Adopted daughter of Nikita Khrushchev Yulia. How did the fate of the children of the "corn" General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev. 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 weather children, Yulia and Leonid. The son was only three years old when Nikita Sergeevich's first wife died of typhus. Julia and Leonid were initially brought up by their grandmother, and after their father's marriage to Nina Kukharchuk, they began to live in his new family. Later, the Khrushchev family was replenished with three more children.

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

The eldest daughter of Nikita Khrushchev, Yulia, immediately accepted her stepmother. She never called her mother, 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 be treated for a long time, but she had to forget about her studies. On the eve of the Great Patriotic War, a young woman underwent a complex lung operation, which allowed her to live another 40 years.

Julia worked as a laboratory chemist, was married to Viktor Petrovich Gontar, who worked as director of the Kiev Opera House. They lived a happy life together, only the spouses did not have children. Julia passed away at the age of 65, only 10 years outliving her father.

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 FZU, began working as a mechanic at the factory. However, after the transfer of Nikita Khrushchev to Moscow, Leonid enters the Balashov School of Civil Aviation. The young cadet was very attractive, which allowed him to be successful with women. Rosa Treivas became his first wife, but the daughter-in-law did not come to the court of an influential father and the marriage was immediately terminated.

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

The second legal wife of Leonid in 1939 was Lyubov Sizykh. She was amazingly suited to her husband, skydiving, skillfully driving a motorcycle. But at the same time, Love was distinguished by 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 CP (b) of Ukraine.

Leonid Khrushchev and Lyubov Sizykh.

Rumors about Leonid's involvement in gangster groups engaged in robberies are associated with this period. Some historians insist that Leonid Khrushchev was prosecuted for this. Others argue that there was nothing of the kind, since no document was found according to which Leonid Khrushchev was held accountable for criminal or any other crimes. The only mention of this is only in Sergo Beria's book "My father is Lavrenty Beria". Khrushchev's relatives all, as one, argue: Leonid's connection with dubious personalities and his participation in crimes is an outright lie. Historians have not come to a consensus on this issue.

Be that as it may, Leonid Nikitovich began his military service back in the 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 at that time the whole family of Nikita Khrushchev was. In the fall of 1942, Leonid Khrushchev accidentally killed a sailor by shooting at a bottle on the latter's head.

He was sentenced to 8 years with serving a sentence at the front, then a similar practice was used. Returning to the front, Leonid Nikitovich boarded a fighter and again fought bravely. In March 1943, while returning from a sortie, 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 provocation. It was even claimed that Leonid Nikitovich surrendered and then began to cooperate with the Germans. However, the witness of the crash of Khrushchev's plane, pilot I. A. Zamorin, claims that the son of Nikita Sergeevich saved his life by substituting his car, which crumbled right before the eyes of the rescued, under the armor-piercing blow of the Fokker.

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 handed over to an orphanage. And even when he ran away and appeared on the threshold of the apartment where Nina Kukharchuk lived in Kuibyshev with her children, Anatoly was still returned to the orphanage.

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

Rada Adjubey.

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, while still a student, she married her classmate Alexei Adzhubey, who later became the editor-in-chief of the Izvestia newspaper. Having come to work in the journal Science and Life, she decided to get a second higher education and graduated from the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University. Having passed through all the steps of the career ladder, she became the deputy editor-in-chief and worked at Science and Life until 2004.

The second son of Nikita Sergeevich graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, became a rocket technology designer, defended his doctoral dissertation and received the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. In 1991, he was invited to the United States to lecture on the history of the Cold War. There, Sergei Nikitovich was offered favorable conditions for work and life. He decided to stay in America forever.

True, after emigrating, he was no longer engaged in science, but became a political scientist. Now he is a professor at the Institute of International Studies, lives in Providence.

Nikita Khrushchev with his daughter Elena.

The youngest daughter of Nikita Sergeevich was very sick almost from childhood. In those days, systemic lupus was not yet able to be treated, but Elena fought desperately with her disease. She worked at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, was married. She died at the age of 35, a year after the death of her father.

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

According to the press service of the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department for Transport (MMSUT), an elderly local resident born in 1940 walked along the railway tracks near the Solnechnaya station of the Kiev direction of the Moscow railway.

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

The victim died at the scene from her injuries. The investigating authorities are taking 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.

The press service of the transport department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District confirmed that on Thursday morning, on the stretch of the Solnechnaya-Vnukovo stations, an electric train following the Vnukovo-Moscow route fatally injured a woman born in 1940. The name of the deceased in the transport police was not called.

At the same time, the information service of the Moscow ambulance confirmed the death of a woman of this age with the specified name.

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

According to some reports, the woman died due to the fact that she crossed the railway tracks in an unspecified place. This was reported to the TASS agency by a source in the emergency services of the city.

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

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

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

“She was very fond of 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, ”Nina Khrushcheva shared.

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, Khrushcheva was the head of the literary part of the Vakhtangov Theater for a long time.

“Yulia Leonidovna was a very competent, educated, intelligent 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, ”said Kupchenko.

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

In 2013, Yulia's mother, Lyubov Sizykh, who has lived in Kyiv almost all her life, revealed some details of her daughter's life to the Ukrainian edition of 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 such a name.

“The opinion of the older generation in the family was listened to, and we had to urgently find a way out of this situation. We began to call our daughter Yulka. And so her name is still, ”Sizykh said.

After the disappearance of Leonid Khrushchev, Yulia's mother was arrested on suspicion of espionage, and then sent to 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, Julia considered Nikita Sergeevich a father, and Nina Petrovna a mother, until it was time to fill out the documents for joining the Komsomol. Mother and daughter saw each other only in 1957.

“Nina Petrovna wrote that I could come and meet my daughter. Yulia opened the door, and the first thing I said was: “How amazingly similar you are to 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, in a Moscow hospital, at the age of 88, Nikita Khrushchev's daughter from her third marriage, journalist and publicist writer Rada Adzhubey, who had worked for about 50 years in the journal Science and Life, died.

The party leader of the USSR Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev has many descendants. But only interviews of the youngest son, Sergei, who has been living in the USA for 13 years, and articles by Nina Khrushcheva's great-granddaughter appear in the press. She also moved across the ocean a few years ago and now criticizes Russia right and left.

Are all the children and grandchildren of Nikita Khrushchev, who dreamed of catching up and overtaking America and firmly believing in the victory of socialism, infected with the American dream? To find out how the heirs of one of the most controversial Soviet rulers live in the age of the demolition of Khrushchev, we tracked down 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 in one of the Moscow newspapers, maintaining the electronic version of the publication. And unlike his restless emigrant father Sergei Nikitich, being absolutely not a secular and not a public person, he does not give interviews.

I was afraid to marry

The surname Khrushchev rather interfered with my life, ”he admits. - At the university, they tried to “blame” me in social disciplines. When applying for a job in many places refused. And I was also afraid to start serious romances with girls, I tried not to shine once again. Therefore, I never got married, for which my mother 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 will definitely look into the holy calendar (church calendar with the names of saints and the dates dedicated to them. - M.V.) when I choose a name for the baby.

Although the descendants of the Khrushchevs were brought up in the spirit of atheism, Nikita Sergeevich sometimes goes to church and lights candles for the health and well-being of his relatives. Many of them also did not have a family life. Nikita is sure that everything is due to the inadequate attitude of others to their surname. The youth of Khrushchev's grandchildren fell on the Brezhnev era. Many sins were then attributed to the deposed 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.

Back off, 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 constantly gathered there for the holidays, - Nikita Sergeevich recalls. - The dacha was studded with "bugs". And grandfather, few people know about it, was under unspoken house arrest. Even in order 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 the leadership. And only then did he announce the verdict to his grandfather.

Once Khrushchev decided to take a walk with Nikita outside the suburban area.

Grandfather locked the gate, and took the key with him. We walked for less than an hour, we return, and there is already another castle in the gate. A hint not to roam where it is not supposed to, - says Nikita Sergeevich. According to him, at that time Khrushchev was already painfully reacting to every little thing and for a long time after such incidents he walked as if lowered into the water. Agriculture was his main hobby after his resignation. He grew tomatoes weighing over a kilogram. There was also a favorite corn in the country garden. But even here the former general secretary was once humiliated. - Somehow he noticed a mess on the local collective farm field and turned to the chairman with the words: “What kind of mess are you doing ?!” And he, knowing perfectly 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 the resignation, they did not begin to live worse. When Khrushchev was in power, children were not allowed to do anything beyond measure. “You can’t do too much, but you can do something superfluous, but not much,” was the motto in the family. And it extended beyond toys, clothing, and entertainment. So, Nikita Sergeevich threatened his son-in-law - the director of the opera house in Kyiv - with deprivation of his post for building a summer house, which Yulia, the daughter of the deceased Leonid, dreamed of. She and her husband had to give up this idea. And the house, in fact, the spouses wanted to build a very tiny house, which summer residents put on garden plots.

And shortly before that, the Secretary General "cut" from 150 square meters to a hundred the area of ​​​​the future apartment, which the authorities allocated for his son Sergei, saying to 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 often visit Russia, despite the fact that he already has two grandchildren here. In America, he is regularly visited by Russian journalists. In his interviews, he says that before emigrating, he worked for many years in the field of rocket science and cybernetics. In the early 90s, when scientific projects were almost not funded, Sergei Nikitich decided to change his occupation and start teaching history. We had 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. About why his children stayed in Russia, he is usually silent.

Although my parents lived together when I was little, it can be said that I did not have a father. My mother, grandmother and nanny were engaged in my upbringing, and my father constantly disappeared somewhere. Unlike his mother, he was often drawn to the company. On this basis, they always quarreled, - Nikita Sergeevich recalls with sadness. - And I envied other boys who went fishing with their dads, to the forest ... When I was 17 years old, and my younger brother Serezha was two years old, my parents divorced.

According to Nikita Sergeevich, after the divorce, his father practically did not communicate with his youngest son. And, if they meet now, then these meetings cannot be called warm. The son ceased to understand his father even more when he exchanged Russia for the States. - I once was in America. To live there, you need to have a lot of money, probably my father has it. He lives with his wife in the small town of Rhode Island. They have their own house there, though one-story, and two cars. And, in my opinion, already the American mentality, - says Nikita Sergeevich. - I am ashamed when my father and Nina Khrushcheva, my niece, start talking publicly about the fact that there is no democracy in Russia. I don't think they have the right to do so. My father emigrated 13 years ago. And I have a feeling that when he comes to Russia, he does not understand anything at all, he has a very abstract idea of ​​what is happening here.

Cockroach from Fidel

Nikita himself now lives with his mother Galina Shumova, the first wife of Sergei Khrushchev. They live in Leontievsky Lane, in the same house in which Khrushchev "cut" the living space for his son.

True, the apartment is 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 with rats in the porches 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 the signature of N.S. Khrushchev would have at least some effect on the officials. In vain. - I had to use a proven means of fighting against rats - they bred cats. But in the basement there are still huge cockroaches, six centimeters long. I somehow caught one, put it in a cigarette box and carried it to the local sanitary and epidemiological station so that they would explain what to do.

When the cockroach was under the lamp, the SES workers exclaimed: “Oh! This is a gift from Fedi!” 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. What to do with these "monsters" was not advised in the SES to Khrushchev's grandson. In addition to work and struggle with housing problems, Nikita Sergeevich has been carving wood for 20 years and loves to listen to ethnic music.

Recently I was presented with a CD with songs of Australian aborigines, I was very pleased, - he says. And Khrushchev's grandson is also collecting an archive, which he plans to transfer to the Museum of Modern History. Among the future exhibits is Nikita Sergeevich's shoe. The same as the one with which the head of a great power knocked on the podium, threatening to show the Americans Kuzka's mother.

reference

* Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev- First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1953 - 1964). * Born April 17, 1884 in a peasant family. * From the age of 16 he worked as a mechanic. Participated in the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars. * While in power, carried out numerous reforms in the field of politics and economics. Publicly threatened to "bury" America. * Was removed from the top post as a result of a conspiracy. * Died in 1971. The only one of the Soviet rulers was buried not at the Kremlin wall, but at the Novodevichy cemetery.Merits* Released political prisoners from the camps and condemned the Stalinist repressions. * He solved the housing problems of millions of people by building five-story buildings, later called "khrushchev". * Brought the Soviet Union into the lead in space exploration - it launched the first satellite in history, the first manned flight into space took place.Misses* Put the world on the brink of nuclear war during the Caribbean crisis.

* He forced the whole country to sow corn, which caused a crisis in agriculture.

Just the other day, her old friend, Galina Bogolyubova, an assistant to Oleg Menshikov at the Theater named after Yulia, was talking to her. Yermolova:

- They write that Yulia worked for some time in your theater ...

No, no, she never worked here. How did we get to know her? Previously, they held seminars for zavlits in Yalta, they took everyone there from Moscow, Leningrad in the winter ... And then I was zavlit in Sovremennik, and she was in the Vakhtangov Theater, and was very friendly with Mikhail Ulyanov, by the way. He respected her very much. And at this seminar (the year in 1979) we met. Later, Julia began to work at the Cinema House, I don’t know by whom. 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 Radu (Rada Adjubey, daughter of Nikita Khrushchev - “MK”). Yulia was Khrushchev's granddaughter, and her dad was a pilot during the war, he died (Leonid Khrushchev, the son of the future Secretary General - "MK").

- Did you talk a lot about Khrushchev?

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

Or here is such 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: “Is this November 7th?” "January 21". “And what do we have on January 21st?” "How? Day of Lenin's death! And I still do not understand - she was joking at that moment or not. An educated, deep person, she constantly went to the theater to us. She was crazy about artists, from Menshikov and Andreev. We just talked to her a few days ago...

- And how is she?

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

- And what did she do in Solntsevo?

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

- She always defended Nikita Sergeevich?

She defended him, although she understood that he was so ambiguous, rural ... But they tried to educate him with the Rada.

Yulia was greatly appreciated for many years by Viktor Novikov, artistic director of the Theater. Komissarzhevskaya in St. Petersburg:

I already know, - Viktor Abramovich says, - This is a huge tragedy for me. Because Yulia died so ridiculously... she didn't see well. I tripped. I don't know exactly how it happened. Prior to that, she was in the hospital and treated her eyes. And now, apparently, she didn’t see, she stumbled and fell under the train ...

Julia is a person of great love for people, she 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, Julia had a hard time. There were a lot of people who wanted to do something nasty. They could not do this during Khrushchev's lifetime, so they began to do it later. But she was an extraordinary person. 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, sort of adopted Yulia, - Auth.). And I don't think that Khrushchev demanded any kind of rehabilitation. She, for example, tried to acquaint everyone with him - both Shatrov and Roshchin, all the "sixties". I took it to the dacha, everyone talked there. In short, it was such an era. She worked in different places - in a theater, then in the Ministry of Culture (I think Furtseva helped her). She was very bright, and only good things can be said about her.

In Moscow, the 77-year-old adopted daughter of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Yulia, died. At the Solnechnaya station on June 8, 2017 at 10.35 Moscow time, a woman was hit by an electric train en route to Moscow from.

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

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

For a long period, the granddaughter of the former Secretary General worked at the Novosti press agency. Then she became very disappointed in journalism, as she herself said - "tired of lying." After that, Julia got a job at the Yermolova Theater as the head of the literary part.

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 ​​\u200b\u200bthe city of Andreapol (then - Kalinin, now - Tver region).

On July 27, 1941, in an air battle near the Izocha railway station, Khrushchev’s plane was shot down, Leonid barely made it to the front line, made an emergency landing in the neutral zone, during which he received a severe 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, in a drunken party, shot a sailor by negligence and was sentenced to 8 years in a colony with a term 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 sortie. His plane was shot down near Kozhanovka - Yasenok - Ashkovo. Shortly thereafter, 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, his good name was immediately discredited and blackened. They started a rumor that the father allegedly did not die, managed to jump out with a parachute on enemy territory and voluntarily surrendered to the Gestapo, etc. etc. The persecution has not stopped to this day, ”admitted Yulia Khrushcheva.

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

The reason for the statement was the book by Yazov "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 sentence of the Soviet military tribunal.

In 2008, she filed several lawsuits against Channel One for airing a documentary that, she says, falsely claims that her father, Leonid Khrushchev, was shot as a traitor during World War II. In response, the court ruled that TV companies have the right to show films about historical figures based on fictional stories. After that, Yulia Khrushcheva filed a similar lawsuit in Strasbourg. However, there was no further information about the progress of these claims; probably, other instances 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 the editor-in-chief Alexei Adzhubey. She devoted most of her life to working at, 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 biological faculty of Moscow State University. In 1956, she was appointed deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine. During her work, the journal has become one of the best popular science journals in the Soviet Union.