Granddaughter and adopted daughter of Nikita Khrushchev. Wives and children of Nikita Khrushchev

In Moscow, the train hit the granddaughter and adopted daughter of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev. This was reported by RIA Novosti sources in the police.

It is known that the tragedy occurred at the Solnechnaya station of the Kyiv direction of the Moscow railway. 77 year old Yulia Khrushcheva fell under the train Vnukovo - Moscow.

Khrushcheva's body was discovered a day after she was hit by an electric train.

The fact of the death of a woman born in 1940 was confirmed by the press service of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Transport in the Central Federal District, but the details were not specified. But in the reference service of the capital's ambulance, they reported the death of a woman with that name and age.

“Yulia Leonidovna Khrushcheva, at the age of 77, died today,” they said.

According to a number of media reports, the investigation is currently considering several versions of what happened.

“According to one of the versions, careless behavior on the railway platform became the cause of death,” the report says.

However, the version of suicide is not excluded. In particular, REN-TV journalists pointed out that the investigators are working out the version that Khrushchev's granddaughter could commit suicide.

Yulia Khrushcheva - daughter Leonid Khrushchev, son of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev from his first marriage. Mother of Yulia Khrushcheva - the second wife of Leonid Sergeevich Liubov Sizykh.

Yulia Khrushcheva was born in 1940 in Moscow. When the war began, her grandmother, Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva, evacuating with her three children to Kuibyshev (now Samara - Note FAN), took her daughter-in-law Lyuba and her granddaughter with her. In 1943, Leonid Khrushchev, a former fighter pilot, did not return from a combat mission. Shortly thereafter, his wife Lyuba, Yulia's mother, was arrested on suspicion of espionage. The four-year-old girl stayed in Kuibyshev with Nina Petrovna. After that, Nikita Khrushchev adopted the girl.

As Julia herself recalled, she found out that her father died at the front, and her real mother lives and works in Kazakhstan, only before entering Moscow State University.

“Nina Petrovna told me about it so that I could fill out the application form correctly. A year later, when I turned 17, I met my mother, ”the Facts and Comments newspaper quotes her.

According to the woman, the wife of Nikita Khrushchev, Nina Petrovna was strict, restrained, very correct.

“She had everything: household, children, school. I think that she consulted with her husband only on global issues and did not pull him over trifles. Nina Petrovna treated her duties as a wife and mother very responsibly. She cooked, cleaned, embroidered well and taught me a lot, even darning, which no one does now. Mom (since the Khrushchev family adopted their granddaughter, Julia called her that - Approx. FAN) was always collected, energetic. When she already lived alone in Zhukovka - and Nina Petrovna died at the age of 84 - she maintained perfect order in the house, ”recalled the granddaughter of the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.

“Sending my daughter to Nina Petrovna, I knew that she would be all right,” she said.

Yulia Khrushcheva always added that she was extremely grateful to Nikita Sergeevich and Nina Petrovna for everything, "including the strictness that reigned in our house."

In August 2016, the daughter of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev, Rada Adjubey, died. She died in the hospital at the age of 87.

The daughter of Nikita Khrushchev from his second marriage was born in 1929 in Kyiv. In 1952 she graduated from Moscow State University, after which she worked as a journalist. While still a student, she married her classmate Alexei Adzhubey, who then was the editor-in-chief of the Komsomolskaya Pravda and Izvestia newspapers. For more than 50 years, Rada Adjubey has worked in the journal Science and Life.

In 2007, the grandson of Nikita Khrushchev, a journalist for the Moscow News newspaper, Nikita Khrushchev, died. He died of a stroke in the Moscow Burdenko Hospital. As noted in the obituary, since January 2007, Khrushchev's grandson worked in the newspaper "Union Veche" - the Union State of Russia and Belarus.

Nikita Khrushchev had two marriages. In the first, his son Leonid and daughter Yulia were born, in the second - daughters Rada and Elena, son Sergey.

Biography, life story of Khrushcheva Yulia Leonidovna

Yulia Leonidovna Khrushcheva is the granddaughter of the First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.

Childhood

Julia was born in 1940 in Moscow in the family of military pilot Leonid Nikitovich Khrushchev, the eldest son, and his wife Lyubov Illarionovna Sizykh. When Yulia was only 2 years old, her father went missing after a combat mission near Orel. Immediately after this, Lyubov was arrested on suspicion of espionage, convicted and sent to camps. After 5 years, Lyubov Sizykh was released, but immediately, along with other former prisoners, they were exiled to Kazakhstan. The girl who was left without parents was adopted. Until the age of 16, Yulia thought that she was her father, and Nina Petrovna, his third wife, was her own mother. The truth was revealed only when Yulia filled out the documents for joining the Komsomol. Julia saw Lyubov Sizykh only in 1957 - a year after the woman was finally released.

Since 1944 Yulia lived in Kyiv. In 1949, together with her family, she again moved to Moscow. By that time, Yulia had no memories of Moscow life; she considered Kyiv her hometown. For some time the girl was terribly homesick, but soon got used to it.

Education. Labor activity

After graduating from high school, Yulia Khrushcheva entered the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University. Having received a diploma of higher education, Yulia Leonidovna got a job by profession in the Novosti press agency. A few years later, Khrushcheva, disillusioned with journalism, left Novosti and became the head of the literary department at the Moscow Drama Theater named after M.N. Yermolova. Later, Julia entered the same position at the Named Theatre, where she worked until retirement age.

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Julia and her husband raised their daughter Nina. Nina graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University, then studied at Princeton University. Left to live in the USA. She got a job as a teacher of international relations at New School University in New York.

In the 2000s, Yulia Leonidovna actively fought against the falsification of the history of the Khrushchev family in general and the biography of her father in particular, she sued the leadership of Channel One, state and political figure Dmitry Yazov and writer Vladimir Karpov for libel.

Doom

On the morning of June 8, 2017, at the Solnechnaya station of the Kyiv direction of the Moscow Railway on the Michurinets platform, a 77-year-old woman was hit by an electric train. The body was found a day later. After the identification, it was announced that the deceased was Yulia Leonidovna Khrushcheva. According to the first version, Yulia Leonidovna crossed the rails in the wrong place while the train was moving and did not respond to the driver's signals. The second version says that Khrushchev accidentally stumbled on the platform and fell onto the rails.

Farewell to Yulia Leonidovna and her funeral, it was decided to hold at the Troekurovsky cemetery on June 13 of the same year.

Exactly 40 years ago, the former leader of the Soviet state, Nikita Khrushchev, died.

The first granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, Yulia, was born in 1939 in Moscow. When the war began, her grandmother, Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva, evacuated with her three children to Kuibyshev (now Samara), and took her daughter-in-law, Lyuba, with her granddaughter. Yulia's father, Leonid Khrushchev, died at the front in 1943. Soon after, her mother was arrested on suspicion of espionage. The four-year-old girl stayed in Kuibyshev with Nina Petrovna, calling her mother, and Nikita Sergeevich - father. And still treats them like family.

Now 72-year-old Yulia Leonidovna lives in Moscow.

“On the day of the funeral, the Pravda newspaper printed a short message: “Personal pensioner Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev died”

- On September 1, 1971, Nikita Sergeevich called us home from his dacha in Petrovo-Dalny, - says Yulia Khrushcheva. — On this day, my daughter Nina went to the first grade, and her great-grandfather congratulated her on the beginning of her working life. A few days later, he was hospitalized with a heart attack in the Kuntsevo hospital. Dad was treated there, he got a little better. But the heart of a 77-year-old man still could not stand it. Doctors are not gods, especially since this heart attack was not the first ...

On the day of Nikita Sergeevich's death, the weather in Moscow was warm and sunny. As soon as I found out about my father's death, I immediately went to Granovsky Street, where he lived with Nina Petrovna. Sergei, Rada (the son and daughter of Nikita Sergeevich. - Auth.) were already there. We were going to discuss the place and time of the funeral, but from the Administration of the Central Committee of the CPSU we were told: "We will bury on Monday at the Novodevichy cemetery." Actually, it was not help, but the organization of the process. For some reason, a civil memorial service in the hospital morgue was scheduled for 11 o'clock in the morning. We asked to postpone the beginning of farewell for a couple of hours later, so that relatives could come, but we were refused, they say, we must strictly adhere to the schedule.

I think it was all done on purpose. The fewer people would come to say goodbye to Khrushchev, the better for the authorities.

And did they get what they wanted?

- Not really. On Saturday, my father died, and on Monday the Pravda newspaper printed a short report: “Personal pensioner Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev has died.” At that time, there were no such radio stations as Kommersant-FM or Ekho Moskvy - people learned the news from the morning newspapers. And we have many relatives in Kyiv too (including Nikita Khrushchev's daughter from her first marriage, Yulia, with her husband Viktor Gontar. - Auth.), and in other cities - not everyone managed to arrive.

Nevertheless, many people came to say goodbye to Khrushchev. Then the procession moved to the Novodevichy Convent, which suddenly announced ... a sanitary day. Therefore, all approaches to the monastery were blocked by policemen. Only foreign journalists and some of the Soviet ones were allowed through, according to their certificates. However, one of my acquaintances, not at all Russian in appearance, resembling a Tatar, introduced himself as the grandson of Nikita Sergeevich, and, oddly enough, they also let him through.

The funeral bus drove at high speed through the gates of the monastery and, bypassing the farewell platform, drove straight to the freshly dug grave. So they wanted to get rid of Khrushchev as soon as possible! Although, as you understand, there could not have been any unrest then. People silently stood near the grave. A torrential autumn rain fell. Sergei Nikitich said: “Today even nature says goodbye to Nikita Sergeevich. The father was a man to whom no one was indifferent. He was either loved or hated ... "

Then a woman spoke, one of the victims of the Gulag, and Vadim, a classmate of Sergei, the son of the repressed. That's the whole funeral service!

Mom arranged a commemoration at the dacha. In the same place, we discussed with her, Sergei Nikitich and Sergo Mikoyan, which monument to put on the grave. We decided to turn to Ernst Neizvestny. A couple of days later, Sergei contacted the brilliant sculptor, and he set to work.

True, the monument was not allowed to be erected for a very long time. They said: "Make it smaller and not black and white, but red, not marble, but some other." Finally, in 1973, they gave the go-ahead. When the monument was erected, again, as on the day of the funeral, it was raining.

“If our entire class left the astronomy lesson, only my parents and the parents of Nina Budennaya called from the school”

- Having become a member of the family, as they say now, of a government official, did you go to an elite school in the first grade?

- What are you doing! The school was the most ordinary, a stone's throw from the house, so that it was convenient to walk. Until the fourth grade, I studied at the 61st Kyiv school on Melnikova Street, on Lukyanovka. We lived nearby, in a mansion on Osievskaya Street (now Artem Street. - Auth.). For some time after the liberation of Kyiv, we still lived in Moscow, and in 1944 we settled in this mansion among greenery, chestnuts and birdsong. It was this kind of nature that Nikita Sergeevich adored.

In January 1949 they moved to Moscow. They lived in a state-owned apartment in the Government House on Granovsky Street. Here the school was also a stone's throw from the house, on Semashko Street, now it is some kind of Sredny Kislovsky lane. I remember that it was a terrible frost outside, and I was very homesick for Kyiv in cold Moscow.

- Did you, the granddaughter of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, make concessions in your studies?

- If our entire class left the astronomy lesson, only my parents and the parents of Nina Budenny called from the school. Nobody else. And so - for any reason. Nina Budyonna and I studied in the same class, lived in the same house and are still friends.

Humanitarian subjects were given to me very well, but I don’t remember anything from the natural disciplines. Is it just how many will be twice two. Once Nikita Sergeevich helped me solve a math problem. He easily grasped any technically complex things. If dad had received a higher education, he could have become an outstanding engineer. I did not go to any medal, but I received a quite decent certificate, with several fours in unloved subjects.

— You graduated from high school in 1956. At the same time, the historic XXth Congress of the CPSU took place, at which Nikita Khrushchev made a closed report on the cult of personality ...

- This Khrushchev report was sent out for review only to party organizations. But at our school, a wonderful teacher Amalia Arkadyevna taught history. In one of the lessons she told us about the cult of personality. In fact, in 1956, the topic of the cult of personality was not discussed in schools. I don’t think that Amalia Arkadyevna had special instructions on this matter, it’s just that, as a professional historian, she herself decided to tell the high school students about this.

- Did you know that Nikita Sergeevich and Nina Petrovna are your adoptive parents?

- I knew. But the fact that my father died at the front in 1943, and my mother lives and works in Kazakhstan, I found out only before entering Moscow State University. Nina Petrovna told me about it so that I could fill out the application form correctly. A year later, when I was 17, I met my mother.

Nina Petrovna was strict, restrained, very correct. She had everything: household, children, school. I think that she consulted with her husband only on global issues and did not pull him over trifles.

Nina Petrovna treated her duties as a wife and mother very responsibly. She cooked, cleaned, embroidered well and taught me a lot, even darning, which no one does now. Mom was always collected, energetic. When she already lived alone in Zhukovka - and Nina Petrovna died at 84 - she maintained perfect order in the house.

For some time before entering the university, my daughter Nina lived with her great-grandmother and became very close friends with her. Sending my daughter to Nina Petrovna, I knew that she would be all right.

I am extremely grateful to Nikita Sergeevich and Nina Petrovna for everything, including the strictness that reigned in our house.

“The day after the resignation, Nikita Sergeevich recited Nekrasov: “Late autumn. The rooks have flown…”

- What holiday was most loved in the Khrushchev family?

- May Day. And Nikita Sergeevich's favorite dish was potato pancakes with sour cream. Like mine. And he called them in the Ukrainian way, because the Russians say "draniki". Nina Petrovna cooked them wonderfully. When, after the death of her husband, she lived in the country, I tried to come to her without warning. Because my mother always prepared for my arrival: she cooked Ukrainian borscht, fried potato pancakes.

- Potato pancakes go well with vodka.

- What do you! Dad was completely indifferent to drinking. Once, at a dacha in Petrovo-Dalny, I took a sip of wine. And then he did not allow me to drive to drive back, although I did not drink, but simply raised a glass to my lips!

Nikita Sergeevich also liked to eat watermelon ... with white bread. I think I learned this when I lived in Ukraine.

-Did your grandfather like to remember the Ukrainian period?

- Nikita Sergeevich loved Ukraine very much, but said almost nothing about this period of his life. He was not a very talkative person, most often spent time in thought. He liked to listen to Ukrainian songs on the Dnepr tape recorder. We also recorded the singing of Ukrainian nightingales for him on a tape recorder. And Khrushchev preferred to rest in the Crimea, in Livadia.

On the beach he always read, swam a little. I never played dominoes or cards. I thought these classes were stupid. I agree with him. When I see cards in people's hands, I go wild, just like Nikita Sergeevich.

In our large family, they were fond of the theater. We listened to all the operas at the Bolshoi. And they didn’t try, as the theatergoers do now, to get exclusively to the premiere. Then there was no such word. Nikita Sergeevich could raise his eyes from the newspaper and say: "Shouldn't we go to the theater?" I still love opera, I recognize "Eugene Onegin" from any note. We walked to Bolshoi from Granovsky Street, through Alexander Garden and Manezhnaya Square.

Do you remember the day of the resignation of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU?

It happened on October 13, 1964. It was a dry, warm autumn in Moscow. I lived in the countryside with my little daughter. On October 14, I learned that the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU satisfied the application of the 70-year-old Khrushchev for retirement. I immediately went to the Lenin Hills, where the family of Nikita Sergeevich lived in a government mansion. Mom was not there, she was resting in Karlovy Vary, and dad and I spent the whole day together. He asked: "Are you free?" - "Free." - "Do you want to go to the country?" - "Of course!"

In the evening I was expecting guests, so I wanted to call home to warn and clarify something. But Nikita Sergeevich said: “The phone is off!” and asked: “Do you need to come back?” “No, I’ll go later,” I replied.

He and I collected fallen red-crimson maple leaves and talked about Nekrasov. Dad was very fond of the work of this poet, he knew many of his poems by heart. And on October 14, on the Lenin Hills, Nikita Sergeevich recited “Late autumn. The rooks have flown…”

- What expression of Nikita Sergeevich do you remember?

— My daughter Nina has been living and working in New York for 20 years. And it is very difficult for me to get used to this city. I remember how dad, talking at some event about his first trip to America, said: “I must tell you, comrades, that New York is a terrible city!”

Now, having visited my daughter, I understand how this metropolis suppressed him. Nikita Sergeevich loved the forest, the river, the field, nature, and the tall houses sticking out and the gorges-streets between them simply oppressed him.

And every time I go out into the street in New York - and it is especially "impressive" in the summer - I always say: "I must tell you, comrades, that New York is a terrible city!"

The name of Nikita Khrushchev is strongly associated with Ukraine and Kyiv. Some recall his ignorance and lack of education, multiplied by rudeness and authoritarianism. Others, on the contrary, say that only under him they truly felt like a Soviet person. First, they attribute to him the defeat of the creative thought of the intelligentsia. Others speak of significant developments in science during his reign.

Within the framework of one article, it is impossible to assess his activities, but it is possible to find one of the reasons for his “versatility”. Moreover, as always, a woman is involved in this. And not just a woman, but a mother named Xenia.

History shows that on April 17, 1894, a son was born in the Khrushchev family, living in the village of Kalinovka, Kursk province, who received the name Nikita. Poor landless young parents, in search of a more or less tolerable life, moved to Yuzovka (now Donetsk) to feed themselves in the industrial Donbass. Poverty was such that they did not even think of a brother or sister for Nikitushka.

Only two years later, sister Ira appeared, after which Ksenia Ivanovna “put an end” to this issue. According to the memoirs of the last daughter-in-law, Khrushchev's mother considered her husband a loser and mediocrity all her life.

“His mother was a woman with a strong will, a woman fighter. - Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk recalled. - Brave, not afraid of anyone. Father - he is much softer, kinder, but she did not let anyone down. He is soft and weak, and she kept him under her heel.

It was the mother who insisted that her son go to the mine and, not only to earn money, but also to find himself in society. She herself sent her son to the mine for dangerous work also so that he would become a big man, and not worthless, like his father. Khrushchev owed everything to maternal education. As Nikita Sergeevich himself recalled: “Mother did everything so that I would not become addicted to either tobacco or vodka.” Only, during the period of work in Moscow, at the “Stalinist gatherings”, he was forced to use it together with everyone, otherwise ...

It is worth citing one interesting fact from his biography. Khrushchev’s son-in-law Alexei Adzhubei cited the following conversation with his father-in-law in his memoirs: “When I was little,” Nikita Sergeevich said in an unusual thoughtful manner, “and grazing cows in a clearing in the forest, an old woman approached me. I looked into my eyes for a long time, I was even dumbfounded. And I heard strange words from her: Boy, a great future awaits you. This story, then still Nikitushka, told his mother. Subsequently, this fact was confirmed when Lyubov Sizykh (the last, third wife of Nikita Sergeevich’s son from his first marriage, Leonid) spoke about a conversation with her mother-grandmother, as Ksenia Ivanovna was called in the family: “Ksenia idolized her son, called him king and boasted that she always I knew that Nikita would make a big man.

In 1932, Khrushchev took his parents to Moscow. And if Sergei Nikanorovich could not find himself in the capital, as in the "House on the Embankment", then the mother fell "in her element." Almost all the days she, along with her neighbors, mothers of the same party functionaries, sat on a bench near the entrance and talked about her son, about his first children. History does not like subjunctive moods and assumptions, but I do not exclude the possibility that these conversations about the son whom she loved and who loved Stalin reached the addressee ...

She loved her son's mother not only as her child, but also as a "big man." At the same time, as all the other household members recall, she immediately took a dislike to Nina Petrovna, because she believed that Nikita's best wife was Efrosinya Ivanovna - Frosya, the mother of Leni and Yulia (the first wife died of typhus in 1919). The second wife, Marusya, again, according to the recollections, she simply survived from home. Both the last daughter-in-law and the (second) grandchildren gave the following description of Ksenia Ivanovna: “Khrushchev’s mother, broad-faced, stern in appearance, with smoothly combed back hair, was a strong woman. Ksenia was not just smart, but a truly wise woman. If she had at least some education - oh, it would be something.

In 1938, Sergei Nikanorovich died of tuberculosis, who was buried not in the prestigious Moscow cemetery, but in the one closest to the house (most likely, on Vagankovsky). After the funeral of his father, neither the son nor the wife were ever at his grave, which has not been found today ... And then came 1939, the year of the beginning of the Ukrainian stage in the life of Nikita Sergeevich and his large family. He could not live alone, without his wife, all his children and, of course, his mother. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the entire Khrushchev family, with the exception of Leonid Khrushchev and Nikita Sergeevich himself, was sent to evacuate to Kuibyshev, under the guidance, of course, of the “mother-grandmother”.

Having again become the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (b), in September 1944 he returned his family to his native Kyiv. Khrushchev is again in the orbit of power, he is proud of the country and the republic, which has not yet been completely liberated from the German-Romanian occupiers. A glorious date is approaching in the life of any political figure - the 50th anniversary. There was already hope that by the round date the leader's "favor" would appear. But. This notorious but always makes its own adjustments, and even changes the way of life.

On February 29, 1944, General Nikolai Vatutin was seriously wounded, but not yet fatal. True to his adventurism, or rather, self-confidence, Nikita Sergeevich convinces Moscow that the Kyiv doctors will not only save the legendary commander, but also put him on his feet.

Alas, in such cases, procrastination is like death. On April 15, the heart of a talented commander, a favorite of the troops and people, stopped. And on April 17, on the day of his half-century anniversary, instead of a holiday in his honor, Nikita Khrushchev escorts General Vatutin on his last journey. Ksenia Ivanovna, true to her mother's instinct, was very worried that the death of one of Stalin's favorite generals could "put an end" to her son's future career. But, again, but. Here, so to speak, Khrushchev was played along by Zhukov, who after the death of Vatutin became the commander of the 1st Ukrainian, at the head of which he took Berlin.

Through the efforts of Zhukov-Khrushchev, a version was circulated that initially Vatutin's wound was fatal. However, the experiences of the mother, and even at that age, affected her health. Literally six months after moving to Kyiv, she died. Unlike her father, her mother was buried in the central alley of the Lukyanovka cemetery. Being already the head of the state, Nikita Sergeevich very often visited his native grave. Remembering his proletarian origin, he forbade a monument to be erected on her grave.

Today, the grave of Khrushchev's mother is included in the register of historical monuments of Kyiv. It should also be noted that two people were buried in one grave: mother-in-law and son-in-law, i.e. Gontar Victor Petrovich, husband of the eldest daughter Yulia, former director of the Kyiv Opera, whom she loved so much.

We don’t know how and in what way the “Khrushchevites” of Ukraine will remember the name of Nikita Sergeevich on April 17, but if we talk about him and his deeds, then it’s probably worth saying a word about his mother ... But not a word was said about her ... It’s a pity which was not previously said about the mother of a person who entered world history. What do we know about her. We know that she was born on February 6 (January 24), 1872, and died on March 23, 1945. But from April 17, 1894, until her death, she was also her son's guardian angel, his connoisseur and his only judge ... http://www.bagnet.org/news/politics/41837

Family of Nikita Khrushchev

Khrushchev - a rarity among members of the Politburo - was a father of many children, raised five children. As a young man in Yuzovka (now Donetsk), he married Efrosinya Ivanovna Pisareva, a beautiful red-haired woman. She died in 1919 of typhus, leaving Nikita Sergeevich with two children, Yulia and Leonid. He remarried Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, a calm woman with a strong character, who gave birth to three - Rada, Sergey and Elena.

Elena was in poor health and died at the age of 35. Leonid Khrushchev, military pilot, died at the front.

Yulia Khrushcheva (1916-1981) was married to the director of the Kyiv Opera and was a chemist by profession.

Nina Kukharchuk was born into a Ukrainian family in the village of Vasilev in the Kholm region, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Her father, Pyotr Vasilyevich, was an ordinary peasant. Mother - Ekaterina Grigoryevna Bondarchuk - also came from a simple peasant family.

Nina Kukharchuk met Nikita Khrushchev in 1922 in Yuzovka. There she worked as a teacher in the district party school. There they began to live as a family. And they will register their marriage only after Khrushchev is sent to retire, in 1965.

When Nina Khrushcheva became the "first lady" of the state, she participated in Khrushchev's foreign trips, met with the first persons of other states and their wives, which was not accepted in the USSR before her. Nina Khrushcheva was fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and French. Wikipedia says that she was still studying English, but does not indicate the degree of proficiency in it.

Nikita Sergeevich and Nina Petrovna were good parents and had a happy family. Nina Petrovna survived Nikita Sergeevich (died in 1971) and daughter Elena. She lived at the state dacha in Zhukovka, had a pension of 200 rubles.

Now a little about the two most famous children of the Khrushchevs: Rada and Sergei. They have achieved a lot in this life. There is no doubt that their parents gave them a good start. But, as we know, no status of parents will help if the parents did not take care of the child and if he does not have abilities. And Nina Khrushcheva, that same woman in a simple cotton dress, was able to raise worthy and good children.

Rada graduated from school with a gold medal in Kyiv. After leaving school, she entered the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, later transferred to the established Faculty of Journalism, which she graduated in 1952. During her studies, she met Alexei Adzhubey, whom she married in 1949. In this marriage, she gave birth to three sons (Nikita, Alexei and Ivan). With her husband, they kept an excellent relationship while they were together. Alexei Ivanovich treated his wife affectionately and tenderly.

The Khrushchev Rada has always been modest. No one would have thought that she was the daughter of the master of the country. All her life she worked in the journal Science and Life, headed the department of biology and medicine, then became deputy editor-in-chief. Deciding that journalism education is not enough, she graduated from the Faculty of Biology of Moscow University.

In 1956, she was appointed deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine. During her work, the journal became one of the best popular science journals in the Soviet Union. After Khrushchev was removed from his post, her husband fell into disgrace and began working as a department editor in the Soviet Union magazine, as well as publishing in various publications under a pseudonym, Rada Adzhubey continued to work in the editorial office of the magazine until 2004.

True, for more than twenty years her name was not mentioned in the list of the editorial board of the magazine ... She was an intelligent and educated woman. Lived a decent life. She died at the age of 87.

The second child of Nina and Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei, is a Soviet and Russian scientist, publicist, doctor of technical sciences, professor, Hero of Socialist Labor.

In 1952 he graduated from Moscow School No. 110 with a gold medal, graduated from the Faculty of Electrovacuum Engineering and Special Instrumentation of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute with a degree in Automatic Control Systems. He worked at OKB Chelomey as a deputy head of a department, deputy director of the Institute of Electronic Control Machines (INEUM), deputy general director of NPO Elektronmash.

When his father was removed, Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev also lost his beloved job. He did a great job - he persuaded his father to dictate his memoirs. The four-volume notes of Nikita Sergeevich are an invaluable source on the history of the Fatherland.

In 1991, S. N. Khrushchev was invited to Brown University (USA) to lecture on the history of the Cold War, in which he now specializes. Remained permanently in the United States, currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, has Russian and American (since 1999) citizenship. He is a professor at the Thomas Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.

He published a number of his own books with memories of the historical events he witnessed, and with his own balanced assessment of what was happening: "A pensioner of allied significance", "The Birth of a Superpower". In his works, he adheres to a clear anti-Stalinist position. Currently working on books about "Khrushchev's reforms". The books have been translated into 12 foreign languages. One of the screenwriters of the film "Grey Wolves" (Mosfilm, 1993).

Divorced from his first wife, Galina Shumova. The second wife, Valentina Nikolaevna Golenko, lives with Sergei Nikitich in the USA. The eldest son Nikita, a journalist and editor of Moscow News, died on February 22, 2007 in Moscow. The youngest son Sergei lives in Moscow. foto-history.livejournal.com/8115525.html

Prepared by Nikolai Zubashenko based on Internet materials