Not so much has passed since the death of Leonid Brezhnev. His entire rather long life, including very controversial family circumstances, is known today in detail and reliably, which cannot be said about such awareness of the people in Soviet times. And in order to understand why the family of the most powerful person in the USSR once had such a sad end, why Brezhnev's granddaughter Victoria abandoned her daughter, how the latter ended up in Kashchenko, left there and became a homeless person, etc., it is worth studying the biographies in depth his wife, daughter and, of course, his favorites.
Family
Brezhnev's wife - Victoria Petrovna - was Denisova before marriage. However, there is an opinion that her real name is Goldberg. Victoria Petrovna Brezhneva was born in December 1907 in Belgorod, Kursk province. She and her husband had two children: son Yuri, who for some reason and then, and today very little is said, and, of course, Galina, who became famous as a lover of the circus and diamonds.
Brezhnev was considered the first Western-style Soviet politician. His white-toothed smile, funny dimples on his cheeks, solid clothes made women go crazy for him. It is said that the general secretary himself wasindifferent to the fair sex. Nevertheless, all his life he was married to one and only. Sorrows and joys, ups and downs and illness were shared with him only by his wife, Victoria Brezhneva.
Brezhnev's wife
The biography of this woman in the Soviet years was a secret for many. She always remained in the background. Victoria Petrovna Brezhneva silently endured on her shoulders the evil fate and misfortunes that fell on her family. She, who was never interested in either the political or state affairs of her husband, did not interfere in them. She had enough of constantly arising worries with children. And the secretary general himself tried not to delve into household affairs. They say that at the slightest opportunity he went hunting, where in Zavidovo, judging by the words of people close to him, his second home was located. As a rule, the leader of the USSR left there on Friday afternoon and returned on Sunday evening.
In recent years, as his entourage believed, his family, including Victoria Petrovna Brezhneva herself, were happy with such trips. The wife believed that constant family troubles became the cause of her husband's illness. They say that the only one the Secretary General loved was Brezhnev's granddaughter, Victoria. In general, there were difficult relationships in the family of the first person in the country. But Galina Brezhneva brought him the biggest trouble. The daughter of Victoria Brezhneva, enjoying all the benefits, led a very wild life, so her mother had to hide a lot from her husband.
"Headache" Secretary General
It would seem that Galina was destined to become happy from the very birth. She had a loving mother, her father was a high-ranking official, prosperity reigned in the house, all doors opened before her. However, the difficult nature of Galina did not allow Brezhnev to live in peace. At twenty-two, his daughter ran off with a circus performer. Strongman Milaev was much older than her. Galina easily exchanged her carefree life for the unknown, leaving with him. They say my father went crazy. He tried to find prodigal Galina, but she returned only a year later. When the father saw his daughter and son-in-law, as well as his granddaughter, he forgave them and even recognized Milaev. After the circus performer, she had many relationships, including extramarital ones. Galina had several husbands and a lot of lovers. But her wild life after the death of her father came to an end.
The new government did not like her, they even tried to confiscate Galina's car, dacha, jewelry, gifts from her father, but she managed to win the trial. Brezhnev's daughter rented a dacha to live on this money. Many commission shops in the capital sold things that once belonged to her father. Galina drank a lot, she died at the age of sixty-nine in a hospital all alone. Even Brezhnev's granddaughter, Victoria, whose biography also had many sad moments, was not present at the deathbed.
Childhood favorite
The story of the granddaughter, in which Secretary General Leonid Ilyich doted on, could well be called worthy of a real novel. Victoria Brezhneva, photowhich often appeared on the covers of magazines, was not only the heiress of a noble name, but also an enviable bride. The most prestigious suitors of the capital secretly wanted to ask for her hand. It would seem that a serene and happy life is provided to her until old age. But fate had its own way.
As a child, Victoria did not need anything. Still, after all, she was the granddaughter, and beloved, of Leonid Ilyich himself. But she sorely lacked the usual maternal warmth. And even despite the fact that grandparents Victoria Petrovna doted on their Vitus, she missed her parents.
Galina and her husband constantly disappeared on tour. Brezhnev's daughter got a job as a make-up artist in a circus troupe in order to travel around the world with her husband. She brought expensive gifts to her girl, Victoria played with dolls that other Soviet children could not even dream of, but apparently this is not happiness. The girl wanted to walk with her parents, to be with her mom and dad more often, but that was clearly not up to her.
Apparently, this is the reason why Victoria was not self-confident, which affected her later life. Beloved men often betrayed her, they did not even hide their desire to spend her grandfather's money, or even deceived, robbed. She so lacked human warmth! Apparently, therefore, she, having become attached to her teacher from GITIS Raisa Logvinova, was friends with her even after graduation. “Soul-man”, this is exactly what, according to this woman, Victoria Brezhneva was.
Biography
Galina's daughter afterAfter graduation, she first entered the Pedagogical Institute, but soon transferred to GITIS. She studied at the theater department, already being a young mother. Brezhnev's granddaughter Victoria met her future husband Mikhail Filippov by accident. He was also a student. Of course, the grandfather did not dream of such a choice for his favorite, but he had to put up with it. The wedding took place. Soon Victoria Brezhneva, whose biography was supposed to be "star", gave birth to a daughter. She was named after the Secretary General's daughter Galina. It must be said that the grandfather, although he did everything for his beloved, nevertheless, dissatisfied with her choice, did not even give the newlyweds an apartment, and therefore they all lived together in the Brezhnev house.
Family
Victoria loved her husband Misha very much. At first they were fine. But when Mikhail became the son-in-law of the first man in a vast country, he began a dizzying career. And soon there was a lot of money. As a result, Misha began to walk. Obviously, Victoria Brezhneva knew about this. Out of desperation, she began to accept the courtship of Gennady Varakuta, a student of GITIS, who came to Moscow from Kyiv.
When in 1977 Leonid Ilyich found out that his married granddaughter was having a stormy romance, he was terribly angry and instructed Andropov to sort it out quickly. Varakuta was expelled from the institute overnight, allegedly because drugs were found in his nightstand. He was sent to Leningrad, but Victoria Brezhneva went after him. And already in 1978, having divorced Mikhail Filippov, she got married again.
After the death of Leonid Ilyich
When their famous husband, father and grandfather passed away, misfortune began to haunt the family. Immediately everyone was unemployed. The widow of the Secretary General - Victoria Brezhneva - was evicted from the dacha. Moreover, her personal pension was even taken away from her. Galina also began to go into hard drinking, which was greatly facilitated by the conviction of her husband Y. Churbanov, which happened in 1988.
Brezhnev's granddaughter Victoria did not escape the bitter fate. Her husband, left without a job, tried to do business. Victoria dissuaded him in every possible way. But he did not listen and as a result went bankrupt, losing a lot of money. Discord began in the family, and Gennady Varakuta left his wife and connected his life with Baibakov's daughter.
Failures
Victoria Brezhneva was very worried not only for her husband, but also for her mother. She fought in every possible way with the drunkenness of the latter, tried to treat her, but Galina, escaping from the hospitals, insisted that she would still drink. As a result, the relationship between mother and daughter finally went wrong. And after the death of Galina Leonidovna, who died at the end of June 1998 in one of the capital's special hospitals, Victoria had to exchange two apartments located in Granatov Lane and on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. She was sorely lacking funds for subsistence. Victoria Brezhneva herself did not work, and Galina's daughter began to have he alth problems.
Victim of deception
Soon, Victoria Brezhneva also sold the famous grandfather's dacha. But it all ended sadly. As her ex-husband Mikhail Filippov said, the granddaughter of the Secretary General fell for the bait,which the scammers threw at her. Someone, apparently a well-known businessman, who pretended to be her close friend, deceived the woman and robbed her. At one time he was the owner of the Beijing restaurant, known in certain circles as Kostya Pekinsky, who was later killed. It was he who persuaded Victoria to conclude a complex and at the same time incomprehensible deal for the sale. The granddaughter of Leonid Ilyich, who had unlimited trust in the swindler, on his orders entered in the documents not the real, but the symbolic cost of her insanely expensive apartment.
But the deceiver, having paid her only part of the money, promised to give the rest of the amount later and even gave a receipt, which, however, had no legal effect. So, Victoria was left without money and an apartment that her mother left her - Galina Brezhneva. The daughter of Victoria Brezhneva, whose biography is also shocking in its tragedy, lost her home along with her parent.
The story of the "star great granddaughter"
Those who have seen her will agree that she has a very strange appearance. It must be said that the daughter of Victoria Brezhneva was loved by her famous great-grandfather even more than her mother. She grew up in luxury and love from an early age. Unlike her mother, she was not deprived of parental love. The people around the family, looking at the little Check mark, were touched and believed that the girl was destined for a happy and prosperous future. But how wrong they were….
Instead of a secure carefree life, the daughter of Victoria Brezhneva - Galina - learned from her own experience what poverty, illness, hunger, psychiatrichospital and, finally, the betrayal of the dearest and closest person - the mother.
Childhood and youth
Victoria Brezhneva gave birth to her on March 14, 1973 in Moscow. Her father was Mikhail Filippov, who became a banker thanks to his wife's grandfather. When Galochka was only five years old, her parents separated. Victoria remarried. Her stepfather - Gennady Varakuta - treated the girl quite well. According to relatives, he raised her as if she were his own daughter.
But Victoria Brezhneva and her new husband lived in harmony and love for only a few years. After some time, problems began in the second family, followed by another divorce.
But the great-granddaughter of Leonid Ilyich was always surrounded by care and affection. She was constantly looked after by her nanny. Nina Ivanovna was always there. Victoria sent her daughter to an elite Moscow school with an English bias. And after graduation, Galya entered the Faculty of Philology at Moscow State University. According to both classmates and classmates, she was a capricious and wayward young lady.
Marriage
After receiving higher education, Galina, under the patronage of her stepfather, got a job as a secretary in one of the Moscow companies. But answering the phone, keeping records and preparing coffee for the boss quickly got tired of the girl. She went to the service without much enthusiasm, and when the reductions began, she resigned of her own free will. She was twenty-five then.
The girl's biography changed dramatically when her mother - VictoriaBrezhnev - found her a groom with the help of a wedding agency. Oleg Dubinsky - that was the name of the young man - worked as an engineer and, according to the granddaughter of Leonid Ilyich Victoria, was perfect for the position of her son-in-law. Galina did not particularly resist the will of her mother, and therefore agreed to get married. The wedding of Leonid Ilyich's great-granddaughter, which took place in 1998, was celebrated without much luxury.
Mother and daughter
But the life of the young did not improve in any way. And one day, finally parting with Oleg, Galina Filippova returned back to her mother. As a result of the vicissitudes of life, the woman began to drink slowly, which Victoria Evgenievna did not like.
To cure her daughter of an addiction, her mother sent her for treatment to the hospital. Kashchenko. So Galina, in her incomplete twenty-eight years, first found herself in an institution for the mentally ill. In the meantime, she was under compulsory treatment there, Victoria Brezhneva, having become entangled in real estate transactions, lost two very expensive apartments belonging to her. And finding herself without a roof over her head, the granddaughter of Leonid Ilyich went to live with her lover in the Moscow region.
Treatment
During the entire time Galya was in the hospital, her mother never visited her. Leaving the clinic, the great-granddaughter of Leonid Ilyich, finding herself useless and left without a roof over her head, began to wander. For a whole year, the once prosperous girl wandered through the Moscow gateways, trying to get herself something to eat from garbage cans. In the summer months she spent the night behind the garagesnext to the Tretyakov Gallery, and in winter Galina slept in wooden houses located in the courtyards, intended for children's games. And all this time, Victoria never once asked her.
The appearance of Brezhnev's great-granddaughter was changed beyond recognition. Gaunt, with little to no teeth and a shaved head, she looked nothing like the spoiled young lady she once was.
Coincidence
This went on for several years. One day, homeless Galina wandered into the entrance of her ex-husband's building to warm herself. The mother-in-law, who did not recognize her "star" daughter-in-law in the homeless woman sleeping on the floor, called an ambulance. And again, the paramedics took Galya to Kashchenko. There, at first, none of the medical staff believed that Brezhnev's great-granddaughter was in front of them. And only after she asked to call her nanny to confirm her identity, the attitude towards the young woman changed. And although the medical staff treated her quite well, it was not possible to leave her in the hospital. The head of the clinic helped her with disability registration and placement in a boarding school for mental patients. Brezhnev's great-granddaughter spent seven years here.
Help came unexpectedly
For all the time while Galya was homeless or was in a madhouse, her mother - Victoria - did not think about her daughter. The woman wrote to her, begging to take her to her, but all requests remained unanswered. The father, Mikhail Filippov, who currently lives in M alta, did not want to help Galina either. After divorce fromHe married Victoria again, and the fate of the child from his first marriage did not bother him. The only person who remembered Gala was her very old nanny. Only from her daughter Victoria Brezhneva from time to time received parcels with gifts and letters. And it is not known how the fate of Brezhnev's great-granddaughter would have developed if the circus artists Natalya and Alexander Milaev had not learned about her misadventures. The half-sister and brother of Victoria had lived in the United States for many years, and therefore they did not even know what a sad fate befell their niece. Today, Galina lives in the suburbs, in a one-room apartment that someone from her grandfather's entourage bought for her.
In conclusion
Victoria Evgenievna Brezhneva - the granddaughter of the Secretary General - believes that she did not betray her daughter. She herself lives, living from bread to water, trying to earn money with translations. As for Galina, her mother despaired of re-educating her, and therefore prefers to stay away. Today no one can judge who is right and who is wrong, however, rumors constantly circulate in society about some kind of curse over the Brezhnev family …
