Why didn't the children of Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin's daughter) forgive her escape from the USSR? The Stalins stayed, the Khrushchevs left. How do the descendants of Soviet leaders live? And at this time

Ekaterina Zhdanova was born on May 5, 1950 in the "main" family of the Land of Soviets. Her grandfather was Joseph Stalin, and her parents were Svetlana Alliluyeva and Yuri Zhdanov, the son of the closest associate of the owner of the Kremlin. But " blue blood” did not save her from tragic trials.

KATYA studied at privileged schools, lived in luxurious apartments by Soviet standards, but her childhood can hardly be called happy. She was still a child when a campaign began in the country to debunk her grandfather's cult of personality, then she was strange death uncles - Vasily Stalin and, finally, the flight of the mother abroad in 1967. 17-year-old Ekaterina considered the emigration of her mother a betrayal. Could she have imagined that 10 years later she herself would run away from Moscow headlong away from the all-seeing eye of the special services, the guardianship of relatives and the annoying curiosity of colleagues and acquaintances?

In a remote Kamchatka province, her independence turned into seclusion, self-assertion into the cold indifference of her colleagues, and love into a short marriage that ended in tragedy.

Zhdanova traded the bustle of the capital for a quiet life at the foot of volcanoes

Ekaterina first arrived in the distant Kamchatka village of Klyuchi in 1977 as part of a geological expedition studying Klyuchevskaya Sopka, the largest active volcano Eurasia.

In Klyuchi she met a charming employee of the volcano station Vsevolod Kozev - an extraordinary person who easily became the soul of any company. It was hard not to fall in love with this. Charmed provincial Don Juan and a young Muscovite.

Having married Vsevolod, she did not change her famous surname. But she gladly exchanged the bustle of the capital for a quiet life at the foot of the Kamchatka volcanoes. She hoped that here she would finally become not Stalin's granddaughter, but simply Ekaterina Zhdanova. Colleagues will appreciate her as a competent specialist, and her husband will love her, because she is a smart and interesting woman. Alas, her dreams did not come true.

“Seva was actually an adventurer by nature,” recalls Gennady Tezikov, an employee of the volcano station who knew Kozev well. - He thought that Zhdanova would make him rich, but she didn’t have a penny for her soul ... Having married Ekaterina, Kozev left his former family - his wife and two children. His first wife taught German at the village school famous person in Keys. At that time, many turned their backs on Seva, and people began to look askance at Zhdanova ... "

Kozev's acquaintances say that his first wife blew dust off him. Ekaterina turned out to be completely different: she was a useless hostess. The daughter of "princess" Svetlana was not taught how to clean, wash and cook as a child. How could the educators know what awaits her in the near future? Vsevolod did not get what he expected from the marriage, he began to drink. The birth of his daughter Anya in 1982 only temporarily forced him to settle down. Soon the doctors pronounced a sentence on him - cirrhosis of the liver. “Seva then was unrecognizable,” recalls G. Tezikov, “he was all swollen. In the soul - complete devastation. He was always a leader, but he ended up with a broken trough. realizing

That the disease is incurable, Vsevolod fell into a terrible depression and in 1983 he shot himself with a hunting rifle in his own house ...

Colleagues then believed that Zhdanova would leave the Keys to relatives in Rostov or Moscow. But she remained in the village, where she had neither relatives nor close friends. She was given a small house in which she lives to this day.

Ekaterina Yurievna decided to dedicate herself to her daughter and volcanoes.

TODAY, Stalin's great-granddaughter Anya, together with her husband and five-year-old daughter Vika, lives separately from her mother in a small apartment in a military unit located not far from the Keys. She is studying in absentia at a technical school as an accountant, and her husband serves as an ensign. At first, he did not even suspect that he had become related to the descendants of the Generalissimo. I learned about this later, and not from my wife, but from acquaintances ...

Ekaterina Zhdanova still works as a senior researcher at the Institute of Volcanology, although, according to colleagues, he rarely appears in his office. She practically does not leave the house, she does not communicate with her neighbors, and, they say, she cannot stand newspapermen at all. We asked to visit her as tourists who came to look at the Kamchatka volcanoes (later, however, we admitted that we were journalists).

She looked unimportant - a thin, tired woman. The only room in her small private house is filled with dilapidated furniture.

The hostess showed slides with volcanoes, enthusiastically talked about the work. When it came to her mother, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Zhdanova became visibly agitated: “She has her own life, I have mine. Everyone in our family works, she decided to go her own way. We offered her to return to Russia. But she refused, that's her business." Ekaterina Yurievna never uttered the word "mother".

When Alliluyeva came to Soviet Union in the mid-80s, her daughter refused to meet with her, limited herself to a letter. “In it, in a well-known to me still childish handwriting, an adult woman completely alien to me wrote with unheard of malice that she “does not forgive”, will never “forgive” and “does not want to forgive.” This is how Svetlana Alliluyeva speaks of this message in The Book for Granddaughters. Ekaterina Yurievna really never forgave her mother.

Having gone outside after talking with our heroine, we lingered near her small house. “A tiny shack, no more than a chicken coop, where the whole family huddled in one little room,” these words can also be said about Zhdanova’s miserable dwelling, but they were dedicated to another house. So Svetlana Alliluyeva in one of her books described the hut in Gori where Joseph Stalin was born. 126 years have passed since then. Today, in a small shack, only at the other end of Eurasia, lives the granddaughter of the once great leader. Although Stalin himself probably assumed that his descendants would have a different fate. Alas, in some mystical way, everything returned to normal.

As you know, according to official data, Stalin had 3 natural children: 2 sons (Yakov and Vasily) and a daughter (Svetlana). It is clear that all of them are no longer alive, however, as some of Stalin's grandchildren are no longer alive. How did the fate of the descendants of Joseph Dzhugashvili? Where did they live and what did they do?

Jacob's children

Yakov Dzhugashvili, who died in a German concentration camp in 1943, managed to leave behind 2 children: son Evgeny and daughter Galina. Evgeny Yakovlevich was at first recorded in the name of his mother Golysheva Olga Pavlovna, but soon, at the insistence of his father, Dzhugashvili became. Stalin's grandson was a military man. At one time he graduated from 2 military academies (named after Zhukovsky and named after Lenin). In the early 1990s, as a colonel, he retired. In addition, Evgeny Yakovlevich was engaged in history, politics and social activities, moreover, both in Georgia and in Russia. He passed away 2 years ago, in 2016. He left 2 sons: Jacob and Vissarion. Yakov became an artist and lives in Tbilisi, and Vissarion is a director, he lives in the USA.

Galina Dzhugashvili, daughter of Stalin's eldest son, graduated from Moscow State University and became a philologist. She worked at the Institute of World Literature. At 32, Galina Yakovlevna married the Algerian Hussein bin Saad. The couple had a son, Selim. In 2007, at the age of 69, the granddaughter of Joseph Dzhugashvili died.

Vasily's children

Vasily Stalin, who died in 1962, was the father of 2 daughters (Svetlana and Nadezhda) and 2 sons (Vasily and Alexander). The eldest of his children, Alexander, bore his mother's surname - Bourdonsky. He was a director and served in the theater Russian Army. He died in 2017. Burdonsky had no children.

Another son of Vasily, his namesake, lived in Tbilisi. There he became addicted to drugs and shot himself at the age of 23.

Svetlana Stalina suffered from mental illness and died a few weeks before her 43rd birthday.

Nadezhda Stalina wanted to become an actress and even studied at a theater school, but she never managed to become a star. She was the wife of the adopted son of the writer A. Fadeev. In marriage, Nadezhda Vasilievna gave birth to a daughter. The granddaughter of Joseph Dzhugashvili died in 1999.

Svetlana's children

Svetlana Alliluyeva was married several times and gave birth to 3 children. Her eldest child, Joseph, was the son of the scientist and jurist Grigory Morozov. Iosif Grigorievich himself became a cardiologist. He died at the age of 63, in Moscow.

Daughter Ekaterina appeared to Alliluyeva in marriage with Professor Yuri Zhdanov. Unable to bear close attention to her life, Stalin's granddaughter left for Kamchatka. There she got married. However, the union was short-lived: Catherine's husband committed suicide. Zhdanova was left alone with her daughter. Ekaterina Yurievna lives in Kamchatka to this day.

Having emigrated to the USA, Svetlana Alliluyeva met the American architect William Peters. In 1971, Svetlana gave birth to a daughter, Olga. Olga lives in the United States, now under a different name Chris Evans, and does not speak Russian at all.

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In the personal life of the daughter of Joseph Stalin, there were many novels, she got married several times, the first time it happened back in student years- then Grigory Morozov, who studied in the same class with Svetlana's brother Vasily, became her husband. The children of Svetlana Alliluyeva were born from different men, and the first of them, son Joseph, was born in her first marriage.

Svetlana Iosifovna lived with Grigory for about five years - her father did everything so that her daughter broke up with a person who was objectionable to him.

Soon after the divorce, Alliluyeva again went down the aisle - with Yuri Zhdanov, whom she saw almost only on the day of the wedding - Joseph Vissarionovich this time picked up her husband's daughter himself, but this marriage did not bring her happiness.

As soon as Svetlana Alliluyeva gave birth to her second child, daughter Katya, she immediately filed for divorce. Svetlana Iosifovna’s relationship with her daughter did not work out from childhood - when Katya was seven years old, Alliluyeva left the country, leaving her daughter to her parents ex-husband, for this Katya could not forgive her mother.

Alliluyeva's third child was born in her fifth marriage, after emigrating to the States. The father of Olga's daughter was William Peters, an American architect, whom Svetlana Iosifovna married in 1970.

The relationship with the mother of the children of Svetlana Alliluyeva did not work out, they did not experience maternal love, so they tried to remember her as little as possible. After her flight from the country, Joseph and Katya erased her from their lives, and Catherine, in fact, completely abandoned her.

The son of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph, after the divorce of his parents, was adopted by his mother's second husband, Yuri Zhdanov, who gave the child his last name. Later, Joseph returned his patronymic and took the surname Alliluyev. Iosif Grigorievich received medical education became a cardiologist. He worked all his life at the Moscow Medical Academy, published over one hundred and fifty scientific papers, defended his doctoral dissertation, and received the title of Honored Scientist.

His personal life did not develop immediately, he was married twice, in his first marriage his son Ilya was born. Iosif Grigorievich died in 2008, Svetlana Iosifovna, having learned about the death of her son, did not want to come to Moscow to see him on his last journey.

Iosif Grigorievich tried to avoid publicity, almost never gave interviews, and in one of them he spoke of his mother like this:

“My mother is an absolutely unbearable person in terms of character ... Somehow, angry, she threw a hammer at me, a boy. If I hadn’t dodged, I wouldn’t be talking to you now ... ”- recalled Iosif Alliluyev.

The eldest daughter of Svetlana Alliluyeva Ekaterina had even more negative memories of her mother, and this is probably why, when she was informed about the death of Svetlana Iosifovna, she said that she had nothing to do with this woman - Katya was not able to forgive her mother for the fact that when she, having left the country, left her daughter to the mercy of fate.

Ekaterina Yurievna became a geophysicist, and after graduating from the university she left as far as possible from the capital - to Kamchatka, to the village of Klyuchi, located at the foot of the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano. For almost forty years she lived in this village, without leaving anywhere, married one of the employees of the volcanological station, where she worked herself, gave birth to a daughter, Anna.

Her personal life was difficult - her husband left his first wife and children for her sake, and expected that marriage with Stalin's granddaughter would change his biography in better side, but that didn't happen. Ekaterina Yuryevna cut off all ties with her relatives, and did not receive any help from them.

Catherine's husband drank, fell ill with cirrhosis of the liver, he began to have mental problems, and in the end he shot himself with a hunting rifle.

Alliluyeva's youngest daughter Olga also did not have warm feelings for her mother, who gave her to early age to boarding school.

Olga later changed her name to Chris and became Evans, taking her husband's surname. Now she is divorced, Olga has her own business in Portland - she owns a small gift shop.

Grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Svetlana Alliluyeva

The relationship with the children of the daughter of the leader of all peoples did not work out, therefore, the grandchildren of Svetlana Alliluyeva could not experience love and care from their grandmother. The granddaughter of Svetlana Iosifovna Anna Vsevolodovna Kozeva also has a strained relationship with her mother - Svetlana's daughter Ekaterina Zhdanova.

Anya was born in 1982 in Kamchatka, where her mother left Moscow in 1977. Now Anna Vsevolodovna lives in a military unit located near the village of Klyuchi, where her mother lives.

Anna got married, her husband is an ensign, and she herself works as an accountant. In the family of Anna Vsevolodovna, the daughter Victoria, the great-granddaughter of Svetlana Alliluyeva, is growing up.

Another descendant of Svetlana Iosifovna is the grandson of Ilya, the son of Joseph Grigoryevich Alliluyev, who was born in Svetlana's first marriage. Ilya is now fifty-three years old, he has a different surname - Voznesensky. When Svetlana Alliluyeva came to the Soviet Union, Ilya was fourteen years old, but he never met his grandmother.

His mother, the first wife of Joseph Alliluyev, says that they never supported Svetlana Iosifovna family ties. Despite the fact that Ilya's parents divorced, he communicated with his father, a wonderful cardiologist Iosif Alliluyev, until his death. Ilya Iosifovich himself is a famous Moscow architect.

The death in the United States of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva on November 29, 2011 brought to mind her daughter, volcanologist Ekaterina Zhdanova, who lives as a hermit at the foot of Eurasia's largest volcano, Klyuchevskaya Sopka. During her lifetime, she did not communicate with her mother - and tore up the letter with the news of her death. This demonstrative crossing out returned to the woman like a boomerang - her daughter Anna does not communicate with her mother either.

The great-granddaughter of the Generalissimo is married to a contract soldier who serves in the local military unit. We got through to the young woman. In her own words, she is quite happy and does not want to tell anyone about herself.

Stalin's granddaughter lives alone in a small house in the village of Klyuchi in Kamchatka. This place is ideal for the definition of "end of the world": it is nine hours from Moscow by plane and another 10-12 by car on a gravel road. Spring and late autumn there is no road communication with a small village where a little more than 6 thousand people live. For the anniversary of her native Institute of Volcanology, Zhdanova was offered to move closer to civilization - to an apartment in regional center, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. But the woman refused. Colleagues managed only to slightly renovate the current dwelling.

“She is a sick person. She needs to be treated. But we, colleagues, cannot force it. And her daughter does not deal with it, ”say Ekaterina Zhdanova’s colleagues. Stalin's granddaughter is listed as a researcher at the Institute of Volcanology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. But he has not been engaged in scientific work for many years. Zhdanova is unsociable, she compensates for the lack of communication with people by caring for dogs, of which she has at least a dozen and a half. “Now she is very nervous, she can be rude. There are a lot of calls because of the death of the mother,” says Yury Demyanchuk, head of the Klyuchevskaya volcano station.

The administration of the village said that the famous hermit has not yet become the object of attention of social services: "She can serve herself, take care of animals." However, colleagues are not sure that she does not need care: “She is eager for field studies, but there is an unspoken order not to take it - it is uncontrollable, and anything can happen in the forest.

At the time of her birth, Ekaterina Zhdanova was the most high-ranking child USSR: granddaughter of Stalin and Chairman of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Andrei Zhdanov. Her mother, the beloved daughter of the leader Svetlana Alliluyeva, by that time had already managed to be married to a classmate of her brother Vasily. From a quickly broken marriage, there was a son, Joseph, who was adopted by a second husband, a chemist Yuri Zhdanov. However, three years passed, the almighty grandfather died, and the cult of his personality was debunked with the same enthusiasm as it was created, and Zhdanov and Alliluyeva divorced ... The son of a party leader left for Rostov-on-Don, was engaged in scientific work in Rostov state university, and later led it.

Svetlana and the children stayed in Moscow. The eldest, Joseph, later became a well-known cardiac surgeon. And Ekaterina received a diploma in geophysics. In 1977, she was first brought to Kamchatka as part of an expedition. There she met Vsevolod Kozev, her colleague. It was not difficult for the charming and sociable volcanologist to attract the attention of a Moscow girl. After some time, he left the first family (where there were already two children) and married Catherine. In 1982, the couple had a daughter, Anna, and a year later, Vsevolod shot himself with a hunting rifle. Ekaterina Zhdanova did not leave Klyuchi even after the death of her husband.

Zhdanova did not communicate with her famous mother for almost half a century. When Svetlana Alliluyeva did not return from the funeral of her Indian husband Brajesh Singh, Katya was only 16 years old. The girl regarded this act as a personal betrayal. “Although later she invited her to the United States, sent gifts,” recalls Demyanchuk, head of the Klyuchevskaya volcano station. He says that an email about Alliluyeva's death came to him from an American friend on November 22. He opened it and went to Zhdanova. But she tore the sheet of paper without reading: "This is not my mother."

Amazingly, Zhdanova's daughter, Anna Grishenina, also does not communicate with her mother. And if there were thousands of kilometers between Catherine and Svetlana and iron curtain, then Anna and Ekaterina live in the same village. In the village, they say that Zhdanova's behavioral problems began not even after her husband's suicide, but much later, after Anna became pregnant almost as a teenager, married a contract soldier from the local military unit (the Kura training ground is located nearby) and left her mother's house. However, no one condemned the girl - Zhdanova was not the best hostess, her house was always a mess.

Probably, Anna became the first woman in the family, whose personal life was more or less successful. She recently became a mother for the second time. Eldest daughter, Victoria, for more than 10 years. But Anna categorically refuses to answer journalists' questions, she only said that no one called her either about the death of her grandmother or about a possible inheritance. “I live happily. And I don’t want to answer any questions,” she said.

“It is as if a black circle has been drawn around the father - everyone who falls within it perishes, collapses, disappears from life,” wrote her grandmother Svetlana Alliluyeva in her book “20 ​​Letters to a Friend”. This fully applied to women from the Stalin-Alliluyev clan: the leader’s wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, shot herself, leaving little Svetlana in the care of her father. Svetlana herself traded her teenage daughter Ekaterina for endless wanderings around the world. By the way, Zhdanova's half-sister, American Olga Peters, light hand mother was brought up in a Quaker boarding school while she traveled. Catherine's share was the suicide of her husband and the spiritual wound from the betrayal of her mother, carried by her through her whole life. But even the blackest circle sooner or later fades, is erased and eventually disappears...
E. Mishina

Klyuchi village - December 21 - AiF-Kamchatka. December 21, 2012 is marked not only by the “end of the world”, which is now being talked about all over the world, but also by the 133rd anniversary of the birth of Joseph Stalin. His descendants - a granddaughter, a great-granddaughter, and two great-great-grandchildren - live in the Kamchatka outback - in the small village of Klyuchi. There, on the eve of the birthday of the "father of peoples", a correspondent of AiF-Kamchatka visited.

...Klyuchi is famous for hunting and fishing, tourism, proximity to the highest volcano in Eurasia - Klyuchevskoy Sopka and the Kura missile range. Still close to the village Soviet times tested the lunar rover. All this attracts hundreds of tourists here. And the residence of the descendants of Joseph Vissarionovich here is special calling card Keys.

The leader's granddaughter came to Kamchatka in the early eighties. After graduating from the main university of the country - Moscow State University - with a degree in geophysics, she left the capital to work on the very edge of the earth.

Whether the young Katya Zhdanova then planned to associate her whole life with the Kamchatka hinterland is not known for certain. But, it just so happened that she connected.

… Her small wooden house stands almost on the outskirts of the village. Around - a tiny fence. There are many dogs in the yard. Ekaterina Zhdanova practically does not communicate with her neighbors. She doesn't have any friends either. And she doesn't even go to work...

"Closed, uncommunicative - a recluse" - everyone, as if by agreement, characterizes the granddaughter of the Soviet leader in Klyuchi in the same way ... Behind this woman is a difficult fate. “Betrayal” by a mother who left for America - Ekaterina could not forgive Svetlana Alliluyeva, her husband’s suicide, raising her daughter alone ...

I met Katya a long time ago, back in Moscow, at Moscow State University — at a banquet on the occasion of the successful defense of one of our volcanologists’ Ph.D. It was in the 70s. And a few years later she flew to Klyuchi - for work, - says Vladimir Ushakov, head of the local seismological station. Here she met my best friend— Seva Kozev. She was very interesting girl- lively, sociable, played the guitar - Okudzhava, I remember, she sang ... Seva was carried away by her. He left his wife and children - his wife was a village teacher - and married Katya. As families, we visited each other and became friends.

Alone with myself

E. Zhdanova and V. Kozev. Photo from the site 1tvnet.ru

The young family lived in a house on the river bank, as if away from the village, their daughter Anya was born. The idyll, however, did not last long. After some time, Vsevolod Kozev began to drink: either the disease had such an effect - he was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver, or there was not enough communication with his former friends - many, after a divorce from his first wife, turned away from him.

I began to notice that Seva was completely different. There was a handsome guy, always cheerful, the soul of the company. And here ... - continues Ushakov. - Maybe he started drinking from a lack of friends and communication. He lost many friends, and unfortunately we did not often communicate with him. You understand, constant trips, overflights, research - volcanologists did not sit still at that time. In general, Seva shot himself with a gun ...

Ekaterina suffered the death of her husband hard ... After that, she began to close up, fence herself off from the whole world around her.

Katya, when Seva was gone, they changed it ... “I won’t give you this gun,” she told me, “and I won’t give you a boat,” recalls Ushakov. “God be with you,” I say, “why do I need them? I helped them with Anka for the first two years, and then all communication came to naught ... It's hard to get through to her.

The meaning of life for Catherine then became her daughter, Anya.

AT Soviet years Katya often went to work in the fields - before, a lot of money was allocated for science. Sometimes, on her trips, she left Anyutka with us, - recalls resident of Klyuchi, engineer of the seismic station Maria Demyanchuk. - Children - mine and Anya - grew up together, did not fight. Anyutka was a very good girl, funny, with big blue eyes. She was always very smart, reasonable - she talked all the time among adults.

Of the relatives, she once communicated only with her father - and corresponded with him, and came to visit him. Locals say that often Yuri Zhdanov helped his daughter financially. In 2006, Catherine's father passed away ...

... Now Ekaterina Yurievna lives in the same house. The authorities have repeatedly offered her apartments - both in Klyuchi and Petropavlovsk - she refuses everything. She also renounced the rights to her Moscow apartment. “In vain,” say the locals, “she may not need it. But she has a daughter, grandchildren ... "

Ekaterina Zhdanova. Photo from the site 1tvnet.ru

Stalin's granddaughter lives modestly. The house, according to the neighbors, does not smell of modernity - a stove with buckets standing on the stove, old furniture, it seems that there is not even a TV.

Now she is 62 years old. She is retired, but part-time is listed in one of the laboratories of the Kamchatka Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

She comes to work, but does almost nothing. She just lives, - colleagues comment. - Before scientific work wrote - she is a candidate of science, but now all this has sunk into oblivion. Sometimes he enters the volcano and seismic station - he will look at the seismograms and go further ...

kamchatka.aif.ru: - Does he communicate with journalists?

TO.:- What do you! It is better not to meddle with her!

Television and newspaper people often come in the hope of talking to Zhdanova. But she really does not favor journalists. A rare exception to the rule was communication with AiF-Kamchatka correspondents a few years ago. She does not let anyone into the house, she does not indulge in conversations. However, there is a reason.

A few years ago, TV crews of a well-known channel came to us ... - says Maria Demyanchuk. Katya didn't let them in. Well, I didn't and didn't. Everyone in the village has already forgotten to think about them. Suddenly, I go to work in the morning, and some men are hiding in the bushes. My heart almost skipped a beat... It turned out that the journalists were watching her to take at least a couple of shots. “Hush, Marya Vasilievna, hush! - whisper - Do not scare away! I then watched their program. I didn't like her. Lots of dirt thrown...

Those "sharks of the pen", by the way, offered local residents secretly take photos and videos of Zhdanova - they say, send materials, and we will pay you for it. There were no hunters for such money in the Keys ...

Dogs are unmeasured...

While in the Keys, we saw Ekaterina Yurievna herself once, and then from afar. A short, stooping, thin woman in a sheepskin coat and felt boots was on the street, accompanied by dogs.

Look! There she is, Stalin's granddaughter, - our guide pointed to her.

And then ... She did not answer the phone, and only her dogs answered the knock on the door ...

By the way, Catherine has enough dogs: both in the yard and in the house itself. They zealously protect their mistress and her home. The AiF-Kamchatka correspondents had to experience the strength of dog teeth on themselves. However, they themselves are to blame. The yard is the territory of Ekaterina Yurievna ...

And many complain about Zhdanova's dogs in the village. Somehow, the most enterprising even turned to the administration - they say, figure it out, it's a mess. Officials asked for a collective statement. As a result, signatures were never collected - either because of laziness, or because of fear ...

"Tired! .. "

We could not help talking to the great-granddaughter of the Generalissimo. We went to Anna in the late afternoon by taxi. From the Keys to the "twenty" - this is the name of the military town in which she lives - 5-10 minutes of travel.
On the way we talked to the driver...

Anya, Vovka's wife, Stalin's great granddaughter?! Yes, you are joking! - the taxi driver did not believe us at first. - I knew, of course, that Stalin's granddaughter lives with us, everyone knows about her, but that Anka is a great-granddaughter. Didn't even realize...

They have a good family,” the guy continues after a short pause. - Vova is a military man ... He wrote dozens of songs about Kamchatka. Many of us know and love them ...

We find Anna right at the entrance - the Gorshenin family lives in a five-story building, in the center of the town.

This is where the Gorshenins' apartment is located.

kamchatka.aif.ru: - Hello, we are journalists from Petropavlovsk…

Anna Gorshenina: - Girl, this is a bad idea, - Anna does not let me finish. - Journalists wrote so much dirt about us that I don’t want to say anything ... Why is this? Standard questions, standard answers. Tired...

kamchatka.aif.ru: - We will not ask personal questions - we promise.

A.G.:- And then what to talk about?

kamchatka.aif.ru: - About the life of a young family in a military settlement ...

A.G.:- ... I won’t let you into the house, I have a small child, - the girl seems to agree.

kamchatka.aif.ru: Let's go to a cafe for a cup of tea?

A.G.:- No, girl, it's not worth it. I don't have much time, I'm in a hurry...

Further arguments of success also do not bring - Anna flatly refuses to communicate ...

About Anya, as well as about her mother, the media wrote more than once. Some journalists claimed, they say, “Stalin” buried herself in the Kamchatka wilderness.

However, the unfortunate and "buried" great-granddaughter of Joseph Vissarionovich does not look at all. Before speaking with Anya, we had time to examine her: a young, pretty, well-groomed woman - happy, smiling and contented with life.

Short conversation with Anna Gorshenina

During our short conversation, a girl of 8-10 years old approached Anna - Vika - the eldest child in the Gorshenin family. The girl looks like her mother and grandmother. And recently, Anya gave birth to a boy ...

Don't need another

Ekaterina Zhdanova, they say, rarely communicates with her grandchildren. Anya used to bring Vika to her grandmother, but now they rarely come here. Some accuse Gorshenina that, they say, she does not take good care of her mother. But it's not for us to judge that...

You know, be that as it may, it seems to us that Katya is happy in her own way, people who know her share. - It is a pity, of course, that her fate was so difficult. But she does not need Moscow luxury, power and money. Here, in the Keys, she found her home, her happiness, albeit difficult. Here stands "her" volcano station. Next to her daughter and grandchildren. She doesn't seem to need anything else...

Photo by Natalia Panina and Evgenia Ignatsova

Photos from free sources next year wealthier families will receive the right to the payment, the government of the Kamchatka Territory reports. Parents of first-born children have the right to the allowance,
Legend of Kamchatka - Iosif Zhukov died in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky The People's Artist of the Russian Federation died after a serious illness, previously, today, June 22
06/22/2019 Kamchatka-Inform The issue of providing medicines as one of the most problematic in healthcare was voiced by President Vladimir Putin within the Direct Line.
21.06.2019 VestiPk.Ru For two days, specialists from the Federal Scientific and Clinical Center for Otolaryngology worked in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, conducting free consultations for adult patients with ENT diseases.
21.06.2019 VestiPk.Ru Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky takes part in the All-Russian military-patriotic action "A Fistful of Memory".
21.06.2019 VestiPk.Ru