The fate of the son of Beria. Nina Beria: what happened to Lavrenty Pavlovich's wife after his death

After graduating from the seven-year plan in 1938, he moved to Moscow with his parents Lavrenty Beria and Nino Taimurazovna. As a child, the boy was fond of music and actively studied foreign languages ​​- in addition to German and English, he learned Dutch, Japanese and French, and subsequently spoke many of them fluently.

The family's move to the capital was forced. Lavrentiy Beria was given the position of First Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs - on Stalin's promise, for only a couple of years, and then he would allegedly be allowed to return to his native Georgia.

Beria arrived alone, which angered the leader, and soon the rest of the family was brought to the capital by force. The head of security received an order to “bring to Moscow everything that is alive in the Beria family,” which he did with perfect accuracy, delivering not only his wife and son, but also grandmothers, a deaf-mute aunt and 2 cats to the new address.

Sergo Lavrentievich settled with his family in a mansion on Mikheevskaya Street and went to Moscow school No. 175. After finishing 10 classes, the young man went to work at the Central Radio Engineering Laboratory of the NKVD.

When the war began, the leadership of the district committee of the Komsomol issued recommendations to Sergo for admission to the intelligence school. There, in 3 months he mastered the specialty of radio engineering and went to the active troops with the rank of lieutenant. Soon, the young officer was responsible for several responsible tasks, for example, participation in operations in Kurdistan and Iran.

A year later, Sergo Beria returned to Moscow and became a student of the military communications academy, which did not prevent the military authorities from time to time to call him for other secret assignments. For responsible service, the young man was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus." In his senior year, Sergo developed a graduation project for a rocket control system, which the commission rated as excellent and recommended for implementation.

The science

In 1947, after graduating from the institute, Beria received the position of deputy chief designer of the SB No. 1 MV bureau. His educational achievements went into action: on the basis of the drawings, a group of specialists created anti-aircraft missile system S-25 "Berkut".

The bureau was an institution operating in the strictest secrecy: employees were brought and taken away on special buses, conversations in them, as well as movements along the corridors in working time, were banned, and specialists had special passes and were considered a "special contingent". The name itself, according to rumors, received an ironic decoding - “SB is“ the son of Beria ”, but there were few who wanted to repeat this joke publicly.

Over the years of work in the organization, Sergo Lavrentievich created a project for a new weapon - the Kometa system, for which he received the Stalin Prize and the Order of Lenin. In 1948 he defended PhD thesis, and in 1952 - a doctorate.

After Stalin's death, the scientist, along with other associates of the leader, fell into disgrace. Sergo and his mother were locked up in a dacha near Moscow, and then arrested. In 1954, Beria's son met in a solitary cell at Butyrskaya prison - he was charged with organizing a counter-revolutionary conspiracy aimed at overthrowing Soviet power and reconstructing capitalism.

Soon the Central Committee of the CPSU issued a resolution depriving Sergo Lavrentievich of the title of laureate of the Stalin Prize, scientific and military ranks(by the time of his arrest, he had risen to the rank of colonel). At the meeting of the VAK, it was announced that both dissertations did not contain the personal achievements of the scientist, but were the fruit of the joint work of a group of other engineers and calculators.

In November 1954, Sergo Beria was sent into administrative exile, retaining, however, the possibility of working in the military-defense specialty. Together with Nino Taimurazovna, he was given documents for the surname Gegechkori ( maiden name mother) to hide their relationship with Stalin's accomplice. Sergo settled in Sverdlovsk and worked for the next 10 years as a senior engineer at a research institute under the close supervision of the investigating authorities.

In 1964, Sergo's mother fell seriously ill, and he, by that time, having again become a prominent scientist, was allowed to move to Kyiv. There, Beria went to work in an organization now known as the State Enterprise Research Institute Kvant, where he stayed until 1988. Later, the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR invited him to the position of chief designer in the Department of New Physical Problems.

Beria's son was repeatedly offered to leave the country, but he never took advantage of a single opportunity, considering this a betrayal of his father's memory. In addition, Sergo preferred to serve his native country, and he never associated himself with the ruling elite.

In 1990-1999, Sergo Lavrentievich was the scientific director and chief designer of the Kyiv Research Institute "Kometa". During perestroika, as part of conversion projects, he created new materials for oil and gas pipelines and fuel tanks. It was from this organization that he was retired.

Personal life

In the biography of Beria, there is only one marriage - with Marfa Maksimovna Peshkova, granddaughter. Judging by the surviving photos, in their youth they were beautiful couple: both are tall, with delicate features, and their children were also very good-looking.

The marriage union was preceded by a serious hobby. Sergo Beria became the first love of Stalin's daughter -. They studied at the same school, and a tall, slender brunette won the heart of a young girl. Parents reacted differently to what was happening: according to rumors, Stalin was not against their union, and Beria was very afraid of being so closely associated with a high-ranking family and advised his son to stay away from Alliluyeva.

To the relief of his father, Sergo's youthful love quickly cooled down, and he chose another wife - the beautiful Marfa, but Svetlana worried for a long time because of the failed relationship. Being married, she even tried to divorce him from his wife, but by that time Sergo had no feelings other than irritation.

This story is shown in the series "", which was released in 2018. The film is dedicated to the life of the leader's daughter and her love interests. Young Beria was played by Karen Galstyan.

Marfa Peshkova gave birth to three children to the scientist - a son, Sergei, and daughters, Nina and Nadezhda. When Sergo Lavrentievich was in exile in Sverdlovsk, his wife filed for divorce. According to her, the reason was the betrayal of her husband.

Later, the grown-up son moved to his father in Kyiv. Sergey is now married and works as a radio electronics engineer. Eldest daughter Nina is an artist, she graduated from the Stroganov School and moved to Finland with her husband, Nadezhda became an art critic and lives in Moscow.

All his life, Sergo spoke respectfully about his father. He reluctantly renounced the name of Beria and returned it at the first opportunity. According to the memoirs of his son, Lavrenty Beria was a multi-talented person: he was fond of architecture and painted beautifully, passing on his hobbies to Sergo. He treated children with love and gentleness, trying to instill in them diligence and independence.

The image of Beria the rapist, a dissolute and cruel man to women, created by propaganda, caused particular indignation in his son. He did not deny extramarital hobbies Lavrenty Pavlovich - he sometimes shared with his adult son the details of his personal life, but did not seek to condemn them.

“Father was not sinless,” Sergo said in an interview. “But which of the men at least once in his life did not allow himself such a weakness?” Just as mildly, he assessed other aspects of the parent's activities: "Those who accused him of all earthly sins, the same Khrushchev, for example, have much more sins."

Until the end of his life, he fought to restore the good name of his father. Sergo wrote the book “My father is Lavrenty Beria” in the genre of memoirs, where he not only recalls the warm moments associated with the family, but also opens some previously unknown pages national history. Later, 2 sequels were released: "The son is responsible for the father" and "In the corridors of Stalin's power."

Death

Sergei Beria died at the age of 75 in Kyiv on November 11, 2000. Despite his contributions to the field military industry, majority Russian media bypassed this event.

The cause of death was believed to be heart disease. The grave of the famous designer is located at the Baikove cemetery.

Bibliography

• 1994 - "My father is Lavrenty Beria"
• 1998 - " cruel age: Kremlin secrets»
• 2002 - “My father Beria. In the corridors of Stalinist power"
• 2013 - “My father Lavrenty Beria. The son is responsible for the father

Name: Nina Beria (Gegechkori Nina Teimurazovna)
Date of Birth: 1905
Age: 86 years old
Date of death: 1991
Place of Birth: Georgia
Activity: wife of the head of the NKVD Lavrenty Beria
Family status: widow

With the establishment of Soviet power in Georgia in the 1920s, the lives of many families, despite losses and upheavals, began to return to their usual track. High school student Nino Gegechkori was sheltered by relatives: she was left without parents, without a home, without a livelihood. Once, on the way to school, a thin guy in an oversized coat, cap and funny round glasses caught up with her. Nina knew him - it was Lavrenty Beria, an acquaintance of her uncle Sasha.

Beria bothered the girl with conversations that were not interesting to her. Without knowing why, she accepted his invitation for a walk in the park. There, on the bench, Lavrenty announced that he had been watching her for a long time and wanted her to become his wife. Not that the young man fell in love - his only hobby was politics - but a government trip to Belgium awaited him, and only family ones were allowed to go abroad.

Not what I imagined family life Nina. Brought up in the best Georgian traditions, she was an uncomplaining, submissive wife, kept the house in perfect cleanliness, and brought up her son in strictness. Beria disappeared day and night at work - he returned tired, taciturn. He went bald and stout so that Nina had to order new shirts and suits from the atelier almost every month. But once he was athletic and fit, he easily swam across the river, rowed, played volleyball. And yet she still loved her husband, although with her sensitive heart she understood: he had a mistress for a long time - and maybe more than one ...

Over time, the sexual promiscuity of the Commissar became more and more perverted, he chose not only beautiful women but also girls. With the rapture of a maniac, Beria kept a list - according to some sources, it contains 40 names, according to others - more than 70. It mentions famous actresses Zoya Fedorova, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Olga Chekhova, students of the institute international relations and even the names of some "Kremlin wives."

Of course, Beria's opponents regularly reported on his behavior to Stalin, but he needed the services of his people's commissar and only smiled in response: "It's just that Comrade Beria is tired and he needs rest." However, when intelligence reported to Stalin that his daughter Svetlana had been seen in Beria's mansion, the leader was pretty scared. He immediately called her and ordered her to urgently return home.

Nina Teimurazovna was not only an unusually beautiful, but also a very intelligent woman. What made her deny irrefutable evidence and believe in the innocence of her monster husband? Perhaps the answer is known to those mistresses of Beria, who, even after his arrest, called the People's Commissar a true gentleman and refused to testify against him ...

Without the intercession of her husband, she waited for Nina hard fate: she was arrested and interrogated, but even when the execution of her son Sergo was staged in front of her, she refused to give evidence that denigrated the name of her husband. Then Sergo and Nina were sent to prison, and after the execution of Beria they were sent to Sverdlovsk. It was as if someone's hand had torn out of a history book a page with the name of Nina Beria. It is only known that after difficult years of wandering, due to illness, she was allowed to leave for Kyiv, where she died in 1991.

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.

The mere name of Stalin's chief of security, Lavrenty Beria, terrified ordinary citizens. But his wife was considered the first Kremlin beauty. Nina Beria was a bright brunette with burning eyes, and many men sighed for her. But Nino did not start any novels - all her life she remained faithful and devoted to her husband. Even when he was gone.

How did Lavrenty and Nino meet?

N. Zenkovich in the book "Marshals and General Secretaries" sets out the following version of the acquaintance of future spouses. Like, 16-year-old Nino came from the Mingrelian village, located not far from the village of Merkheuli, where Beria himself was from, to ask for her arrested brother. In Sukhumi, at the railway station, there was a train on which Beria was going to go to Tbilisi. It was in the early 20s. The girl began to ask for her brother, and Lavrenty invited her to his compartment. There he locked the door and raped Nino. After that, he kept her locked up in his compartment for several more days, and then offered to become his wife.

True, Nina Teimurazovna herself denied these details. She claimed that Beria simply invited her to marry him after several months of dating.

I.A. Mudrova in the book “Great love stories. 100 stories about great feeling"Writes:" Lavrenty Beria was married to Nina Teimurazovna Gegechkori. She was the niece of the Bolshevik Sasha Gegechkori and the cousin of the Menshevik and Freemason Gegechkori, who headed the government of Georgia in 1920, the niece of Noah Zhordania, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Menshevik government of Georgia, who fled abroad after the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks.

In the early 1920s, Nino, an orphan, lived with the family of her relative Sasha Gegechkori. When he went to prison for Bolshevik activities, the girl began to carry parcels for him and so met with his cellmate Lavrenty Beria. When was established in Georgia Soviet authority, Beria specially came from Baku to ask Gegechkori for the hand of Nino. But he refused, because she was a minor. Then Nino decided to marry Lawrence without permission. At least this is how she described the events in an interview with the Tbilisi newspaper 7 DGE, after perestroika.

According to Nina, the Soviet government was going to send Lavrentiy to Belgium to study oil refining issues. With one condition: he must be married. “I thought about it and agreed - rather than live in someone else's family, it's better to create your own,” explains Nino.

Kremlin wife

22 year old marriage young man on a 16-year-old girl at that time was the norm. Nina Teimurazovna assured more than once: she entered into marriage according to own will. But I didn't have to go to Belgium. The family lived in Georgia, then moved to Moscow, where Nina Teimurazovna worked as a researcher at the Timiryazev Academy. Beria entered Stalin's inner circle, including dealing with issues of the defense industry, including the development nuclear weapons and rocketry.

Unlike the wives of many other senior officials - Molotov, Kalinin, Budyonny, Poskrebyshev - Beria's wife never fell under repression. She was envied by other "Kremlin wives": among them she was known as the first beauty, wore elegant outfits, always looked perfect, was smart, graceful, with amazing taste and sense of style.

Beria's widow

A black streak began for their family after the death of Stalin. June 26, 1953 N.S. Khrushchev convened a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and raised the question of Beria's suitability for his position. As a result, Lavrenty Pavlovich was removed from all posts and arrested on charges of espionage and conspiracy to seize power. In addition, he was also accused of sexual promiscuity, that he had many mistresses, and not everyone entered into a relationship with him voluntarily.

Nina Teimurazovna Beria denied this information both during interrogations and later in an interview. She claimed that all the women with whom her husband allegedly had intercourse were in fact ... state security agents. According to her, Beria disappeared at work for days on end and he simply did not have time to start novels ...

After the arrest of Beria, Nina Teimurazovna and her son Sergo were first kept under house arrest at one of the state dachas near Moscow, then sent to prison. Until the end of 1954, both of them were kept in solitary confinement: she - in the Lubyanka, he - in the Lefortovo prison. In order to influence Nina, they even staged the execution of her son in front of her ...

When Beria was shot, the family was sent to Sverdlovsk. There, Sergo got a job as a senior engineer, but he and his mother were under constant surveillance. At the end of their exile, they returned to Georgia, from where they were forcibly taken back to Russia. Subsequently, at the request of a group of prominent scientists and in connection with the illness of Nina Teimurazovna, the family was allowed to move to Kyiv. Nina Beria died in Kyiv in the mid-90s, Sergo Beria - in 2000.

Shortly before her death, Nina Teimurazovna gave an interview in which she fully justified her husband. She claimed that Lavrenty Pavlovich was not involved in mass repressions, since the Beria family moved to Moscow only in 1938, and the main number of repressions fell on the 37th. Nowadays, it has become known that Beria, on the contrary, released from prison many who were arrested by his predecessors.

According to the widow, Everyday life Beria was quiet, calm, restrained, never raised his voice to the household, loved his wife, son and grandchildren, tried to spend every free minute with loved ones. She believed that her husband was killed "without trial or investigation" and that in fact Beria and other associates of Stalin served "high goals" and were devoted to their country and their people.

By the time of the death of Joseph Stalin, he headed the Ministry of Internal Affairs (which included the MGB), taking control of the entire political and economic life of the country, and was one of the most likely contenders for the chair of the “Leader of the Peoples” along with Malenkov and Khrushchev).

Childhood and youth

Lawrence's parents lived an ordinary peasant life: they were engaged in growing grapes, tobacco, breeding bees. Their common first-born, Lavrenty's older brother, died at the age of 2, contracting smallpox. In 1905, in addition to Lavrenty, the family appeared youngest daughter Annette, who became deaf-mute after an illness.

From childhood, the son was an intelligent boy, showed independence and character - in any weather, for lack of shoes, he walked barefoot in primary school, located three kilometers from the house. Then, in an effort to learn and escape from a miserable existence, he entered the Sukhumi Higher Primary School, where, during 4 years of study, he showed high ability to natural sciences and drawing.

It was not easy for the parents to pay for the life of their son in the city, they even had to sell half of their house. The teenager also, by virtue of his abilities, tried to earn money - from the age of 12 he was engaged in tutoring.

After graduating from Sukhumi in 1915, he continued his education at the Baku Secondary Mechanical and Construction educational institution. In 1916, the young man decided to take his mother and sister to his city. He began to independently provide for himself and them financially, working in parallel with his studies in the oil company of the Nobel brothers. According to some reports, he also worked as a postman, delivering letters to class. In 1919, the young man received the prestigious profession of an architect-builder.

Party activities

In 1918, Lavrenty Pavlovich returned to his homeland and subsequently worked in various party and Soviet posts in the Transcaucasus. In the period 1919-1921. he was a student at the Baku Polytechnic University, but then was recalled to serve in the Cheka of Azerbaijan.

Since 1931, he worked as a secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, making a huge contribution to the development National economy republics. In 1938, he moved to Moscow, where he headed the State Security Directorate of the NKVD, and then the People's Commissariat itself.

While in this position, he initiated the release from prison of persons imprisoned on false charges. In 1939, more than 11 thousand military officers from the command staff were rehabilitated. But then the arrests of the military elite continued, reducing the combat effectiveness of the army. In addition, on the eve of the Second World War, the NKVD carried out the eviction of “unreliable elements” from the Baltic states, Ukraine, and Belarus to the east of the USSR.

With the outbreak of war, Beria joined the State Defense Committee, which had full power in the country. It was headed by Joseph Stalin, and Lavrenty Pavlovich in 1944-45. was chairman of the Operational Bureau, controlling heavy industry, coal and oil industries, transport. He also organized a quick evacuation to the rear of enterprises located in the west of the country, the creation of roads and airfields for their work in new places in order to provide the front with everything necessary.

AT war time he was directly involved in deportation issues, when innocent citizens and children were resettled along with criminals. In 1941, during the Nazi offensive against Moscow, hundreds of prisoners were shot on his orders without trial or investigation. Moreover, for all soldiers who were captured or did not want to fight, the public death penalty was applied.

In 1945, Beria led the activities of the Special Committee on the creation of an atomic bomb, as well as the work of a network of foreign intelligence agents, thanks to which the USSR was aware of all the most important technical developments in this direction by US nuclear researchers. In 1949, the first domestic atomic bomb passed successful tests, and Beria received the Stalin Prize.

After the death of the "Father of the Nations" in 1953, Beria headed the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was deputy. Chairman of the Council of Ministers In an attempt to strengthen his position in power, he initiated a number of judicial reforms, an amnesty decree that released more than one million prisoners, an end to the sensational "doctors' case", and a ban on cruel methods interrogation.

However, at the suggestion of Nikita Khrushchev, a conspiracy was organized against Lavrenty Beria, and in June 1953, at a meeting of the Presidium, he was arrested. He was accused of treason, moral decay and ties with foreign intelligence.

Personal life of Lavrenty Beria

Besides her, in last years the minister had a life civil wife, at the time of the acquaintance, she was still a schoolgirl Valentina (Lalya) Drozdova, who gave birth to his daughter Martha.

A number of researchers believe that the people's commissar was allegedly not just a lover of women, but a pervert-rapist with a sick psyche, on whose account there were many broken destinies. It is possible that he not only sent intractable chosen ones to jail or to logging, but also killed them. In the 1990s, during work on the territory of the former mansion of the "lustful monster", the remains of women were discovered. Beria's wife, in an interview, claimed that all his mistresses were in fact agents of the State Security Service.

Beria himself, after his arrest, admitted his promiscuity, which became the result of "moral decay".

Death

Unknown Beria

The body of the executed Beria was cremated, and the ashes were buried in the south-west of the capital at the New Donskoy Cemetery (according to another version, they were scattered over the Moscow River).

According to a number of historians and the son of the disgraced head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sergo Lavrentievich, there was no arrest of his father in the Kremlin, no trial. He was allegedly shot while trying to capture them in their house on Malaya Nikitskaya.