Beria's children are their destiny. Repression against the son and wife of Beria

There is such an expression "unfading beauty". This is about her - Marfa Peshkova. Granddaughter of Maxim Gorky and Ekaterina Peshkova, childhood friend of Svetlana Stalina, daughter-in-law of Lavrenty Beria. She does not hide her age, but it is impossible to believe that this youthful, charming and laughable woman recently turned 87. The secret of her life force Marfa Maksimovna explains simply: “I go in for sports and eat little. We didn’t have a cult of food in our house.”
She was born in Sorrento, Italy. Today he lives in two countries: half a year in Spain, half a year in Russia. From the window of her apartment in the near Moscow region is visible Pine forest. On the loggia, multi-colored shells, sea pebbles, a fancy snag - everything here reminds her of her native Mediterranean. And, of course, a funny figure of a donkey with luggage. However, the donkey is a different story…

87 you won’t give her ...

“When I was five months old, my mother contracted typhoid fever, and, of course, her milk disappeared,” says Marfa Peshkova. - The Pope, in a terrible state, rushed off to Sorrento to look for a nurse. When he was already in complete despair, he was told: in one family there lives a donkey that has just given birth. And donkey's milk is very close to women's. And they fed me with this milk until they found a nurse. She was extraordinary too. Before me she fed crown prince the Italian king.

- To whom do you owe rare name Martha?

“My father and mother named me Maria, and when Archimandrite Simeon came from Rome to baptize me, my grandfather decided to give me the name Martha. Christening took place at our house, grandfather was in the wings when I was dipped into the font, holding a towel. Grandfather and grandmother did not go to church, because they believed that the clergy outside the service do not always behave appropriately. But before the holiday, my grandmother always asked the housekeeper to take the money to the temple.

- What kind of grandfather was Maxim Gorky?

“He loved me and my sister very much. We walked with him at the dacha in Gorki when he was free. We were told: “Grandfather is calling you!” We ran and walked into the forest together. Grandpa loved to pick mushrooms. When the season ended and the forest was empty, mushrooms still came across somewhere outside the gate. We brought them to our forest and planted them. Grandfather, of course, guessed, because our mushrooms were not deep in the ground, but he didn’t show it and was always terribly happy: “Today we have a harvest again!” During the walks, he told many stories from his childhood. When, after his death, I opened his book "Childhood", the feeling that I already knew this did not leave me.

- Since when do you remember yourself?

“Fragments remain in memory. I remember Sorrento well and then, many years later, I even found a stone behind which they hid my testicles on Easter. My sister Daria and I were taken to an Italian school, because they thought that we would go there to study. After the drawing lesson, the children gave us the drawings that I kept. And then, during the war, someone made a good joke in our house on Nikitskaya. At recess, the little Italians were hooligans and did what they wanted, even danced to the music. Everything was not like in the Moscow school, where we walked decorously in pairs along the corridor. If the boys started to fight, they received a remark in the diary.

- You studied at 25th exemplary school with the children of the Soviet elite and sat at the same desk with Svetlana Stalin. Was the choice of school not accidental?

- I was sent to this school because of Svetlana. Stalin came to visit his grandfather, and when his wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva died, he brought Svetlana to us. He really wanted her to communicate with me and with Daria. And he also asked Beria's wife, Nina Teimurazovna, to take care of Svetlana, to invite her to visit so that she would not be so lonely.

Martha was one of the most enviable brides.

Do you remember how you met?

- I remember how she entered the house, stood near the mirror and began to take off her little white hat, when suddenly golden hair in curls scattered like a waterfall. When little children are introduced, they don't know what to talk about. We were taken to the garden for a walk, and then she left with her dad. And the second time I was taken to her. The nanny met me and took me to Svetlana. She sat in the room and sewed something out of black fabric. She didn't look at me, she just nodded. We sat and were silent. Then I asked: “What are you sewing?” - "Doll dress." “Why black?” - "I sew from my mother's dress." Then she looked at me carefully: “Don’t you know that my mother died?” - and began to cry. I said, "My dad died." And she cried too. This grief brought us together for a long time.

- How did Stalin's daughter behave at school?

— Svetlana was very modest. And she could not stand it when they paid attention to her as Stalin's daughter. She left because she knew nothing would change. AT primary school she was accompanied by a guard, and then she always asked him to stay two or three steps behind. She was also friends with Alla Slavutskaya, her father was the ambassador to Japan, Raya Levina. Svetlana's birthdays were celebrated at the dacha, not in the Kremlin.

- What did you think: Stalin loved his daughter?

“When I was little, I loved it. And then, when Svetlana grew up, became a girl and began to look at the boys, he directly hated her. Some kind of jealousy appeared in him, and when he found out that she had begun dating Alexei Kapler, he immediately expelled him. And they just walked the streets, went to the museum, there was nothing between them.

- Marfa Maksimovna, you often saw Stalin. How did you feel about him?

- I hated Stalin because of Svetlana. How many times did she cry. He spoke rudely to her: “Take off this jacket! Who are you dressing up for?" She is in tears. Somehow we did homework together, my math was bad, Stalin was sitting opposite. He liked to tease: “Are there a lot of boys jumping around you?” Naturally, I was thrown into the paint, he really liked it. Once we were sitting with Svetlana, eating, and suddenly he looked at me with such evil eyes: “How is your old woman doing?” With such a rolling "r"! It didn't even occur to me who he was asking about. Svetlana whispered: “He is about your grandmother!” And my grandmother, Ekaterina Pavlovna Peshkova, was not afraid of anyone. Always went through. When she came to our government dacha, she said to the guard: “I’m visiting my granddaughter!” He ran to call: to pass or not? Naturally, they missed. Stalin hated her, but was afraid to touch her. Too many people knew her both here and abroad.

- The time was terrible. The first arrests began. Have Svetlana been approached by acquaintances with requests for help?

“I know she stood up for someone once. Stalin scolded her and told her harshly that this should be the first and last time. Just as she once ran joyfully to announce that she was marrying Grisha Morozov, Stalin shouted: “What, you couldn’t find a Russian?” and slammed the door.

- At school, you and Svetlana were the closest friends, and then you stopped talking ...

- With Svetlana we sat at the same desk for ten years. We broke up because of Sergo, the son of Beria, because she had been in love with him since school. He came to us in the ninth grade. She told me: “I know him, we met in Gagra, he is such a good guy!” He was raised by a German Elechka, because his mother, Nina Teimurazovna, a chemist by profession, worked all the time. Sergo knew very well German, like Daria and me, we also had a German nanny. Raising us with Sergo united. Other boys were hooligans, especially Mikoyanchiki. I remember in Barvikha, because my sister and I didn't go out, they removed the gate and threw it into the ravine.

Sergo was also taught not to be greedy at the table: take as much as you can eat so that the plate is clean. I still can't leave anything on my plate. German teachers instilled in us punctuality. If my friends invite me to visit at six o'clock, I come to six. And they are just starting to cut the salad, and I also get involved in the work.

- How did Svetlana take your marriage? With jealousy?

- When we first met after I married Sergo, she said: “You are no longer my friend!” I asked: "Why?" “You knew that I loved him more than anyone, and you should not have married him. It doesn't matter that I have Grisha! Maybe in five years it would be Sergo.” She believed that someday she would achieve her goal. She called us at home. When I got to the phone, Svetlana hung up. And Sergo terribly lost his temper: “Again, this red-haired beast is calling!”

— fatal love. Svetlana was already married, wasn't she?

- Yes, she already had Grisha Morozov. His father's surname is Frost. Grisha added the ending "ov" when he went to school. Svetlana and Grisha already had a son, Osya, but still she had feelings for Sergo. During the war, being evacuated in Kuibyshev, she somehow persuaded Vasya (Vasily Stalin. - E.S.) to fly with her to Sergo. Then Sergo told me that it was a nightmare. He didn't know how to behave. Looks like you won't get kicked out.

How did your husband's parents receive you? Still, you entered into a very difficult family. One name Beria terrified.

- Lavrenty hugged me and said: "Now you are ours." Then it was not customary to play noisy weddings. We signed, at home we drank good Georgian wine at the table. When my first daughter, Nina, was born, my mother-in-law immediately quit her job and took care of her granddaughter. And Lavrenty came to the dacha every Saturday and spent Sunday with his wife. And on weekdays, he sat until late at Stalin's, who wanted all of them to be with him. So the talk that Lawrence had 200 mistresses does not really correspond to reality. Of course, he had women, the latter even bore him a child, but not as much as he is credited with!

- Did your wife, Nina Teimurazovna, have to put up with it?

- Reconcile? She also had one guard in the favorites in Gagra. I somehow overheard their whispers on the balcony.

- Marfa Maksimovna, did the relatives of the arrested people ask you to put in a good word with Commissar Beria?

- No never. Grandmother came once with lists of prisoners, and he said: “Dear Ekaterina Pavlovna, I beg you very much not to do this. You must understand why. Tell everything to my secretary."

- Didn't your father-in-law cause feelings of fear?

- Yes you! Vice versa! At the dacha in the mornings, as soon as she and Nina Teimurazovna woke up, they immediately asked to bring a swaddled baby - my first daughter, Nina. They put them together and could just admire for an hour. There were a lot of pictures where Lavrenty Beria carries a stroller or holds his grandchildren on his lap. After his arrest, all these photographs were confiscated from me.

Marfa Peshkova, Sergo Beria with their first child Nina, 47.

- How it was?

- Lavrenty Beria was killed in Moscow, in his apartment. I know this for sure, because a few years later I met with one of the guards, and he confirmed it. And they came for us when we were at the dacha. At night, we were put in a car with the children and with the nanny Elechka and taken to a special dacha, where there was not even a radio. We didn't know what happened. It seemed to be a revolution. I thought we were being taken to be shot. At that time I was expecting a third child, I was in the eighth month, with a belly. It was some kind of secret house, where foreigners were probably kept, because I found a dollar under the carpet. We spent 20 days there. Every day was marked on a piece of paper. It was allowed to walk from this tree to that tree.

Then Sergo was taken to prison. They allegedly took him out to be shot, and the mother was brought to the window and said: “If you don’t tell me, we will shoot your son!” And they did the same with him.

After my husband was arrested, they brought me to Barvikha. Of course, both my mother and grandmother asked for me. When we arrived at the cottage, everyone was standing on the street. The first question I asked my family was: “What happened?” Grandma had a newspaper in her hands.

- Sergo Beria was then sent to Sverdlovsk. Did you go with your husband?

- Yes. In Sverdlovsk, we lived outside the city, in the Khimmash area, because Nina Teimurazovna went to work there. When Sergo was allowed to go to Moscow, he categorically refused. And he went to Ukraine, where he had an aunt. I really liked Sverdlovsk. Moscow is not my city, except for the old Arbat. I love Kyiv, my son lives there.

- Why did you get divorced?

- When I once arrived from Moscow and Sergo and I went out for a walk, suddenly an angry girl appears, who goes straight at us and shouts to him: “Who are you with?”. I can't understand anything. He stands red, silent. I murmured: “I am a wife!” She shouts to him: “You showed me your passport that you are not married!” Indeed, he did not have a stamp in his new passport. He was given his mother's surname Gegechkori and patronymic Alekseevich.

I was in such a state that I could kill, and I understood that I could not control myself. It's all donkey milk. (Laughs). I decide instantly. I packed my things, bought a ticket and left for Moscow in the evening. Then I called Sergo and said: "I'm divorcing you." Even in "Vecherka" a message was published about our divorce.

- And then you met?

- Of course. I often went to Kyiv and, having already thought about it, I realized that the son should be next to his father, and sent him there.

- I know that when Sergo Beria was arrested, your mother wrote a letter addressed to Voroshilov: “I earnestly ask you to take part in the fate of Martha, the granddaughter of A.M. Gorky, whose grandfather and father themselves died at the hands of enemies of the people. I ask that she be allowed to live in our family...” Do you also think that your father and grandfather were removed?

“Dad interfered. This I know for sure. Because at the time it was only person, which connected grandfather with the world. They had already set up a checkpoint, although there was still Kryuchkov, grandfather's secretary, who decided who was allowed in and who was not. Dad began to be invited to various events very often. Grandfather could not travel for health reasons and sent his son. Try not to drink when the first toast was for Stalin and for Soviet power! They drank in glasses. And dad had just arrived in the USSR, he lived half his life abroad. He was a patriot and was abroad because Lenin told him: "Your mission is to be close to your father." When grandfather was about to return to Sorrento for the winter, Stalin told him: “We have Crimea. We will provide you with a cottage. Forget about Sorrento!” The happiest time of our family is Sorrento. Grandfather was no longer allowed to go to Italy, although his things remained there. Mom and grandmother went to pack his books and things. By the way, the house was not the property of Gorky, he rented it from Duke di Serracapriola.

- Your father was simply soldered?

They did everything to get him to drink. Mom and Valentina Mikhailovna Khodasevich said that there was always light Chianti wine in the house, but no one liked to drink. Except Kryuchkov. I even remember how at the dacha in Gorki-X he poured cognac in the morning and diluted it a little with narzan. I never saw my dad drunk, but he felt bad. I remember how Daria and I went to the dentist with my dad, and suddenly he abruptly stopped the car, I even hit my nose on the glass and cried. Dad came out and stood outside for a long time. It was difficult for him to breathe.

Stalin and members of the Politburo carry the urn with the ashes of Gorky.

- I read that your dad died because he fell asleep in a state of intoxication on the bench where Kryuchkov left him. The night was cold and he was cold.

— Everything was wrong. That day, dad came from Yagoda, who called him all the time and got him drunk. And before that, my mother told him firmly: “If you come again in this state, then I will divorce you.” Dad got out of the car and went to the park. He sat down on the bench and fell asleep. The nurse woke him up. The jacket hung separately. It was May 2nd. Dad fell ill and soon died of bilateral pneumonia. He was only 36 years old.

- How Gorky survived death only son?

- But he did not survive, he left after two years. When grandfather wrote "Klim Samgin", the first reader was Maxim. Then grandfather, after five o'clock tea, gathered all the household members and read aloud himself.

- Did Yagoda really look after your mother?

- All the talk that Yagoda looked after mom is just speculation. It was sent by Stalin himself. He wanted his mother to think well of him, and Yagoda had to prepare her. He showed her albums dedicated to the deeds of Stalin, who liked her mother for a long time. Stalin laid eyes on her even when he first brought Svetlana to us. He always came with flowers. But my mother, in their next conversation at the dacha, firmly said “no”. After that, everyone who approached my mother was imprisoned. The first was Ivan Kapitonovich Luppol, director of the Institute of World Literature. After the war, my mother got Miron Merzhanov, a famous architect. He was also arrested. Then came the turn of Vladimir Popov, who helped his mother a lot. After that, she said: "No more single man will enter my house."

- Your grandmother, Ekaterina Pavlovna Peshkova, did not have female happiness either. Maxim Gorky had vivid novels.

“But he had a special relationship with his grandmother all his life. He wanted her to come when she wanted. And in his house there was always Ekaterina Pavlovna's room, in which guests were not allowed, except for me and my sister, when one of us fell ill. So they said: "grandmother's room." Last love grandfather was Maria Ignatievna Budberg. And my grandmother had Mikhail Konstantinovich, with whom they had breakfast together. In the summer he lived with his grandmother in Barvikha, where he had his own room. Husband and not husband. They met at the dacha where Katyusha was dying - a grandmother's daughter. She was in such a state that she did not want to live. Mikhail Konstantinovich managed to bring her out of depression. Grandfather was at that time with Maria Fedorovna Andreeva in America and sent a dry condolence.

— Your grandmother headed the Political Red Cross. Thousands of people owe their lives to her.

- In Italy, I was introduced to the rector of the Russian church. He sat me down at the table and pulled out a photo: "This is my mother." Then he showed the document: “Thanks to this piece of paper I live in the world!”. His father was sent to Solovki, and his wife turned to my grandmother for help. Grandmother procured so that food could be sent with this pass once a month. On Solovki, people were dying of starvation, because when there was no navigation and food ran out, the exiles were not fed. The priest said, "Your grandmother is a holy person!"
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November 24, 1924 - October 11, 2000

design engineer in the field of radar and missile systems, son of Lavrenty Beria

Biography

Sergo Lavrentievich Beria (Sergei Alekseevich Gegechkori) was born on November 24, 1924 in the city of Tbilisi. Parents - Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria and Nina Teimurazovna Gegechkori. In 1938, having completed seven classes of German and music schools, together with his family moved to Moscow, where in 1941, after graduating high school No. 175, 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 in the Leningrad military academy 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.

In 1947 he graduated from the Academy with honors. Under the leadership of Dr. n., Professor P. N. Kuksenko, he is developing a graduation project on an air-sea missile guided system. The State Commission gives him an "excellent" rating and recommends organizing the development of his project in industry. One of the creators of the Soviet system missile defense G. V. Kisunko was present at the defense and left memories of this and subsequent events related to S. Beria.

In order to increase the effectiveness of bomber aviation operations against enemy ships, on September 8, 1947, the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the organization of a special bureau - “SB No. 1 MV” was issued. In this Decree, P.N. Kuksenko was appointed chief and chief designer, and S. Beria was appointed his deputy. When in 1950 to create anti-aircraft missile system The air defense of Moscow was formed on its basis by KB-1, S. Beria becomes one of its two main designers (the second is P. N. Kuksenko). For the successful completion of the government task to create new types of weapons ( rocket system"Comet") - was awarded the Order of Lenin and awarded the Stalin Prize. Working in SB-1 and KB-1, Sergo Beria defended his candidate's dissertation in 1948, and his doctoral dissertation in 1952.

Arrest and disgrace

After the removal and arrest of his father, L.P. Beria, in July 1953, he, along with his mother, was interned at one of the state dachas near Moscow, then he was also arrested and until the end of 1954 he was kept in solitary confinement, first in Lefortovskaya, and then in Butyrskaya prisons.

After being released from prison, S. Beria receives a passport in the name of Sergei Alekseevich Gegechkori and goes into exile in the Urals. In the city of Sverdlovsk, being under constant supervision, he worked for almost ten years as a senior engineer at the Research Institute of p / box 320.

At the request of the government of a group of prominent scientists of the country, in connection with the illness of his mother Nina Teimurazovna, he was allowed to be transferred to the city of Kyiv to the organization p / box 24, which was later transformed into NPO Kvant (now State Enterprise Research Institute Kvant). Until September 1988, he worked there as a lead designer, head of a sector, and head of a department. Later, he was involved in the work of the Department of New Physical Problems of the IPM of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR as the head of the system design department - the chief designer of the complex. From 1990 to 1999, S. L. Beria - scientific supervisor, Chief designer Kyiv Scientific Research Institute "Kometa" (formerly - Kyiv branch of TsNPO "Kometa"). Since 1999 - retired.

Sergo wrote a book dedicated to his father, "My father is Lavrenty Beria", where he believes that repression and terror have been an integral part of the existence of the Soviet state since its inception and that is why his father suffered.

He died on October 11, 2000 in Kyiv. He was buried at Baikovo Cemetery.

Family and Children

He was married to Marfa Maksimovna Peshkova (Maxim Gorky's granddaughter from his first marriage), they had three children: daughters Nina and Nadezhda, son Sergei.

The marriage broke up during S. Beria's stay in exile.!

Sergo Lavrentievich Beria (Sergei Alekseevich Gegechkori) was born on November 24, 1924 in the city of Tbilisi. Parents - Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria and Nina Teimurazovna Gegechkori. 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 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.

In 1947 he graduated from the Academy with honors. Under the leadership of Dr. n., Professor P. N. Kuksenko, he is developing a graduation project on an air-sea missile guided system. The State Commission gives him an "excellent" rating and recommends organizing the development of his project in industry. One of the creators of the Soviet missile defense system, G. V. Kisunko, was present at the defense and left memories of this and subsequent events related to S. Beria.

In order to increase the effectiveness of bomber aviation operations against enemy ships, on September 8, 1947, the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the organization of a special bureau - “SB No. 1 MV” was issued. In this Decree, P.N. Kuksenko was appointed chief and chief designer, and S. Beria was appointed his deputy. When, in 1950, KB-1 was formed on its basis to create an anti-aircraft missile defense system for Moscow, S. Beria became one of its two chief designers (the second was P. N. Kuksenko). For the successful fulfillment of the government task to create new types of weapons (the Kometa missile system), he was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Stalin Prize. Working in SB-1 and KB-1, Sergo Beria defended his candidate's dissertation in 1948, and his doctoral dissertation in 1952.

Arrest and disgrace

At the request of the government of a group of prominent scientists of the country, in connection with the illness of his mother Nina Teimurazovna, he was allowed to be transferred to the city of Kyiv to the organization p / box 24, which was later transformed into NPO Kvant (now State Enterprise Research Institute Kvant). Until September 1988, he worked there as a lead designer, head of a sector, and head of a department. Later, he was involved in the work of the Department of New Physical Problems of the IPM of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR as the head of the system design department - the chief designer of the complex. From 1990 to 1999, S. L. Beria was a scientific adviser, chief designer of the Kyiv Research Institute "Comet" (formerly the Kyiv branch of the Central Research and Production Association "Comet"). Since 1999 - retired.

Family and Children

He was married to Marfa Maksimovna Peshkova (Maxim Gorky's granddaughter from his first marriage), they had three children: daughters Nina and Nadezhda, son Sergei.

The marriage broke up during S. Beria's stay in exile.!

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Igor LOPATCHENKO, a 37-year-old resident of the village of Tyubuk in the Chelyabinsk region, found out as a teenager that his mother and father were not his relatives. " Kind people"Tried ... Growing up, he decided to find his biological parents. Imagine his astonishment when he discovered that his father - illegitimate son People's Commissar of the NKVD Lavrenty Beria named Eskander GARIBOV.

Once I had an adult conversation with my father - the actual one whom I have known since childhood, - Igor recalls. - He reluctantly admitted that relatives of my real mother live in a neighboring city. With the help of a police officer I knew, I found the brothers and sisters of the woman who gave birth to me. They told me what happened...

Prodigy offspring

In the late 40s of the last century, Beria came to Ozersk, Chelyabinsk Region, where the Mayak research and production association for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel was being created. 10 NKVD camps were involved in the construction of the reactor, two of them were for women. Somehow, passing by a construction site, the People's Commissar spotted a dark-haired prisoner.

In the evening, the girl was brought to a house on the shore of Lake Irtyash, surrounded by a fence with barbed wire. (Now there is a 2B VIP hotel with an annex resembling a castle.) After a short conversation, Lavrenty Pavlovich escorted her to his bedroom ...

Soon Beria again came to the plant. Meetings with the 23-year-old concubine continued. But the unexpected happened: the girl became pregnant. Upon learning of this, Beria gave the order to remove his mistress from hard work. In due time, a boy was born to her, the name of which the influential father himself came up with - Eskander. “For his mother and newborn, Beria rented an apartment on the street that bore his name, now it is Pobedy Avenue,” says 89-year-old Illarion Semyaninov, who worked at Mayak. - The son was registered with the surname Garibov. Eskander did not go to Kindergarten, nor to school - studied at home. At five he was already reading Russian classics, and at ten he was fluent in three languages. On walks, the boy was always accompanied by two people in uniform. At the age of 18 he took leadership position at the Lighthouse.

The stolen grandson

When Garibov turned 19, he met a 20-year-old Lezghian Sekinat Nabiyeva. Eskander achieved a proud girl with the help of perseverance and generous gifts.

Garibov's chosen one lived with her relatives in a hostel, Semyaninov continues the story. - An influential groom moved Nabiyeva's sisters and brothers to spacious apartments. They dated for about two years. Eskander was not going to marry, even when Sekinat found herself in an "interesting position." In 1949, just before the birth of his son, Garibov disappeared from the city ... Sekinat was forced to take a job as a nanny in a kindergarten, where the childless Lydia Lopatchenko also worked. The women became friends. A month later, Nabiyeva was admitted to the maternity hospital, and her friend was summoned to the headmaster's office and left alone with a person "from the organs." He said that she should take Sekinat to raise the child and leave the city. - They took me away from my mother, - says Igor. - My father was told that I was born dead. It is not difficult to guess that Beria was behind this. When I found Sekinat in Snezhinsk, she worked as a cook and was married to weightlifter Boris Arbatsky. We became friends with him, but my mother still rejects me. She even changed her apartment so that I wouldn't go. She later divorced her husband and now works as a nurse. Even before her marriage to Boris, she gave birth to a daughter, Leila, from an unknown boyfriend.

immigrant father

Lopatchenko collected the truth about his father bit by bit. It is known for certain that he emigrated to the United States, where he works in the nuclear industry, like his father Lavrenty Beria. Only from the other side.

All hope for your newspaper, - says Igor. - "Express" is read in America, suddenly an article about me will fall into the eyes of my father or his acquaintances. I think he should know about my existence. I recently called the only official grandson of Beria - Sergei Peshkov, son of Sergo Gegechkori. Told his story. He said that he donated blood to prove his relationship with the legendary relative, and asked to come to the clinic, but he politely refused. I am going to make a similar request to the granddaughter of Lavrenty Pavlovich - Olga Alexandrovna, daughter of Eteri Gegechkori. She is the dean of the faculty foreign languages Moscow State University.

Curiously, not a single direct heir of Beria bears his last name. Lopatchenko is ready to change her for himself, and his wife, and daughter. But the main goal in Igor's life is to meet his father, Eskander Garibov. “My father was incredibly lucky: unlike other illegitimate children of Beria, he grew up in prosperity, under the care of the NKVD,” says Lopatchenko. - I'm not mad at Sekinat. God is her judge. Her relatives still ask me for forgiveness for knowing the truth and being silent for so many years. I have forgiven everyone...

ONLY FACT

After the execution of Beria in 1953, his children Sergo and Eteri, born from his wife Nina Teimurazovna, drank grief in full. The son of Lavrenty Pavlovich was arrested and exiled to the Urals.

BY THE WAY

Beria is known not only as the head of the Soviet nuclear project, but also as a curator of the production of domestic contraceptives. They say that he took control of the production of condoms from the Bakovsky Rubber Products Plant after he suffered from syphilis.