Khrushchev's children and their fate. Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev. A brave warrior and a cheerful reveler

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, non-fiction books, newspaper and magazine publications recent years A huge amount of information has appeared on the fate of Leonid Khrushchev. Officially, senior lieutenant Leonid Khrushchev is listed as missing during an air battle on March 11, 1943 near the village of Mashutino near the town of Zhizdra Oryol region. 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? At the end of the 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 that - the children always knew from their parents that Leonid died heroically in air combat 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 former employees Kremlin security claims that a special aircraft 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, stitched and numbered, are stored in Central Archives 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 (Bolsheviks), secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (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. My sister is a housewife. General and special education received while studying in a seven-year school, a technical training school, a pilot school of the Civil Air Fleet, at the preparatory course of the academy. Graduated from the Civil Air Fleet School in 1937. In the Red Army voluntarily from February 1939, student preparatory course VVA them. Zhukovsky. Since February 1940 - EVASCH (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 - Lavrenty Beria,” claims that the son of Nikita Khrushchev, even before the war, became 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 is known, after studying at EVASh, Leonid Khrushchev, having received his first military rank 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.” No less positive combat characteristics dated January 9, 1942: “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. Spent two months on the Western Front initial period, i.e. at the very difficult period when the regiment was flying 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 and killed 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, was in a state of strong alcohol intoxication shot a Red Army major." 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. Moreover, after recovery, Leonid Khrushchev was not sent 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 a young pilot who had previously fought in bomber aviation, quickly got used to the 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 He didn’t sit 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 fighter"Focke-Wulf 190". At an altitude of 2500 meters, an air battle ensued - pair against pair. ABOUT last fight Guard Senior Lieutenant Khrushchev still has too many legends. The most popular are two versions. According to the first, he was shot down, managed to bail out, 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 line 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 death former leader USSR Nikita Khrushchev, Zamorin sent to the Marshal Soviet Union Ustinov’s letter in which he admitted: “In the report I kept silent about the fact that when the German FV-190 rushed to attack my car, entering me from below under the right wing, Lenya Khrushchev, in order to save me from death, abandoned 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 defend 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 addressed air army Lieutenant General Khudyakov to 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 had gone into a tailspin: “For a month we have not lost 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 a sad conclusion that your son, Guard Senior Lieutenant Leonid Nikitovich Khrushchev, died a heroic death in an air battle against the German invaders.” The most thorough searches from the air and through the partisans (was the Soviet pilot captured by the Germans?) did not produce 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 in archives 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 name of Nikita Khrushchev is strongly associated with Ukraine and Kiev. Some recall his ignorance and lack of education, coupled with rudeness and authoritarianism. Others, on the contrary, say that only with him they truly felt Soviet man. The first ones attribute to him the destruction of the creative thought of the intelligentsia. Others talk about the significant development of science during his reign.

It is impossible to assess his activities within the framework of one article, but it is possible to find one of the reasons for his “versatility”. Moreover, as always, a woman is involved in this. And not just a woman, but a mother named Ksenia.

History shows that on April 17, 1894, a son was born into the Khrushchev family living in the village of Kalinovka, Kursk province, who received the name Nikita. Poor, landless young parents, in search of a more or less tolerable life, moved to Yuzovka (now Donetsk) to feed themselves in the industrial Donbass. Poverty was such that they didn’t even think about a brother or sister for Nikitushka.

Only two years later, sister Ira appeared, after which Ksenia Ivanovna “put an end to this issue.” According to the memoirs of the last daughter-in-law, Khrushchev’s mother considered her husband a loser and mediocrity all her life.

"His mother was a woman with strong will, female fighter. – Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk recalled. - Brave, she was not afraid of anyone. Her father was much softer and kinder, but she didn’t let anyone down. He is soft and weak, and she kept him under her heel.”

It was the mother who insisted that her son go into the mine, not only to earn money, but also to find himself in society. She herself sent her son to the mine on dangerous work also so that he becomes big man, and not worthless like his father. Khrushchev owed everything to his mother's upbringing. As Nikita Sergeevich himself recalled: “Mother did everything so that I would not become addicted to tobacco or vodka.” Only during his work in Moscow, at “Stalin’s gatherings,” he was forced to drink along with everyone else, otherwise...

It's worth bringing one interesting fact from his biography. Khrushchev’s son-in-law Alexei Adzhubey in his memoirs cited the following conversation with his father-in-law: “When I was little,” Nikita Sergeevich said in an unusually thoughtful manner, “and was tending cows in a clearing in the forest, an old woman came up to me. I looked into my eyes for a long time, I was even dumbfounded. And I heard strange words from her: Boy, a great future awaits you.” Nikitushka then told this story to his mother. Subsequently, this fact was confirmed when Lyubov Sizykh (the last, third wife of Nikita Sergeevich’s son from his first marriage, Leonid) spoke about a conversation with his mother-grandmother, as Ksenia Ivanovna was called in the family: “Ksenia idolized her son, called him the king and boasted that she had always I knew Nikita would become a great man.”

In 1932, Khrushchev took his parents to Moscow. And if Sergei Nikanorovich could not find himself in the capital, as in “The House on the Embankment,” then his mother found herself “in her element.” Almost all days she, together with her neighbors, mothers of the same party functionaries, sat on a bench near the entrance and talked about her son, about his first children. History does not like subjunctive moods and assumptions, but I do not exclude the possibility that these conversations about the son whom she loved and who loved Stalin reached the addressee...

The mother loved her son not only as her child, but also as “ big man" At the same time, as everyone else in the household recalls, she immediately disliked Nina Petrovna, because she believed that she herself best wife Nikita was Efrosinya Ivanovna - Frosya, mother of Leni and Yulia (the first wife died of typhus in 1919). The second wife, Marusya, again, according to recollections, she simply lived out of the house. Both the last daughter-in-law and the grandchildren (the second) gave the following description of Ksenia Ivanovna: “Khrushchev’s mother, broad-faced, stern in appearance, with smoothly combed back hair, was strong woman. Ksenia was not just smart, but truly wise woman. If she had any education, oh, that would be something.”

In 1938, Sergei Nikanorovich died of tuberculosis, and was buried not in the prestigious Moscow cemetery, but in the one closest to his home (most likely, Vagankovsky). After his father’s funeral, neither his son nor his wife ever visited his grave, which has not been found to date... And then came 1939, the year the Ukrainian stage began in the life of Nikita Sergeevich and his big family. He could not live alone, without his wife, all his children and, of course, his mother. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War the entire Khrushchev family, with the exception of Leonid Khrushchev and Nikita Sergeevich himself, is sent for evacuation to Kuibyshev, under the leadership, of course, of “mother-grandmother”.

Having again become the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolsheviks), already in September 1944 he returned his family to his native Kyiv. Khrushchev is again in the orbit of power, the country and the republic, which have not yet been completely liberated from the German-Romanian occupiers, are proud of him. A glorious date is approaching in the life of anyone politician– 50th anniversary. There was already hope that the leader’s “favor” would appear by the big date. But. This notorious but always makes its own adjustments, and even changes the way of life.

On February 29, 1944, General Nikolai Vatutin was seriously but not fatally wounded. True to his adventurism, or rather, self-confidence, Nikita Sergeevich convinces Moscow that Kyiv doctors will not only save the legendary commander, but will also put him back on his feet.

Alas, in such cases, delay is like death. On April 15, the heart of a talented commander, a favorite of the troops and people, stopped. And on April 17, on the day of his half-century anniversary, instead of a holiday in his honor, Nikita Khrushchev saw off last way General Vatutin. Ksenia Ivanovna, true to her mother’s instincts, was very worried that the death of one of Stalin’s favorite generals could “put an end to” further career son. But, again but. Here, so to speak, Khrushchev was played along by Zhukov, who after the death of Vatutin became the commander of the 1st Ukrainian, at the head of which he took Berlin.

Through the efforts of Zhukov-Khrushchev, a version was spread that Vatutin’s wound was initially fatal. However, her mother’s experiences, and even at that age, affected her health. Literally six months after moving to Kyiv, she died. Unlike her father, her mother was buried in the central alley of the Lukyanovsky cemetery. Being already the head of state, Nikita Sergeevich very often visited his native grave. Remembering his proletarian origin, he forbade erecting a monument on her grave.

Today, the grave of Khrushchev’s mother is included in the register of historical monuments of Kyiv. It should also be noted that two people are buried in one grave: a mother-in-law and a son-in-law, i.e. Gontar Viktor Petrovich, husband eldest daughter Yulia, former director Kyiv Opera whom she loved so much.

We don’t know how and in what way the “Khrushchevites” of Ukraine will remember the name of Nikita Sergeevich on April 17, but if we talk about him and his deeds, then it’s probably worth saying a word about his mother... But not a word is said about her... It’s a pity, that was not previously said about the mother of the man who entered world history. What do we know about her? We know that she was born on February 6 (January 24), 1872, and died on March 23, 1945. But from April 17, 1894 until her death, she was also her son’s guardian angel, his connoisseur and his only judge... http://www.bagnet.org/news/politics/41837

Nikita Khrushchev's family

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.

Nina Kukharchuk was born into a Ukrainian family in the village of Vasilev in the Kholm region, which at that time was part of 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 foreign trips Khrushchev, 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 languages. Wikipedia says she also studied English language, but the degree of proficiency in it is not indicated.

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.

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 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. Having decided that journalism education 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 magazine “Soviet Union”, 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... She was an intelligent and educated woman. Lived decent life. She died at the age of 87.

The second child of Nina and Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei, is 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), deputy general director NPO "Electronmash"

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 history cold war, which he currently specializes in. Remained a permanent resident in the United States, currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and has Russian and American (since 1999) citizenship. Works as a professor at the Institute international studies Thomas Watson of 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.” Books translated to 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. Younger son Sergey lives in Moscow. foto-history.livejournal.com/8115525.html

Based on Internet materials, prepared by Nikolay Zubashenko

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, Alexey Adzhubey, is a journalist, worked in " 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 indeed they 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 next year, he turned to the authorities for permission to permanently reside in the country, which he received in 1993 thanks to the support of former presidents USA of Richard Nixon and George 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 lectures in educational institutions USA 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 royal family for my 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. The request of Khrushchev’s son was granted, but he was sent not to the front as an ordinary soldier, but to 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 with civil aviation. He studied at the Balashov school for four years, after which he was listed as an instructor at the Central Schools for a month. aviation courses civil air fleet in Moscow, then went to Kyiv to visit 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 plant 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 Hitler's 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.

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Khrushchev in 2010
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Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev(born July 2) - Soviet and Russian scientist, publicist. Son former First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev. Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor. Hero of Socialist Labor ().

Biography

Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev was born on July 2, 1935 in Moscow. At the age of 6 he suffered a fracture of the hip joint and spent a year in a cast. In 1952 he graduated from Moscow school No. 110 with a gold medal.

In the summer of 1952, he entered the Faculty of Electro-Vacuum Engineering and Special Instrument Making at Moscow Power Engineering Institute, majoring in Automatic Control Systems. I remembered that main role His former rector, Malenkov’s wife Valeria Golubtsova, played a role in his decision to go study at MPEI.

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, journalist and editor of Moscow News, died on February 22, 2007 in Moscow. The youngest son Sergei lives in Moscow.

Publicistic activity

After the resignation of N.S. Khrushchev, he edited the book of his father’s memoirs and sent it for publication abroad. Was under surveillance by the special services.

Subsequently, he published a number of his own books with memoirs about the historical events that he witnessed, and with his own balanced assessment of what happened: “Pensioner of Union Significance”, “The 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).

In 2010, the book of the Ukrainian writer and journalist Dmitry Gordon “Son for Father” was published, which collected all the author’s interviews with Sergei Khrushchev.

Major works

• Khrushchev S. N. Pensioner of Union significance. - M.: News, 1991. - 416 pp. - ISBN 5-7020-0095-1
• Khrushchev S. N. The Birth of a Superpower: A Book about a Father. - M.: Time, 2003. - 672 pp. - ISBN 5-94117-097-1
• Sergei Khrushchev. Khrushchev on Khrushchev - An Inside Account of the Man and His Era, by His Son, Sergei Khrushchev, Verlag Little, Brown and Company, 1990, ISBN 0-316-49194-2
• Sergei Khrushchev. Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-271-01927-1
• Sergei Khrushchev. Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945-1964, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-271-02861-0

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Literature

• Vladimir Skachko. Payment for Sovietism. The children and grandchildren of the leaders ignored the work of their fathers and grandfathers. // "Kyiv Telegraph". No. 27-29.
• Dmitry Gordon. Son for father. Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev about his father, Stalin, time and himself. - Kyiv: Skhili Dnipra, 2010. - ISBN 978-966-8881-13-8

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Links

• Interview with the news agency TPP-INFORM 09/12/2013
• Interview with the news agency CCI-INFORM 09/11/2013
• Interview with the news agency TPP-INFORM 09.10.2013
• Interview with the newspaper “Segodnya”, Ukraine, 06/18/2009
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Sonya, red as red, also held his hand and was all beaming in the blissful gaze fixed on his eyes, which she was waiting for. Sonya was already 16 years old, and she was very beautiful, especially at this moment of happy, enthusiastic animation. She looked at him without taking her eyes off, smiling and holding her breath. He looked at her gratefully; but still waited and looked for someone. The old countess had not come out yet. And then steps were heard at the door. The steps are so fast that they couldn't be his mother's.
But it was she in a new dress, still unfamiliar to him, sewn without him. Everyone left him and he ran to her. When they came together, she fell on his chest, sobbing. She could not raise her face and only pressed it to the cold strings of his Hungarian. Denisov, unnoticed by anyone, entered the room, stood right there and, looking at them, rubbed his eyes.
“Vasily Denisov, a friend of your son,” he said, introducing himself to the count, who was looking at him questioningly.
- Welcome. I know, I know,” said the count, kissing and hugging Denisov. - Nikolushka wrote... Natasha, Vera, here he is Denisov.
The same happy, enthusiastic faces turned to the shaggy figure of Denisov and surrounded him.
- Darling, Denisov! - Natasha squealed, not remembering herself with delight, jumped up to him, hugged and kissed him. Everyone was embarrassed by Natasha's action. Denisov also blushed, but smiled and took Natasha’s hand and kissed it.
Denisov was taken to the room prepared for him, and the Rostovs all gathered in the sofa near Nikolushka.
The old countess, without letting go of his hand, which she kissed every minute, sat next to him; the rest, crowding around them, caught his every movement, word, glance, and did not take their rapturously loving eyes off him. The brother and sisters argued and grabbed each other's places closer to him, and fought over who should bring him tea, a scarf, a pipe.
Rostov was very happy with the love that was shown to him; but the first minute of his meeting was so blissful that his present happiness seemed not enough to him, and he kept waiting for something else, and more, and more.
The next morning, the visitors slept from the road until 10 o'clock.
In the previous room there were scattered sabers, bags, tanks, open suitcases, and dirty boots. The cleaned two pairs with spurs had just been placed against the wall. The servants brought washbasins, hot water shaving and cleaned dresses. It smelled of tobacco and men.
- Hey, G"ishka, t"ubku! – Vaska Denisov’s hoarse voice shouted. - Rostov, get up!
Rostov, rubbing his drooping eyes, raised his confused head from the hot pillow.
- Why is it late? “It’s late, it’s 10 o’clock,” Natasha’s voice answered, and in the next room the rustling of starched dresses, the whispering and laughter of girls’ voices was heard, and something blue, ribbons, black hair and cheerful faces flashed through the slightly open door. It was Natasha with Sonya and Petya, who came to see if he was up.
- Nikolenka, get up! – Natasha’s voice was heard again at the door.
- Now!
At this time, Petya, in the first room, saw and grabbed the sabers, and experiencing the delight that boys experience at the sight of a warlike older brother, and forgetting that it was indecent for sisters to see undressed men, opened the door.
- Is this your saber? - he shouted. The girls jumped back. Denisov, with frightened eyes, hid his furry legs in a blanket, looking back at his comrade for help. The door let Petya through and closed again. Laughter was heard from behind the door.
“Nikolenka, come out in your dressing gown,” said Natasha’s voice.
- Is this your saber? - Petya asked, - or is it yours? - He addressed the mustachioed, black Denisov with obsequious respect.
Rostov hastily put on his shoes, put on his robe and went out. Natasha put on one boot with a spur and climbed into the other. Sonya was spinning and was just about to puff up her dress and sit down when he came out. Both were wearing the same brand new blue dresses - fresh, rosy, cheerful. Sonya ran away, and Natasha, taking her brother by the arm, led him to the sofa, and they began to talk. They did not have time to ask each other and answer questions about thousands of little things that could only interest them alone. Natasha laughed at every word that he said and that she said, not because what they said was funny, but because she was having fun and was unable to contain her joy, which was expressed by laughter.
- Oh, how good, great! – she condemned everything. Rostov felt how, under the influence of the hot rays of love, for the first time in a year and a half, that childish smile blossomed on his soul and face, which he had never smiled since he left home.
“No, listen,” she said, “are you completely a man now?” I'm terribly glad that you are my brother. “She touched his mustache. - I want to know what kind of men you are? Are they like us? No?
- Why did Sonya run away? - Rostov asked.
- Yes. That's another whole story! How will you talk to Sonya? You or you?
“As it will happen,” said Rostov.
– Tell her, please, I’ll tell you later.
- So what?
- Well, I’ll tell you now. You know that Sonya is my friend, such a friend that I would burn my hand for her. Look at this. - She rolled up her muslin sleeve and pointed to her long, thin and delicate arm under the shoulder, much above the elbow (in that place that is sometimes closed and ball gowns) red markings.
“I burned this to prove my love to her.” I just lit the ruler on fire and pressed it down.
Sitting in his former classroom, on the sofa with cushions on his arms, and looking into those desperately animated eyes of Natasha, Rostov again entered that family, Child's world, which made no sense to anyone except him, but which gave him some of the best pleasures in life; and burning his hand with a ruler to show love did not seem useless to him: he understood and was not surprised by it.
- So what? only? - he asked.
- Well, so friendly, so friendly! Is this nonsense - with a ruler; but we are forever friends. She will love anyone, forever; but I don’t understand this, I’ll forget now.
- Well, what then?
- Yes, that’s how she loves me and you. - Natasha suddenly blushed, - well, you remember, before leaving... So she says that you forget all this... She said: I will always love him, and let him be free. It’s true that this is excellent, noble! - Yes Yes? very noble? Yes? - Natasha asked so seriously and excitedly that it was clear that what she was saying now, she had previously said with tears.
Rostov thought about it.
“I don’t take back my word on anything,” he said. - And then, Sonya is such a charm that what fool would refuse his happiness?

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Biography

The son of the famous political figure Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei, was born and raised in Moscow. At the age of 6 he suffered an injury: a fracture of the hip joint, as a result of which a plaster cast was applied. I survived this terrible disease like tuberculosis. His parents raised him well, but strictly, so it is not surprising that the boy grew up obedient and disciplined. From childhood, he was taught to honor and respect his elders and, no matter what, in any situation, “remain human.”

Long years upbringing did not pass without a trace, all the good things that were invested in the development of his personality had a positive effect on his education, future profession and the attitude of people in general towards him. Sergei Khrushchev has several higher education, this is a great, honored person, the pride of his parents.

Currently, Khrushchev's son, Sergei, is a Soviet and American scientist, publicist, and professor. Defended his doctoral dissertation (Doctor of Technical Sciences). Works as a lecturer at the Brown Institute in the USA. Although most lives in America, is an ardent supporter and patriot of Russia.

Personal life

It is difficult to find information about the personal life of Sergei Nikitich a large number of information. But we still managed to find out something. Sergei Khrushchev had three wives. He divorced his first one, named Galina, long ago; there were no children. Immediately after the divorce, he announced that he had a beloved woman in Dushanbe. Her name is Olga. After several dates, the man moved Olga to Moscow and invited her to live in civil marriage. The woman gave birth to two children - a boy and a girl. But after several years life together the couple divorced, and Sergei Nikitich married again, this time officially, to his girlfriend ex-wife- Valentina Nikolaevna, with whom she now lives in the USA. Valentina gave her husband two sons. The wife loves to cook, bakes, and free time reprints articles by Sergei Nikitich.

His eldest son, Nikita, a journalist and editor of Moscow News, unfortunately died. The youngest son, Sergei, lives in Moscow. Nothing is said about his personal life in the biography of Sergei Khrushchev.

Reviews about Stalin

From an interview with Sergei Khrushchev, we learned that he loved his father very much, always respected and listened to his opinion. Even now, when we talk about Nikita Sergeevich, my son always remembers him with warmth. In one of the television programs, Sergei Nikitich spoke in defense of his father, sharing his thoughts and reviews about Joseph Stalin and his activities.

He also shared with the audience a story about how Sergei’s father, Nikita Khrushchev, relaxed while on vacation visiting Stalin. Sergei himself saw the “leader of the peoples” only once, at a demonstration.

My father was given his first vacation, and then Stalin called him and invited him to his place in Sochi to talk, socialize, and have a good time. Nikita Sergeevich wanted to take his wife, Sergei’s mother, with him, but Stalin did not want to hear about it. Khrushchev and Stalin lived together, and my mother lived separately. So it could be called a purely specific, official vacation. Stalin wanted to see only those close to him.

Son about father

Sergei Khrushchev is a wonderful, bright-hearted person, very open and trouble-free. His views on life are practical. He studies history, collects facts and analyzes them. In many ways he justifies and supports his father, his political activity. Sometimes, however, there were cases when he criticized him and even argued with him on certain issues.

Sergei Nikitich wrote a trilogy book “The Reformer” about his father. It tells about the reforms taking place year after year in the country, about radical economic restructuring, about changes in education, science and culture, about bright victories and defeats, about the return of tens of thousands of exiled people from camps to their homeland - this is the merit of Nikita Khrushchev. All eleven years that he was in power are described in this interesting book. Since it was not easy for Sergei Khrushchev to find access to reliable information of the last century, he combined writing an essay with his memories, thoughts, and views on life.

Khrushchev on Putin

On the president's policy Russian Federation Vladimir Putin Sergei Nikitich has his own view. It cannot be said that he supports his policies and the peculiarities of governing the country. Quite the contrary.

He believes that his term of power expired back in 2008. And if he had left on time, he would have been considered a normal leader. Sergei Nikitich does not know what the future holds for Ukraine, Russia and America. He's just making assumptions.

He greatly regrets the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now, as he says, everything could have turned out completely differently and, most likely, in better side. Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev - great person, his father could admire and be proud of him now.