How did the fate of the children and grandchildren of the party leaders of the Soviet Union. How the children of the Stalinist elite wanted to build the Fourth Reich

It should not be assumed that there was no elite in the Soviet Union. It's just that the real elite has an elite right in the forefront to defend their Fatherland themselves. And the elite of the USSR during Stalin's time fully exercised their right. The sons of Stalin also fought. Native Yakov, Vasily and adopted son Artyom. Jacob is dead.

Vasily Stalin (date of birth 03/24/1921) March 25, 1940 graduated from the Kachin flight school with honors in the rank of lieutenant. At the age of twenty he went to the front. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War - from July 1942: commander of the 1st special air group of the 8th air army of the Stalingrad Front. From February 1943 - commander of the 32nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Lyubertsy airfield), then - on the North-Western Front. Was wounded in the leg. Since May 1943 - as an instructor pilot of the 193rd Aviation Regiment [source not specified 467 days]. 1st Baltic Front). Since May 18, 1944 - commander of the 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Division as part of the 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps, Lieutenant General E. M. Beletsky. The division under his command takes part in the hostilities to liberate Minsk, Vilna, Lida, Grodno , Panevezys, Siauliai and Jelgava. From February 22, 1945 - commander of the 286th Fighter Aviation Division of the 16th Air Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. The division under his command takes part in the Berlin offensive operation. During the war he made 26 sorties; personally and in a group shot down 5 enemy aircraft. Awards: Order of the Red Banner (1942), Order of Alexander Nevsky (03/11/1943), Order of the Red Banner (07/02/1944), Order of Suvorov II degree (05/29/1945), Order of the Red Banner (06/22/1948) and a number of medals.

Artem Sergeev (03/05/1921) - Stalin's step-son, adopted son. In 1938, after graduating from the 10th grade of the 2nd Moscow Special Artillery School, he began serving in the Red Army. He started from the bottom of the army service, was an ordinary, junior commander (sergeant), foreman. He entered the 2nd Leningrad Artillery School and graduated in 1940 as a lieutenant. For the first time he participated in hostilities on June 26, 1941 as a platoon commander of 152 mm M-10 howitzers of the 1938 model. In the summer of the same year, he was captured by the Germans, from where he escaped from execution. After that, he was in a partisan detachment. After crossing the front line, he was sent to the army. Member of the defense of Stalingrad, the battle for the Dnieper, the battles in East Prussia, Hungary, Germany. In total, he had 24 wounds, including two severe ones. After the first wound, a blow with a bayonet in the stomach, Sergeev was treated by the famous surgeon A.V. Vishnevsky, and later A.N. Bakulev himself treated a torn shattered hand. He ended the war on May 12, 1945 as commander of an artillery brigade, lieutenant colonel and holder of seven orders and six medals.

STEPAN MIKOYAN (07/12/1922) entered the Kachin Aviation Military School in August 1940, together with his friend Timur Frunze. In 1941 he graduated from the Kachinsky military aviation school, lieutenant. In the Active Army since December 1941, fighter pilot of the 11th IAP, who defended Moscow. On January 16, 1942, Mikoyan was shot down by mistake by the Soviet pilot M. A. Rodionov. Stepan Anastasovich managed to land a burning car, after which he ended up in a medical battalion with a 3rd degree burn on his hands, face and left leg and knee joint of his right leg. Six months later he was assigned to Stalingrad, and then to the North-Western Front. By October 1942 he completed 14 sorties. Held 3 air battles, shot down 6 enemy aircraft as part of a group. In November 1942, Captain Mikoyan was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for 14 sorties in December 1941 - January 1942, 3 air battles and 6 downed enemy aircraft in a group. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1943. In August 1944, the flight commander of the 12th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, Captain Stepan Mikoyan, was awarded the Order of the Red Star for performing 7 flights to escort especially important sorties and letter trains of Novikov, Zhukov, Voronov, Meretskov, Popov. Stepan Mikoyan finished the war with two orders, with the rank of captain and as commander of a fighter regiment. For 23 years, he tested combat aircraft of the Mikoyan, Sukhoi and Yakovlev fighter design bureaus, received the title of Honored Test Pilot of the USSR, and on April 3, 1975, he became a Hero of the Soviet Union for conducting state tests of the MiG-25.

VLADIMIR MIKOYAN (January 26, 1924). Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Volodya managed to enroll him ahead of schedule, after the 9th grade, in the Kachinskaya VAShP. In February 1942 he completed an accelerated course of study. At first he served near Moscow, where he mastered the Yak-1 and the Hurricane. As part of the 434th regiment in September 1942 on the Don Front. He made several sorties and died in an air battle on September 18, 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. In one of the first sorties. Posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

ALEXEY MIKOYAN (year of birth 1925). Graduated from the Flight School, Zhukovsky Academy, Gen. Headquarters. Member of the Great Patriotic War since September 1943. Fought in the 12th Guards. iap. After the war, he passed the exams externally for the course of high school, received a certificate. Awards: Two Orders of the Red Banner, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, Three Orders of the Red Star, Order for Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class. He was also awarded seventeen medals of the Soviet Union and three medals of the socialist countries, the medal "For the Defense of Moscow", the medal "For the Victory over Germany". After the war, he was one of the first to master jet aircraft. Participated in air parades as a leader of MiG-15 columns. He was the first Soviet pilot to shoot down a surface-to-air missile. He served as commander of the 49th air army in the Turkestan military district. From March to May 1969, commander of the 14th Air Army of the PrikVO. In 1978-1986 - Deputy Head of Air Traffic Control of the Air Force. He was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

TIMUR FRUNZE (04/05/1923). Since 1931, he was brought up in the family of K.E. Voroshilov - People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR (1925-1934), then People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (1934-1940). In the Red Army since 1940, together with his friend Stepan Mikoyan, in 1941 he graduated from the Kachin Military Aviation School (see the chapter on V.I. Stalin), lieutenant. In the Active Army since January 1941 - fighter pilot of the 161st IAP. He made 9 sorties to cover ground troops in the Staraya Russa area, participated in three battles, shot down two German aircraft in a group. On January 19, 1942, he died in a battle with 8 fighters (he shot down 2 of them) over the village of Otvidino, Starorussky district. The fighters of Timur Frunze and his leader Ivan Shutov entered into battle with a large group of enemy aircraft. Diverting fire from a damaged aircraft, a comrade was killed by a direct hit in the head; the plane was set on fire, but did not explode during the fall, which made it possible to bury Lieutenant Frunze (first in the village of Kresttsy, Leningrad Region; after the war, the remains were transferred to Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery). Posthumously Hero of the Soviet Union.

SERGO BERIA (November 24, 1924). In 1938, after graduating from seven classes of German and music schools, he moved with his family to Moscow, where in 1941, after graduating from high school No. 175, he was enrolled in the Central Radio Engineering Laboratory of the NKVD of the USSR. In the first days of the war, on the recommendation of the district committee of the Komsomol, he was sent as a volunteer to an intelligence school, where he received a radio engineering specialty at an accelerated three-month course and began serving in the army with the rank of lieutenant technician. On instructions from the General Staff, he performed a number of important tasks (in 1941 - Iran, Kurdistan; in 1942 - the North Caucasian Group of Forces). In October 1942, by order of the People's Commissar of Defense S. Beria, he was sent to study at the Leningrad Military Academy of Communications named after S. M. Budyonny. During his studies, he repeatedly recalled on the personal instructions of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and the General Staff to carry out special secret assignments (in 1943-1945 - the Tehran and Yalta conferences of the heads of state of the anti-Hitler coalition; 4th and 1st Ukrainian fronts). For exemplary performance of command assignments, he was awarded the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus" and the Order of the Red Star.

IBARRURI REUBEN RUIS (January 9, 1920). In 1935 he came to the USSR. He worked at a factory, studied at a flight school. In 1936 he returned to Spain and fought against the Francoists. In 1939 he returned to the USSR again, entered the military school named after the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. From the first days of the war at the front, where he showed exceptional personal courage. In the battles on the Berezina River, he was wounded and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Since the summer of 1942, he has been participating in the battles near Stalingrad, commanding a machine-gun company. After the death of the battalion commander, he takes command of the battalion. He was mortally wounded and died on September 3, 1942. In 1956 he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

ALEXANDER CHAPAEV The sons of the legendary hero of the Civil War Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev (1887-1919) became officers. The eldest, Alexander Chapaev (1910-1985) chose artillery, went through the entire war. The Great Patriotic War caught the 30-year-old captain in the position of commander of a battery of cadets at the Podolsk Artillery School. With the beginning of the war, at the school, the 696th artillery regiment was formed, in which Captain Chapaev was appointed commander of the anti-tank guns division. Soon part went to the front. In October-December 1941, together with his division as part of the 511th howitzer artillery regiment, Chapaev fought on the outskirts of Moscow, where he was first wounded. After the fighting near Moscow and the subsequent offensive, our troops were suspended for a long time on the outskirts of Rzhev, where a critical situation developed. Alexander Chapaev, returning from the hospital, took command of his division. On December 5, 1942, the Soviet Information Bureau reported that in one of the sectors the enemy was trying to counterattack, but the Germans, having lost about a hundred soldiers and officers, fled from the aimed fire of Chapaev's batteries. Two months later, Alexander Chapaev, already a major, took command of an artillery regiment, which, as part of the 16th anti-tank brigade, was transferred near Voronezh. July 12, 1943 Alexander Chapaev participated in the famous tank battle near Prokhorovka. Its gunners skillfully repulsed numerous German tank attacks. Here Chapaev was wounded a second time, after which he was treated for three months. Returning to the front in February 1943, during the battles for Kharkov, A.V. Chapaev already commanded the 1850th anti-tank artillery regiment of the 16th anti-tank artillery brigade with the rank of lieutenant colonel. In October 1943, he was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky, and in November he was appointed commander of the 64th cannon artillery brigade. Again the front line as part of the 1st Baltic Front. On July 4, 1944, troops under the command of Army General I. Kh. Bagramyan stormed the city of Polotsk, an important railway junction. In the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, artillerymen of General N. M. Khlebnikov and Lieutenant Colonel A. V. Chapaev were named among those who distinguished themselves. For services to the Motherland, Alexander Vasilievich Chapaev was awarded three orders of the Red Banner, the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of Suvorov III degree, Alexander Nevsky, the Order of the Patriotic War I degree, the Red Star and many medals.

From the outside, their life was like a fairy tale: the father's belonging to the party elite of the country, access to all benefits.

How did the fate of the children and grandchildren of the party leaders of the Soviet Union

The Kremlin children, in fact, personified the future of the Soviet country, because it was they who had to live under communism. Years have passed, the political structure of the country has changed, the children have grown up and have long since become parents.

How do the descendants of the Kremlin leaders live and what do they do?

Descendants of Joseph Stalin: pilot, artist, builder

Yakov Dzhugashvili. / Photo: www.densegodnya.ru

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

Galina Dzhugashvili. / Photo: www.smedata.sk

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

Vasily Stalin. / Photo: www.24smi.org

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

Svetlana Alliluyeva. / Photo: www.kramola.info

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

Chris Evans. / Photo: www.time.kg

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

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

Nikita Khrushchev. / Photo: www.livejournal.com

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

Rada Nikitichna Adzhubey (Khrushchev). / Photo: www.iz.ru

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

Sergei Nikitovich Khrushchev. / Photo: www.bulvar.com.ua

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

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

The broken family of Leonid Brezhnev

Galina Brezhneva. / Photo: www.24smi.org

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

Brezhnev's granddaughter - Victoria - with her grandmother and first husband Mikhail Filippov. 1973 / Photo: Vladimir Musaelyan / TASS.

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

Yuri Brezhnev. / Photo: www.monateka.com

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

Andrey Brezhnev. / Photo: www.grandhistory.ru

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

Yuri Andropov: two marriages of the head of the KGB

Evgenia and Vladimir Andropov, children from their first marriage. / Photo: www.kpcdn.net

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

Not much is known about the fate of Yuri Andropov's daughter from her first marriage. She lives in Yaroslavl and really dislikes questions about her famous father. She raised two sons, both of whom worked in the security forces.

Yuri Andropov with his wife Tatyana and children Igor and Irina. / Photo: www.24smi.org

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

Igor Andropov. / Photo: www.kpcdn.net

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

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

It was not easy at all to develop the fate of the wives of the leaders of the USSR . They hardly appeared in public and led a very secluded life. And some of the companions themselves were carefully hidden by the leaders of the party elite of the USSR. Some were happy in their closed world, someone managed to threaten and blackmail her husband to refuse a divorce, and there were those who categorically could not even be shown to the public.

Yakov Dzhugashvili.

Galina Dzhugashvili.

Vasily Stalin.

Svetlana Alliluyeva.

Chris Evans.

Nikita Khrushchev.

Rada Nikitichna Adzhubey (Khrushchev).

Sergei Nikitovich Khrushchev.

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

Galina Brezhneva.

Brezhnev's granddaughter - Victoria - with her grandmother and first husband Mikhail Filippov. 1973

Yuri Brezhnev.

Andrey Brezhnev.

Evgenia and Vladimir Andropov, children from their first marriage.

Yuri Andropov with his wife Tatyana and children Igor and Irina.

Igor Andropov.

Tatyana became a choreographer, worked at the Bolshoi Theater. Later she went to America, but could not find herself there. A year after returning to Russia, in 2010 she died of oncology.

Konstantin lived in the USA for a long time, where he graduated from college, becoming an architect-designer. After returning to Moscow, he received a second education, becoming a lawyer.

The world is a mirror that shows each person his own reflection. Thackeray William

It should not be assumed that there was no elite in the Soviet Union. It's just that the real elite has an elite right in the forefront to defend their Fatherland themselves. And the elite of the USSR during Stalin's time fully exercised their right.
The sons of Stalin also fought. Native Yakov, Vasily and adopted son Artyom. Jacob is dead.
Yakov Dzhugashvili.

Yakov Dzhugashvili (born March 18, 1907) graduated from the Higher Technical School, the Dzerzhinsky Higher Artillery Academy. At the front since June 24, 1941: commander of the 6th artillery battery of the howitzer regiment of the 14th tank division, 7th mechanized corps, 20th army. For the battle on July 7, 1941, near the river. The Chernogost woman near Senno, Vitebsk region, along with other fighters, was presented for a government award. In July 1941, units of the 16th, 19th and 20th armies were surrounded near Vitebsk. Died. Presumably in combat. Perhaps he was captured, but there is no direct evidence of his being in captivity. Officially died while trying to escape in 1943.
Vasily Stalin

Vasily Stalin (date of birth 03/24/1921) March 25, 1940 graduated from the Kachin flight school with honors in the rank of lieutenant. At the age of twenty he went to the front. During the war he made 26 sorties; personally and in a group shot down 5 enemy aircraft and was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov II degree and Alexander Nevsky.
Artem Sergeev

Artem Sergeev (03/05/1921) - Stalin's step-son, adopted son. In 1938, after graduating from the 10th grade of the 2nd Moscow Special Artillery School, he began serving in the Red Army. He started from the bottom of the army service, was an ordinary, junior commander (sergeant), foreman. He entered the 2nd Leningrad Artillery School and graduated in 1940 as a lieutenant. For the first time he participated in hostilities on June 26, 1941 as a platoon commander of 152 mm M-10 howitzers of the 1938 model. In the summer of the same year, he was captured by the Germans, from where he escaped from execution. After that, he was in a partisan detachment. After crossing the front line, he was sent to the army. Member of the defense of Stalingrad, the battle for the Dnieper, the battles in East Prussia, Hungary, Germany. In total, he had 24 wounds, including two severe ones. After the first wound, a blow with a bayonet in the stomach, Sergeev was treated by the famous surgeon A.V. Vishnevsky, and later A.N. Bakulev himself treated a torn shattered hand. He ended the war on May 12, 1945 as commander of an artillery brigade, lieutenant colonel and holder of seven orders and six medals.
Stepan Mikoyan

Stepan Mikoyan (07/12/1922) entered the Kachinskaya Aviation Military School in August 1940, together with his friend Timur Frunze. In 1941 he graduated from the Kachinsky military aviation school, lieutenant. In the Active Army since December 1941, fighter pilot of the 11th IAP, who defended Moscow. On the 13th sortie, he was shot down by mistake by his fighter, was wounded. After being cured, he fought in the 32nd Guards. IAP near Stalingrad, however, after the death of his brother Vladimir in an air battle, he was transferred to the 12th Guards. Iap air defense of Moscow.
Stepan Mikoyan finished the war with two orders, with the rank of captain and as commander of a fighter regiment. Later, Honored Test Pilot.
Friends-cadets of Kacha: Timur Frunze, Stepan Mikoyan, Vladimir Yaroslavsky.

Vladimir Mikoyan

Vladimir Mikoyan (01/26/1924). Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Volodya managed to enroll him ahead of schedule, after the 9th grade, in the Kachinskaya VAShP. In February 1942 he completed an accelerated course of study. At first he served near Moscow, where he mastered the Yak-1 and the Hurricane. As part of the 434th regiment in September 1942 on the Don Front. He made several sorties and died in an air battle on September 18, 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. In one of the first sorties. Posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
Stalin boys majors.Pilots of the 12th Guards. Iap, 1944. From left to right: Lev Bulganin, Vadim Ivanov, Alexander Shcherbakov, Alexei Katrich, Alexei Mikoyan.

Alexey Mikoyan

Alexey Mikoyan (born 1925). Graduated from the Flight School, Zhukovsky Academy, Gen. Headquarters. Member of the Great Patriotic War since September 1943. Fought in the 12th Guards. iap. After the war, he passed the exams externally for the course of high school, received a certificate.
Timur Frunze

Timur Frunze (04/05/1923). Since 1931, he was brought up in the family of K.E. Voroshilov - People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR (1925-1934), then People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (1934-1940). In the Red Army since 1940, together with his friend Stepan Mikoyan, in 1941 he graduated from the Kachin Military Aviation School (see the chapter on V.I. Stalin), lieutenant. In the Active Army since January 1941 - fighter pilot of the 161st IAP. He made 9 sorties to cover ground troops in the Staraya Russa area, participated in three battles, shot down two German aircraft in a group. On January 19, 1942, he died in a battle with 8 fighters (he shot down 2 of them) over the village of Otvidino, Starorussky district. The fighters of Timur Frunze and his leader Ivan Shutov entered into battle with a large group of enemy aircraft. Diverting fire from a damaged aircraft, a comrade was killed by a direct hit in the head; the plane was set on fire, but did not explode during the fall, which made it possible to bury Lieutenant Frunze (first in the village of Kresttsy, Leningrad Region; after the war, the remains were transferred to Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery). Posthumously Hero of the Soviet Union.
Sergo Beria

Sergo Beria (November 24, 1924). In 1938, after graduating from seven classes of German and music schools, he moved with his family to Moscow, where in 1941, after graduating from high school No. 175, he was enrolled in the Central Radio Engineering Laboratory of the NKVD of the USSR. In the first days of the war, on the recommendation of the district committee of the Komsomol, he was sent as a volunteer to an intelligence school, where he received a radio engineering specialty at an accelerated three-month course and began serving in the army with the rank of lieutenant technician. On instructions from the General Staff, he performed a number of important tasks (in 1941 - Iran, Kurdistan; in 1942 - the North Caucasian Group of Forces). In October 1942, by order of the People's Commissar of Defense S. Beria, he was sent to study at the Leningrad Military Academy of Communications named after S. M. Budyonny. During his studies, he repeatedly recalled on the personal instructions of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and the General Staff to carry out special secret assignments (in 1943-1945 - the Tehran and Yalta conferences of the heads of state of the anti-Hitler coalition; 4th and 1st Ukrainian fronts). For exemplary performance of command assignments, he was awarded the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus" and the Order of the Red Star.
Ibarruri Ruben Ruiz

Ibarruri Ruben Ruiz (January 9, 1920). In 1935 he came to the USSR. He worked at a factory, studied at a flight school. In 1936 he returned to Spain and fought against the Francoists. In 1939 he returned to the USSR again, entered the military school named after the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. From the first days of the war at the front, where he showed exceptional personal courage. In the battles on the Berezina River, he was wounded and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Since the summer of 1942, he has been participating in the battles near Stalingrad, commanding a machine-gun company. After the death of the battalion commander, he takes command of the battalion. He was mortally wounded and died on September 3, 1942. In 1956 he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Alexander Chapaev
The sons of the legendary hero of the Civil War Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev (1887-1919) became officers. The eldest, Alexander Chapaev (1910-1985) chose artillery, went through the entire war.
The Great Patriotic War caught the 30-year-old captain in the position of commander of a battery of cadets at the Podolsk Artillery School.
With the beginning of the war, at the school, the 696th artillery regiment was formed, in which Captain Chapaev was appointed commander of the anti-tank guns division. Soon part went to the front.
In October-December 1941, together with his division as part of the 511th howitzer artillery regiment, Chapaev fought on the outskirts of Moscow, where he was first wounded.
After the fighting near Moscow and the subsequent offensive, our troops were suspended for a long time on the outskirts of Rzhev, where a critical situation developed. Alexander Chapaev, returning from the hospital, took command of his division.
On December 5, 1942, the Soviet Information Bureau reported that in one of the sectors the enemy was trying to counterattack, but the Germans, having lost about a hundred soldiers and officers, fled from the aimed fire of Chapaev's batteries. Two months later, Alexander Chapaev, already a major, took command of an artillery regiment, which, as part of the 16th anti-tank brigade, was transferred near Voronezh.
July 12, 1943 Alexander Chapaev participated in the famous tank battle near Prokhorovka. Its gunners skillfully repulsed numerous German tank attacks. Here Chapaev was wounded a second time, after which he was treated for three months.
Returning to the front in February 1943, during the battles for Kharkov, A.V. Chapaev already commanded the 1850th anti-tank artillery regiment of the 16th anti-tank artillery brigade with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
In October 1943, he was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky, and in November he was appointed commander of the 64th cannon artillery brigade. Again the front line as part of the 1st Baltic Front.
On July 4, 1944, troops under the command of Army General I. Kh. Bagramyan stormed the city of Polotsk, an important railway junction. In the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, artillerymen of General N. M. Khlebnikov and Lieutenant Colonel A. V. Chapaev were named among those who distinguished themselves.

Arkady Chapaev

The younger, Arkady Chapaev (1914-1939) became a military pilot. Flight commander of the 90th heavy bomber squadron of the Red Army Air Force, captain (1939, posthumously), member of the Central Executive Committee of the Volga German ASSR. Together with Chkalov, Arkady participated in the development of new test flight schemes. He was very interested in new, promising aviation developments, in particular, he was attracted by the idea of gyroplanes. When Chkalov died on December 15, 1938, Arkady Chapaev was instructed to tell this bitter news to his family.
Finishing the program of the first year of the Air Force Academy of the Red Army, performing a test flight for aerobatics, being a very experienced pilot, for unknown reasons, he did not have time or could not bring the I-16 out of a spin.
Arkady Chapaev (right) at a gala dinner next to Chkalov

These are far from the only children of dignitary Bolshevik parents who chose this very profession for themselves - to defend their homeland.

Seventy-five years ago, in the summer of 1943, a crime took place in Moscow, all the details of which were immediately classified. The reason was not only that both the perpetrator and his victim were the children of high-ranking Soviet officials - the murder took place a stone's throw from the Kremlin.

As the investigation soon found out, the son of the people's commissar of the aviation industry, Vladimir Shakhurin, who shot the daughter of the diplomat Umansky, was a member of an informal youth organization, which included the offspring of the first persons of the state, including the nephew of Joseph Stalin. The teenagers called their organization, the basis for which was the ideology of fascism, the “Fourth Reich”.

There is still no official evidence available to the public about this case - as if there was nothing at all. There are only a few semi-documentary books where you do not understand what is the author's fantasy and what is the truth. Nevertheless, circumstantial evidence is available, including the graves of both participants in this bloody drama at the Novodevichy cemetery, as well as the memories of their contemporaries and acquaintances. In particular, Stalin’s nephew Vladimir Alliluyev, who personally knew Shakhurin (pictured), recalls the events of June 3, 1943 in his book Chronicle of a Family: “We played with the guys in the yard and, hearing two shots, rushed to see what happened . When they ran to the stairs, everything was already over ... ".

This refers to the courtyard of the residential complex of the Central Executive Committee - the famous House on the embankment - on Bolotnaya Square, where the families of the Soviet ruling elite lived. The staircase is a side descent of the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge leading to the Kremlin. It was here that on a summer evening Vladimir Shakhurin's last meeting with his classmate Nina Umanskaya took place. “Nina was supposed to fly to the United States with her parents,” writes Vladimir Alliluev, who studied at the same party top 175th school intended for children. - Volodya loved Nina and began to beg her not to fly away, to stay in Moscow. Nina laughed at this request and, waving goodbye to him, began to go down the stairs. And then Volodya took a pistol out of his pocket and shot first at Nina, then at his own temple. Nina died immediately, and Volodya died in the hospital the next day.

"Fuhrer" of the underground organization

The tragic incident immediately became known not only in Petrovka, but also in Lubyanka. It's no joke - the son of the people's commissar and the daughter of the Soviet ambassador were killed! The Chekists, on their own line, worked out the version of the appearance of German saboteurs hunting in the capital for the children of prominent functionaries. However, it soon became clear that the spies had nothing to do with it - the prosecutor's office investigator Lev Sheinin unambiguously established the fact of suicide. Yes, and Shakhurin's classmates confirmed: the young man actually breathed unevenly towards the beautiful Nina. The only question left was where the teenager got the gun from. At that time, almost every high-ranking Soviet official had a weapon at home, but People's Commissar Shakhurin immediately declared that he was seeing the ill-fated Walther for the first time in his life. It soon became clear that the pistol belonged to the family of the deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, People's Commissar for Foreign Trade of the USSR and one of Stalin's closest associates, Anastas Mikoyan, whose son Ivan Shakhurin was friends with and studied in the same class. This turn of events did not please the investigator: the thread of the investigation led to such heights of power that one could easily turn one's head off. But what happened next was even more unexpected and shocking.

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Members of the organization hoped to take power in the country into their own hands in the future. Not through a coup, of course, but by building a successful career guaranteed by the fathers and occupying high positions in power. At the same time, they paid tribute to Stalin himself, calling him their mentor

Vladimir Alliluyev had an older brother, Leonid, who was the same age as Vladimir Shakhurin and his bosom friend. “Volodya’s diary at one time lay in our sideboard,” writes V. Alliluyev. - My mother (the sister of Stalin's late wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. - Ed.) found this diary and immediately gave it to Volodya's mother. What kind of diary it was, she had no idea, of course. And it’s a pity, because from this diary it followed that Volodya Shakhurin was the “Fuhrer” of the “underground organization”, which included my brother Leonid, Vano and Sergo Mikoyan, Artyom Khmelnitsky, the son of Major General R.P. Khmelnitsky, and Leonid Barabanov, son of Mikoyan's assistant. All these guys went to the same school. Sofya Mironovna, having received her son's diary from my mother, after some time handed it over to L.P. Beria. As a result, everyone ended up in an internal prison in Lubyanka. Sergo Mikoyan was the last to be arrested.”

Vladimir Alliluyev writes about this story with restraint, which is understandable. Otherwise, one would have to decipher why the word “Führer” appeared in his story, and not “ataman”, say, or “chairman”.

forgive and forget

Having received the diary of the late Shakhurin, Beria instructed the head of the investigative unit for especially important cases of the NKGB, Lev Vlodzimirsky, to continue the investigation, ordering all materials to be classified. After all, the circumstances of the case could not but shock: it was the middle of 1943, the citizens of the country were fighting the Nazis as one, even children knew about the atrocities of the Germans. And at this time, the children of honored figures of the Soviet state - generals, academicians, members of the government! - create a secret organization, calling it the "Fourth Reich." Teenagers admire the aesthetics of fascism with might and main, quote the works of Hitler and call each other "Gruppenführer" and "Reichsführer"! Yes, for a hundredth of this, you can turn into camp dust!

But this is if we are talking about ordinary citizens, and not about the sons of functionaries. With a report, Beria went to Stalin. According to legend, the leader glumly listened to the story of the “Fourth Reich”, throwing at the end: “Here are the cubs ...” It is not known whether the head of the NKVD informed the leader about such a circumstance: the members of the organization expected to take power in the country in their own hands in the future. Not through a coup, of course, but by building a successful career guaranteed by the fathers and occupying high positions in power. At the same time, they paid tribute to Stalin himself, calling him their mentor. Such a curtsey from the Gruppenfuehrers looked more than ambiguous.

None of the teenagers in the end was ever brought to serious responsibility. Moreover, they themselves told during the investigation that they had no idea about any “Fourth Reich” - all these are the fantasies of the late Shakhurin, who for some reason entered them in his diary. Therefore, in the end, everyone was simply sent for a year to the cities of the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia, and after that the situation was completely put on the brakes. So, Ivan Mikoyan, while in Dushanbe, graduated from the aviation technical school, then the Zhukovsky Academy and became an outstanding aircraft designer. And Pyotr Bakulev became a famous scientist in the field of radar.

Why did Stalin act so liberally? Vladimir Alliluyev writes that the leader simply took pity on the teenagers - they say that the war is already going on, why the extra corpses. However, there is another version: it is unlikely that Stalin did not understand that if he shot the "Reichsfuehrers", then their fathers would have to be executed - not one would forgive him for the death of his son. That's why I limited the link.

“Three Soviet generations came together in this story: the old people are the leaders of the Soviet state. The “fathers” are the generation of the 40-year-old Shakhurins and Umanskys, in whom the most acute desire is already manifested to “just live”, enjoy their privileges, build mansions, and collect foreign cars. Finally, the generation of “children,” noted the journalist Alexander Terekhov, who wrote the novel “Stone Bridge” about the “Fourth Reich” case. - Russia was going through its most tragic time, and the sons of the heroic people's commissars admired the fascist form, the Reich and sought pleasure in various ways. This is not a game, this is ordinary life, it happens so often. Let's look out the window - everything is the same there. It’s just that today’s boys have the opportunity to receive an inheritance and have somewhere to leave the place where dads pump oil and gas.”

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