In 2006, the hospital. Kashchenko received a new patient. She was brought by police officers who detained the woman for violating the passport regime. Age at first glance was difficult to determine, as is the case with people who do not have a fixed place of residence, in other words, vagrants.
Persistent patient
This lady differed from the usual "homeless woman" in that she confidently claimed that she was Brezhnev's great-granddaughter. Representatives of law enforcement agencies decided that the very place for a relative of the Secretary General was at Kanatchikov's dacha, next to other "outstanding people" or their descendants. The times when the mentally ill imagined themselves to be Bonapartes and Kutuzovs are long gone. New times give rise to new manias, so the doctors decided, and began therapeutic measures.
But the truth was nevertheless revealed in all its glory to honored specialists with many years of experience. Painfully persistent seemed to them the patient, stubbornly repeating the telephone number, which should be called. Having dialed it, the doctors were convinced that they really were Galina Filippova, Brezhnev's great-granddaughter.
The condition of the relative of the late General Secretary was terrible. She had not looked after her teeth for a long time, and caries struck most of them. There was also pediculosis, to put it simply, lice. The thirty-three-year-old woman lived for a long time as an asocial element, living on vagrancy and begging. But, despite this, upon careful examination, the commission stated that Brezhnev's great-granddaughter is sane and mentally he althy.
About how she got from the elite of Soviet society to the Moscow pavements, she told without hiding the details.
Family and childhood
The family in which this woman was born in 1973 was not just an elite one. The children of the last Russian emperor were brought up incomparably more modest and stricter than the descendants of the head of the CPSU. The granddaughter of "dear Leonid Ilyich" Victoria was, apparently, the most beloved creature in the world of the head of the Land of Soviets. He really wanted her life to be more successful than that of her daughter Galina, windy and eccentric. But the granddaughter also did not have family happiness, despite the fact that the couple had a pretty girl Galochka. In 1978, Brezhnev's great-granddaughter found a new dad. They became Gennady Filippovich Varakuta, an intelligent, educated man and in a good position.
The girl studied at an excellent school, next to the children of other outstanding and simply well-settled people, apparently assimilating the simple idea that, although everyone is equal in the USSR, shesomewhat "equal" to the others.
After the death of great-grandfather
Brezhnev's great-granddaughter was in second grade when her great-grandfather died. The subsequent general secretaries treated the family of Leonid Ilyich not only badly, but, of course, not in the same way as during his lifetime. Household members lost a fair amount of privileges and benefits, but they were not subjected to special harassment. It is not known whether the girl entered the philological faculty of Moscow State University, relying on a high level of knowledge, or the magic of the famous family worked, but be that as it may, she became a student. And she married an engineer. They had no children.
In the new economic conditions that arose after the collapse of the USSR, difficulties arose for which many descendants of the Kremlin celestials were not ready.
Mother's business did not go very well, and then it went badly. She tried to cash in on inherited properties, but failed miserably. All that was enough for the notorious "party money" was a modest house in the countryside. Apparently, there was no place for her daughter in it.
Help came from the children of Galina's first husband (Alexander and Natalia), that is, the adopted grandchildren of the Secretary General, who had lived in the United States for a long time. After a long separation, they realized how dear Galina Filippova, Brezhnev's great-granddaughter, was to them. A photo of a bald-headed patient in a psychiatric clinic can arouse sympathy from everyone, despite her foolish demeanor. After all, she herself is not to blame for her own helplessness, she was groomed, cherished and raisednot for this kind of life. Today Mrs. Filippova is forty, but she doesn't know how to do anything. Probably have to learn everything all over again…
