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Journalists report that 77-year-old Yulia Khrushcheva, the granddaughter and adopted daughter of a Soviet statesman, died tragically in the capital. The incident occurred on Thursday around 10:35 am at the Michurinets station in New Moscow. The woman died after receiving injuries incompatible with life.
According to a source from law enforcement agencies, Yulia Leonidovna was hit by a train that was heading from Vnukovo to Moscow. According to one version, the woman was crossing the railroad tracks in the wrong place. At the same time, it is possible that Khrushcheva could have died by accidentally slipping and falling from the platform. Investigators are currently looking into the incident.
“On the Michurinets railway platform in the Kyiv direction, a woman born in 1940 fell, tripping, under an approaching commuter train. It has been established that the deceased is Yulia Khrushcheva, the granddaughter of one of the Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev,” an informed source told reporters.
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Yulia Khrushcheva was born into the family of military pilot Leonid, the eldest son of the famous statesman. She was born in his second marriage. The woman's father died during the Great Patriotic War in 1943, and her mother was arrested on suspicion of espionage. After these events, Nikita Sergeevich took care of his son’s heir and decided to adopt the girl. All her life, Yulia Leonidovna fought to restore the good name of her parent - some members of the public believed that he did not die, but surrendered to the Nazis.
In one of her interviews, Yulia Leonidovna said that she treated Nikita Khrushchev as a father and always considered his wife Nina to be a close person. When the granddaughter of the statesman turned seventeen, she met her mother after many years of separation. Khrushcheva admitted that she was very grateful to her grandfather for everything. The woman said that he and his wife taught her a lot.
Correspondents contacted the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District. They confirmed that a woman born in 1940 was hit on the stretch of the Solnechnaya - Vnukovo stations, but did not name the deceased, Interfax reports.
Let us add that in August last year, Nikita Khrushchev’s eldest daughter from his second marriage, Rada Adzhubey, a famous journalist and publicist, died. The woman died at the age of 88. Her relatives told the journalists the sad news.
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Yulia Khrushcheva, granddaughter of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, died at the Solnechnaya railway station in Moscow. She was hit by a train. As the agencies report, citing the Investigative Committee, she “did not have time to react to the signals of the approaching train.”
Khrushcheva was 77 years old. Her father, Leonid Khrushchev, a military pilot, did not return from a combat mission during the war, in 1943, when Yulia was 3 years old. In the same year, Khrushcheva’s mother, Lyubov Sizykh, was arrested on charges of espionage and spent over 10 years in camps and exile. Nikita Khrushchev adopted a granddaughter who called him father.
Yulia Khrushcheva learned about her real parents only at the age of 16. Here is an excerpt from an interview with her mother:
“The wives of Molotov and Kalinin served ten years in logging, and their husbands, who were closer to Stalin than Khrushchev, could not do anything... At the end of their prison term, in 1948, they were released. But Stalin decided to send all those released to prison. exile without trial or investigation. I was exiled to Kazakhstan... I was finally released in 1956... I was arrested right in the classroom at the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages, evacuated to Stavropol, Kuibyshev region... My daughter remained in Kuibyshev with Nina Petrovna, called her mother, and Nikita Sergeevich - her father. Only before she joined the Komsomol, Nina Petrovna told Yulka the truth: her father died at the front, and her mother works in Karaganda so that her daughter filled out the form correctly... We corresponded with Nina Petrovna. I always sent her a huge cake through the ordering table in Moscow. And Nina Petrovna wrote that I could come and meet my daughter... In 1957, Yulka turned 17! I met my daughter in Irina Sergeevna’s apartment (Nikita Khrushchev’s sister. - Author) . She opened the door and exclaimed: “Yulochka! How much you look like your father!!!”
Yulia Khrushcheva became a journalist after graduating from Moscow State University. In one of her interviews she said (in which, as usual, she calls Nikita Khrushchev her father): “my father was against my choice, but I insisted. For a long period I worked at APN - the Novosti press agency. Then I became very disappointed in journalism, if Honestly, I’m tired of lying. I got a job at the Ermolova Theater as the head of the literary department. I devoted more than one year to this business.”
In 2004, Yulia Khrushcheva, according to press reports, filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity against the former USSR Minister of Defense Dmitry Yazov, who in his book “Blows of Fate” claimed that Leonid Khrushchev did not die in 1943, but was captured by Nazis and collaborated with them, and then was kidnapped by Soviet intelligence, court-martialed and sentenced to death. Obviously, this story had a long circulation among Soviet functionaries. Yulia Khrushcheva, in the same interview, spoke about it this way: “Instead of paying tribute to the courage of this brave man, they immediately began to discredit and denigrate his good name. They started a rumor that my father allegedly did not die, managed to jump with a parachute on enemy territory and voluntarily surrendered to the Gestapo, etc., etc. The persecution has not stopped to this day.”
Yulia Khrushcheva's daughter Nina is a political science teacher at a university in New York. Nikita Khrushchev called her, a first-grader, a few days before his death, Yulia Khrushcheva recalled at one time. “On September 1, 1971, Nikita Sergeevich called us home from his dacha in Petrovo-Dalny. On this day, my daughter Nina went to first grade, and my great-grandfather congratulated her on the start of her working life. A few days later, he was hospitalized with a heart attack at the Kuntsevo hospital.”
Yulia Khrushcheva said about her daughter’s decision to work in the USA:
“I believe that a person should be completely free in terms of choosing a place of residence. To move freely around the world. By the way, I myself would never stay abroad forever. But my daughter Nina has long been registered at New York University and teaches there , writes and publishes works on political science and literary studies, professor. Nina is now finishing her work on Vladimir Nabokov, what’s wrong with that? She doesn’t break with Russia, she often visits her homeland.”
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