Nikita Khrushchev's adopted daughter Yulia. How did the fates of the children of the “corn” General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev turn out? Education. Labor activity

N. S. Khrushchev with his first wife E. I. Pisareva.

For the first time, Nikita Khrushchev married at the age of 20 to the beautiful Efrosinya Pisareva, who gave her husband two children of the same age, Yulia and Leonid. The son was only three years old when Nikita Sergeevich’s first wife died of typhus. Yulia and Leonid were initially raised by their grandmother, and after their father’s marriage to Nina Kukharchuk they began to live in his new family. Later, Khrushchev's family was replenished with three more children.

N. S. Khrushchev with children from his first marriage, Yulia and Leonid.

Eldest daughter Nikita Khrushchev, Yulia immediately accepted her stepmother. She never called her mom, only Nina Petrovna, but the relationship between them was very warm. Julia dreamed of becoming an architect and even entered a specialized institute, but her health did not allow her to graduate. Julia fell ill with tuberculosis, she had to undergo treatment for a long time, but she had to forget about her studies. On the eve of the Great Patriotic War, the young woman underwent a complex lung operation, which allowed her to live another 40 years.

Yulia worked as a chemical laboratory assistant and was married to Viktor Petrovich Gontar, who worked as the director of the Kyiv Opera House. They lived together happy life, but the couple had no children. Julia passed away at the age of 65, outliving her father by only 10 years.

Leonid and Yulia Khrushchev.

Unlike his older sister Leonid was never able to establish a normal relationship with his stepmother. They were very different: calm and conflict-free Nina Petrovna and explosive emotional Leonid. He was capable of any pranks and hooliganism. Perhaps it was because of this that rumors and speculation constantly arose around him.

After graduating from school, the young man entered the college and began working as a mechanic at a factory. However, after Nikita Khrushchev was transferred to Moscow, Leonid entered the Balashov school civil aviation. The young cadet was very attractive, which allowed him to enjoy success with women. His first wife was Rosa Treivas, but his daughter-in-law did not come to the court of her influential father and the marriage was immediately dissolved.

At the same time, Nikita Khrushchev demanded that his son recognize the child born to Esther Etinger. The son of Leonid and Esther, Yuri, later became a test pilot, but died in 2003 after an accident.

Leonid's second legal wife in 1939 was Lyubov Sizykh. She was amazingly suited to her husband, jumped with a parachute, and masterfully drove a motorcycle. But at the same time, Lyubov had a more rational approach to life and managed to slightly curb the violent temper of her husband. Her son from her first marriage was already growing up, and soon after the marriage their joint daughter, Julia, was born. At this time, Nikita Sergeevich was already the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine.

Leonid Khrushchev and Lyubov Sizykh.

Rumors about Leonid’s involvement in gangster groups involved in robberies are associated with this period. Some historians insist that Leonid Khrushchev was subject to criminal prosecution for this. Others argue that nothing of the kind happened, since not a single document was found according to which Leonid Khrushchev was prosecuted for criminal or any other crimes. The only mention of this is only in Sergo Beria’s book “My Father - Lavrenty Beria”. Khrushchev’s relatives all unanimously claim that Leonid’s connection with dubious individuals and his participation in crimes is an outright lie. Historians have never reached a consensus on this matter.

Be that as it may, but your military service Leonid Nikitovich started back in Finnish war, and from the first days of the Great Patriotic War he was already at the front, sitting at the helm of a bomber. He fought heroically and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. After being wounded, he was sent for treatment to Kuibyshev, where Nikita Khrushchev’s entire family was located at that time. In the fall of 1942, Leonid Khrushchev accidentally killed a sailor, shooting on a dare at a bottle standing on the latter’s head.

He was sentenced to 8 years to serve his sentence at the front, then a similar practice was used. Returning to the front, Leonid Nikitovich switched to a fighter and fought bravely again. In March 1943, upon returning from a combat mission, Leonid Khrushchev's plane was shot down. The area where the fighter fell was forested and swampy. Attempts to find the crash site were unsuccessful, and a month and a half later, Leonid Khrushchev was declared missing.

The fact that Leonid’s body was not found also became the basis for speculation and provocations. They even claimed that Leonid Nikitovich surrendered and then began to collaborate with the Germans. However, a witness to the crash of Khrushchev’s plane, pilot I. A. Zamorin, claims that Nikita Sergeevich’s son saved his life by exposing his car to the armor-piercing strike of the Fokker, which crumbled right in front of the rescued man’s eyes.

Nikita Khrushchev with his wife and granddaughter Yulia.

Leonid's wife Lyubov Sizykh was arrested shortly after his death on charges of espionage. Among her acquaintances were numerous wives of foreign diplomats, and she herself allowed herself to go to a restaurant in the company of the French consul. After the arrest of his daughter-in-law, Nikita Khrushchev adopted his granddaughter Yulia, but the girl’s half-brother was sent to an orphanage. And even when he ran away and appeared on the threshold of the apartment where Nina Kukharchuk and her children lived in Kuibyshev, Anatoly was still returned to the shelter.

Until the age of 17, Yulia considered Nikita Sergeevich and Nina Petrovna her parents. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, worked at the Press Agency, and later headed the literary department of the Ermolova Theater. She defended the honor and dignity of her grandfather at all levels, when, already in the post-perestroika period, hard-hitting programs and articles about him began to appear. She died in 2017 after being hit by a train.

Rada Adzhubey.

The daughter of Nikita Khrushchev and Nina Kukharchuk, Rada, was born two years after their first girl, Nadezhda, died. Rada graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, back in student years married her classmate Alexei Adzhubey, who later became editor-in-chief of the Izvestia newspaper. When I came to work for the magazine “Science and Life” I decided to get a second higher education and graduated from the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University. Having gone through all the steps career ladder, became deputy editor-in-chief and worked at Science and Life until 2004.

The second son of Nikita Sergeevich at one time graduated from the Moscow Energy Institute, became a rocketry designer, defended his doctoral dissertation and received the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. In 1991, he was invited to the USA to give a course of lectures on history cold war. There Sergei Nikitovich was offered profitable terms for work and life. He decided to stay in America forever.

True, after emigrating, he no longer studied science, but became a political scientist. Nowadays he is a professor at the Institute. international studies, lives in Providence.

Nikita Khrushchev with his daughter Elena.

Youngest daughter Nikita Sergeevich was very ill almost from childhood. At that time, they did not yet know how to treat systemic lupus, but Elena desperately fought her disease. Worked at the Institute of World Economy and international relations, was married. She died at 35, a year after her father's death.

The granddaughter and adopted daughter of Nikita Khrushchev, Yulia, died under the wheels of an electric train in New Moscow. According to investigative authorities, the 77-year-old woman did not have time to respond to signals from the approaching train. The accident occurred on Thursday, June 8, at about 09:00, but it became known much later.

As reported by the press service of the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department for Transport (MMSUT), an elderly local resident born in 1940 was walking along the railway tracks in the area of ​​the Solnechnaya station in the Kyiv direction of the Moscow Railway.

“At that moment, an electric train was passing through the station on the route Vnukovo - Moscow. The woman did not have time to react to the high-volume signals given by the driver and was injured,” RIA Novosti quotes a department representative.

The victim died from her injuries at the scene. The investigative authorities are carrying out a set of necessary measures to verify all the circumstances and causes of the incident, the MMSUT reported.

“It has been established that the deceased is Yulia Khrushcheva, the granddaughter of one of the Soviet leaders, Nikita Khrushchev,” Interfax reports, citing a source.

In the press service of the transport department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central federal district confirmed that on Thursday morning, at the Solnechnaya - Vnukovo stations, an electric train traveling along the Vnukovo - Moscow route fatally injured a woman born in 1940. The name of the deceased transport police were not named.

At the same time, in help desk Moscow ambulance confirmed the death of a woman of that age with the specified name.

“Yulia Leonidovna Khrushcheva died today at the age of 77,” RIA Novosti quoted an interlocutor as saying.

According to some reports, the woman died because she crossed the railway tracks in an unspecified place. A source in the city’s emergency services told the TASS agency about this.

• Yulia Khrushcheva with artists of the Vakhtangov Theater Irina Kupchenko and Vladimir Koval.
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The funeral of Yulia Khrushcheva will take place on Tuesday, June 13, at the capital's Troekurovsky cemetery, her son-in-law Igor Makurin said. There will also be a farewell ceremony for the deceased.

“On June 13, a funeral will take place at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery, and a farewell will take place there in the ritual hall at 14:00,” Makurin informed.

Yulia Leonidovna’s daughter Nina Khrushcheva told TASS that her mother worked for many years at the Evgeni Vakhtangov State Academic Theater, and the day before her death she was at an evening in memory of Yuri Lyubimov.

“She really loved this theater and Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov. She wrote a chapter in a book dedicated to Lyubimov, which should be published soon. And the day before her death, she was at an evening dedicated to the memory of Lyubimov. She was very happy that she went there,” shared Nina Khrushcheva.

Actress Irina Kupchenko noted that she and Yulia Khrushcheva had been friends for many years and Kupchenko was her grandson’s godmother. According to the actress, Khrushchev for a long time was the head of the literary department of the Vakhtangov Theater.

“Yulia Leonidovna was very competent, educated, smart person. She had many connections - and this helped the theater. She was a very faithful, devoted person - like a brick, no, more like a granite wall,” Kupchenko said.

Yulia Khrushcheva was born in 1940 into the family of Leonid, the eldest son of the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev. She was his first granddaughter. In March 1943, Leonid, who fought as part of fighter aircraft near Orel, did not return from combat mission. He was declared missing and his remains have not yet been found.

In 2013, Yulia’s mother, Lyubov Sizykh, who lived almost her entire life in Kyiv, revealed some details of her daughter’s life to the Ukrainian publication Vzglyad. The girl was born in 1940, and her parents first named her Yolanda - in honor of their friend, but Nikita Khrushchev’s mother, Ksenia Ivanovna, strongly opposed this name.

“The opinion of the older generation in the family was listened to, and we had to urgently find a way out of the current situation. We started calling our daughter Yulka. And that’s still her name,” Sizykh said.

After Leonid Khrushchev went missing, Yulia's mother was arrested on suspicion of espionage and then sent to the camps. In 1948, she was released, but then she, along with other former prisoners, was sent into exile in Kazakhstan.

Until the age of 16, Yulia considered Nikita Sergeevich her father and Nina Petrovna her mother, until the time came to fill out documents to join the Komsomol. Mother and daughter met only in 1957.

“Nina Petrovna wrote that I could come and meet my daughter. Yulka opened the door, and the first thing I said was: “You look so amazingly like your father!” My daughter and I immediately developed a good, warm relationship. After some time, I managed to find my son, at that time he was already 25 years old,” said Lyubov Sizykh.

In August 2016, Nikita Khrushchev’s daughter from his third marriage, journalist and writer-publicist Rada Adzhubey, who worked for about 50 years in the Science and Life magazine, died in a Moscow hospital at the age of 88.

The party leader of the USSR Nikita Sergeevich KHRUSHCHEV has many descendants. But only interviews with his youngest son, Sergei, who has been living in the United States for 13 years, and articles by his great-granddaughter Nina Khrushcheva appear in the press. She, too, moved overseas several years ago and now criticizes Russia left and right.

Are all the children and grandchildren of Nikita Khrushchev, who dreamed of catching up and overtaking America and who firmly believed in the victory of socialism, infected? American dream? To find out how the heirs of one of the most controversial Soviet rulers live in the age of demolition, we found his grandson Nikita Sergeevich KHRUSHCHEV. The other day he turned 46 years old.

Marina VLADIMIROVA

Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev is a psychologist by training. But now he works for one of the Moscow newspapers, maintaining the electronic version of the publication. And unlike his restless emigrant father Sergei Nikitich, being absolutely not secular and not public person, does not give interviews.

I was afraid to get married

The surname Khrushchev rather got in the way of my life,” he admits. - At the university they tried to “fail” me in social disciplines. Many places refused to apply for a job. I was also afraid of starting serious affairs with girls, I tried not to show off too much. That’s why I never got married, for which my mother now constantly reproaches me. But I think that maybe I will also start a family. And if I have a child, I will be very happy. I’ll definitely look into the calendar ( church calendar with the names of saints and dates dedicated to them. - M.V.) when I choose a name for the baby.

Although the descendants of the Khrushchevs were raised in the spirit of atheism, Nikita Sergeevich sometimes goes to church and lights candles for the health and well-being of his relatives. It didn’t work out for many of them either. family life. Nikita is sure that everything is due to the inappropriate attitude of others towards their last name. The youth of Khrushchev's grandchildren occurred during the Brezhnev era. Many sins were then attributed to the ousted general secretary, and the media periodically spread rumors that Khrushchev’s eldest son, Leonid, allegedly did not die heroically in the war, but served with the Germans.

Leave me alone, old man!

I always perceived Khrushchev, first of all, as a grandfather. When he grew up, he was already retired and lived with his wife, my grandmother Nina Petrovna, at a state dacha in the Moscow region, in the village of Petrovo-Dalneye. We always went there on vacation,” recalls Nikita Sergeevich. - The dacha was covered with bugs. And my grandfather, few people know about this, was under secret house arrest. Even in order to go to visit his children and grandchildren, he had to inform the KGB officer assigned to him, no less than a colonel, about this in advance. He, in turn, consulted with management. And only then did he announce the verdict to his grandfather.

One day, Khrushchev decided to take a walk with Nikita outside his summer cottage.

Grandfather locked the gate and took the key with him. We were walking less than an hour, we return, and there is already another lock at the gate. A hint to not wander where you’re not supposed to,” says Nikita Sergeevich. According to him, at that time Khrushchev was already reacting painfully to every little thing and for a long time after such incidents he walked around as if he had been lost. His main hobby after retirement was agriculture. He grew tomatoes weighing more than a kilogram. There was also my favorite corn in the country garden. But even here, the former secretary general was once humiliated. “Once he noticed a mess in a local collective farm field and turned to the chairman with the words: “What kind of disgrace are you doing?!” And he, knowing full well that Khrushchev was in front of him, blurted out: “Leave me alone, old man!” Mind your own business!”

Khrushchev's only joy in retirement was his children and grandchildren. Outwardly, after retirement, they did not live any worse. When Khrushchev was in power, children were not allowed anything beyond measure. “You can’t do too much, but you can have too much, but not too much,” was the motto in the family. And it extended beyond toys, clothing and entertainment. Thus, Nikita Sergeevich threatened his son-in-law, the director of the opera theater in Kyiv, with deprivation of his post for building the dacha that Yulia, the daughter of the deceased Leonid, dreamed of. She and her husband had to abandon this idea. But in fact, the couple wanted to build a very tiny house, the kind that summer residents build on their garden plots.

And shortly before this, the Secretary General “cut” from 150 square meters up to one hundred square meters of the future apartment, which the authorities allocated for his son Sergei, telling the discouraged officials that for a young family of three this would be more than enough.

Offended by father

Sergei Nikitich, Khrushchev's youngest son and Nikita's father, does not come to Russia often, despite the fact that he already has two grandchildren here. In America, Russian journalists regularly visit him. In his interviews, he says that before emigrating, he worked for many years in the field of rocketry and cybernetics. In the early 90s, when scientific projects were almost not funded, Sergei Nikitich decided to change his occupation and start teaching history. It was necessary to look for a new place. And Khrushchev’s son found him in the USA, where he had already visited as a participant in an exchange program. He usually keeps silent about why his children remained in Russia.

Although my parents lived together when I was little, we can say that I did not have a father. My mother, grandmother and nanny were involved in my upbringing, and my father was constantly disappearing somewhere. Unlike his mother, he was often drawn to company. They always quarreled on this basis,” Nikita Sergeevich recalls sadly. - And I envied other boys who went fishing with their dads, to the forest... When I turned 17 years old, and my younger brother Seryozha is two years old, his parents divorced.

According to Nikita Sergeevich, after the divorce, his father practically did not communicate with youngest son. And, if they are meeting now, then these meetings cannot be called warm. The son stopped understanding his father even more when he exchanged Russia for the States. - I was in America once. To live there, you need to have a lot of money, my father probably has it. He lives with his wife in a small town in Rhode Island. They have their own house there, albeit a one-story one, and two cars. And, in my opinion, this is the American mentality,” says Nikita Sergeevich. - I am ashamed when my father and Nina Khrushcheva, my niece, begin to publicly argue that there is no democracy in Russia. In my opinion, they have no right to do this. My father emigrated about 13 years ago. And I have the feeling that when he comes to Russia, he doesn’t understand anything at all, he has a very abstract idea of ​​what’s going on here.

Cockroach from Fidel

Nikita himself now lives with his mother Galina Shumova, the first wife of Sergei Khrushchev. They live in Leontyevsky Lane, in the very house in which Khrushchev “cut down” the living space for his son.

True, the apartment is already different. We were immediately evicted from that one to a smaller one as soon as our parents divorced,” says Nikita. - People who live in the center of Moscow are often envied, believing that it is comfortable to have apartments here. I don't agree with this. There are so many old houses here with rats in the hallways and cracks in the walls. Ours is no exception. The unsanitary conditions are terrible! The situation has not changed for eight years now. Nikita Sergeevich once decided to send a letter to the head of the Krasnopresnensky district of the capital in the hope that N.S. Khrushchev’s signature would have at least some effect on the officials. In vain. - We had to use a proven means of control against rats - we bred cats. But in the basement there are still huge cockroaches, about six centimeters long. I somehow caught one, put it in a cigarette box and took it to the local sanitary and epidemiological station so they could explain what to do.

When the cockroach was under the lamp, the SES workers exclaimed: “Oh! This is Fedya’s gift!” As it turned out, that’s what they called Fidel Castro. It turns out that this type of cockroach came to Russia with Cuban sugar and spread in warm basements. The SES did not advise Khrushchev’s grandson what to do with these “monsters.” In addition to working and struggling with housing problems, Nikita Sergeevich has been engaged in wood carving for 20 years and loves listening to ethnic music.

Recently I was given a CD with songs of Australian aborigines, I was very pleased,” he says. And Khrushchev’s grandson is collecting an archive, which he plans to transfer to the Museum. modern history. Among the future exhibits is Nikita Sergeevich's shoe. The same as the one with which the leader of a great power pounded on the podium, threatening to show Kuzkin’s mother to the Americans.

Reference

* Nikita Sergeevich KHRUSHCHEV- First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee (1953 - 1964). * Born on April 17, 1884 into a peasant family. * From the age of 16 he worked as a mechanic. Participated in the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars. * While in power, he carried out numerous reforms in the field of politics and economics. He publicly threatened to “bury” America. * Was removed from his highest position as a result of a conspiracy. * Died in 1971. The only Soviet ruler was buried not at the Kremlin wall, but at the Novodevichy cemetery.Merits* Released political prisoners from camps and condemned Stalin's repressions. * Solved the housing problems of millions of people by building five-story buildings, later called “Khrushchev houses.” * Displayed Soviet Union leader in space exploration - with him the first satellite in history was launched, the first manned flight into space took place.Misses* Put the world on the brink nuclear war during Caribbean crisis.

* Forced the whole country to sow corn, which is why agriculture a crisis broke out.

Just the other day, her old friend, Galina Bogolyubova, assistant to Oleg Menshikov at the Theater, spoke with Yulia. Ermolova:

- They write that Julia worked for some time as a filler in your theater...

No, no, she never worked here. How did we even meet her? Previously, they organized zavlit seminars in Yalta, took everyone there from Moscow, Leningrad in the winter... And then I was a zavlit at Sovremennik, and she was at the Vakhtangov Theater, and was very friendly with Mikhail Ulyanov, by the way. He respected her very much. And at this seminar (in 1979) we met. Later Julia I started working at the House of Cinema, I don’t know who. We met with her regularly. I always “tortured” her about Khrushchev, I knew her daughters well (Ksyusha, alas, recently died of cancer). Through her I knew Rada (Rada Adzhubey, daughter of Nikita Khrushchev - “MK”). Yulia was Khrushchev’s granddaughter, and her dad was a pilot during the war and died (Leonid Khrushchev is the son of the future Secretary General - “MK”).

- Did you talk a lot about Khrushchev?

Of course, for example, how he and the Rada tried to somehow attract him to culture, they took writers, artists, actors, in particular Vysotsky, to his dacha. And he perceived Vysotsky.

Or here’s a sketch: when we first met her, she asked: “When were you born?” I say July 12th. “And you, Julia, when?” And she says to me so seriously: “On the most tragic day for our country.” Me: “What is this, November 7th or something?” "January 21". “What do we have on January 21?” "How? Lenin's death day! And I still don’t understand whether she was joking at that moment or not. An educated, deep person, she always came to the theater with us. I was crazy about the artists, about Menshikov and Andreev. We talked to her just a few days ago...

- How is she?

Absolutely normal. Although I didn’t feel well, I went to the doctors.

- What was she doing in Solntsevo?

Alas, I don’t know... Julia was very cheerful. At the same time, modest. She didn’t show it in any way, they say, “this is what my grandfather is like.”

- Has she always defended Nikita Sergeevich?

She defended him, although she understood that he was such an ambiguous, rustic... But she and Rada tried to educate him.

I really appreciated Yulia long years Viktor Novikov, artistic director of the Theater. Komissarzhevskaya in St. Petersburg:

“I already know,” says Viktor Abramovich, “This is a huge tragedy for me.” Because Yulia died so absurdly... she couldn’t see well. I tripped. I don't know how exactly this happened. Before that, she was in the hospital and had her eyes treated. And so, apparently, she didn’t see, she tripped and fell under the train...

Julia is a person with a great love for people and always wanted to help everyone. She was a very devoted friend. Although her life was not so simple, especially after the death of Nikita Sergeevich. And when he was gone, it was difficult for Yulia. There were a lot of people who wanted to do something nasty. They couldn’t do this during Khrushchev’s lifetime, but they started doing it later. But she was a person of extraordinary strength. And we will all remember her for a very long time, until the end...

- Did she always try to rehabilitate her grandfather in the eyes of others?

She called Nikita Khrushchev “dad” (because when her father died in the war, Nikita Sergeevich, in fact, adopted Yulia, - Author). And I don’t think that Khrushchev demanded any kind of rehabilitation. For example, she tried to introduce everyone to him - both Shatrov and Roshchin, all the “sixties”. I took her to the dacha, where everyone talked. In short, it was such an era. She worked in different places - at the theater, then at the Ministry of Culture (I think Furtseva helped her). She was very bright, and only good things can be said about her.

A 77-year-old adopted daughter died in Moscow Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev Yulia. At the Solnechnaya station on June 8, 2017 at 10.35 Moscow time, a woman was hit by a train traveling to Moscow from.

In fact, Yulia was the granddaughter of the Secretary General, but after the death of her father - Khrushchev went missing in action in the 1943 war - Nikita Sergeevich adopted her.

“I became so close to my grandfather and his wife Nina Petrovna that after some time I began to call them dad and mom. The Khrushchevs are the closest to me, Dear people“Yulia said in 2009 in an interview with Kurskaya Pravda.

For a long period, the granddaughter of the former secretary general worked at the Novosti press agency. Then she became very disillusioned with journalism, as she herself said: “I’m tired of lying.” After that, Yulia got a job at the Yermolova Theater as head of the literary department.

Yulia's father was a combat pilot - from the first days of July 1941 he participated in battles as part of the 134th Bomber Aviation Regiment, based in the area of ​​​​the city of Andreapol (then Kalininskaya, now Tver region).

July 27, 1941 in air combat at railway station While Khrushchev’s plane was shot down, Leonid barely made it to the front line, made an emergency landing in no man’s land, during which he received a serious leg injury, and was out of action for a year. He underwent treatment in the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara).

According to the memoirs of Rada Khrushcheva (Leonid’s sister) and one of the most famous Soviet test pilots, in the fall of 1942, Leonid shot a sailor through negligence at a drunken party and was sentenced to 8 years in prison with time served at the front. Thus, in December 1942, with an untreated leg, he was sent to the 18th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.

On March 11, 1943, Leonid did not return from a combat mission. His plane was shot down in the Kozhanovka - Yasenok - Ashkovo area. Soon after this, his wife Lyubov Sizykh was arrested on suspicion of espionage and sent to camps for five years. In 1948, she was sent into exile in Kazakhstan. She was finally released in 1956.

“Unfortunately, instead of paying tribute to the courage of this brave man, he good name They immediately began to denigrate and denigrate. They started a rumor that the father allegedly did not die, managed to jump with a parachute on enemy territory and voluntarily surrendered to the Gestapo, etc. and so on. The persecution has not stopped to this day,” admitted Yulia Khrushcheva.

In 2004, Yulia filed a claim to the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow for the protection of honor and dignity against former minister Defense of the USSR and the Veche publishing house.

The reason for the statement was Yazov’s books “Blows of Fate” and the writer “Generalissimo”, which stated that Yulia’s father Leonid Khrushchev did not die in battle in 1943, but surrendered, served in the SS and was shot for this by the verdict of the Soviet military tribunal.

In 2008, she filed several lawsuits against Channel One for showing documentary film, which contains what she claims is a false claim that her father, Leonid Khrushchev, was shot as a traitor during World War II. In response, the court ruled that television companies have the right to show films about historical figures on fictional stories. After this, Yulia Khrushcheva filed a similar claim in Strasbourg. However, there was no further information about the progress of these claims; probably, other authorities also refused to accept them.

Yulia Khrushcheva's mother died relatively recently. Lyubov Sizykh died in 2014 at the age of 102.

In August 2016, Rada Adzhubey, the daughter of Nikita Khrushchev, died in Moscow at the age of 87 after a long illness. She was the wife of editor-in-chief Alexei Adzhubey. She most She devoted her life to working at the University, where she first headed the department of medicine and biology. Since she realized that she did not have enough knowledge for such a position, she entered the evening biology department of Moscow State 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.