of military equipment here: intense battles took place here. There are a lot of rumors and gossip around my brother's name. I never believed in dirty lies. When he was wounded in one of the first battles, I was in his hospital. He carried on well, although he almost lost his leg then. If we could find at least something that was left of him and bury him, 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 the former deputy head of the Main Personnel Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense, Colonel General I. A. Kuzovlev. 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 sources, Khrushchev was captured by partisans, and some even claim that he was ransomed and the capture was simply staged). But, as KGB workers established, when L. Khrushchev was in a filtration camp for former military personnel, he cooperated with the Nazis. Based on the totality of the crimes committed, L. N. 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. To be convincing, the authors, as a rule, refer to the memoirs of P. Sudoplatov, A. Poskrebyshev, M. Dokuchaev and others, although none of them were direct witnesses to the conversation, but only “heard something from someone.”

In 1999, the Main Military Prosecutor's Office conducted its own investigation. The conclusion, signed by Colonel of Justice L. Kopalin, states that “the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office does not have information about the commission of any crimes by Senior Lieutenant L.N. Khrushchev.” But people still continue to argue about the fate of Leonid Khrushchev. Everyone defends their opinion, believing that it is the truth. Probably L. Vauvenargues was right when he said: “Between people there can be as many truths as errors, as many good qualities as bad, as many pleasures as sorrows.”

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On September 11, 1971, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev passed away. For a quarter of a century, his ill-wishers of all stripes continue to take revenge on him, already dead, for his report at the 20th Congress of the CPSU, for the subsequent defeat of the “anti-party group”, for the removal (by decision of the 22nd Congress of the CPSU) of 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 related to the death of his eldest son Leonid. The author of this article, using archival documents and eyewitness accounts, tried to trace the true history of Leonid and the roots of rumors about his death.

From time to time, various “sensations” appear in the Russian press, desperately fighting for circulation. These include stories about the extraordinary fate of Khrushchev’s son from his first marriage. The echo of these stories even flew across the ocean. The newspaper “New Russian Word” published in the USA (January 26, 1996) reprinted from the December 1995 issue of the Moscow “Express Newspaper” a note by former KGB general Vadim Udilov about how Khrushchev’s son Dmitry was allegedly kidnapped from German captivity by the general KGB Sudoplatov and shot for treason - he allegedly 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 and was nominated for an award, but on July 26, 1941, his plane was shot down after the bombing of the Isocha station and barely made it to no man's land. When the plane landed on a field, Leonid broke his leg, then spent a long time in a hospital in Kuibyshev. Here, as General Stepan Mikoyan says (he was then treated at the same hospital with the rank of lieutenant), the following happened:

“Once a sailor was in the company of the wounded. When everyone was very “under the weather”, someone said that Leonid Khrushchev was a very accurate shooter. The sailor, as a bet, invited Leonid to knock the bottle off his head. He refused for a long time, but then he finally shot and knocked the neck off the bottle. The sailor began to argue, to prove that the neck “doesn’t count”; one must get into the bottle itself. Leonid fired again and hit the sailor in the forehead.”

A simple pilot would have been severely punished for this “game of William Tell” (such a game was used in hospitals, during rear retraining, etc.). But in this case we were talking about a combat pilot who was being treated after a serious injury, and even the son of a member of the Politburo. All eyewitnesses showed that the initiative in this sad story came not from Leonid, but from the dead sailor. The tribunal sentenced Leonid to a penal battalion (according to other sources - to 8 years in the camps), but as a concession he was allowed to serve his sentence in aviation.

Leonid asked to fly 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 suggested that Nikita Khrushchev send a search group, but he refused: the risk of not finding anything, but killing people was too great.

There were no documents or information that Leonid Khrushchev was allegedly captured. In February 1995, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, in the article “Have they found Khrushchev’s grave?” (a more complete version of this article entitled “Did N.S. Khrushchev’s son die in the Bryansk region?” was published in Bryansk Rabochiy on January 20, 1995) reported that in a dried-up swamp near the town of Fokino (45 kilometers from Zhizdra) A local search group (led by Valery Kondrashov) found the wreckage of the plane, and in it - the remains of the pilot. Based on some signs (the 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 crashed near Fokino; if it is possible to compare 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 Leonid’s fate.

And now about the fate of the legend regarding his alleged captivity, kidnapping and execution.

Before 1969 there was no talk about this. But in 1969, those “at the top” began to lean toward the need to rehabilitate Comrade Stalin—his 90th birthday was approaching. Pravda prepared an anniversary laudatory article about Stalin’s “outstanding” services to the revolution, the country and the world. Having learned about this, a group of prominent scientists and writers wrote a sharp protest to the Central Committee (the famous publicist Ernst Henry was very active). The letter had an effect and the article was removed from the issue. But the newspaper matrix 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.

Supporters of Stalin’s rehabilitation tried to “plausibly” explain the reasons for exposing the cult of personality at the XX and XXII Congresses of the CPSU. Filipp Bobkov, deputy chairman of the KGB, in those years headed the 5th Directorate (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 side: Sudoplatov’s group kidnapped Khrushchev’s son from German captivity, and a merciless, but humane and fair Soviet tribunal decided to shoot him like a mad dog. Stalin, as presented by Udalov, looks stern, but noble. He tells Khrushchev, who is supposedly asking for leniency: “If the same thing happens to my son, I will accept this harsh but fair sentence.” Not a tyrant, but downright Taras Bulba! Some comrades, alas, still remember how Comrade Stalin’s body was taken out of the Mausoleum, and are trying to create a myth about why this “disgrace” happened. It’s all very simple: Khrushchev was allegedly angry with Comrade Stalin for shooting his son, offended that he did not hear his tearful request. And as soon as he seized power, he immediately imprisoned Sudoplatov, spat on the “great” Stalin and orphaned Lenin in the Mausoleum...

“Komsomolskaya Pravda” in November-December 1994 published three publications by the editor-in-chief of “Rosinform” Yevgeny Zhirnov under the title “Red Prince”, which sets out the same version about Khrushchev’s son: captivity, traitor, kidnapping, execution. But Zhirnov at least gives the name correctly: Leonid (and not Dmitry). And the newspaper can be understood: it needs circulation, it needs sensations. But why does such a stir arise again and again around a long-known plot?

Udilov’s article clearly indicates where the point is: the text is accompanied by a photograph of Nikita Khrushchev during 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 Stalin’s former guard A.T. Rybin “Next to Stalin,” which was first published as an article in 1949, there is not a word about “the traitor, the son of Khrushchev.” And it’s clear why: at that time there was still nothing to brand Khrushchev for. But in the second edition of “Next to Stalin” (1992, without imprint), this far-fetched story already appears. And the moral from here is still the same: Nikita Khrushchev allegedly slandered the “great leader” out of malice and for the purpose of revenge. But in reality, everything turns out just the opposite: these are Stalin’s fosterlings, out of malice and for the purpose of revenge, trying to slander Khrushchev for debunking the crimes committed by their master.

Material by Valery Lebedev

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