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“Mom, I love the pilot!
Mommy, I love the pilot!!
The pilot flies high
Gets a lot of money
Mommy, I love the pilot !!!
(from a popular song of those years).

Vasily Stalin was officially married three times. There were also many unofficial novels in his life. A handsome young pilot, the son of Stalin himself, enjoyed great success with women.
I will not retell various gossip about his success on the love front. Those who wish can easily find many stories and tales about it. Let's briefly dwell on the most important moments of his personal life. Moreover, some outstanding "exploits" of Vasily on this path have already been discussed.

Alexander Burdonsky, the son of Vasily Stalin and Galina Burdonskaya, recalled a lot about that time. Here's what he said:
- He was a little, you know, such Paratov from "Dowry". That's when he looked after his mother, here are all his flights over Kirovskaya, the Kirovskaya metro station, where she lived ... So, that's what he knew how to do.
Pretty Galya had plenty to choose from. After breaking up with Vasily, she was married twice more, besides this, she had many novels, but ... “Vaska,” she said, “this is love!”
- My mother was a surprisingly rare person who could not be someone, you understand, so she could not pretend to be someone and could not, and she was never a crafty person. Maybe that was her problem too. And for such a person to love his father ... but it seems to me that she loved him until the end of her days.
“Valya Serov’s parents, with whom his mother was friends, and Konstantin Simonov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya and Voitekhov, Kozlovsky with Sergeeva, Roman Karmen with the famous Moscow beauty Nina Orlova, Kapler, Bernes, Nikolai Kryuchkov. Plisetskaya does not write in her book how , late for the rehearsal, she called from her father: - I won’t come ... I’m calling from Stalin’s dacha ... "
“Father flew all the time, and mother flew to him. But they had to leave. Mom did not know how to make friends in this circle. Vlasik, the eternal intriguer, told her:
- Checkmark, you have to tell me what Vasya's friends are talking about.
His mother is a mother! He hissed:
- You will pay for this.
Quite possibly, the divorce from his father was the price. Vlasik could start an intrigue - so that Vasily would take a wife from his circle. And he slipped Katya Timoshenko, the marshal's daughter ... ”(From the memoirs of A. Burdonsky.)

Immediately after the war, Vasily's marriage to Galina Burdonskaya breaks up. Children, Sasha and Nadia, Vasily leaves and marries Ekaterina Timoshenko, the daughter of the famous marshal. The children remembered her as a real stepmother, gloomy and domineering.
Alexander Burdonsky:
- This was one such side of life where we could ... there for a week they didn’t feed us, didn’t give us water, they locked us in a room. The father did not see it, but it was so.
“Ekaterina Timoshenko treated us terribly. She beat her sister in the most cruel way, her kidneys are still beaten off. In a luxurious dacha, we were dying of hunger. Somehow they got out, it was before Germany, small children crept to where the vegetables were, stuffed them into their pants and cleaned the beets with their teeth, gnawed unwashed in the dark. Just a scene from a horror movie. It's in the royal house! The nanny, whom Ekaterina caught feeding us, kicked out ... Ekaterina's life with her father is full of scandals. I don't think he loved her. Most likely, there were no special feelings on both sides. Very prudent, she, like everything else in her life, simply calculated this marriage.
You need to know what she was up to. If well-being, then the goal can be said to have been achieved. Catherine brought them a huge amount of junk from Germany. All this was kept in a shed at our dacha, where Nadya and I were starving. When Ekaterina's father put her out in 1949, it took her several cars to take this stuff out. Nadya and I heard a noise in the yard and rushed to the window. We see - "Studebakers" are walking in a chain ". (From the memoirs of A. Burdonsky.)
And here is what one of his pilots remembered about Vasily's second wife: “... A black Packard appeared on the runway - everyone recognized Vasily Stalin's car. He came with a girl. He called Kasnerik: "Misha, give her a good ride." Not eyes looked at Misha - fire. The girl smiled all the time, addressed Stalin as you, was not afraid of anything ... “Who is she?” - Kasnerik puzzled while he and the beautiful Katya walked to the plane. They took off. When they landed, Vasily Stalin approached the cockpit: “What, punish you? Show her air figures - a turn, a corkscrew, a bell, so that the spirit is busy ... Let's do it again! “Mikhail Kasnerik took off again. He made several "harmless" figures in the sky and went to land: come what may... Earth... The girl said to Kasnerik: "Although you are a pilot, you are a decent gentleman!" It was Marshal's daughter Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko, second wife of Vasily Stalin. As the commander-in-chief later said, his young wife Ekaterina Semyonovna often reproached at dinner: “They say, a pilot ... I also have a job. And why should I feed you?
This short-lived marriage was somehow unhappy ...
The third wife of Vasily was the famous athlete and record holder, swimmer Kapitolina Vasilyeva. This, perhaps, was his only wife, who managed to please I.V. Stalin.
After Vasily announced to Stalin that he was marrying a young swimmer, the young people received 10 thousand rubles as a gift from their father, for which Kapitolina bought her husband his only civilian suit and shoes for all this time.
We can say that the period of the late forties - early fifties was the best in the life of Vasily Stalin.
“At the end of the forties, Stalin’s son separated from the daughter of Marshal Timoshenko and began to live with a multiple swimming champion. They settled in a mansion on Gogolevsky Boulevard at number seven.
Kapitolina Vasilyeva told a lot about Vasily. Sometimes he came home and asked her:
“Could you live without my salary this month if I don’t give you a salary?” I knew what it means, someone is in trouble, that his salary is needed as a help to someone. I say okay, I'll do it. I'll manage, don't worry, just please, you have less gatherings.
- Conflicts in connection with this very front-line charm ... I was very against it, because I knew that this disease was very serious, it was progressing, and I needed to somehow ... But nothing worked out for me.

And here is another interesting case from the memoirs of Vasilyeva:
“In October or November 1950, Vasily and I went to a sanatorium in Sochi. Iosif Vissarionovich was resting in Ritsa at that time and invited us to his place. I thought we were going for a day or two, got into the car in one dress, and we rolled.
Some members of the government were resting with Stalin, and in the morning, when everyone gathered for breakfast, Iosif Vissarionovich introduced me to them, starting with Molotov:
- Here's my daughter-in-law. - He said these words as if we had known each other for a long time. Then Stalin asked:
- What shall we drink? I suddenly say:
- Cognac!
He took a small glass and poured it. The glass of that, of course, stood still. Everyone drank Georgian wines Tsinandali, Tsolikauri. I remember that Stalin had a narrow long glass - that was enough for him for the whole breakfast or lunch ... ”(from the memoirs of K. Vasilyeva).
(An interesting memory, especially against the backdrop of Khrushchev's nonsense about the terrible drinking of Stalin and his entourage. How many films our filmmakers managed to make about this) ...
“Iosif Vissarionovich once asked:
- What is your income? How many people are the family?
I began to list: Vasya and I, Sasha, Nadia, Lina are my daughter. Vasily has a salary of 5 thousand rubles, I have 2.5 thousand. Vasily pays 1.5 thousand alimony, then contributions, a loan. There are four thousand left for the family.
- How much is it per day? Stalin asked.
I tried to count: it came out something like 25 rubles per person.
- Not enough, - said Joseph Vissarionovich. - That's when there will be a hundred a day, and even a bottle of dry wine for dinner, then life can be called normal. And now - unimportant life ...
This ended the conversation. Suddenly, a month later, a driver from Stalin arrives at our house on Gogolevsky Boulevard. Vasily jumped out, and the driver says:
- No, I am Kapitolina Georgievna. The package was ordered to be handed over to her.
There was the entire monthly salary of the Generalissimo - 10 thousand rubles. And there was an inscription: "The salary of I.V. Stalin for December 1950."
Vasily, of course, was delighted:
- Listen, I need to buy a mare!
- You know what, you don't have a suit, not even civilian pants. Sasha's hands are sticking out of the sleeves. I'm not talking about myself. So this money is for the family! I objected.
And in the evening, I called Svetlana:
- Sveta, father gave us ten thousand. Submit your salary. I will share with you.
- In no case! Do not dare! And don't think! You have a family... - Svetlana got worried. And a month later he calls me:
- Listen, my father also sent me! .. Svetlana did not know: when Stalin calculated our income, I said:
- It's not good for us, but Svetlana's is even worse.
She then divorced her second husband Yura Zhdanov and was left with two children ... So Iosif Vissarionovich sent us his salary until the end of 1952.
(From the memoirs of Kapitolina Vasilyeva.)
And more about money and V. Stalin's attitude towards them. Here is an excerpt from an interview with K. Vasilyeva:
- Kapitolina Georgievna, evil tongues claim that you "have laid eyes on Vasily" with the expectation ...
- For each record, the sports committee paid me 8-10 thousand rubles. Before meeting with Vasily, about forty thousand rubles had accumulated on my book. Vasily never dreamed of such money. So it is difficult to suspect me of mercantile interests.
What could you buy with that money then? car? Two?
- And the car, and the other, and furnish the apartment, and dress in fur coats. Nevertheless, I had one fur coat, from a rabbit. For four thousand rubles. I bought it in exchange for butter and lard in post-war Berlin, winning the championship of the occupying forces. We must pay tribute to Vasily - he forbade me to withdraw money from the book in difficult times. So they stayed with me on the day when I left the mansion on Gogolevsky Boulevard. As I remember now February 27, 1953 ... "
Vasily’s children from their first marriage also fell in love with Kapitolina: “And then my father had a third wife - Kapitolina Georgievna Vasilyeva, a well-known swimmer at that time. I remember her with gratitude, and now we keep in touch. She was the only one at that time who humanly tried to help his father. "(From the memoirs of A. Burdonsky.)

“After the death of I.V. Stalin, my father expected to be arrested every day. Both in the apartment and in the dacha, he was all alone. Friends and associates left him overnight. last month in drunkenness and revelry. He knew that his arrest would follow in the coming days. Apparently, that's why he asked me to be with him. Once, returning from school, I found an empty apartment, my father had already been taken away, and the house was being searched.
(From the memoirs of Nadezhda Vasilievna Stalina, daughter of Vasily Stalin.)
All three of his former wives came to visit Vasily in prison: Galina Burdonskaya, Ekaterina Timoshenko and Kapitolina Vasilyeva. True, they came very rarely.
From a letter from Vasily Stalin to Kapitolina Vasilyeva:
April 22, 1958.
Hello Capa! On the 27th of this month it will be exactly five years since I have been away from home. Are you asking who visits you? I have no secrets from you, I really love you. Now neither one nor the other visits. Katerina does not visit or write, because every visit ended in swearing because of you. I did not hide from her and from anyone my attitude towards you. Galina came twice with Nadia. One didn't come."

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It is unlikely that any of the adults in Russia, and indeed in the world, need to be told about Stalin the politician. Much less is known about Stalin as a person, and yet he was a husband, father and, as it turns out, a great hunter of women, at least during his stormy revolutionary youth. True, the fate of the people closest to him always developed tragically. Sweeping aside fiction, myths and gossip, Anews talks about the wives and children of the leader.

Ekaterina (Kato) Svanidze

First wife

At 27, Stalin married the 21-year-old daughter of a Georgian nobleman. Her brother, with whom he once studied at the seminary, was his close friend. They married secretly, at night, in a mountain monastery in Tiflis, because Joseph was already hiding from the authorities as a Bolshevik underground worker.

The marriage, made out of great love, lasted only 16 months: Kato gave birth to a son, Yakov, and at the age of 22 she died in her husband's arms, either from transient consumption, or from typhus. According to legend, the inconsolable widower allegedly said to a friend at the funeral: "My last warm feelings for people died with her."

Even if these words are fiction, here is a real fact: years later, Stalinist repressions destroyed almost all of Catherine's relatives. The same brother with his wife and older sister were shot. And the brother's son was kept in a psychiatric hospital until Stalin's death.

Yakov Dzhugashvili

First son

Stalin's firstborn was raised by Kato's relatives. He first saw his father at the age of 14, when he already had new family. It is believed that Stalin never fell in love with the "wolf cub", as he himself called him, and was even jealous of his wife, who was only five and a half years older than Yasha. He severely punished the teenager for the slightest misconduct, sometimes he did not let him go home, forcing him to spend the night on the stairs. When, at the age of 18, the son married against the will of his father, the relationship finally deteriorated. In desperation, Yakov tried to shoot himself, but the bullet went right through, he was saved, and Stalin moved even further away from the “hooligan and blackmailer” and poisoned him with mockery: “Ha, he didn’t hit!”

In June of the 41st, Yakov Dzhugashvili went to the front, and to the most difficult sector - near Vitebsk. His battery distinguished itself in one of the largest tank battles, and Stalin's son, along with other fighters, was presented for the award.

But soon Jacob was captured. His portraits immediately appeared on fascist leaflets designed to demoralize Soviet soldiers. There is a myth that Stalin allegedly refused to exchange his son for the German commander Paulus, saying: “I don’t change a soldier for a field marshal!” Historians doubt that the Germans even offered such an exchange, and the phrase itself sounds in the Soviet epic film "Liberation" and, apparently, is an invention of the screenwriters.

German photo: Stalin's son in captivity

And the next picture of the captured Yakov Dzhugashvili is published for the first time: only recently it was found in the photo archive of the commander of the Third Reich, Wolfram von Richthofen.

Yakov spent two years in captivity, under no pressure did not cooperate with the Germans. He died in the camp in April 1943: he provoked a sentry to a fatal shot by rushing to a barbed wire fence. According to a widespread version, Yakov was in despair when he heard Stalin's words on the radio that "there are no prisoners of war in the Red Army, there are only traitors and traitors to the Motherland." However, most likely, this "spectacular phrase" was attributed to Stalin later.

Meanwhile, the relatives of Yakov Dzhugashvili, in particular, his daughter and half-brother Artem Sergeyev, were convinced all their lives that he died in battle in June 41, and his stay in captivity, including photos and interrogation protocols, was from beginning to end played out by the Germans for propaganda purposes. However, in 2007, the FSB confirmed the fact of his capture.

Nadezhda Alliluyeva

Second and last wife

The second time Stalin married at the age of 40, his wife was 23 years younger - a fresh graduate of the gymnasium, who looked with admiration at the seasoned revolutionary, who had just returned from another Siberian exile.

Nadezhda was the daughter of Stalin's longtime associates, and he also had an affair with her mother Olga in his youth. Now, years later, she became his mother-in-law.

The marriage of Joseph and Nadezhda, at first happy, eventually became unbearable for both. The memories of their family are very contradictory: some said that Stalin was gentle at home, and she imposed strict discipline and flared up easily, others said that he was constantly rude, and she endured and accumulated resentment until a tragedy happened ...

In November 1932, after another public skirmish with her husband while visiting Voroshilov, Nadezhda returned home, retired to the bedroom and shot herself in the heart. No one heard the shot, only the next morning she was found dead. She was 31 years old.

Different things were also told about Stalin's reaction. According to some, he was shocked, sobbed at the funeral. Others remember that he was furious and over the coffin of his wife said: "I did not know that you were my enemy." One way or another, family relationships were forever finished. Subsequently, numerous novels were attributed to Stalin, including with the first beauty of the Soviet screen, Lyubov Orlova, but mostly these are unconfirmed rumors and myths.

Vasily Dzhugashvili (Stalin)

Second son

Nadezhda bore Stalin two children. When she committed suicide, the 12-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter were looked after not only by nannies and housekeepers, but also by male guards, led by General Vlasik. It was them that Vasily later blamed for the fact that from a young age he was addicted to smoking and alcohol.

Subsequently, being a military pilot and bravely fighting in the war, he repeatedly received penalties and demotions "in the name of Stalin" for hooligan actions. For example, he was removed from command of the regiment for fishing with aircraft shells, which killed his weapons engineer and wounded one of the best pilots.

Or after the war, a year before Stalin's death, he lost his post as commander of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District, when he showed up drunk at a festive reception of the government and was rude to the commander in chief of the Air Force.

Immediately after the death of the leader, the life of Lieutenant General of Aviation Vasily Stalin went downhill. It began to spread right and left that his father was poisoned, and when the Minister of Defense decided to appoint a troubled son to a position away from Moscow, he disobeyed his order. He was transferred to the reserve without the right to wear a uniform, and then he did the irreparable - he reported his version of Stalin's poisoning to foreigners, hoping to get protection from them.

But instead of going abroad, Stalin's youngest son, an decorated participant in the Great Patriotic War, ended up in prison, where he spent 8 years, from April 1953 to April 1961. The angry Soviet leadership hung a lot of accusations on him, including frankly ridiculous ones, but during interrogations Vasily confessed to everything without exception. At the end of his term, he was “exiled” to Kazan, but he did not live a year at liberty: he died in March 1962, just a couple of days before his 41st birthday. According to the official conclusion, from alcohol poisoning.

Svetlana Alliluyeva (Lana Peters)

Stalin's daughter

Naturally or not, but the only one of the children in whom Stalin did not look for a soul gave him nothing but trouble during her lifetime, and after his death she fled abroad and in the end completely abandoned her homeland, where she was threatened with a fate until the end of her days to bear moral punishment for father's sins.

From a young age, she started countless novels, sometimes disastrous for her chosen ones. When, at the age of 16, she fell in love with the 40-year-old screenwriter Alexei Kapler, Stalin arrested him and exiled him to Vorkuta, completely forgetting how he himself had seduced the young Nadezhda, Svetlana's mother, at the same age.

Only Svetlana had five official husbands, including an Indian and an American. Having escaped to India in 1966, she became a “defector”, leaving her 20-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter to the USSR. They did not forgive such a betrayal. The son is no longer in the world, and the daughter, who is now under 70, abruptly cuts off inquisitive journalists: “You are mistaken, she is not my mother.”

In America, Svetlana, who became Lana Peters by her husband, had a third daughter, Olga. With her, in the mid-80s, she suddenly returned to the USSR, but did not take root either in Moscow or in Georgia, and as a result, she finally left for the United States, renouncing her native citizenship. Her personal life did not work out. She died in a nursing home in 2011, her burial place is unknown.

Svetlana Alliluyeva: "Wherever I go - to Switzerland, or India, even Australia, even to some lonely island, I will always be a political prisoner of my father's name."

Stalin had three more sons - two illegitimate, born from his mistresses in exile, and one adopted. Surprisingly, their fates were not so tragic, on the contrary, as if remoteness from their father or lack of blood relationship saved them from evil fate.

Artem Sergeev

Stalin's adopted son

His own father was the legendary Bolshevik "Comrade Artem", a revolutionary ally and close friend of Stalin. When his son was three months old, he died in a railway accident, and Stalin took him into his family.

Artem was the same age as Vasily Stalin, the guys from childhood were inseparable. From the age of two and a half, both were brought up in a boarding school for "Kremlin" children, however, in order not to raise a "children's elite", exactly the same number of real street homeless children were placed with them. Everyone was taught to work equally. The children of the party members returned home only on weekends, and they were obliged to invite orphans to their place.

According to the memoirs of Vasily, Stalin "loved Artyom very much, set him as an example." However, the diligent Artyom, who, unlike Vasily, studied well and with interest, Stalin did not give concessions. So, after the war, he had a pretty hard time at the Artillery Academy because of the excessive drill and nitpicking of teachers. Then it turned out that Stalin personally demanded that his adopted son be treated more strictly.

Already after the death of Stalin, Artem Sergeev became a great military leader, retired with the rank of Major General of Artillery. He is considered one of the founders of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the USSR. He died in 2008 at the age of 86. Until the end of his life he remained a devoted communist.

Mistresses and illegitimate children

The British specialist in Soviet history Simon Seabag Montefiori, who has many awards in documentary films, traveled around the territory in the 90s former USSR and found a lot of unpublished documents in the archives. It turned out that the young Stalin was surprisingly amorous, was fond of women of different ages and classes, and after the death of his first wife, during the years of Siberian exile, had a large number of mistresses.

17 year old high school graduate Field of Onufrieva he sent passionate postcards (one of them is in the photo). Postscript: “I have your kiss, passed on to me through Petka. I kiss you in return, and not just a kiss, but gorrrryacho (just kissing is not worth it!). Joseph".

He had affairs with party comrades - Vera Schweitzer And Lyudmila Stal.

And on a noblewoman from Odessa Stephanie Petrovskaya he even considered getting married.

However, Stalin lived two sons with simple peasant women from a distant wilderness.

Konstantin Stepanovich Kuzakov

An illegitimate son from a cohabitant in Solvychegodsk Maria Kuzakova

The son of a young widow who sheltered the exiled Stalin graduated from a university in Leningrad and made a dizzying career - from a non-party university teacher to the head of cinematography at the USSR Ministry of Culture and one of the leaders of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. He recalled in 1995: “My origin was not a big secret, but I always managed to evade the answer when they asked me about it. But I suppose my promotion is also related to my abilities.

Only in adulthood did he first see Stalin up close, and this happened in the canteen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Kuzakov, as a member of the apparatus of the Central Committee responsible for propaganda, was engaged in political editing of speeches. “I didn’t even have time to take a step towards Stalin. The bell rang, and the members of the Politburo went into the hall. Stalin stopped and looked at me. I felt that he wanted to say something to me. I wanted to run towards him, but something stopped me. Probably, subconsciously, I understood that public recognition of kinship would bring me nothing but big trouble. Stalin waved the receiver and walked slowly ... "

After that, under the pretext of a working consultation, Stalin wanted to arrange a personal reception for Kuzakov, but he did not hear the phone call, having fallen asleep soundly after a late meeting. Only the next morning he was informed that he had missed. Then Konstantin saw Stalin more than once, both close and from a distance, but they never spoke to each other, and he did not call to himself again. "I think he did not want to make me an instrument in the hands of intriguers."

However, in the 47th Kuzakov almost fell under repression due to the intrigues of Beria. He was expelled from the party for "loss of vigilance", removed from all posts. Beria at the Politburo demanded his arrest. But Stalin saved the unrecognized son. As Zhdanov later told him, Stalin walked along the table for a long time, smoked, and then said: "I see no reason to arrest Kuzakov."

Kuzakov was reinstated in the party on the day Beria was arrested, and his career resumed. He retired already under Gorbachev, in 1987, at the age of 75. Died in 1996.

Alexander Yakovlevich Davydov

An illegitimate son from a cohabitant in Kureika Lidia Pereprygina

And here it was almost a criminal story, because the 34-year-old Stalin began to live with Lydia when she was only 14. Under the threat of gendarme prosecution for seducing a minor, he promised to marry her later, but fled from exile earlier. At the time of his disappearance, she was pregnant and already without him gave birth to a son, Alexander.

There is evidence that at first the runaway father corresponded with Lydia. Then, there was a rumor that Stalin was killed at the front, and she married the fisherman Yakov Davydov, who adopted her child.

There is documentary evidence that in 1946, 67-year-old Stalin suddenly wanted to find out about their fate and gave a laconic order to find the bearers of such and such surnames. According to the results of the search, Stalin was given a brief reference - such and such live there. And all the personal and piquant details that came to light in the process surfaced only 10 years later, already under Khrushchev, when the campaign to expose the cult of personality began.

Alexander Davydov lived simple life Soviet soldier and worker. Participated in the Great Patriotic and Korean Wars, rose to the rank of major. After his discharge from the army, he lived with his family in Novokuznetsk, worked in low positions - as a foreman, head of the factory canteen. Died in 1987.

Vasily Stalin, the future lieutenant general of aviation, was born in the second marriage of Joseph Stalin with Nadezhda Alliluyeva. At the age of 12, he lost his mother. She shot herself in 1932. Stalin did not deal with his upbringing, shifting this concern to the head of security. Later, Vasily will write that he was brought up by men "not distinguished by morality ... ... Early began to smoke and drink."

At the age of 19, he fell in love with his friend's fiancee Galina Burdonskaya and married her in 1940. In 1941, the first-born Sasha was born, two years later Nadezhda.

After 4 years, Galina left, unable to withstand her husband's spree. In retaliation, he refused to give her children. For eight years they had to live with their father, despite the fact that a year later he had another family.

The new chosen one was the daughter of Marshal Timoshenko Ekaterina. The ambitious beauty, born on December 21, like Stalin, and who saw this as a special sign, disliked her stepchildren. The hatred was manic. She locked them up, “forgot” to feed them, beat them. Vasily paid no attention to this. The only thing that bothered him was that the children did not see their own mother. Once Alexander met with her secretly, the father found out about this and beat his son.

Many years later, Alexander recalled those years as the most difficult time of his life.

In the second marriage, Vasily Jr. and daughter Svetlana were born. But the family fell apart. Vasily, together with the children from his first marriage, Alexander and Nadezhda, went to the famous swimmer Kapitolina Vasilyeva. She accepted them as family. Children from the second marriage remained with their mother.

After Stalin's death, Vasily was arrested.

The first wife Galina immediately took the children. Nobody stopped her from doing this.

Catherine renounced Vasily, received a pension from the state and a four-room apartment on Gorky Street (now Tverskaya), where she lived with her son and daughter. Either due to severe heredity, or no less difficult situation in the family, their further fate was tragic.

Both did poorly in school. One, because she was sick all the time. Others were not interested in studying at all.

After the 21st party congress and the exposure of the cult of personality, the negative attitude towards all Stalin's relatives intensified in society. Catherine, trying to protect her son, sent him to Georgia to study. There he entered the Faculty of Law. I did not go to classes, spent time with new friends, became addicted to drugs.

The problem was not immediately recognized. From the third year, his mother took him to Moscow, but she could not cure him. During one of the “breakdowns”, Vasily committed suicide at the dacha of his famous grandfather, Marshal Timoshenko. He was only 23.

After the death of her son, Catherine withdrew into herself. She did not love her daughter and even refused custody of her, despite the fact that Svetlana suffered from Graves' disease and a progressive mental illness.

Svetlana died at the age of 43, completely alone. Her death was not known until a few weeks later.

Vasily's children from his first marriage were more successful.

Alexander graduated from the Suvorov Military School. The military career did not interest him, and he entered the directing department of GITIS. He played in the theater, received the title of People's Artist. He worked as a director of the Theater of the Soviet Army. He considered grandfather a tyrant, and his relationship with him was a “heavy cross”. He loved his mother very much, lived with her most of the time and bore her surname Bourdonsky. Passed away in 2017.

Nadezhda, unlike her brother, remained Stalin. She always defended her grandfather, argued that Stalin did not know much of what was happening in the country. She studied at the theater, but the actress did not work out of her. For some time she lived in Gori. Upon her return to Moscow, she married her adopted son and mother-in-law Alexander Fadeev, gave birth to a daughter, Anastasia. Nadezhda died in 1999 at the age of 56.

Vasily had no other native children.

The last wife was the nurse Maria Nusberg. He adopted two of her daughters, just as he had previously adopted the daughter of Kapitolina Vasilyeva.

The memoirs of Kapitolina Vasilyeva, Stalin's daughter-in-law - the last wife of his son Vasily, are fragmentary, contradictory and very personal. It is not easy for a half-blind, sick person, bedridden, to communicate with people. Especially with journalists who are eager even today, after more than half a century, to learn something new about the people and events in which Kapitolina Georgievna was involved.

For almost two months I asked the widow of Vasily Stalin to tell about her husband and the Kremlin celestials she knew. “Who needs it today,” she said, “so many years have passed, many eyewitnesses are in the grave.

They write what they want about Stalin, they lie more ... Today everything is different. Even though I lived to see this, my eyes would not look at him ... "

Kapitolina Vasilyeva became the wife of Vasily Stalin in the late 40s. In matrimonial affairs, the son of the leader did not pay attention to legal details, and the marriage was not registered in the registry office. Just two young people began to live together.

Vasilyeva was a well-known athlete throughout the country, a 19-time champion of the Soviet Union in swimming, a multiple record holder of the USSR. In the late 40s, newspapers wrote about her achievements, the radio blew (mass television did not exist then): either she won the swim along the Moscow River, or returned triumphantly from foreign competitions. In a word, Vasily Stalin chose a worthy woman as his wife - beautiful, strong, strong-willed.

The young people lived in a mansion well-known to Muscovites on Gogolevsky Boulevard, 7. Those who have been in the house recall a beautifully restored palace with two reception rooms, an office, a billiard room, a cinema hall, a bedroom, an adjutant's room. The interior decoration amazed with expensive furniture, luxurious fabrics, rare woods.

"My husband's drunkenness turned me away"

A painful topic for Vasilyeva is Vasily Iosifovich's weakness for alcohol. And in conversations with me, she could not restrain herself:

Well, how could you fight it?! I gave a lot of strength and health to discourage him from drinking, looked for experienced narcologists, but all to no avail. My husband's drunkenness turned me off. There was not enough strength ... Although, of course, when he did not drink, he was a normal person, kind, attentive, loving.

Many people speak about the sincere attitude towards Vasily Stalin on the part of Kapitolina Georgievna.

I remember Kapitolina Vasiliev with gratitude, - says Alexander Burdonsky, Vasily Stalin's son from his first marriage, - and we still keep in touch. At that time, she was the only one who humanly tried to help her father.

Drunkenness is drunkenness, this is a special conversation, - recalls Stalin's widow, - but Vasily was a good man. Much correct. And he mastered the craft of flying no worse than others, and he was brave, and a good friend, he loved children ... But there are no sinless people. In addition, he was the son of Stalin. And it's not easy. So Svetlana Alliluyeva is also not without sin. How much people have said about her, how much she has said about herself in books, in interviews. And people are just waiting for "fried". So my Vasily was punished unfairly: they arrested, convicted, sent to prison, where he, poor, spent all 8 years. I felt sorry for him to the point of tears.

"I am: the city of Vladimir, a prison"

Here are just some excerpts from the letters of the prisoner Vasily Stalin from the Vladimir Central to his wife: “I am: the city of Vladimir (Vladimir prison). Upon arrival, you need to contact the head of the prison or his deputy. Present this letter, and it will serve as a pass. In short, I will be called. You can get from Moscow:

On this topic

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1. By bus - 5 hours drive.

2. By train - 6 hours. 3. By car - 3-3.5 hours drive. It would be nice for you to come along with Svetlana. But if she can't... come alone, don't delay your arrival because of her. Grab some money for me. It's tough here without money. Buy "Fragrant" cigarettes (packs of 100), and matches, and sugar... Don't talk about anything with anyone, even with your relatives... First you need to see each other. I'm waiting, Vasil. January 9, 1956".

"Mommy, dear! The first swallow ... nevertheless flew. It is a pity that Linushka (Lina is Vasilyeva's daughter from her first marriage, adopted by V. Stalin. - F.M.) did not write a single line ... Although you are far away, but with the letter you seem to have approached and are close by. I didn't think a piece of paper could be so exciting. You can’t imagine how nice it is to receive even such a small ... warm message in this “palace”! .. Your letter is better than any medicine, and since it warms me, the devil himself is not afraid of me! .. I kiss everyone tightly. Your Vasil.

“Mom-mole! What I feared happened. You're not the only one with a cold, so it's not the bus. Cursed kennel... You should definitely lie down. This is not a joke - health. No matter how much I tell you: you flaunt it ... If we start to get sick at different "poles", then nothing will work except for "acclusion" ...

My mood is disgusting, but the firmness of my spirit need not bother you. My father used to say: “In order to turn iron into steel, it must be beaten.” A strong person should become stronger from such a mess, and a slobber will fall apart ... It's very difficult for me, or rather it's hard, but I'm not going to come unstuck ... Please buy glasses. Damn it, this lousy town, not even an optical shop. My eye is bad... You are my dear, take care of yourself... At least take care of me. I'm waiting, I'm bored. I kiss you hard. Your Vasil. Kiss Linuska."

“3.4.1956. You are my dear! I missed you great ... Mole! We need to make a firm date. I understand that not everything depends, of course, on you: maybe you should come on Saturday after work?.. Mom, you write that your students do not bring you joy. My dear! Teaching is not an easy task and sometimes very ungrateful... Work hard, dear, time will give you joyful moments of victory and satisfaction...

Read about honored coaches. As you remember, we talked about it a lot. It's right and very useful. Nurse! How are you with this title? After all, someone who, and you should get into the top ten ... Just don't freak out and don't be nervous if they decide to get around. Of course, it's a shame, you deserve more than others ... Be patient and hope for the best ... You are my beloved! I am waiting. I'm looking forward to it. I hug and kiss you tightly. Your Vasil. (V. Stalin's letters became public thanks to the efforts of the lawyer and publicist V. Sukhomlinov. - F.M.)

“From the moment I met Vasily, the decline of my career began”

Even in excerpts, the cited letters, it seems to me, impress with their human “gut”, and his feeling for his “mole” Kapitolina seems sincere and deep. To be honest, not every man who marries a woman with a child becomes an adopted baby practically a father. In this case, Stalin's son was at his best: he accepted and fell in love with the daughter of Kapitolina Georgievna Lina. In almost every letter from the Vladimir Central, he recalls her. And not out of politeness, not for the sake of etiquette, but really like a father: he is interested in learning, health, growing up.

I really wanted to talk to Lina about her foster father at our only meeting, but my daughter, who visited Kapitolina Georgievna every day, hurried to her.

She can’t live without me, - said Lina, - and age and illness make her almost helpless.

She, a talented scientist, is torn between science and helping her mother. Every day he comes to her on Sokol, nurses her.

Just yesterday, Vasily Stalin was a general, the country's first fiancé, a reveler, a joker, for whom nothing is impossible "from the Kremlin to the outskirts." Today - an ordinary multimillion-strong army of prisoners.

In a relationship with the woman closest to him, he is affectionate, helpful, attentive, asking ... You sympathize with him, you feel sorry for him as a human being. But here is an interesting nuance: Vasily writes that his wife seeks to confer on her the title of a well-deserved coach. But at one time it was he who deprived his wife of the honorary title "Honored Master of Sports"!

From the moment I met Vasily, - Kapitolina Georgievna testifies, - the decline of my career began. He was jealous of me for the sport. Somehow I got a call from the Sports Committee and was told that my ZMS certificate had been in a safe for a long time, I had to pick it up. I was overjoyed! She replied that I would come tomorrow. Vasily asked again who called. I told. My husband immediately asked the adjutant to connect him with the chairman of the Sports Committee and told him not to award me the title. "It's over with the sport," he pronounced the verdict. I ran to my room, dragged all my medals and threw it in his face: “Here, choke on what does not belong to you!”

Vasily Stalin "surrendered" his wife

Yes, the relationship between the queen of swimming and the Kremlin prince cannot be called even. They have everything from love to hate. However, even Leo Tolstoy deduced: "Each family is unhappy in its own way." And happy?

Yes, I was happy with Vasily. Loved him. I sympathized with him. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gone to see him in prison when he was there. Would not comply with his requests. In any situation, a person must remain merciful, says Vasilyeva.

Meanwhile, the arrested Vasily Stalin, in fact, betrays his wife. Here is what the son of the leader of the peoples says, answering questions from investigators on May 9-11, 1953: “... my cohabitant Vasilyeva Kapitolina incited me to build a water pool, and, wanting to please her, and also hoping to popularize myself by building a pool, I put before the task of carrying out this undertaking." (We are talking about a swimming pool on the territory of the Central Airfield, about which there was gossip in Moscow: “Vasily Stalin built a whole pool for his wife.” - F.M.)

But in the investigation into the case of Vasily, a lot is still unclear. His behavior during interrogations conducted by the highest ranks of the NKVD (in particular, he was shot later along with Beria

L. Vlodzimirsky), was very strange. Stalin's son did not seem to be tormented, not tortured, but he took serious accusations upon himself. Is it self-incrimination?

There is another opinion: the interrogation is a fake ordered from the very top. The new leaders - Malenkov, Khrushchev, Bulganin - needed to discredit Stalin's son. And then, perhaps, physically eliminate it. It probably would have happened if not for the feuds between them. And Kapitolina Vasilyeva herself most likely survived by a miracle.

P.S. Until recently, there was not a single word about Vasily Stalin and the fate of his common-law wife Kapitolina Vasilyeva in the press. Only a few years ago there were books in which there are chapters about this star couple. Reading them is painful. And talking with a person who survived the horrors of that time, hearing his excited voice, as if cracked from the experience, is even harder.

They came to us with a search on April 27, 1953, - recalls the widow of Stalin Jr. Kapitolina Vasilyeva. - Everyone beat on the walls, searched for hiding places, then they sealed everything up, even my mother's suitcase. With her things, with an embroidered towel, she embroidered very beautifully ... And Vasya was taken away.

Together with him, it was as if Kapitolina herself was taken away. She was one of the few who accompanied Stalin's son on his last journey to the remote Kazan cemetery on March 19, 1962. He was buried without military or other honors. And the biography of Vasily Stalin forever merged with the biography of a woman who still lives with the name of the one who called her his “mother-mole”.

Vasily Stalin was actually married 4 times, had four children of his own, not counting the adopted children of his wives from previous marriages. There were also many unofficial novels in his life. A young handsome pilot, the son of "himself" Stalin, enjoyed great success with women ...

Vasily's first wife was Galina Burdonskaya. When Vasily informed his father about his first marriage, Joseph Vissarionovich blessed his son with government dispatches: “Why are you asking me for permission? Married - to hell with you! I pity her for marrying such a fool." Probably, Vasily, knowing his father’s tough temper and heavy hand, was delighted with such a congratulation.
From the memoirs of G. Burdonskaya: “I met Vasily at the rink. He drove up to me, somehow desperately, cheerfully met, fooled around on the ice, fell picturesquely, rose and fell again. He took me home ...
Vasily by nature was a man of crazy courage. While caring for me, he repeatedly flew over the Kirovskaya metro station in a small plane. For such liberties he was punished. But they punished timidly and did not report to Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich.
"Galina Alexandrovna Burdonskaya, studied at the Polygraphic Institute. Her surname comes from her great-grandfather, the Frenchman Bourdon. He came to Russia) along with Napoleon's army, was wounded. In Volokolamsk he married a Russian.
In the winter of 1940-1941, at the Dynamo skating rink at 26 Petrovka, hockey player Vladimir Menshikov recklessly introduced his fiancee to a friend, a junior pilot of the 16th air regiment. The girl's name was Galya - Galina Burdonskaya, a student at the Polygraphic Institute. Beautiful. Soon, a light aircraft loitered over her house near the Kirovskaya metro station.
At night, a motorcycle crashed into the yard. Galina's apartment was full of flowers. In addition to the most prestigious profession in the pre-war USSR, the junior pilot also had the most prestigious surname - Stalin. Galya gave in. They signed on December 30th. The bride was in a red dress. Didn't know it was bad luck...
“With Vasily Iosifovich Stalin, they got married in 1940. I was born in the forty-first, and a year and a half later, my sister Nadezhda was born ... Mom was a cheerful person. She loved red. Wedding dress, it is not known why, sewed a red one. It turned out to be a bad omen...” (From the memoirs of A. Burdonsky, son of V. Stalin.)
"Was

Valya Serov, with whom her mother was friends, and Konstantin Simonov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya and Voitekhov, Kozlovsky with Sergeeva, Roman Karmen with the famous Moscow beauty Nina Orlova, Kapler, Bernes, Nikolai Kryuchkov often visited their parents. Plisetskaya does not write in her book how, late for a rehearsal, she called from her father: - I will not come ... I am calling from Stalin's dacha ...
My father flew in all the time, and my mother flew to him. But they had to part. Mom didn't know how to make friends in this circle. Vlasik, the eternal intriguer, told her:
- Checkmark, you have to tell me what Vasya's friends are talking about.
His mother is a mother! He hissed:
- You will pay for this.
Quite possibly, the divorce from his father was the price. Vlasik could start an intrigue - so that Vasily would take a wife from his circle. And he slipped Katya Timoshenko, the marshal's daughter ... ”(From the memoirs of A. Burdonsky.)
Vasily with Galina Burdonskaya and their children - Alexander and Nadezhda
A year later, she, pregnant, will be evacuated; her husband will fly to Kuibyshev. One day he will barge in with drunken friends, demand that she tell a joke, Galina will refuse.
“Then he approached her and hit her with force,” recalls Svetlana Alliluyeva’s friend Marfa Peshkova. - Thank God that there was a sofa nearby, she was already on demolition and she fell on this sofa ... Svetlana, I remember, said: "Get out immediately." He then, embarrassed, took the whole team, and they all left.
In 1960, Vasily, returning from prison, decides to return to his first family. Galina will tell the children: “It is better to be with a tiger in a cage than at least a day, at least an hour with your father” ...
About Vasily's romance with a former classmate Nina Orlova tell everything. For example, her son claims that there was no romance. But we will believe Stepan Mikoyan, who met the girl in the fall of 1941 in a village near Saratov.

Galya Burdonskaya and Nina Orlova (right)
There were two more pilots in the company - Timur Frunze and Vasily Stalin. “Vasily, by right of the eldest in age, rank and experience, seized the initiative and did not leave the girl,” Stepan recalled.
With jealousy, Vasily learned that she had married the "old man", the famous documentary filmmaker Roman Karmen. A year later, the couple were among those invited to the Stalinist dacha in Zubalov, Vasily and Nina danced ...
Then they met at the apartment of the pilot Pavel Fedrovi. Experienced Carmen, a veteran of Spain, was going to "shoot Vasya" and even loaded the Mauser. But he changed his mind and through his former father-in-law, historian Emelyan Yaroslavsky, complained to Stalin Sr. So the winged resolution was born: “Return this fool to Carmen. Colonel Stalin to be imprisoned for 15 days "...
In June 1945, Marshal Timoshenko learned that his daughter Katya was dating the son of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Vasily Stalin. Tymoshenko was frightened in earnest. Stalin did not stand on ceremony with his relatives - almost all the relatives of his wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva were repressed.
In addition, the marshal knew: Stalin's son was already married, had two children and was famous for his penchant for drunkenness and a dissolute lifestyle. Despite her father's prohibition, in August 1945 Katya ran away from home with Vasily and married him, and soon gave birth to a daughter and a son. To emphasize her belonging to the Stalin family, she named her children the same as the names of the leader's children - Svetlana and Vasily.
She cut off contact with her own mother in order to be worthy of her new position. And she tried in every possible way to get close to Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva. Catherine wanted more than just being a wife, a mother. She was excited at the thought of how close she was to those who played with other people's destinies.
Catherine realized late how right her father was. She imagined that she would get at least a modicum of the same power over people. After all, she was born on the same day as Stalin. But she was cruelly deceived. Stalin, who himself chose her to marry his son, is close to himself

Catherine's brilliant marriage also cracked. Vasily preferred the company of famous athletes and secular beauties to his beautiful wife. Soon there was no trace of her husband's love, and there were only spies around who wrote denunciations about her every step. She realized late that she was not in the palace, but in prison. And there is not a single truly close person nearby.
Katya fell into depression, did not leave the house for days on end, and took out all her resentment against her husband on his children from her first marriage. The children remembered her as a real stepmother, gloomy and domineering.
Alexander Burdonsky:
“This was one such side of life where we could ... there for a week they didn’t feed us, didn’t give us water, they locked us in a room. The father did not see it, but it was so.
Yekaterina Timoshenko treated us terribly. She beat her sister in the most cruel way, her kidneys are still beaten off. In a luxurious dacha, we were dying of hunger. Somehow they got out, it was before Germany, small children crept to where the vegetables were, stuffed them into their pants and cleaned the beets with their teeth, gnawed unwashed in the dark. Just a scene from a horror movie. It's in the royal house!
The nanny, whom Ekaterina caught feeding us, kicked out ... Ekaterina's life with her father is full of scandals. I don't think he loved her. Most likely, there were no special feelings on both sides. Very prudent, she, like everything else in her life, simply calculated this marriage.
You need to know what she was up to. If well-being, then the goal can be said to have been achieved. Catherine brought them a huge amount of junk from Germany. All this was kept in a shed at our dacha, where Nadya and I were starving. When Ekaterina's father put her out in 1949, it took her several cars to take this stuff out. Nadya and I heard a noise in the yard and rushed to the window. We see - "Studebakers" are walking in a chain ". (From the memoirs of A. Burdonsky.)
My father was not distracted by such trifles, he developed the sport. He managed to get the stars of that time into the Air Force teams: Vsevolod Bobrov, Konstantin Reva, Anatoly Tarasov. He fought off Beria, who was serving time in the camp

And here is what one of his pilots remembered about Vasily's second wife:
“... A black Packard appeared on the runway - everyone recognized the car of Vasily Stalin. He came with a girl. He called Kasnerik: "Misha, give her a good ride." Not eyes looked at Misha - fire. The girl smiled all the time, addressed Stalin as you, was not afraid of anything ... “Who is she?” - Kasnerik puzzled while he and the beautiful Katya walked to the plane. They took off.
When they landed, Vasily Stalin approached the cockpit: “What, punish you? Show her air figures - a turn, a corkscrew, a bell, so that the spirit is busy ... Let's do it again! “Mikhail Kasnerik took off again. I made several "harmless" figures in the sky and went to land: come what may... Earth...
The girl told Kasnerik: “Although you are a pilot, you are a decent gentleman!” She was the daughter of Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko, the second wife of Vasily Stalin. As the commander-in-chief later said, his young wife Ekaterina Semyonovna often reproached at dinner: “They say, a pilot ... I also have a job. And why should I feed you?
Vasily and Ekaterina Timoshenko. This short-lived marriage was somehow unhappy ...
Contemporaries recognized her as beautiful: a burning brunette, eyes with bluish whites - and no one left a single positive word about her. Ekaterina's driver told how he sold a truck of trophy fur coats, carpets, and porcelain on her behalf. Having given the proceeds, he was shocked by the question: “Is this a lot or a little?”. “I didn’t have any idea about prices at all, I lived on everything ready,” the driver recalled.
third wife Vasily became a famous athlete and record holder, swimmer Kapitolina Vasilyeva. This, perhaps, was his only wife, who managed to please I.V. Stalin.
After Vasily announced to Stalin that he was marrying a young swimmer, the young people received 10 thousand rubles as a gift from their father, for which Kapitolina bought her husband his only civilian suit and shoes for all this time. We can say that the period of the late forties - early fifties was the best

Kapitolina Vasilyeva
They settled in a mansion on Gogolevsky Boulevard at number seven.
Kapitolina Vasilyeva told a lot about Vasily. Sometimes he came home and asked her:
“Could you live without my salary this month if I don’t give you a salary?” I knew what it means, someone is in trouble, that his salary is needed as a help to someone. I say okay, I'll do it. I'll manage, don't worry, just please, you have less gatherings.
Conflicts in connection with this very front-line charm ... I was very against it, because I knew that this disease was very serious, it was progressing, and I needed to somehow ... But nothing worked out for me.
In the Moscow Saga series based on the novel by Vasily Aksenov, she circulates around the pool, a vigorous girl with a kindergarten smile, and the sober Vasily, performed by Sergei Bezrukov, tenderly says: “Swim, Capa, swim” - that is, break records, shake the world.
Kapitolina and Vasily
And in fact? Vasily first encountered a self-sufficient woman who, by and large, does not care what his dad's name is. The nineteen-time champion of the USSR - here, with the name of Stalin, nothing could be added, nor ... No, it was possible to take away, and Vasya, furiously complexing because of her independence, called the sports committee, ordered not to award Kapitolina "honored master of sports." And the title had already been awarded, she had to get a badge. Nothing, played back. She threw her medals in his face...
When the relationship rolled to the finale, he hit her so hard that he injured his eye. In old age, the injury will respond with progressive blindness.
Checking the dates, one wonders how much he managed to do. Winter at the end of 1949 is the time when the break with Catherine has not yet been completed, and the affair with Kapitolina has not lost its freshness. Rushing from family to family, Vasily found himself, using the aviation term, a jump airfield. The writer Boris Voitekhov told the investigator about this in 1953:
“... Arriving at the apartment of my ex-wife, actress Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, I found

Viktor Polyansky, Vasily Stalin's adjutant, in the book "10 Years with Vasily Stalin", published in Tver in 1995, wrote:
“Despite their unprepossessing appearance (small stature, thinness, reddishness and freckling) - youth, carelessness, dashing and wit, and the main fact - the pilot, and besides, Stalin, took their toll ... All kinds of sycophants and, especially, girls clung to him like flies to honey.”
The children were summoned to the dying Stalin on March 2, when he had already lost his speech and could not say anything to his son. Nevertheless, according to Svetlana's memoirs, Vasily, while his father was still alive, began to shout that he was “killed”, “killed”: “He was horrified. He was sure that his father had been "poisoned", "killed"; he saw that the world was collapsing, without which he could not exist... On the days of the funeral, he was in a terrible state... he threw himself at everyone with reproaches, blamed the government, doctors, everyone who was possible - that they treated him wrong, buried him wrong ..."
And in the Politburo, meanwhile, there was a struggle for power. The inadequate son of the leader confused the cards for everyone. He was offered a choice of service in any military district, except for Moscow - Vasily refused. On March 26, he was dismissed from the army - humiliatingly, without the right to wear a uniform.
He, showing off in front of drinking companions, began to threaten: I will give interviews to foreign correspondents about his situation after Stalin's death (apartment-car-dacha, a lump sum allowance of six salaries, a pension of 4950 rubles. To get an idea of the scale of prices: the Pobeda car cost 16,000, “ Moskvich” 9000).
A month later, Vasily was arrested, and he began to hand over his wives. He was accused of embezzlement - he said that Kapitolina had persuaded him to build a sports center: the champion had to train. They showed “the intention to meet with foreign correspondents in order to betray the Motherland” (it was such a difficult time) - he said that it was Tymoshenko who slandered him: “I was not the first to fall into her network. And she threw everyone in a difficult moment, created by her, but she herself remained with nothing.
The women are forgiven. All three visited him in the Vladimir Central

Personal card of Maria Nusberg (Dzhugashvili)
In fact, not Marina, but Maria Ignatievna. And she is Nusberg by her first husband, and nee Shevargina, originally from the village of Mazanovka, Kursk Region.
She worked at the Vishnevsky Institute, yes. And there is no information about her involvement in the KGB. But there is a simple consideration: a thirty-year-old nurse with two daughters has nothing to catch, and Vasily, although disgraced, is Stalin's son. And Kursk women are no strangers to living with drunks ...
Vasily arrived at the place of his exile - in Kazan, which was closed to foreigners, on April 29, 1961. He was given a one-room apartment No. 82 in house 105 on Gagarin Street. They did not issue passports, demanding that he change his last name to at least Dzhugashvili, at least to Alliluyev, like Svetlana. (The chairman of the KGB of Tatarstan, General Abdulla Bichurin, spoke with him).
Vasily, in response, asked to register his marriage with Maria and issue compensation for the confiscated dacha near Moscow. It looks like they hit their hands. But at home, the cohabitant made a scene for him, like an old woman to an old man who let go of the Golden Fish. She called the KGB herself and put forward conditions: Moscow, an apartment, a car, an increase in pension - then Vasily will change his last name. Bargained, the KGB of Tatarstan coordinated every concession at the top. Maria Ignatievna, meanwhile, went to Moscow to have an abortion ...
Returning before the new year 1962, she found another Maria, Nikolaevna, with Vasya. The scene “was not expected”, Vasily, babbling “later, later”, put up a new Maria. And the old one, realizing that the trade was dragging on, that way you can lose everything, drove Vasya to the registry office.
On January 9, he received a passport with the surname Dzhugashvili, two days later he registered a marriage with Shevargina and adopted her children.
And the deceived Maria II will seek meetings, asking why he didn’t call. “I was taken away,” Vasily will answer (later we will see where he was taken away on January 30), and at the next meeting, Maria II will hear from him the sacramental “do not believe anything you hear about me.”
Already in our time, she will begin to give interviews, talking about the warm autumn feeling of Vasya and about the KGB agent who

Then he died
The same pragmatic considerations that made Maria babysit the drunken Vassily clear all charges against her.
He died on the eve of moving into a three-room apartment, leaving his wife in a one-room apartment. Did Mary need it? Or I couldn’t resist - I don’t care about the apartment, it’s better to finish Vasya as soon as possible? No, she had already saved him on January 30, when, after drinking "ruff" (a liter of vodka per liter of wine), Vasily ended up in intensive care. Alas, he did not hear this call either. On March 14, a fellow countryman, a tank school teacher, Major Sergei Kakhishvili, brought wine, and Vasily did not dry out until the 19th. Then he died...
But the children do not want their father to die like a drunk. Better let him be killed by KGB officer Nusberg. And daughter Nadia, arriving at the funeral, will see her father lying on some kind of board "in bloody sheets." Alexander will remember that his father's nose was broken, there were bruises on his wrists, bruises on his legs, and there was a lot of sleeping pills in bed.
And Kapitolina, entering with Nadia and Alexander, will find him in a coffin, swollen, dressed in a tunic. And in his own way he will expose the KGB officer. Maria will tell her that an autopsy has already been performed, Kapitolina will not find a seam on her body (which Alexander “remembers very well”) ...
They would have agreed whether it was bloodied sheets or a tunic, beat him up, poisoned him with sleeping pills, or - a later version of Nadezhda - staged an accident by firing a sniper rifle at my father's motorcycle ...
An impartial look at Vasily Stalin will be possible not earlier than new generations will replace his last contemporaries. But when all the contemporaries are gone, who will tell the truth?
The record of the death act number 812 reads: "Dzhugashvili Vasily Iosifovich ... Date of death March 19, 1962 ... Cause of death: general atherosclerosis, against the background of chronic alcohol intoxication, acute cardiovascular failure, emphysema of the lungs."