Stalin's grandchildren biography personal life. Vasily Stalin: biography. Personal life, wives, children. Nikita Khrushchev Jr. dedicated his life to journalism

From the outside, their life was like a fairy tale: the father's belonging to the party elite of the country, access to all benefits. The Kremlin children, in fact, personified the future of the Soviet country, because it was they who had to live under communism. Years have passed, the political structure of the country has changed, the children have grown up and have long since become parents. How do the descendants of the Kremlin leaders live and what do they do?

Descendants of Joseph Stalin: pilot, artist, builder

Joseph Stalin has a lot of descendants. The eldest son Jacob left behind two children. Yevgeny Yakovlevich became a military man, studied history, led an active public life in Russia and Georgia. Stalin's great-grandson Yakov became an artist and currently lives in Tbilisi. The second great-grandson, Vissarion, works as a builder in the USA.

The daughter of Yakov Iosifovich Galina became a philologist, worked at the Institute of World Literature. She was married to an Algerian citizen, from whom she gave birth to her only son Selima. Passed away in 2007.

Vasily became the father of four children, he had two daughters and two sons. The most famous of them - Alexander Burdonsky, director, died in 2017. Vasily became addicted to drugs and at the age of 23 he shot himself in Tbilisi. Svetlana, who suffered from a mental disorder, died at 42. Nadezhda studied at the theater school, but she did not achieve significant success in the profession, she married the adopted son of the writer Fadeev, and gave birth to a daughter. Nadezhda Stalina died in 1999 in Moscow.

Svetlana Alliluyeva was repeatedly married, gave birth to three children. Son Joseph was a cardiologist, lived and worked in Moscow, daughter Galina was very difficult to endure increased attention to her own person, so she left for Kamchatka, where she still lives.

Of particular interest is the daughter of Svetlana Alliluyeva Chris Evans, who lives in Oregon. She was born in the marriage of the daughter of Stalin and US citizen William Peters. The 45-year-old granddaughter of the father of nations owns an antiques store, looks very extravagant, does not like talking about her famous relative and does not know a word of Russian.

Children and grandchildren of Nikita Khrushchev: nothing to do with corn

Nikita Sergeevich was father of many children. In two marriages he had five children and another daughter died in infancy. The daughter from her first marriage, Julia, lived in Kyiv with her husband Viktor Gontar, who ran the theater in the capital of Ukraine. The son from his first marriage Leonid, a military pilot, died in 1943. Leonid's son Yuri died after an accident, daughter Yulia was adopted and raised by Nikita Sergeevich himself, she was a journalist, later she was in charge of the literary part of the Yermolova Theater. She died in 2017 on the railroad.

In the second marriage, three daughters and a son were born. The first girl did not live up to a year. Rada Nikitichna was the wife of the editor-in-chief of Izvestia Alexei Adzhubei, she herself devoted half a century to the journal Science and Life.

Sergey Nikitovich became an engineer missile systems, in 1991 he left for America, where he was engaged in teaching activities. His son, the full namesake of his grandfather, Nikita Sergeyevich, graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in psychology, lived and worked in Moscow as the editor of the Dossier department in Moscow News. Passed away in 2007. Sergei Sergeevich, the second grandson of the General Secretary, lives and works in Moscow.

Elena Nikitichna planned to devote her life to science, but she died at the age of 35.

The broken family of Leonid Brezhnev

Galina Brezhneva, as you know, gave her parents a lot of trouble. Not only the capital, but the whole vast country spoke about her behavior. There were legends about the "princess" novels. She was officially married only three times, but Galina Brezhneva's hobbies and loves were innumerable. The turbulent life of the Kremlin princess ended in 1998 in a psychiatric clinic.

The only granddaughter of the Secretary General, Victoria, died in 2018 from cancer. However, her life was never smooth. The marriage ended in failure a good education did not develop into successful career, the sale of apartments and cottages ended in a deal with swindlers. At one time, she handed over her mother, and then her daughter, to a psychiatric clinic - to be treated for alcoholism.

Yuri Leonidovich Brezhnev, like his father, connected his life with politics. At the beginning of his career, he held senior positions in the Ministry of Foreign trade. Up to the first deputy minister. Later he became a deputy and a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. He died in 2003 from cancer.

Brezhnev's grandchildren Leonid and Andrei made a good career. Leonid became a chemist and was not particularly interested in politics, developing own business and teaching at the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University. Leonid Yurievich is still developing various chemical additives for hygiene products. The second grandson, Andrei, devoted himself to politics, was the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Social Justice. He died in July 2018 from a heart attack.

Yuri Andropov: two marriages of the head of the KGB

Vladimir Andropov, the son of Yuri Vladimirovich from his first marriage, was convicted twice for theft, after the second term he drank heavily, and died at the age of 35. Vladimir's daughter Evgenia lives in Moscow, worked as an assistant to State Duma deputy Alexei Mitrofanov.

Not much is known about the fate of Yuri Andropov's daughter from her first marriage. She lives in Yaroslavl and does not like to be asked about her famous father. She raised two sons, both of whom worked in the security forces.

In the marriage of Andropov with Tatyana Lebedeva, Igor and Irina were born. Igor Yuryevich graduated from MGIMO, was engaged in teaching, was an ambassador to Greece, and later worked at the Russian Foreign Ministry. Igor had two children, Tatyana and Konstantin.

Tatyana became a choreographer, worked at the Bolshoi Theater. Later she went to America, but could not find herself there. A year after returning to Russia, in 2010 she died of oncology.
Konstantin for a long time lived in the USA, where he graduated from college, becoming an architect-designer. After returning to Moscow, he received a second education, becoming a lawyer.

The daughter of the General Secretary, Irina, graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University, was married to Mikhail Filippov, raised his son Dmitry from him. The grandson of Yuri Andropov is engaged in banking.

It was not at all easy to develop. They almost did not appear in public and were very closed image life. And some of the companions themselves were carefully hidden by the leaders of the party elite of the USSR. Some were happy in their closed world, someone happened to threaten and blackmail her husband to refuse a divorce, and there were those who absolutely could not even be shown to the public.

During the life of I.V. Stalin was the grandfather of eight grandchildren, and his last granddaughter, Olga Pieters, was born in America almost 18 years after his death. Stalin's attitude towards his grandchildren was diametrically opposed - from love for one to complete indifference to others.

And the fates of his grandchildren are different: both happy and tragic. The attitude of descendants towards their grandfather is as ambiguous as the assessment of his activities.

"I knew Stalin well in everyday life,- says the former people's commissar in the government I.V. Stalin Semyon Zakharovich Ginzburg. - I met him many times at Kirov's house, at Ordzhonikidze's, and even at the dacha of the "owner" himself... He was the opposite of Lenin in politics, a very cruel father and an even more cruel grandfather. His children never interested him.
I remember Yakov well from his work at the ZIS. This was a wonderful young man. What Stalin did to his first and second wives is inhumane. When Svetlana Alliluyeva writes about Stalin's love for his granddaughter Galina, this is not true. I, having repeatedly seen his attitude towards her, refute this assertion of hers.
He did not pay due attention to Vasily, although he loved him more than Yakov. In 1942 I had a conflict with him. Vasily, being the head of the inspection at the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force Novikov, behaved tactlessly towards me. My father reacted very correctly to my letter to him, punishing his son and forcing him to apologize to me.
Stalin was even further from the children of Vasily than from the children of Yakov.
Roughly, he behaved more than once in front of my eyes and in relation to Svetlana, his beloved daughter. But his love for her and her children was also very cruel. He was only interested in himself. Others did not interest him either in politics or at home. It was a monarch, an autocrat. Having made millions of people unhappy, he made his loved ones unhappy."

Yakov Dzhugashvili, Stalin's eldest son from his first marriage to Ekaterina Svanidze, was married twice but had three children by three women. The first time he married his former classmate Zina, and he was not even stopped by the fact that she was the daughter of a priest, which at that time was not encouraged. On this basis, he had a conflict with his father, which almost ended in the death of Yakov during a suicide attempt. After that, Yakov went to Leningrad to relatives along the Alliluyev line, where his daughter Lena was born, who died in infancy. This marriage was short-lived and soon, after the death of his daughter, broke up.

After some time in Uryupinsk, in the apartment of relatives of the second wife I.V. Stalin, Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva, he met Olga Golysheva, from whom he had a son, today the only one of the Stalinist descendants of a regular military man, which I.V. so dreamed of. Stalin.

The age difference among young people was very small. Yakov was born in 1908, and Olga was born in 1909.

Was it big mutual love, no - it's hard to say. But the relationship was continued in Moscow. Olga Golysheva went to give birth to Uryupinsk, to her parents' house. On January 10, 1936, she gave birth to a son, Evgeny, and on January 11, an act entry No. 49 appeared in the newborn registration book of the registry office of the city of Uryupinsk, Stalingrad Region. The name of the newborn is Dzhugashvili Evgeny. Father - Dzhugashvili Yakov Iosifovich, Georgian, student, mother - Golysheva Olga Pavlovna, Russian, technician.

The kid grew up lively, smart. A year later, he was already running around the yard with might and main, like a nimble gypsy, and endlessly repeated his childish "ta-ta-ta-ta". For this patter, the mother and her sister Nadezhda Pavlovna, who mostly raised the baby, jokingly nicknamed him Tatkom.

Soon Olga again left for the capital, leaving the child in the care of her parents. Here he grew up, went to school. Jacob's relationship with Olga did not work out. And after a while they broke up. In 1939, Yakov married the dancer Yulia Meltzer, and they had a daughter, Galina.

Yakov Dzhugashvili treated Yulia Meltzer and their daughter Gala with great love. This is evidenced by this letter to them, sent on June 26, 1941 from the Vyazma region, where he tries to calm his wife and does not talk about the hardships of wartime:
"Dear Julia!
Everything is going well. The journey is quite interesting. The only thing that worries me is your health. Take care of Galka and yourself, tell her that Papa Yasha is fine. At the first opportunity, I will write a longer letter. Don't worry about me, I'm fine. I'll let you know tomorrow or the day after the exact address and ask them to send me a clock with a stopwatch and a penknife.
I kiss Galya, Yulia, father, Svetlana, Vasya.
Say hi to everyone. Once again, I hug you tightly and ask you not to worry about me. Greetings to V. Ivanovna and Lidochka.
Everything is going well with Sapegin.

All your Yasha."

The fate of Yulia Meltzer, the mother of Yakov's daughter, is far from cloudless, although at that time she lived in the family of I. Stalin. After I. Stalin became aware of some information about the capture of Yakov, he had a suspicion of betrayal. Stalin began to suspect Yakov's wife, who was soon arrested and later rehabilitated.

Today Galina Yakovlevna Dzhugashvili is a candidate of philological sciences. She is raising her son and lives in Moscow.

However, let us return to the fate of Yevgeny Dzhugashvili.

Olga Golysheva, his mother, was at the front, and after the victory she worked in the department of Vasily Stalin as a collector at the financial department. Vasily at that time commanded air force Moscow district. Olga lived with her aunt, maintained the closest relationship with the sister of Stalin's wife, Anna Sergeevna Alliluyeva. Olga Golysheva died at the age of forty-eight in 1957. She was buried in Moscow at the Golovinsky cemetery.

Anna Sergeevna Alliluyeva came to the funeral and presented Yevgeny Yakovlevich with her father's book "The Path Traveled", where she made the following inscription:
"I give as a keepsake to Zhenya Dzhugashvili, the son of Yasha Dzhugashvili-Stalin, the book of memoirs of my father Sergei Yakovlevich Alliluyev" The Path Traveled ". Sergey Yakovlevich Alliluyev loved Yasha, lived with him in Petrograd-Leningrad, and also outside the city in Zubalov. About his son Zhenya he knew Alexander Yakovlevich through Yasha and Egnatashvili, and also he and I, Anna, his daughter, knew about Zhenya through the Uryupin relatives of the Alliluyevs: Matryona Fedorovna Alliluyeva, Avgustina Mikhailovna Dutova-Alliluyeva, Mai, her daughter, and Irina, the daughter of Seraphim Alliluyev. Through Vasya's children - Sasha and Nadia.
IN this moment I met him for a sad reason, on the occasion of the death of his mother, whom I saw several times during her lifetime. I mourn her untimely death.
With condolences to her son Zhenya - A.S. Alliluyeva.
Yasha also told me that he has a son who lives next door to my and my father's relatives in the city of Urkshinsk. I wish him good luck in life, a happy and noble life and work, as well as a good family life, which, unfortunately, his mother did not have."

Until recently, little was known about Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, as the grandson of I. Stalin. On November 24, 1986, Spiegel magazine wrote:
"After the death of Stalin's closest ally, who was Prime Minister for 10 years and Foreign Minister of the USSR for 13 years (V.M. Molotov. - A.K.), a sensation was born - the Novosti Moscow Press Agency (APN) distributed a photo on the previous Wednesday farewell at the coffin at the Moscow Novodevichy cemetery with the signature "Colonel General Staff The photograph shows officer Yevgeny Yakovlevich Dzhugashvili, the son of Stalin's son, Yakov, who died in a German prisoner of war camp. Before Molotov's death, this grandson of the dictator was never publicly introduced. mentioned."

As an active officer E.Ya. Dzhugashvili was indeed mentioned in our press only a few times, and never abroad.

Here is what V.M. said about him. Molotov:
“I remember that in Stalin’s Kremlin, I first met his son, Yevgeny’s father, Yakov Dzhugashvili. He was a true knight. with Stalin, will definitely notice their resemblance, and not only external, but also in the manner of walking, in general in behavior, character. I am glad that Evgeny often visits me, brings his sons Vissarion and Yakov Dzhugashvili. Meetings with them prolong my life, give me Yakov's daughter, Galina, lives in Moscow, and although I do not maintain close relations with her, I know that she is a pleasant person in all respects, a great scientist. It's great when a worthy person has worthy children.
I remember well that during the war years, Stalin, completely absorbed in state affairs, could meet with his relatives no more than twice a year and was very worried.

Yevgeny Yakovlevich Dzhugashvili, as I said, the only one of Stalin's grandchildren, chose the profession of a military man. In his autobiography he wrote:
"I, Dzhugashvili Evgeny Yakovlevich, was born on January 12, 1936 in the city of Uryupinsk Volgograd region in the employee's family. Georgian by nationality. In 1945 he moved to Moscow, where, after graduating from the 3rd grade, 557 high school entered the Kalinin Suvorov military school. After graduating from college, in 1954 he entered the N.E. Zhukovsky in Moscow. In 1959, after graduating full course named academy, was sent to serve in the military representation of the Moscow military district. For a number of years, he traveled to Baikonur for work.
In 1970 he entered the postgraduate course of the VPA named after. IN AND. Lenin. In 1973 he completed his postgraduate course, defended his Ph.D. thesis and was appointed teacher at the Air Force Academy. Yu.A. Gagarin, where he worked for two years. In 1975 he was enrolled as a student at the Academy of the General Staff named after. K.E. Voroshilov at the military history department. After graduating from the department from 1976 to 1982. worked at the Military Academy of Armored Forces. R.Ya. Malinovsky as a teacher and senior lecturer, received the academic title of "Associate Professor". Since January 1983 I have been working at the Academy of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces named after K.E. Voroshilov as a senior lecturer at the Department of the History of Troops and Military Art.
Married, have two children. Wife - Nanuli Georgievna Dzhugashvili (Nozadze), was born on June 8, 1939 in the city of Khashuri, Georgian SSR, in a working class family. Georgian. Graduated from Tbilisi University. Housewife.
Father - Dzhugashvili Yakov Iosifovich, died during the Great Patriotic War in 1943 in the Sachsenhausen camp. He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class.
Mother - Golysheva Olga Pavlovna, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, died in 1957.
Wife's father - Georgy Semyonovich Nozadze, was born in 1904 in Khashuri. Member of the CPSU. Personal pensioner of allied significance. Lives in Tbilisi...

Colonel E. Dzhugashvili".

Vasily Stalin, Stalin's first son from his marriage to Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva, was officially married three times, and relations with Kapitolina Vasilyeva were not registered at all, although they did live together. His first wife was Galina Alexandrovna Burdonskaya, who then studied at the Polygraphic Institute at the editorial and publishing faculty. Her surname comes from her great-great-grandfather - the Frenchman Bourdon. He came to Russia together with Napoleon's army, was wounded. In Volokolamsk he married a Russian.

They married Vasily Iosifovich Stalin in 1940. In 1941, a son, Alexander, was born from this marriage, and a year and a half later, a daughter, Nadezhda, was born.

At first, the newlyweds lived in Stalin's apartment in the Kremlin, in the building of the former barracks. It was furnished with old state-owned furniture with inventory numbers. No amenities. Stalin never communicated with his daughter-in-law. I didn't want to see my grandchildren. Living together Vasily and Bourdonskaya's relationship lasted only four years. Having broken off relations, Vasily deprived her of the right to communicate with children.

The second time Vasily married in 1944 to Ekaterina Semyonovna, the daughter of Marshal Soviet Union S.K. Tymoshenko, without dissolving the marriage with his first wife. From this marriage, Vasily had two children. Son Vasily lived only 19 years and tragically died as a student in Tbilisi. Buried at Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. Daughter Svetlana now lives in a house on the Embankment. Ekaterina Semyonovna herself passed away in the autumn of 1988. Here is how Vasily's son Alexander Burdonsky described her and the third, unregistered wife of her father:
“We have a stepmother Ekaterina Semyonovna, the daughter of Marshal Timoshenko, a domineering and tough woman. We, other people’s children, annoyed her, apparently. Perhaps this period of life was the most difficult. We lacked not only warmth, but also elementary care. Feed Forgotten for three or four days, some were locked in a room.
I remember such an episode. They lived in the country during the winter. Night, darkness. My sister and I quietly descend from the second floor, go into the yard, into the cellar for raw potatoes and carrots. The cook, Isaevna, had a great time when she brought us something.
And then the father had a third wife - Kapitolina Georgievna Vasilyeva, a well-known swimmer at that time. I remember her with gratitude, and now we keep in touch. She was the only one at that time who humanly tried to help her father. "

Today, the son of Vasily Alexander Burdonsky is the director of the Central Academic Theater Soviet army, Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR, has been working in the theater for almost seventeen years, having graduated from the directing department of GITIS. He staged many plays here: Vassa Zheleznov by Gorky, Snows fell by Fedeneev, Orpheus went down by Williams, Simon's The Last Passionately in Love, Dumas' Lady of the Camellias, and others. and to the correspondent of the newspaper "Vechernyaya Moskva", shortly after the play "Mandate" was staged, to the question:
- Why did you choose to stage this particular play?
Alexander Vasilievich replied:
- Because Nikolai Robertovich Erdman's drama "The Mandate", written in the 1920s, has not lost its relevance today. Born a very young playwright, she contains the gift of foresight. At one time it was staged by Meyerhold. This play is about people who, according to the author, "want to be immortal under any regime", about the ominous repetition, "unsinkability" of such a phenomenon as spiritual philistinism. It is this that is the breeding ground for the flourishing of the bureaucracy, the emergence of leaderism, the cult of personality - a monstrous fusion of revolutionary and monarchist ideas.
On main topic The design of the performance also "works": in the foreground, against the backdrop of the Kremlin wall, there is a mannequin in a well-recognized cap, from the womb of which all the characters appear... However, it's hard for me to talk about it. There are people who consider my views on Stalinism to be a desire to disown their grandfather.

Do you remember him well, did you often meet?
- I never saw him close, only at parades from the guest podium. Stalin was not interested in grandchildren, and, perhaps, in children too. So the name of Stalin is not associated with the generally accepted family concept of "grandfather". An incorporeal symbol, unattainable and inaccessible. The dominant feeling was the feeling of fear associated with the name of the grandfather. It was born out of many trifles, fragments of phrases, conversations in the family, in the very atmosphere, which was influenced by the character of Stalin - closed, domineering, not knowing mercy.

What happened?
- The life together of the parents did not work out. I was four years old when my mother left my father. She was not allowed to take her children with her. We were separated for eight years.

In your family album I drew attention to one curious photo. Girl Galya Burdonskaya in white shorts, smiling, stands next to her dad, and behind her back is a huge portrait of Stalin with the inscription: "Thank you Comrade Stalin for our happy childhood!"
- Mom, separated from her children, rushed about in search of a way out, but ran into a wall. Once she managed to secretly meet with me. It was when I studied at the 59th school in Starokonyushenny Lane. An unfamiliar woman came up at recess, said that her mother was waiting at the entrance of the neighboring house. Apparently, someone handed it to my father, and I was immediately sent to Suvorov School. I think another reason for this decision was my character, too soft, in the opinion of my father.
Mom at that time was in poverty, trying to get a job. But as soon as the personnel department saw a passport with a stamp on the registration of marriage with Vasily Stalin, they refused under any pretext. The case helped. I learned her story of the house manager, a rude woman, a smoker and a foul-mouthed woman. She did a bold act for those times - she burned her mother's passport in the stove and clamored for a new one, already without a stamp.
When Stalin died, my mother sent a letter to Beria with a request to return the children. Thank God that it did not have time to find the addressee - he was arrested. Otherwise it could end badly. I wrote to Voroshilov, and only after that we were returned to our mother. We still live together - me and my mother.
Sister Nadezhda has her own family. Sometimes people ask: why do I like to put on performances about difficult women's destinies? Because of mom.

How do you feel about your father now, from the height of your life experience?
- I haven't forgotten anything. But I can't be his judge. Sometimes, thinking about the fate of my father, I think that the environment is largely to blame for his death - flatterers, hangers-on, drinking companions, who inspired that everything was permissible for him.
By nature he was kind person. He loved to make at home, locksmith. Those who knew him closely spoke of him: "golden hands." He was an excellent pilot, brave, desperate. Participated in the battle of Stalingrad, in the battle for Berlin.
His life ended mysteriously, tragically. In 1953, after the death of Stalin, Vasily Iosifovich was arrested and spent eight years in prison, first in Lefortovskaya in Moscow, then in Vladimir. At the direction of Khrushchev, he was released. Khrushchev invited him to his place and apologized for the unjust arrest. Father returned the rank of lieutenant general, gave an apartment on Frunzenskaya embankment. But then they offered to leave Moscow, to choose any place to live, except for Moscow and Georgia. Father chose Kazan, where fellow pilots served. And soon a telegram arrived with a message about death. Together with Kapitolina Georgievna and Nadya, we went to bury him. How and from what father died, no one could clearly explain to us ...

So the chain is closed tragic events in a family that began with the suicide of Stalin's wife, your grandmother Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva.
- My aunt Svetlana Alliluyeva wrote about everything in detail in the book "Twenty Letters to a Friend".
Stalin did not forgive his wife because she decided to die. And in the family there was a good memory of Nadezhda Sergeevna, everyone loved her.

When the 20th Congress took place, you were already fifteen years old, quite a conscious age. Was what was said at the congress a revelation?
- I think no. Many of my mother's friends were in the camps. She herself lived under the constant threat of arrest. spent seven or eight years in solitary confinement many from the Alliluyev family. I knew about it. And he treated everything like all normal people.
But for those around us, we were relatives of Stalin. The phone was silent for many months. The zealous headmistress at school began to find fault with my sister and me on every occasion, we became persona non grata. I had to move to another school.

And then - did the fact that you are Stalin's grandson interfere or help?
- Once helped. And it was like that. I studied acting skills by Oleg Efremov. But I really wanted to be a director. And Efremov recommended me to a wonderful teacher, GITIS professor Maria Osipovna Knebel. What happiness it was - meeting with her, what a gift of fate! She became my mentor, friend, second mother. With her kind hand, she removed from me this complex of "Stalin's grandson" that constantly tormented me. Later I found the book "Poetry of Pedagogy" by M. Knebel. She wrote this about her student Sasha Bourdonsky: “Having come to GITIS, he was very stiff, not self-confident ... He was afraid to offend someone. But nevertheless, breaking his timidity, he always spoke truthfully, sincerely ... "The most timid first-year student is formed by a person to whom the entire course agrees to obey? A lot decides here - both abilities and human qualities. And sensitivity, and manner of communication, and endurance, and will."
Maria Osipovna later told me what she thought at our first meeting: “Here sits in front of me a descendant of a terrible man who caused me a lot of pain, who repressed my brother. And I have his fate in my hands. what is to blame, such a thin, defenseless one? And I wanted to caress, stroke, protect. This little woman had a big heart.
Unfortunately, not everyone thinks so. Another at the poster wonders: what did I want to say with this or that performance? Against whom and in whose defense?
Everything experienced in the past? No. And from the complex, perhaps, did not get rid of completely. In Arbuzov's "Years of Wanderings", where I played Vedernikov in GITIS, he asks the sergeant: "Where do all the days go?" And he replies: "Where should they go, they are all with us ..." I think that the theater can change a lot in life, it helps a person to know himself, to fight against violence, physical and moral. As for everything that we today call Stalinism and the phenomenon of Stalin, we need to understand this phenomenon as an artist, without taking on the role of a judge.
My dream is to play classics. She touches on eternal themes, explores the depths human soul, problems of power.
I love the actors of my theater, especially Lyudmila Kasatkina, Vladimir Zeldin, Nina Sazonova, my young friends. When choosing plays, I would like to take into account their interests, this is what I live for now. After all, my native home- in the theatre".

Many who know him closely cannot agree with his answers in a published interview. I will give an excerpt from my conversation with E.Ya. Dzhugashvili:
- Evgeny Yakovlevich, recently in the television program "Vzglyad" and the newspaper "Vechernyaya Moskva" the son of Vasily Stalin - Alexander Burdonsky said that during the life of I.V. Stalin, he constantly felt fear, and when his formidable grandfather died, he felt "relieved" and did not cry, because he did not love Stalin.
- In 1953, Sasha and I were at the Kalinin Suvorov Military School. in high school and elementary school, respectively. I was seventeen, he was eleven. Everyone was in tears - both the command of the school, and the teachers, and all of us, the pupils, like the entire Soviet people. Therefore, it was strange for me to hear such a statement from him. As for his "relief", it is hard to believe that a boy at the age of eleven would understand so subtly and in such a modern way, and even more so would condemn the activities of I.V. Stalin.
Vasily's daughter, Nadezhda Vasilievna Stalina, lives in Moscow. After graduating from high school, she entered drama school but did not graduate. She moved to Georgia, to Gori. I got an apartment there. After the third year, she left the institute and returned to Moscow. She married the son of the writer Fadeev. Has a thirteen year old daughter. He values ​​his family very much. Like his father, he loves animals, especially dogs. Maybe, having met a stray dog ​​abandoned on the street, take him into the house. Not tall, skinny. She believes that her grandfather Stalin did not know about many of the crimes committed during the period of the cult of personality, that the environment, primarily L.P. Beria.
In the magazine "Spark", No. 22 for 1988, an article was published about her father Vasily Stalin, written by L. Uvarova, allegedly a former teacher of Vasily. Regarding this publication, Nadezhda Vasilievna said: “It is impossible to get through to the editor-in-chief Korotich. But if I could, I would ask him these rhetorical questions:
1. In what year did Uvarov go to school to work? It follows from the publication that in 1938 or 1939
I answer: in May 1938, my father was no longer at school, and in September he was at the school.
2. Since when has father been a "stocky boy"?
He was of a slender build. It's strange that she describes it this way. In 1938, he was a seventeen-year-old boy, like Uvarova a nineteen-year-old girl.
3. How to understand these statements that the father had haughty lips, gloomy eyebrows shifted to the bridge of the nose, a dull look, lower eyelids raised?
My father's lips were childishly swollen until the end of his days. Eyebrows never converged to the bridge of the nose, and as for the expression of the eyes, they were very lively, perky, a little with a chuckle.
4. How can you confuse the color of eyes and hair?
The eyes were not greenish, but really brown, the hair was not reddish, but copper-red.
5. Is it possible to confuse a rounded chin with a completely opposite one, and an open high forehead with a cut one?

Most recently, on September 20, 1989, I received a letter from a former classmate of Vasily Stalin - B.C. Alyoshin, who writes: “Two of our class remained alive: I and N.P. Stupin, who sat with Vasily at the same desk. We responsibly declare that L. Uvarova’s article is a complete fiction. What can Uvarova write if she never seen us?She wasn't our teacher.
After graduating from a technical school foreign languages, as she writes, she could not teach at our school - this is absurd. In 1938, the best teachers from all over Moscow were selected at the school, many of them had previously taught in gymnasiums, each was a personality. And we remember them with deep respect...
After the article appeared in Ogonyok, our former military instructor E.I. Levit invited Uvarova for a conversation. She acknowledged the illegality of her publication. And we did not publicize our refutation of her fabrications until she announced that she was now publishing a book about Vasily Stalin.
Since, as Uvarova herself admitted in a conversation with E.I. Levit, at the school where Vasily studied, she worked later and all her information is based on rumors, we are outraged by the preparation for the publication of such a book ... "

As you can see, myths sometimes appear in such a completely official way.

Nadezhda Vasilievna condemns the departure of S. Alliluyeva from the USSR, considers her brother A. Burdonsky to be too mild-mannered. She willingly makes contacts with journalists if she sees the expediency and the search for objectivity in their work.

"The appearance in the press of a number of articles about I.V. Stalin and his son,- says Nadezhda Vasilievna, - had a huge impact on my daughter. She went through a real shock. There were times when she refused to go to school because of this. Teachers and schoolchildren are sometimes trying to pass on to the children those who are mentioned in the press. I believe that really deep, analytical works on the Stalinist problem are yet to come. Now we are going through a more emotional period, which is most often based on speculation, and not on the comparison of documents of the time."

The surname of Vasily - Dzhugashvili today is carried by three more women - the daughter of K.G. Vasilyeva and two daughters N.I. Dzhugashvili (née Nusberg), his last wife whom he adopted.

Svetlana Alliluyeva gave birth to three children. Her eldest son Joseph is a well-known cardiologist in the country. According to his father G.I. Morozov, after Svetlana's marriage to Yu.I. Zhdanov, the documents for his son were re-registered for Joseph Yuryevich Zhdanov. And they were restored only in the mid-fifties. His first marriage failed. He has a son from this family. Satisfied with the second family. He has a doctorate in medical sciences, enjoys authority among his colleagues at work. Many patients idolize him. Memories of his mother, according to him, cause him an unpleasant feeling.

Here is what his mother wrote about him:
"My son, half Jewish, the son of my first husband (whom my father did not even want to meet) - evoked his tender love. I remember how I was afraid of the first meeting of my father with my Oska. The boy was about 3 years old, he was a very pretty child, half Greek, half Georgian, with big eyes in long eyelashes.
It seemed to me inevitable that the child should cause an unpleasant feeling in the grandfather - but I did not understand anything in the logic of the heart. The father melted when he saw the boy. It was on one of his rare visits after the war to the depopulated, unrecognizably quiet Zubalovo, where only my son and two nannies lived then - his and mine, already old and sick. I was finishing my last year of university and living in Moscow, and the boy grew up under "my" traditional pine tree and under the care of two tender old women.
His father played with him for half an hour, wandered around the house (or rather ran around him, because he walked up to last day with a quick, light gait) and left. I was left to "live through" and "digest" what had happened - I was in seventh heaven. With his brevity, the words: "Your son is good! He has good eyes," were equal to a long laudatory ode in the mouth of another person. I realized that I misunderstood a life full of surprises.
Father saw Oska two more times - last time four months before his death, when the baby was seven years old and went to school. "What thoughtful eyes!" said the father. "Clever boy!" - and again I was happy. It is strange that Oska apparently remembered this last meeting and retained in his memory the feeling of cordial contact that arose between him and his grandfather. For all the apolitical nature of his young mind, typical of today's youth, he must have hated everything connected with the "cult of personality", the whole range of phenomena attributed to one person, and this person himself.
Yes, he hates this circle of phenomena - but he did not connect it in his soul with the name of his grandfather. He placed the portrait of his grandfather on his desk. That's how it's been for a few years now. I do not interfere with his affections and do not control his feelings. Children need more trust. And again I see that I still have a poor understanding of life, full of surprises ... "

Here S. Alliluyeva forgets to add that by this time the father of her first husband, the boy's grandfather, spent almost six years in prison and for this reason did not see his grandson, and the boy's father had been unemployed for three years.

The second child of Svetlana, daughter Katya, after her mother did not return to the USSR, was brought up in her grandmother's house. Graduated from the Institute. Volcanologist. Has a daughter. She suffered a life tragedy - the death of her husband. After that, she left for Kamchatka, where she has been working to this day.

Svetlana's youngest daughter, Olga, was raised by her mother also without a husband, like her first two children. And here is how Svetlana Alliluyeva herself described it:
"My daughter lived in America for eleven years, went to American school and did not speak Russian. And indeed, when I brought her to England, she was a typical American child. During her two years in England, she grew up and changed. The school she attended was an international Quaker school, where great emphasis was placed on developing a sense of internationalism in the children. And I have to say what she did big success in this direction. The school had children from all over the world, all nationalities, black, white, yellow, and she felt in a much more international environment, she really liked it, and it played a big role in her development compared to her life in America. When she grows up, it will be up to her to decide what kind of work she chooses for herself and what she wants to do. We do not force anyone. I have never forced any of my adult children to do what I want. But as long as she is a schoolgirl, she will live according to what her mother thinks is right."

After leaving the USSR, Olga continued her studies in England. Today, this nineteen-year-old girl enters an independent life.

Concluding this chapter, I would like to cite the last conversation with B.Ya. Dzhugashvili:
- What benefits did you enjoy as the grandson of I.V. Stalin?
- After the death of I.V. Stalin, the Council of Ministers of the USSR issued a resolution of November 14, 1953, according to which all the grandchildren of J.V. Stalin, and there were eight of us then, a personal pension was assigned in the amount of a thousand, in a new calculation - one hundred rubles until the end of higher educational institution. There was a condition that after the tenth grade the student enters the institute. I received this pension until I graduated from the academy.
In addition, once a year a voucher was issued free of charge during the period summer holidays. My mother took her first ticket to the Caucasus, to the city of Gagra, to the Chelyuskintsev sanatorium. Since then, I have always gone on vacation only to the Caucasus, and in 1962 in Tbilisi I met my fate - Nana Nozadze.
Somewhere in the 60s, S. Alliluyeva said that she was instructed to divide the money in the amount of 30,000 rubles in the old calculation from the passbook of I.V. Stalin, apparently, some kind of fee. She proposed to divide this amount into three shares (according to the number of children I.V. Stalin has), then each part is divided among the grandchildren. Part of Vasily was divided between his four children, part of Yakov between two. I received 5,000 rubles, Svetlana Alliluyeva took her share - 10,000 rubles.

What are the relations between Stalin's grandchildren, do you often get together, in what way do you support each other?
I don't want to be responsible for everyone. I can only give a negative answer to your question. Everyone lives and works independently, and no one feels like gathering together. I personally have developed good relations only with Iosif Alliluyev, whom I am glad to congratulate on the defense of his doctoral dissertation.

How can one explain such alienation from each other?
- In my opinion, Stalin's grandchildren received a bad legacy in this matter. Vasily and Svetlana, as you know, did not feel kindred feelings for each other. What united them, divided them even more. I myself have witnessed foul language Vasily about his sister. As for Svetlana, she is a real demon in a monastic cassock...

Vasily Stalin, the future lieutenant general of aviation, was born in the second marriage of Joseph Stalin with Nadezhda Alliluyeva. At the age of 12, he lost his mother. She shot herself in 1932. Stalin did not deal with his upbringing, shifting this concern to the head of security. Later, Vasily will write that he was brought up by men "not distinguished by morality ... ... Early began to smoke and drink."

At the age of 19 he fell in love with his friend's fiancee 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 withstand her husband's spree. In retaliation, he refused to give her children. For eight years they had to live with their father, despite the fact that a year later he had another family.

The new chosen one was the daughter of Marshal Timoshenko Ekaterina. The ambitious beauty, born on December 21, like Stalin, and who saw this as a special sign, disliked her stepchildren. The hatred was manic. She locked them up, “forgot” to feed them, beat them. Vasily paid no attention to this. The only thing that bothered him was that the children did not see their own mother. Once Alexander met with her secretly, the father found out about this and beat his son.

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

In the second marriage, Vasily Jr. and daughter Svetlana were born. But the family fell apart. Vasily, together with the children from his first marriage, Alexander and Nadezhda, went to the famous swimmer Kapitolina Vasilyeva. She accepted them as family. 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 no less difficult situation in the family, their further fate was tragic.

Both did poorly in school. One, because she was sick all the time. Others were not interested in studying at all.

After the 21st party congress and the exposure of the cult of personality, the negative attitude towards all 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 did not go to classes, spent time with new friends, became addicted to drugs.

The problem was not immediately recognized. From the third year, his mother took him to Moscow, but she could not cure him. During one of the “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 a progressive mental illness.

Svetlana died at the age of 43, completely alone. Her death was not known until a few weeks later.

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

Alexander graduated from the Suvorov Military School. The military career did not interest him, and he entered the directing department of GITIS. Played in the theater, received the title People's Artist. He worked as a director of the Theater of the Soviet Army. He considered grandfather a tyrant, and his relationship with him was a “heavy cross”. He loved his mother very much, lived with her most of the time and bore her surname Bourdonsky. Passed away in 2017.

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

Vasily had no other native children.

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

Yakov Dzhugashvili

Jacob was born in 1907. He saw his father only in 1921 - Iosif Vissarionovich had new family. Relations were tense. The conflict escalated when Yakov announced his intention to marry 16-year-old Zoya Gunina. Stalin did not approve of the marriage, and regarded his son's disobedience as a personal insult. The young man attempted suicide. After that, communication between father and son ceased. Jacob nevertheless married Zoya, however family life didn't work out right from the start. In 1936, he married a second time - to the beautiful ballerina Yulia Meltzer. A year later he entered the Artillery Academy of the Red Army.

At the very beginning of the war, Yakov Dzhugashvili went to the front. In July 1941, he was surrounded near Vitebsk, after which he spent two years in concentration camps. Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva recalled: the Germans offered the Soviet leader to exchange his son for captured German officers, but he refused. “Many have heard that Yasha was in captivity - the Germans used this fact for propaganda purposes. But it was known that he behaved with dignity, not succumbing to any provocations, and, accordingly, experienced cruel treatment... Maybe too late, when Yasha had already died, his father felt some warmth for him and realized the injustice of his attitude towards him, ”Alliluyeva wrote in her memoirs.

Yakov Dzhugashvili with his daughter Galina, photo RIA Novosti

On April 14, 1943, Yakov Dzhugashvili rushed to the wire fences of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, through which the current passed. high voltage. He died on the spot.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

Stalin's daughter from her second marriage became an orphan at the age of 6 - her mother committed suicide. The girl studied well and showed the greatest interest in literature. The father did not approve of his daughter's choice and recommended that she take up the natural sciences. Svetlana graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University and worked as a translator. After the death of her father, she continued to work at the Institute of World Literature.

Alliluyeva had two divorces behind her back. Her new chosen one was the Indian communist Raja Bradesh Singh. In the autumn of 1966, he died after a serious illness, and Svetlana turned to Brezhnev with a request to allow her to travel to her homeland. civil husband. Instead of one week, she spent several months in India. On the eve of her expected return to Russia, Alliluyeva applied for political asylum at the US Embassy in Delhi. She moved to the States, thus leaving her son and daughter behind. She published her memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend in the USA. This book brought her a huge profit. In 1970, the daughter of the Soviet leader married the American architect William Peters and took a new name - Lana.

In 1984, she returned to Russia, but was unable to improve relations with her son and daughter. Then Stalin's daughter moved to Tbilisi. Two years later, she again asked for permission to travel to the United States. Svetlana Alliluyeva died on November 22, 2011 in Wisconsin.

Evgeny Dzhugashvili

The son of Yakov Dzhugashvili and Olga Golysheva graduated from the N. E. Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, in 1973 he defended his thesis. At the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR named after K. E. Voroshilov, he taught the history of wars. In 1996, he became chairman of the Georgian Society of Ideological Heirs of Joseph Stalin. The society was created at the expense of one of the local businessmen. Five years later, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili announced the creation of a New communist party, but did not achieve success in the political field.

Several lawsuits are associated with his name. So, for example, in 2009 he filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity and compensation moral damage to Novaya Gazeta and journalist Anatoly Yablokov. The reason for the claim was the following phrase, published in the article “ Novaya Gazeta":" Stalin and the Chekists are tied big blood, gravest crimes above all against their own people. In 2010, Dzhugashvili filed a lawsuit against the Federal Archives; he demanded to recognize the fact of falsification of documents confirming Stalin's involvement in the execution of the Poles in Katyn.

Yevgeny Dzhugashvili died in December 2016. He was 80 years old.

Yakov Evgenievich Dzhugashvili

The great-grandson of the Soviet leader became an artist. He studied at Glasgow Art School and had his first exhibition in London. “I am proud of my origin and proud of my last name. I can’t say that the surname helps to sell paintings, rather the opposite. If I helped, I would probably sell every day for work, and so - two or three a month, ”said Yakov in an interview with Snob magazine.

In 1999, his works were exhibited at the Art Museum in Batumi. Another descendant of Stalin, the grandson of Yakov Dzhugashvili named Selim, also became an artist. Today Selim lives in Ryazan and paints.

Chris Evans

The daughter of Svetlana Alliluyeva lives in Portland. She works in a vintage shop and refuses to talk to reporters or discuss her relationship with her mother.

Ekaterina Zhdanova

Stalin's granddaughter lives in Kamchatka and works as a volcanologist. She was born in 1950 from the marriage of Svetlana Alliluyeva and Professor Yuri Zhdanov. As a child, she traveled a lot around Russia with her father. When Svetlana left Russia, she wrote her a farewell letter, in which she advised her daughter to continue her studies in science. Catherine stopped communicating with her, although telegrams from her mother periodically arrived in Kamchatka. After Alliluyeva's death, Chris Evans contacted her, but Ekaterina Zhdanova left her letter unanswered.

P.S. Well, at least apart from Svetlana and her daughter now living in America, no one else fled abroad, unlike the descendants of Khrushchev or Gorbachev. And where are these "patriots" now?

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

When a child falls into the care of monsters, they most often become an extension of their parents. The children of tyrants are often put on trial after their fathers are deposed. However, their lives can be as horrific 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.

Jacob's suicide attempt

Stalin changed after the death of his first wife Ekaterina. At her funeral, he said: "My last warm feelings for humanity died with her." He became colder, more irritable, and moved away from Jacob.

After Stalin married Nadezhda Alliluyeva, he did not become softer. He had problems with alcohol, and the struggle with addiction resulted in anger and violence in the government of his native country. At times, life with a tyrant became so terrible that Nadezhda left home to live with her parents. She took the children with her, but left Yakov, Catherine's son, alone with his father's drunken rage.

Life with Stalin was so unbearable that in 1930, left alone in an apartment, Yakov shot himself in the chest. He was taken to the hospital, where doctors saved his life, and Stalin was called to look at his son, whom he had driven to suicide.

He looked at his son and said, "He can't even shoot accurately."

Stalin drove Nadezhda to suicide

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 to talk to me like that,” Nadezhda answered him.

Alliluyeva literally fled the Kremlin. At home, she wrote a letter describing Stalin as a tyrant who tortured his people and his family. She then climbed into bed for the last time and shot herself.

Stalin hid the fact of his wife's suicide from the people and from the children. Svetlana found out about the incident only ten years later. On the day of the funeral, Stalin bitterly said that Nadezhda "left the enemy." But he did not attend the funeral itself and never visited her grave.

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

Jacob was married to a Jewish girl named Julia. At first, Stalin did not approve of this alliance. He called Julia none other than "this Jewess", and tried to put an end to their marriage. Over time, he began to like her - but this did not stop him from exiling Yulia to the Gulag.

When Russia was overtaken by the Second World War, Jacob 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 already issued a decree by that time, according to which everyone 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 separated from both parents, who were suffering in the camps.

Stalin sent Svetlana's first love to the Gulag

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

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

After getting 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 wants you? You are a fool."

Vasily fished from a fighter jet

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 - in order to save Stalin from losing another son.

Growing up, Vasily began to use his status. He was a notorious drunkard who used his position to gain additional privileges. Stalin ordered his subordinates not to show special treatment for 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 to throw shells into the lake to watch the fish die. One of the bombs went off 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 fired due to heavy drinking, debauchery and corruption of the military.”

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

As World War II drew to a close, Hitler tried to negotiate an exchange of Jacob for 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 hounded by the guards and despised by the prisoners. Deprived of hope, he approached a live barbed wire fence, caught hold of it and died.

This was the only act of Jacob that made his father proud of him. Stalin showed his wife photos of Yakov after the suicide. "Look," he said proudly. “Here it is, a worthy end for a noble man.”

Stalin refused to meet with Svetlana's husband

Svetlana's next lover was Grigory Morozov, her fellow student from Moscow State University of Jewish origin. 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 did not notice his daughter.

Later, Svetlana confessed to her friend: "My father completely lost interest in me."

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

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

In 1950, when Vasily was in charge of the Soviet hockey team, the plane with 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, forbade the 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 in the hockey team.

After Stalin's death, Vasily went to prison

Vasily knew that he was not popular. He understood that, having lost the patronage of his father, he could be in trouble - and he was right.

Stalin died in 1953, and immediately after his death, Vasily was imprisoned on charges of misappropriation of state property. To impress the girl, he built a sports complex in the largest swimming pool in Russia. For his own pleasure, he also built a luxurious private hunting reserve. He carried out all the construction at the expense of the Soviet air force.

Khrushchev released him in 1960, but a year later Vasily returned to jail again due to an incident on the road. When he left, he was immediately exiled to Kazan.