In pre-revolutionary Russia, Joseph Dzhugashvili was out of favor with the tsarist authorities. He was exiled to Siberia twice. In those days Joseph was very amorous. His first wife has already died. Therefore, he could easily take on mistresses. And Joseph constantly took advantage of this.
For the first time in exile, Stalin had a relationship with Lydia Pereprygina. Because of them, he almost went to prison. And all because the girl was 14 years old at that time, while Joseph himself was 34. So that he would not be punished for seducing a minor, Dzhugashvili promised to marry Lydia. But he never did. The man escaped from exile. Moreover, his beloved was already pregnant from him.
For the second time in exile, the future Leader settled with Maria Kuzakova. He began a whirlwind romance with this woman. Who also remained pregnant when the exile ended and Joseph returned home. As a result of such adventures, Stalin had at least two illegitimate sons.
Lydia Pereprygina gave birth to a boy, whose father was Joseph Dzhugashvili. The girl waited a long time for her lover to return, but she heard rumors that he died in the war. After this, Lydia married Yakov Davydov, who adopted her child, giving his name and patronymic.
There is an opinion that Stalin himself had no influence on the boy’s fate. He had no contact with his mother. And only once did he give instructions to find out information about the family of Lydia Pereprygina. However, he did not tell anyone why he needed this information. Only many years later did people find out that this was how he became interested in the fate of his own son.
Alexander Davydov lived simple life, fought in the Great Patriotic and Korean Wars. He never made any attempt to contact his father. Died in 1987.
Famous party leader
Maria Kuzakova gave birth to a son, Konstantin, from Stalin. Stalin’s role in his fate is not entirely clear. First, the Leader’s wife helped Maria and her son move to Leningrad, having learned about their relationship with Kobe. Then the boy received a good education and actively moved up the party ladder. He managed to get to Moscow to the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. There is evidence that father and son sometimes met, but never spoke in private. And when one day Stalin called Konstantin to his place, he was a little late and his father was already busy with other matters and could not receive him.
Did Konstantin Kuzakov himself achieve such heights in political career or whether Stalin helped him is not known for certain. But we can definitely say that he still had the patronage of his father.
Party scandal
Many in the party knew that Kuzakov was the Leader’s illegitimate son. And Stalin himself did not hide this, although he did not particularly advertise this fact. One way or another, Konstantin Kuzakov was drawn into Beria’s war against Andrei Zhdanov. First, Kuzakov was expelled from the party, then he was threatened with arrest and even petitioned Stalin about it. But the Leader rejected him.
Children do not choose the families they are born into; they get used to their parents, who accompany every event in their lives and form their character traits.
When a child comes under the care of monsters, they most often become an extension of their parents. The children of tyrants often stand trial after their fathers are overthrown. However, their lives can be as terrible as the lives of anyone under a dictatorial regime.
Joseph Stalin had three children - Yakov, Vasily and Svetlana. His children did not choose their father, but they were part of this family - and lived under the control and cold cruelty of the most odious tyrant in the history of the USSR.
Jacob's suicide attempt
Stalin changed after the death of his first wife Catherine. At her funeral he said: “My last warm feelings for humanity died with her.” He became colder, more irritable, and moved away from Yakov.
After Stalin married Nadezhda Alliluyeva, he did not become softer. He had a problem with alcohol, and his struggle with addiction resulted in anger and violence in governing his home country. At times, life with the tyrant became so terrible that Nadezhda left home to live with her parents. She took the children with her, but left Jacob, Catherine's son, alone with his father's drunken rage.
Life with Stalin was so unbearable that in 1930, left alone in the apartment, Yakov shot himself in the chest. He was taken to the hospital, where doctors saved his life, and Stalin was called to look at his son, whom he had driven to suicide.
He looked at his son and said, “He can’t even shoot accurately.”
Stalin drove Nadezhda to suicide
Stalin endlessly insulted Nadezhda and cheated on her, however, she always returned home - until one day her patience came to an end. At a celebration in the Kremlin in honor of the fifteenth anniversary October revolution Nadezhda refused to drink when the guests raised their glasses to her husband.
"Hey, you!" - Stalin shouted at his wife. - “Drink!”
“You don’t dare talk to me like that,” Nadezhda answered him.
Alliluyeva literally fled from the Kremlin. At home, she wrote a letter in which she described Stalin as a tyrant who tortured his people and his family. Then she's in last time climbed into bed and shot herself.
Stalin hid the fact of his wife's suicide from the people and from the children. Svetlana learned about what happened only ten years later. On the day of the funeral, Stalin bitterly said that Nadezhda “left as an enemy.” But he was not present at the funeral itself and never visited her grave.
While Yakov was a prisoner of the Germans, Stalin arrested his wife
Jacob was married to a Jewish girl named Julia. At first, Stalin did not approve of this alliance. He called Julia nothing more than “that Jew” and tried to end their marriage. Over time, he began to like her - but this did not stop him from sending Yulia to the Gulag.
When Russia was overtaken by the Second World War, Yakov was sent to the front. He led troops against Germany, fought until he was captured, and was forced to surrender in 1941. To torture Stalin, the Germans sent him a photograph of his captured son. However, Stalin had by that time already issued a decree according to which anyone who surrendered was accused of malicious desertion, and his family was to be arrested - and did not provide for exceptions for his own family.
Following this decree, he exiled Yulia to the Gulag. Over the next two years, Yakov's three-year-old daughter, Galina, was torn away from both her parents, who were suffering in the camps.
Stalin sent Svetlana's first love to the Gulag
While Yakov was in prison, Svetlana fell in love. On the tenth anniversary of her mother's death, a seventeen-year-old girl met thirty-eight-year-old director Alexei Kapler. He cheered her up, danced with her and gave her several books that had been banned by her father.
Stalin was angry. He was bugging telephone conversations Svetlana with her lover, and then sent him to the Gulag for ten years.
Having gotten rid of Kapler, Stalin accused his daughter of having affairs while Russian people were dying in the war. Svetlana did not listen to him and told her father that she and Alexei were in love with each other. Stalin hit her in the face. “Look at you,” he told his daughter. -Who will want you? You're a fool."
Vasily fished from a fighter
According to Svetlana, Vasily was Stalin’s favorite son, “his prince.” He was given Special attention, and after Yakov was captured, Vasily was urgently returned home from the war - to protect Stalin from losing another son.
Having matured, Vasily began to take advantage of his status. He was a notorious drunkard who used his position to gain additional privileges. Stalin ordered his subordinates not to show special treatment to Vasily, but his son was still in a special position.
In 1943, Vasily and his friends went fishing - by plane. After getting drunk, the friends began throwing shells into the lake to watch the fish die. One of the bombs detonated in the wrong place, killing the officer.
“Immediately dismiss Colonel V.I. Stalin,” the leader wrote to his son’s commander, “and point out that Colonel Stalin was dismissed due to heavy drunkenness, rowdyism and corruption of the military.”
Jacob and the concentration camp: the fate of the first child
As World War II came to an end, Hitler tried to negotiate an exchange of Jacob for the German Marshal Friedrich Paulus. Stalin had the opportunity to save his son, but he did not. “I will not change the marshal for a lieutenant,” he replied.
Jacob's father left him to die in a German concentration camp. There his only friends were other prisoners, many of whom were Poles. Jacob's situation in the camp worsened after it was discovered that his father had killed 15,000 Polish officers in Katyn. Yakov was bullied by the guards and despised by the prisoners. Deprived of hope, he walked up to an electrified barbed wire fence, got caught on it and died.
This was the only thing Jacob did that made his father proud of him. Stalin showed his wife photographs of Yakov after his suicide. “Look,” he said proudly. “This is the worthy end of a noble man.”
Stalin refused to meet with Svetlana's husband
Svetlana’s next lover was Grigory Morozov, her fellow student from Moscow State University of Jewish origin. The young people got married, Svetlana gave birth to a child, but Stalin never saw Grigory. After the news of the wedding, he promised: “I will never meet your Jew.”
Over time, the marriage of Svetlana and Gregory fell apart, and she found herself new love. This time she tried to please her father and married the son of one of his confidants, but there was no difference in Stalin's reaction. He still didn't notice his daughter.
Svetlana later admitted to her friend: “My father has completely lost interest in me.”
Vasily hid the death of the hockey team, fearing Stalin's wrath
Vasily was an arrogant and unpleasant person. He pulled scams, beat his wife, drank heavily and seemed to fear no one - except his father. In the presence of Stalin, Vasily shook with fear and did not dare to utter a word.
In 1950, when Vasily was in charge of the Soviet hockey team, a plane carrying all the hockey players crashed. The accident killed all eleven players and eight people accompanying them. Vasily was horrified, imagining what his father could do to him. He immediately replaced the entire team, banned state media from talking about the crash and tried to pretend that nothing had happened.
And it worked. Stalin never noted that new faces and names appeared on the hockey team.
After Stalin's death, Vasily went to prison
Vasily knew that he was not popular. He understood that, having lost his father's protection, he could find himself in trouble - and he was right.
Stalin died in 1953, and immediately after his death Vasily found himself in prison on charges of misappropriation of state property. To impress a girl, he built a sports complex in the very big swimming pool Russia. For his own pleasure, he also built a luxurious private hunting reserve. He carried out all construction at the expense of the Soviet Air Force.
Khrushchev released him in 1960, but a year later Vasily was back behind bars due to an incident on the road. When he came out, he was immediately exiled to Kazan.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was married twice. In both marriages he had children. At the beginning of the 20th century, the future leader of all nations, at the age of 29, married 21-year-old Ekaterina Svanidze. The marriage lasted only 16 months, as the young woman died giving birth to her son Jacob a month before the death.
When Stalin was 40, he married a second time - to the daughter of his comrades, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. At first this marriage was happy, but over the years it became unbearable for both spouses. After another quarrel in the fall of 1932, Nadezhda locked herself in the bedroom and shot herself. After her death, Stalin was left with a six-year-old daughter, Svetlana, and a twelve-year-old son, Vasily. How did the destinies of Joseph Vissarionovich’s descendants turn out? Where did they live after his death, what did they do? Read about this in our material.
Yakov Iosifovich
Stalin's firstborn was born in 1907. He was raised by his mother's relatives. He saw his father only in 1921. Relations with him were tense. They became especially aggravated when young Yakov announced his desire to marry Zoya Gunina, who by that time was 16 years old. Stalin did not approve of the marriage, and took Yakov’s disobedience as a personal insult.
The young man attempted to commit suicide. Communication with my father practically ceased after that. Yakov married Zoya, but family life it didn't work out from the very beginning. He married for the second time in 1936. His chosen one was the beautiful ballerina Julia Meltzer. A year later, Yakov entered the Red Army Academy.
During the war years (1941-1945), Stalin's eldest son was captured and placed in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In April 1943, Yakov Iosifovich threw himself onto the wire fences of the camp, through which a high voltage current was passed. He left two children: son Evgeniy and daughter Galina.
Evgeniy Yakovlevich
At first he bore the name of his mother, Olga Golysheva, but soon his father insisted that Evgeniy become Dzhugashvili. The grandson of Joseph Vissarionovich was an officer. He graduated from two military academies - them. Lenin and them. Zhukovsky. He retired with the rank of colonel in the early 90s.
Evgeniy Yakovlevich was involved in politics and history, social activities not only in his native Georgia, but also in Russia. He passed away in 2016 at the age of 80. He left two sons: Vissarion, who became a director and lives in the USA, and Yakov.
Galina Yakovlevna
Stalin's first-born daughter graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology. She married an Algerian, Hussein bin Saad. The couple had a son, Selim, who became an artist. The granddaughter of Joseph Vissarionovich died at the age of 69 in 2007.
Yakov Evgenievich Dzhugashvili
The great-grandson of the leader became an artist. He was educated at the Glasgow School of Art and held his first exhibition in London. He repeatedly emphasized that he was proud of his origin and surname. His works were exhibited at the Batumi Art Museum in 1999.
Vasily Stalin
Vasily always grew up as an active and mischievous child, so his father often told his teachers to behave as strictly as possible with him. In 1938 he entered the Kachin Aviation School. In the team he was considered an easy-going person. Before the war, Vasily married Galina Burdonskaya, the great-great-granddaughter of a soldier in the Napoleonic army. The marriage, which produced two children, lasted four years. Vasily forbade his wife to meet with their children. She saw them eight years later.
IN Once again Vasily married the daughter of Marshal Timoshenko in 1944. IN new family two more children were born. Thus, Vasily Stalin, who died in 1962, was left with two daughters, Nadezhda and Svetlana, and two sons, Alexander and Vasily.
Alexander Burdonsky was a director who served at the Theater Russian Army. He passed away childless in 2017. Vasily's youngest son, named after his father, lived in Tbilisi. He was a drug addict and shot himself at age 23.
Stalin's daughter Svetlana
The leader's favorite, only daughter Svetlana, was an excellent student and showed great interest in literature, but her father recommended that she study the natural sciences. Svetlana graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of History, and worked as a translator. Alliluyeva emigrated from the USSR to the USA twice. She died in November 2011 in a nursing home. Before her death, she instructed the staff of the institution to youngest daughter I didn’t see her in the coffin. All her life she was haunted by the image of her mother, who shot herself when the girl was six years old.
Svetlana was officially married five times and gave birth to three children. The eldest son Joseph from the lawyer and scientist Grigory Morozov became a famous cardiologist. Joseph Grigorievich died at the age of 63 in Moscow.
While married to professor Yuri Zhdanov, Alliluyeva gave birth to a daughter, Ekaterina. Tired of the close attention to her person, Stalin's granddaughter moved to Kamchatka. She got married, but the marriage was short-lived: Catherine’s husband committed suicide. She was left alone with her little daughter. Ekaterina Yuryevna still lives in Kamchatka.
Svetlana Alliluyeva met William Peters in the USA, with whom she gave birth to a daughter. Today, 47-year-old Chris Evans lives in Portland. She works in a second-hand store. Chris does not attract the same interest among journalists as her mother: since the 80s, a single newspaper article and two news reports have been written about her, when her mother died. Then she gave two interviews.
Chris Evans is an extraordinary person: she loves her dog, Mexican food, drugs, and does not like journalists, Russians, or travel. She constantly quits smoking and starts again.
In March 2016, photos of her in shorts, torn tights and with a toy pistol and machine gun in her hands went viral. social networks. They condemned the woman and wondered what her grandfather would say to this. But she doesn't care. For her, this is just a tyrant from unknown Russia, from where her beloved mother once fled long ago.
IN Soviet years It was not customary to focus attention on the children of political leaders. But the people have always been interested in the life of the “Kremlin princesses and princes.” The most incredible rumors circulated about them, sometimes very far from the truth.
The life of the offspring of top officials in the USSR was not always heavenly, and for some its end was truly terrible. U Vladimir Lenin there were no children, so we will start our story with three children Joseph Stalin: Jacob, Vasily And Svetlana.
Yakov: died, but did not betray
Stalin's eldest son Yakov Dzhugashvili was born in the Georgian village of Badzi on March 18, 1907. His mother was Stalin's first wife Ekaterina Svanidze. The boy was only six months old when his mother died of tuberculosis. Joseph, who madly loved his Kato, rushed into the grave after the coffin at the funeral. For the future leader, the death of his wife was a great shock.
The father, who was immersed in revolutionary activities, had no time to raise his son. Yakov grew up with his mother's relatives. He moved in with his dad when he was 14. Their relationship was complicated. In 1925, Yakov almost committed suicide when his father did not approve of his intention to marry. After this, Stalin made it clear that his son was free to live his own life, in which he would not interfere.
In 1936, Yakov married a ballerina Julia Meltzer. In February 1938, Julia and Yakov had a daughter, who was named Galina.
In 1941, Yakov Dzhugashvili, a graduate of the Red Army Artillery Academy, went to the front. The farewell to his father, as far as one can judge from the evidence that is known today, turned out to be quite dry. Stalin briefly said to Yakov: “Go fight!”
On July 16, 1941, while trying to escape from encirclement near the city of Liozno, Senior Lieutenant Dzhugashvili went missing. As it turned out later, he was captured.
Today we can say for sure that Stalin’s eldest son did not agree to any cooperation with the Germans, despite the pressure. Without betraying either his homeland or his father, on April 14, 1943, Yakov Dzhugashvili made a deliberately suicidal escape attempt at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Vasily: dashing pilot and victim of new repressions
In his second marriage, Joseph Stalin found real family and was happy. He adored his youngest children: Vasily and Svetlana. Suicide of the leader's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva In many ways, it also destroyed his relationship with his children.
Vasily grew up under the supervision of assistants and guards and began to notice too early that adults were trying to please him as Stalin’s son. Joseph Vissarionovich himself did not make concessions to Vasily, demanding strict discipline. But in reality, Vasily Iosifovich was allowed too much. Stalin Jr. himself admitted that he started drinking and smoking early.
In 1938, he entered the Kachin Military Aviation School named after. A. Myasnikova. After six months of service in the 16th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 57th Aviation Brigade of the Moscow Military District Air Force, he was accepted into the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy. Vasily Stalin did not like to study, but both his colleagues and teachers recognized that he was a talented pilot.
During the Great Patriotic Wars Stalin's son fought at the front, showed courage and courage. However, his rapid career connected not so much with exploits, but with the desire of the command to protect the leader’s son. But as soon as Stalin was left without fighting, he began to violate discipline.
Vasily Stalin ended the war as commander of the 286th Fighter Aviation Division of the 16th Air Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. In 1948, he became commander of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District. Stalin Jr. patronized sports, gathering teams of the best athletes under the flag of the Air Force, which jokers deciphered as “Vassily Stalin’s gang.”
In 1952, he was removed from his post after he appeared drunk at a gala reception and became rude Air Force Commander-in-Chief Pavel Zhikharev.
But Vasily Stalin's real problems began after the death of his father. Hot-tempered and knowing too much, he became a problem for the new management. Vasily Iosifovich publicly stated that his father was poisoned. As a result, he was arrested and received 8 years for “anti-Soviet propaganda.” He was released in 1960, but continued to behave provocatively. Stalin was sent to prison again, and after his release, his last name was changed to Dzhugashvili and deported to Kazan. Stalin's youngest son died in March 1962, five days before his 41st birthday.
Svetlana: her father’s favorite ended her life in a nursing home
Daughter Svetlana, Joseph Stalin’s favorite, did not cause her father the same problems as her brothers in childhood. She graduated from school with honors, then studied at the history department of Moscow State University.
But the father’s headache was his daughter’s numerous novels. At the age of 18 she married her brother Vasily’s classmate Grigory Morozov. Birth of a son Joseph did not prevent the spouses from separating in 1948. Svetlana's second husband was Yuri Zhdanov, son Politburo member Andrei Zhdanov. In this marriage, a daughter, Ekaterina, was born.
Official marriages are just the tip of the iceberg. Svetlana Alliluyeva had an incredible number of hobbies.
In 1966, having gone to India to bury the ashes of her next husband, this time an Indian, Svetlana came to the US Embassy to ask for political asylum. At the same time, she abandoned two of her children to the USSR.
In 1970, Svetlana married the American architect William Peters, with whom she gave birth to a daughter, Olga.
In 1984, she suddenly returned to the USSR, but the children left behind did not forgive her. Two years later, she wanted to go to the USA again, and she was released.
Stalin's daughter's struggles ended in an American nursing home in Wisconsin on November 22, 2011. She was 85 years old.
Joseph Stalin's different time there were two wives. Children were born from these marriages. They did not choose their father, they were born into a family and lived under the total control of the odious ruler of the Soviet empire. Unfortunately, the fate of Stalin's children after his death was mostly tragic... Some consider this a natural phenomenon, and some believe that children should not be responsible for the actions of their parents. How many children Stalin had and their fate - we will talk about all this in the article.
Firstborn
So, how many children did Stalin have? So it’s difficult to answer right away. Let's go in order...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the future ruler of the Soviet empire married for the first time. He was twenty-nine. The chosen one is 21. Her name was Ekaterina Svanidze. This marriage lasted only sixteen months. The wife died. But one month before her death, she gave her husband her first child, Jacob.
The deceased wife's relatives had to raise an heir. Father and son saw each other fourteen years later, already in the era of the USSR. By this time, the Leader of the Nations already had a second family. Yakov's stepmother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, treated her stepson with warmth. But his father treated him like a nonentity. He didn't like almost everything about him. He punished him severely for the slightest offenses. Sometimes he wouldn’t even let the boy into the apartment, and he would spend the night on the stairs.
When Yakov was eighteen, he decided to marry his classmate, which is what happened. The father was categorically against this marriage. Because of this conflict, Yakov even tried to commit suicide. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, relations between Stalin and Yakov completely deteriorated. The son began to live with relatives in the Northern capital. It was then that the newlyweds had their first child - daughter Elena, who, unfortunately, died in infancy. After some time, the couple decided to separate.
Return to the capital
Returning to Moscow, Yakov entered the Institute of Transport Engineers and after graduating he worked at one of the power plants. True, he worked very little in his specialty, since his father persistently recommended that he choose a different field. As a result, Yakov became a cadet at the Artillery Academy. Over the years of study, he gained fame as one of the best and most talented students.
Meanwhile, Dzhugashvili met Olga Golysheva. She was born in Uryupinsk, and in the capital she studied at an aviation technical school. Thus, the acquaintance turned into a love affair. However, Stalin was again against this relationship. Olga returned to her homeland, where she gave her lover an heir, Eugene. Relatives from the Golyshev side began raising the child. And the young mother returned to Moscow. But her relationship with Stalin’s son did not work out at all. After some time, they decided to separate.
In 1939, Yakov married again. His wife was ballerina Yulia Meltzer, who soon gave birth to a daughter, Galina. Surprisingly, the all-powerful Stalin did not put obstacles in the way of the young. But, predicting the course of events, let’s say that during the war, Yakov’s wife received a sentence in the Gulag.
Captivity
When the war broke out, Yakov was among the first to go to the front. His father, of course, a priori could have given him a staff position. But he did not do this.
Dzhugashvili found himself in the thick of it - near Vitebsk. He took part in one of the major tank battles. He was even nominated for an award. However, he did not manage to receive it...
The fact is that his battery broke out of the encirclement twice. But the third time Yakov failed to do this. He was captured.
For two years the Germans tried to persuade him to cooperate. But Yakov categorically refused. At the same time, during interrogations, he spoke of deep disappointment associated with unsuccessful actions Soviet troops at the beginning of the war. But he did not provide the information necessary for the Nazis. In addition, he never said anything bad about his homeland and the political system.
The Germans offered Stalin to exchange his son for someone from the big German officers. But the leader was adamant.
...Yakov passed away in mid-1943. He was shot by a sentry in one of the death camps.
Stalin's children and their fate, photos from the archives - all this is of interest to those people who are not indifferent to our history. So we will continue.
Barchuk
In the first years of Soviet power, Stalin married again. He was already forty, and his chosen one was 17. Nadezhda Alliluyeva was the daughter of Stalin’s associates. At the same time, in her youth, an affair began between Stalin and her mother. Thus, after a while she became the mother-in-law of the Leader of the Nations.
Initially, this marriage was happy, but later it turned out to be simply unbearable. And for both. At the end of the autumn of 1932, after another argument with her husband, the wife closed the door to the bedroom and shot herself.
As a result, after the death of his wife, Stalin was left with their two common children - twelve-year-old son Vasily and six-year-old daughter Svetlana. They were looked after by nannies, housekeepers and security guards.
Vasily grew up as a rather mischievous boy. The father repeatedly told the teachers to behave very strictly with him. It was probably not for nothing that the leader called youngest son"Barchuk".
In 1938, Vasily became a cadet at the Kachin aviation school. He enjoyed great authority and was considered a friendly person in the team. But most importantly, he loved to fly. Although he constantly argued with his superiors.
On the eve of the war, Vasily got married. His wife was Galina Burdonskaya. Her great-great-grandfather is a soldier in the Napoleonic army. During the battles of 1812, he was wounded and settled in Russia.
The marriage with Burdonskaya lasted four years. Did Vasily Stalin have children? Their fate (photo in the article) was not the best. Parents separated. Vasily forbade his wife to communicate with his offspring. She saw her children only eight years later.
War
In 1941, being a twenty-year-old officer, Vasily went to the front. He flew twenty-seven missions throughout the war. In addition, he was awarded prestigious military decorations for his participation in military operations.
At the same time, he repeatedly received penalties for hooliganism. He was also demoted. So, one day he was removed from command of the regiment. The fact is that he and his fellow soldiers went fishing. While fishing, he used aerial shells. As a result, weapons engineer Vasily was killed, and one of the pilots was injured.
In 1944, Vasily married again. His chosen one was his daughter Soviet Marshal Tymoshenko. Two children were born in this marriage.
In 1947, Vasily was appointed commander of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District. By this period, he was already seriously suffering from alcoholism and did not take part in flights.
But he had a completely new hobby. He began creating “pilot” football and hockey teams. He provided more than generous financial assistance to these athletes.
In addition, Vasily began to build a sports center. However, during one of the May Day demonstrations, he ordered several planes to fly over Red Square. Some of them, unfortunately, crashed. After this, Stalin fired his own son from the post of commander...
Opal
When Stalin died, Vasily’s life went downhill. At first they decided to appoint him to a position away from the capital. But he did not obey the order. Then he was transferred to the reserve. And just a month and a half after the death of the head of state, he was completely arrested. There was only one reason. During one of the feasts with British citizens, Vasily outlined his version of his father’s death. He believed that he had been poisoned.
As a result, the former combat pilot and general spent eight years in prison. In 1961, ruler Khrushchev returned his awards, title and pension. But 2.5 months after his release, Vasily had a minor car accident. After this, he was banned from living in the capital. So he ended up in Kazan. He lived in this city for very little time, since in the early spring of 1962 Vasily died. He was only forty years old.
Only daughter
The only daughter of the Leader of the Nations, Svetlana, was born in 1926. Initially, Stalin himself doted on her.
However, as a high school student, she began to have romance novels. So, at the age of sixteen, she was in love with the forty-year-old screenwriter A. Kapler. Her lover managed to introduce the girl to good literature and poetry. He was able to cultivate her artistic taste. But the head of state was outraged. A case was opened against Kapler and he was sent to a camp.
Svetlana’s new chosen one was her brother Vasily’s friend G. Morozov. The father allowed his daughter to get married. In their marriage they had their first child. Despite this, after some time the couple separated. A ex-husband were immediately removed from the capital. For three years he could not find a job.
Meanwhile, Svetlana met the son of Soviet leader A. Zhdanov, Yuri. Stalin loved the Zhdanov family very much and sincerely wanted these families to become related. And so it happened. Children appeared. By the way, at one time it was the head of state who helped appoint Yuri to the position of head of the department of the Central Committee. But the personal life of Stalin’s children did not work out... And this marriage also fell apart.
Defector
Svetlana's third husband was Raj Brij Singh. This old man was a Hindu by nationality. Their acquaintance took place in the Kremlin hospital. And after some time, Singh died. The inconsolable widow was allowed to take her husband's ashes to India. After this, she decided to seek asylum at the British Embassy. Then she moved to the United States. Note that she fled abroad without children. By and large, they did not expect such an act and betrayal then.
There she got married again. Her husband was the architect Peters from the USA. From this marriage a daughter, Olga, was born.
After some time, this marriage also broke up. Svetlana returned to the shores of Foggy Albion. And in mid-1984 she was allowed to return to the USSR. Alas, she was not forgiven by either her close people or distant relatives. For this reason, she went abroad again.
In recent years she lived in one of the nursing homes. She passed away in 2011. She was eighty-five.
Foster-son
But these are not all the children of Joseph Stalin. He also had Foster-son Artem. His own father, a close friend of the leader, comrade-in-arms Fyodor Sergeev died in At that time, Artem was only three months old. Stalin adopted him and took him into his family.
The boy was the same age as the middle son of the head of state. They became best friends. Stalin barely set him up as an example, unlike Vasily. Artem was actually very interested in learning. Although the Leader of the Nations never made any concessions to him.
After school, Artem entered one of the artillery schools. He graduated from it in 1940. Just like Vasily, he went to the front. He was captured, but fortunately his escape attempt was successful. He ended the war as a brigade commander.
In 1954, Artem studied at the General Staff Academy and became a great military leader. Many believe that he is one of the founders of anti-aircraft missile forces Soviet Union.
He rose to the rank of major general. Before last days he was a devoted communist. He died in 2008.
Happy son of the leader
In addition to the official ones, Stalin’s illegitimate children are known to history (photos are in the article). By and large, in his youth, Stalin was seriously interested in the fairer sex. At one time, he even intended to get engaged to one of the noblewomen from Odessa.
So, the future leader was sent to Solvychegodsk. He was sheltered by Maria Kuzakova. From this connection a son, Konstantin, was born. Stalin practically did not remember his son, but for some reason Kostya was always lucky in his professional career.
Kuzakov, in fact, was a very modest person. He was, in fact, the happiest son of the leader. He grew up without a father and learned about his relationship with Stalin when he grew up.
After school, Konstantin became a student at the Institute of Finance and Economics in the Northern capital. After receiving his diploma, he remained at the university and worked as a teacher. Later he lectured at the regional party committee of Leningrad, and then in Moscow. Since 1939, he became the head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Assistant to the head of state Poskrebyshev treated him well. And sometimes he gave him instructions from Stalin himself.
In 1947, in the wake of yet another repression, he was removed from all posts and expelled from the party. Beria generally demanded that he be arrested. But, as it turns out, the leader himself stood up for Konstantin. As a result, party membership was restored and Kuzakov's career resumed.
In subsequent years, Konstantin focused on working on television. His last position was as Deputy Minister of Cinematography of the Soviet Union. It was under him that the editorial staff of literary and dramatic programs on Central Television became truly elite. His subordinates sincerely respected, appreciated and loved him. He was truly an intelligent and smart leader. At the same time, Kuzakov’s origin was not a secret at all. Apparently, his career advancement was primarily due to his extraordinary abilities.
Kuzakov died in 1996.
The ordinary life of Stalin's son
We continue to talk about Stalin’s illegitimate children and their fate. Another illegitimate son of the leader was Alexander Davydov.
Finding yourself in another link, future head state cohabited with Lydia Pereprygina. At that time, the girl was only fourteen. The gendarmes intended to punish the lustful revolutionary. But he swore to them that he was going to marry Lida. However, this did not happen. Stalin escaped from exile. And the revolutionary’s future bride was expecting a child at that time.
After some time, she gave birth to a son, Sasha. According to several sources, Stalin first corresponded with Pereprygina. Then rumors spread that Dzhugashvili died at the front. As a result, Lydia did not wait for the groom and married Yakov Davydov, who worked as a fisherman. Pereprygina's new husband adopted Alexander and gave him his last name.
They say that in 1946, Stalin unexpectedly gave an order to find out information about the fate of his son and his mother. The leader's reaction to the results of this search is unknown.
By and large, the illegitimate son of the leader lived a fairly simple life. He fought on the fronts of the Korean and Great Patriotic Wars. He rose to the rank of major. In the post-war period, he lived with his family in Novokuznetsk. Davydov worked as a foreman and also managed the canteen of one of the city enterprises. He passed away in 1987.
Now you know all of Stalin’s children and their fate (photo in the article). It's time to look at some more moments from the life of his descendants.
Children and grandchildren of Stalin. Their fate
You can see photos of Stalin’s huge family in the article. The leader had eight grandchildren. But he saw with his own eyes only three. Their fates are quite different. There are tragic ones, and there are happy ones. Their attitude towards their grandfather was also more than ambiguous.
Stalin's eldest son Yakov had two children. Evgeniy was born in 1936. He was destined to become a military historian. First he studied at one of the Suvorov schools, then at the engineering academy. For ten years he worked in the system of military representations at various enterprises in the capital and region. He took part in the preparation and launch of several space objects.
In 1973, he defended his dissertation and began working as a teacher. He passed away in 2016.
Yakov's daughter Galina became a translator and philologist. She specialized in Algerian literature. By the way, her husband is Algerian. At one time he worked as a UN expert. From this marriage a deaf-mute son was born. Galina died in 2007.
Vasily Dzhugashvili had four children and three adopted ones.
The life of the eldest son turned out to be the most successful. He became a famous director. He served in the capital. It was he who managed to stage a number of excellent performances. It's about about such productions as “Vassa Zheleznova”, “The Lady with Camellias”, “Orpheus Descends to Hell”, “The Snows Have Fallen”, “The Last Ardently in Love” and many others. The talented director died in 2017.
Daughter Nadezhda studied at one of the theater schools, but she was unable to complete her studies. She moved to Georgia, but then returned to her homeland, to the capital. By this time, she met the writer’s son and they soon became husband and wife. They had a daughter, Nastya. At the end of the 90s, Nadezhda died.
The second son Vasily lived only nineteen years. As a student, he decided to take his own life. On the day of his death he was in a drugged state.
Daughter Svetlana died in 1989. She was only forty-three.
Three adopted daughters were adopted by Vasily Dzhugashvili. They say they kept this surname even after their marriage.
Svetlana Alliluyeva had two daughters and a son.
Joseph was the eldest. He was born in marriage with G. Morozov. But when Svetlana married his surname passed to his son Joseph. Joseph became a famous cardiologist. He is considered a true authority in his field. And his patients still idolize him.
Daughter Ekaterina, after studying at a university, became a volcanologist. She got married. From this marriage a daughter was born. When her husband died, Catherine moved to Kamchatka. They say she still works there.
The youngest daughter Olga was born in 1971 in America. In 1982, his mother and Olga moved to the UK. Olga studied there at Cambridge. Then she returned to her homeland, the USA. According to some sources, she is engaged in business. She has her own haberdashery store in Portland.