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Soon the crime was forgotten. How this terrible story ended, the "Only Stars" magazine managed to find out by finding the only great-grandson of the most famous speaker of the USSR.

Yuri Levitan has never seen his great-grandson Arthur. He died seven years before the birth of the boy. All citizens of the Soviet Union knew the voice of the famous announcer who read the information bureau reports from the fronts on the radio. Once Levitan was invited to speak at a rally in honor of the anniversary of the Battle of the Kursk Bulge. During the celebration, Yuri Borisovich suffered a heart attack. Doctors of the rural hospital in the Belgorod village of Bessonovka, where the rally was taking place, could not help him. He died. The heart has long troubled the announcer. Many thought that he, a well-known person throughout the country, lived without knowing the problems. He really did not need material benefits. However, he had a lot to worry about.

Shortly before the war, Levitan was allocated a 30-meter room in a communal apartment near the Kremlin as a valuable shot. Here he brought his young wife, a beautiful student of the Institute of Foreign Languages, Raisa. She had no end of fans. But he found a way to kill the girl. Approaching her, he took her hand and said in his bewitching voice: “I love you ...” Then, after a meaningful silence, he continued: “… Peter's creation! I love your strict, slender look ... "

There was no better husband than him. And Yuri adored his daughter, Natasha, who was born. But he could not spend much time with his family. Every now and then people in military uniforms came for him and took him to the radio committee to read important government messages. Raisa, and he jokingly called her Madame Prikaz, often arranged scenes, irritated by the fact that her husband was constantly at work. And 11 years later, she said that she had found a better life partner for herself - an officer of the military academy.

Yuri Borisovich stayed with his 10-year-old daughter and mother-in-law. Soon they moved into a three-room apartment in a new building in Vorotnikovsky Lane, built for generals and party workers. Yuri Borisovich's sister, Irina, helped to raise her daughter. They tried to raise Natasha so that she did not feel the absence of her mother. But the girl, despite her care, grew up withdrawn. Levitan often brought her to work with him. Colleagues of the announcer recalled that she gave the impression of a person with oddities: she tired everyone with endless silly chatter, immediately forgot what she had just said. Sometimes Levitan himself could not stand her company. Trying to smooth the situation, he tried to translate everything into a joke. But sometimes, sighing, he called her "my little fool" in their hearts. And yet he was able to arrange her at Moscow State University, having agreed on admission to study with the rector. Natasha studied poorly. Her father had to beg her a diploma.

To everyone's surprise, Levitan maintained good relations with Raisa and her new husband. He even invited them to celebrations, representing his ex-wife as a cousin, and her wife as a relative. Remaining a bachelor, he did not become an ascetic. Many women dreamed of being intimate with him. But he decided once and for all not to marry again. He joked: “I don't need a young wife, because she will marry me not for love, but for convenience. And old women don't turn me on. " The main woman of his life was his daughter.

Natasha grew up a black-eyed beauty. Knowing no denial, she led a bohemian lifestyle, revolving in the highest circles. Rumors of her adventures reached her father. He was very worried, but did not complain to anyone. Yuri Borisovich hoped that his daughter would change by getting married, and he himself found a suitable part for her. He introduced Natasha to Lev Sudarikov, a quiet, modest guy, a doctor by profession. And he was very happy when they got married. Levitan was able to attach the unlucky daughter to a warm place to work. First, she worked as an editor for international broadcasting, then at the Tourist radio station, where she responded to readers' letters. And in 1970, a grandson was born to Yuri Borisovich. Little Borya made his grandfather happy. Unlike Natalya, the boy studied well, then entered the history department at Moscow State University, he was hired at the prestigious research institute. Levitan believed that he had improved the life of his relatives. With this thought, he died.

However, Natalia, having inherited the authoritarian nature of her mother, controlled her son in everything, tried to suppress and subdue him. Only her husband was able to reason with her. After his death, Natalia's relationship with her son deteriorated sharply. Boris got married, having fallen in love with a beautiful girl with the poetic name Gayane. The Caucasian origin of the daughter-in-law and the fact that she studied at a trade school did not suit the arrogant lady. She told her son that his chosen one was not a match for him. And even the birth of a grandson did not soften her heart. She achieved her goal: divorced the young. Boris was very worried about the loss. In their house, scandals began to occur more and more often. And in April 1998 Boris had a seizure. An ambulance took him to a psychiatric clinic. Since then, having received a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, he hardly left the house.

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That terrible evening the neighbors were awakened by a heart-rending cry in the Sudarikovs' apartment. And after a while, water with blood flowed from the ceiling. Frightened tenants dialed 02. A police squad found the corpse of 65-year-old Natalya in a bloody puddle in the apartment. Her head was smashed and her face cut. Nearby lay a bloody hammer, knives, forks. Brain clots streamed down the walls and furniture. Boris, 35, was sitting in the kitchen. He muttered something to himself. The psychiatrists who arrived on call diagnosed that the man was in a delusional disorder, they barely managed to get an explanation from him why he needed to pour water on his mother's body. According to him, he washed her soul.

The famous announcer's grandson became the prime suspect in this gruesome murder. However, after examining the scene, the investigators had questions.

Natalia's father inherited the most valuable documents of the Third Reich. They were handed over to the announcer by the major who stormed the Reichstag. He also had other important papers - from the headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. Levitan did not give them to the state archive, believing that the time had not yet come. Perhaps this evidence of history could damage someone's reputation or shed light on circumstances still unknown. Natalya was going to write a book about her father. She told someone about the secret papers.

After the terrible tragedy, the Levitan's archive was analyzed by experts. They found that one of the folders was missing 15 sheets. Where they disappeared, who could have taken them away - remained a mystery. At the same time, another version of Natalya's death appeared: it is possible that the killer was looking for these documents, torturing her before her death. And it is possible that it was not the son who killed at all.

Immediately after the tragedy, Boris was placed in a psychiatric clinic named after Gannushkin, then transferred to the Institute. Serbian for examination. Such criminals, if declared insane, are usually placed in the Yakovenko clinic near Moscow. It happens that after years of treatment they find themselves free.

Boris Sudarikov was found guilty of murder. Maybe this is so, but the investigators did not bother explaining the mysterious reasons for the loss of part of Levitan's secret archive and work out a different version. It's easier this way: to write off all the blame on the mentally ill person. By a court decision, he was sentenced to compulsory treatment.

The apartment where the terrible murder took place in 2006 was empty for four years. But recently, workers began to make repairs in it. The neighbors do not know who her new owners are. But it is believed that it was sold by the relatives of Levitan's late daughter. By law, the home of a mentally ill person remains his or her lifetime property. And if new tenants have appeared, this means that the owner, Boris Sudarikov, is most likely no longer alive. The apartment could be inherited by his closest relatives, and only one person could sell it - 19-year-old Arthur Sudarikov, the great-grandson of the announcer.

Arthur knew from an early age that his grandfather was the same famous Levitan, whose voice was idolized by the whole country. Even in early childhood, his mother told him about him. Arthur's parents divorced when he was very young. Therefore, the guy remembers his father vaguely. They stopped communicating since Boris's illness began to progress. Natalya Yurievna, disliking her daughter-in-law, did not want to recognize her grandson either.

Arthur was 15 years old when the tragedy struck. He was told this terrible news. He found the strength to come to the funeral of his grandmother, whom he hardly knew. This day was the most terrible in his life. About his father, he says that he is a stranger to him.

Despite his young years, Arthur is extremely independent and active. After graduating from school, he founded his own graphic and industrial design studio. He is very similar to his grandfather, but does not like to talk about this relationship. And even hides this fact from his friends. He refused to talk about this topic with me. It can be understood: that terrible story is really better to erase from memory. But on the grave of Levitan, buried at the Novodevichy cemetery, the guy still comes and brings flowers. When they saw off his grandmother on the last journey, someone said at the coffin: it's good that Yuri Borisovich did not live to see this terrible day and did not find out that his beloved grandson brutally dealt with his daughter ... But the great-grandson, Arthur Sudarikov, the famous announcer could be proud of ...

K Nicely do not lie, do not tell stories ..
Yuri BELKIN, member of the Union of Journalists of Russia. 10.10.2014 07:06:12

Voltaire's dictum is known: If there was no god, then he should have been invented. It seems that some of the current, not very conscientious journalists have adopted this principle. You can once again be convinced of this when reading an article by Olga Ulyanova about the legendary radio announcer Yuri Levitan. An honest journalist will write the truth, only the truth. And the dishonest will always look for sensation, shocking facts, he does not disdain even fiction, or rather, banal lies. In short, if there is no sensation, then it should be invented. This is exactly what Olga Ulyanova did. It is not enough to say that the journalist's article contains a large number of inaccuracies. Even before the war, Yuri Levitan received a good two-room apartment on the second floor of an elite building on Gorky Street. Demyan Bedny and Ilya Ehrenburg lived in the same house. And Yuri Borisovich moved to a three-room apartment in Vorotnikovsky Lane not from a communal apartment, but from an apartment on Gorky Street. And only then he bought his last cooperative apartment in a house on Medvedev Street. As the journalist claims, the secrets of the Third Reich are generally bullshit. Here the journalist was clearly guided by the principle: It's beautiful not to lie, you can't tell a story ... For about thirty years I was in close, friendly, trusting relationship with Yuri Borisovich Levitan, I know everything, down to the last photo, what was and what was not in the speaker's apartment, and therefore I can declare with full responsibility: there have never been any rare, let alone secret documents of historical value in Levitan's apartment. Of course, his daughter Natasha did not have them and could not have them either. The journalist is deliberately fooling the readers' heads, apparently in order to achieve a pungent sensation ... The journalist claims that Levitan's daughter, allegedly, was going to write a book about her father. It was not for nothing that Yuri Borisovich often called his daughter my fool. And it was not at all an affectionate, condescending nickname. It was holy truth. Natasha was really not just stupid and completely mediocre, but also, in my opinion, mentally inadequate. What book could she write about her father ?! She never worked in her life. And not because all her life she lived first at the expense of her father, and then at the expense of her husband, but primarily because she was never hired anywhere and nowhere: how can you hire a mentally abnormal person? Hence all the tragedies with her son Boris and with herself ... One can hardly admire Levitan's great-grandson, who, on the centenary of the announcer's birthday, flashed endlessly in anniversary films about Levitan. Moreover. flashed under the surname Arthur Levitan. But what kind of Levitan is he? Levitan's daughter took the surname of her husband-Sudarikov. Her son was also Sudarikov When he was born, Arthur could not be Levitan, since he was born from Boris Sudarikov and a student of a trade school of Caucasian origin Gayane. , the smart boy specially changed his surname for PR, in order to make his way in this life faster and more successfully with the help of the famous surname. He never saw the famous grandfather, because he was born many years after his death, and today he can only speak about him from hearsay, having read in newspapers and magazines the memories of those who knew the legendary radio announcer firsthand ... Including from my many essays on the herald of the 20th century.
Yuri BELKIN is a member of the Union of Journalists of Russia, lifetime friend of Yuri Levitan. October 10, 2014

On October 2, Yuri Borisovich Levitan, a Soviet and Russian radio presenter, an announcer of the All-Union Radio and the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on television and radio broadcasting, People's Artist of the USSR, turned 103. Pushkin ethnographer Vladimir Paramonov shared the material prepared in due time for the 100th anniversary of this extraordinary person.

So, in the summer days of 1938-39, Levitan and his bride and mother Faina Lvovna often appeared on the Klyazma, and even there they played a wedding: he is a famous radio announcer, she is a student at the Institute of Foreign Languages. It must be admitted that the young man enjoyed constant success with the girls. The Vladimir local historian Galina Mozgova even claims: “Almost all the girls in the class were in love with him, even in their diaries they dedicated poems to him, which began, for example, like this:“ Your eyes are like blue sky ”. And here love, like all young people, was passionately stormy, and already in 1940 their daughter Natasha was born. Life, with constant employment on the radio of his spouse, and despite his fame, was of average income, which could not suit the young spouse. Their marriage fell apart. And Raisa married the major, and they had a son. Levitan stayed with his daughter Natasha and, incredibly, with his mother-in-law Faina Lvovna! But he continued to maintain friendly relations with his ex-wife and her second husband. They even celebrated the New Year together.

But this marriage was not durable, the new spouse died suddenly ... Widowed, Raisa never got married again. Until the end of her days, she did not lose good relations with Yuri Borisovich, often visiting his house on Gorky Street, but never returning to their family.

Levitan with his family

“Most often, Levitan was“ lucky ”for a certain type of women: selfish, calculating, selfish, bitchy, for ladies who first of all wanted to arrange their fate, - wrote about the announcer publicist Yuri Belkin, who was friends with Levitan, - I once asked from Levitan, why doesn't he marry. He simply replied: “I cannot marry young people, because I understand that they want to marry not for love, but for convenience. As for Raya and women of her age, she is no longer young, and old women do not turn me on ”.

As a Jew, and even a party member during Stalin's time, Yuri Borisovich never spoke about his personal life, he was very careful and secretive. Day after day, he silently covered the path on foot from Gorky Street to Pyatnitskaya Street in half an hour, where the radio committee was then located. In recent years, even having bought himself a Zhiguli, he has not given up this old habit of his. Decently earning, he regularly sent considerable sums to Vladimir, to his parents (Levitan was born on September 19 (October 2), 1914 in Vladimir, in a Jewish family. Father - Boris Semyonovich (Ber) Levitan was a tailor, mother - Maria Yulievna, a housewife. birth - Yudka Berkovich Levitan - V.P.). Moved them to Moscow. All recent years, Yuri Borisovich, his daughter Natasha and already an old mother-in-law Faina Lvovna (she died in 1992, having outlived her son-in-law for exactly two months - V.P.) lived in a small two-room apartment on Gorky Street (in the same house where Demyan Bedny lived before him, and later Alla Pugacheva lived - VP) directly opposite the Moscow City Council and the "Books of Socialist Countries" store. Daughter Natasha became a student at the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University.

With daughter

The apartment, literally, turned into a "courtyard", and Yuri Borisovich moved to a three-room apartment on the fourth floor in Vorotnikovsky lane. But again, not for long, since Natasha, while working in the reference and information department of the radio committee, married (becoming by her husband Sudarikova - V.P.) to a medical researcher, gave birth to a son, Boris, and the five of them moved to Yuri Borisovich. And he had to buy a two-room apartment on the tenth floor next door, on Medvedev Street, having moved there. This was the last dwelling in his life ...

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Last Saturday, 65-year-old Natalya Sudarikova, the daughter of the legendary announcer Yuri Levitan, was killed in the center of Moscow. According to the investigation, the pensioner was beaten to death by her 35-year-old son Boris. The suspect has been detained and will have to undergo a psychiatric examination.

The murder of the pensioner became known by chance. On Saturday morning, a neighbor who lives on the floor below in house N2 / 11 in Vorotnikovsky Lane noticed fresh stains of a strange red color on the ceiling and walls of his room.

The man, deciding that the pipe had broken, went up to the neighbors and rang the doorbell. However, despite the persistent calls and knocking, no one opened the door. Other tenants came out of the neighboring apartments and said that early in the morning a scandal had occurred in the apartment of Levitan's daughter - mother and son were loudly cursing and even the sounds of blows were heard.

Since the clothes and face of Boris Sudarikov were stained with blood, and kitchen knives, forks and a hammer lay next to him, he became the main and only suspect in the murder. He has already been arrested and sent for a special psychiatric examination.

At one time, Natalya Sudarikova, like her father, worked as a radio announcer. She retired several years ago and lived with her son. On the fact of the death of Sudarikova, the Tver interdistrict prosecutor's office opened a criminal case under article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder).

Yuri Levitan has been the country's main announcer since 1931. He conveyed the most important government messages: about the commissioning of the Dnieper hydroelectric power station, the flight to America of the crews of Chkalov and Gromov, from the 35th he was reporting from Red Square. In 1941, he read out a government announcement about the beginning of the war, materials "From the Soviet Information Bureau", all orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, in May 1945 he announced the end of the war, later - on the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, on the flight into space of Yuri Gagarin.

In total, Yuri Levitan made about 60 thousand broadcasts. At the age of 66 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR. Died on August 4, 1983. Buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

Natalia was the only daughter of Levitan. When Natalia was 11 years old, her mother left Yuri Borisovich and went to another. The daughter stayed with Levitan. And she followed in his footsteps: all her life she worked as an announcer on the All-Union Radio.

According to "Komsomolskaya Pravda", Natalia Yuryevna herself had a happy and long marriage. Several years ago, her husband died, and the woman began to live in a three-room apartment with her son Boris. Sudarikova lived without extra funds. Rumor has it that her son sat on a needle a long time ago and often raised his hand to his mother.

The house in Vorotnikovsky Lane, where the Sudarikovs lived, was built 40 years ago for the then elite. The famous speaker's three-room apartment is on the fourth floor. According to "MK", ​​Natalya Sudarikova did not shy away from her neighbors, but she preferred not to talk about her family. As the neighbor says, the son of Natalia Sudarikova Boris never left the house. Natalya Yuryevna herself was friendly, but she never invited me home.

In December 1995, Levitan's apartment was robbed. Two rings and a watch were stolen. The most amazing thing: no one broke the lock, the windows are also intact. There were suspicions that the jewelry was taken by the son of Natalya Sudarikova, but nothing could be proved.

Two years ago "MK" was making material about Natalya Yurievna's father. Then she flatly refused to let a stranger visit her. Perhaps even then, the relationship between mother and son was strained. At least today, the main version of the police is a murder motivated by sudden insanity.

The police say that they do not rule out that Boris Sudarikov was related to any sect. He did not find any specific literature, but experience suggests that such murders, if the offender is not in a binge, are committed on the basis of some specific hobbies. On orders from above, as they often say themselves.

After the first interrogations, he was sent for a forensic psychiatric examination.

On Saturday at about three o'clock in the morning, the tenant of the house number 2/11 on Vorotnikovsky lane, Alexander Osokin, woke up from the sounds of a scandal in the apartment upstairs. Osokin lives on the third floor and is used to scandals in apartment no. 12 on the floor above. In this apartment lived the descendants of the legendary announcer Yuri Levitan - 65-year-old daughter Natalya Sudarikova, also a former radio announcer, and now a pensioner, and her 35-year-old son. (This apartment, by the way, was received by Yuri Levitan himself in the 70s.)

As Aleksandr Osokin told Izvestia, after a while the screams upstairs subsided. But something began to drip from the ceiling. Osokin turned on the light and shuddered - water and blood dripped between the concrete slabs. The neighbor ran upstairs and called the Sudarikovs' apartment. No one opened it, although it was clearly audible behind the doors that someone was washing the floors.

Then he came down to me, - the house guard Oleg Primak tells Izvestia. - He said that blood and water are dripping from above. I said that I had to call the police. Five minutes later two policemen arrived with machine guns. The four of us went up to the fourth floor.

The militiamen began to call, - the security guard continues the story, - nobody opened them either, although you could hear water pouring in the apartment. The militia asked us if blood was dripping. "How to check?" Osokin was surprised. "I'm not an expert." "Taste the taste," they replied. Then they broke the lock and pushed me aside. When they entered the apartment, they gasped ...

Somewhere at half past four in the night they called me and asked to be understood, - Aleksandr Mylnikov, a resident of the house, tells Izvestia, - I was not allowed to enter apartment No. 12, but from the corridor I saw the hostess lying a meter away from the front door. apartments Natalya Sudarikova. She and I often bumped into the elevator, dear woman. She was covered in blood. Her head was smashed pretty badly. I think during the scandal she wanted to run out of the apartment, but did not have time. After a while, Natalia's son was taken out of the apartment. He was in one dressing gown, sneakers on his bare feet.

The policemen who broke the lock entered the apartment at the moment when the son of Natalya Sudarikova was pouring another bucket of water over his mother's corpse. He could not explain anything intelligible. However, according to police officers, traces of blood found on his face and clothes irrefutably prove that it was he who killed his own mother. In addition, two kitchen knives, a fork, a hammer and a bloody jacket were seized from the scene. According to preliminary data from experts, the woman's death occurred from a head injury.

According to neighbors, Natalya Sudarikova was married, but her husband died a few years ago.

Natalya Yurievna was a very sociable woman, ”the house guard told Izvestia. - I saw her quite often. And I have never seen my son. He rarely left the house. The whole house knows that he is schizophrenic, and besides, he dabbles in drugs.

The Tverskoy interdistrict prosecutor's office of Moscow has opened a criminal case on the fact of the murder. What caused the tragedy is still not clear. According to prosecutors, the detainee has not yet explained his actions. There are suspicions that he suffers from some kind of mental illness. At the moment, he is sent for a forensic psychiatric examination.

Yuri Levitan lived with his daughter most of his life

This year, Yuri Borisovich Levitan, whose voice has become a sign of an entire era in the history of the country, would have turned 91 years old. He worked on radio for 50 years. Levitan became the main announcer of the Country of Soviets at the age of 19 - on January 25, 1934, on the personal order of Stalin, he read his report on the radio to the 17th Party Congress. I read for five hours - and without a single hesitation. During the war years, Levitan's reading of the reports of the Sovinformburo made a tremendous impact on the entire people. Hitler declared Levitan a personal enemy and appointed a reward of 250 thousand marks for his head. After the capture of Moscow in 1941, it was to be destroyed by an SS special group. Little is known about Yuri Borisovich's personal life. In 1938, he married a student at the Institute of Foreign Languages, and after 11 years the marriage broke up. Until the end of his life, Levitan remained a bachelor and lived with his only daughter Natalya. Died on August 4, 1983.

House No. 2/11 in Vorotnikovsky Lane, which is not far from the Mayakovskaya metro station, is still called the General's. At the entrance in the Soviet years, "Seagulls" and "Volgas" were lined up here, and nowadays foreign cars are dazzling in the eyes. The Levitan family occupied a spacious three-room apartment on the fourth floor. It was in it that the tragedy took place on the night of February 4.
The neighbors have long been accustomed to scandals in apartment 12, where the descendants of the legendary speaker Yuri Levitan lived. They raised the alarm when the ceiling above them changed color: it was stained with bloody stains.
Having broken down the door, the militiamen saw the owner of the apartment, 65-year-old Natalya Sudarikova, in the corridor. She lay with a smashed head. Before her death, the woman was tortured. In addition to traumatic brain injury, she was found to have fractures of the bones of the nose, cut wounds to the face. There were murder weapons in the room - a bloody fork, a hammer, two knives ... The furniture and the carpet were spattered with blood clots and brain matter.
In the kitchen, in a dressing gown and sneakers, the hostess's son, 35-year-old Boris, was sitting, swaying in a chair. When asked why the floor in the apartment was flooded with water, he said: "I washed my mother's soul."
The psychiatric team that arrived at the scene diagnosed Boris Sudarikov with an acute delusional disorder.
The nomenclature apartment is now sealed. Natalya Yurievna was buried, her son is undergoing a forensic medical examination at the Serbsky Institute.

"The apple fell far from the apple tree"

It only seemed that the Levitanians had everything in openwork! - says the oldest radio announcer Lydia Chernykh. - Yuri Borisovich's personal life, for example, was not very successful. Friends introduced him to his future wife, a graduate of the Institute of Foreign Languages.
- Raya was a beauty! - adds the announcer Lyudmila Larionova. - When I walked down the street, all the men turned their heads.
Levitan's work was intense. During the war years, he read reports from the Soviet Information Bureau, orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, and later - all government messages. In the apartment of the young officers every now and then appeared and escorted Yuri Borisovich to the car.
Raisa was never able to get used to the night visits of people in civilian clothes.
Their marriage lasted 11 years. And then Raisa told Levitan that she “met true love”. In 47, she filed for divorce and immediately married an officer of the military academy. Soon they left to serve in Germany. Raisa's son Semyon was born there.
- Ten-year-old Natasha stayed with her father?
“Yes, in a small apartment on Gorky Street,” says Lydia Chernykh. - Then they were given a three-room apartment in a new nomenklatura building in Vorotnikovsky lane, where generals and party workers settled. Left to live with Levitan and his mother-in-law - Faina Lvovna. When the Administrative Department of the Central Committee offered Yuri Borisovich to attach his family to a special dining room on Granovsky Street, his mother-in-law waved her hands: "I will feed you myself!" So Faina Lvovna lived with Levitan until she was 92 years old. Often they were visited by Yuri Borisovich's sister, Irina. Together they brought up Natasha.
But universal love and care did not go to Natasha's favor. The girl grew up closed, unsociable.
“Natasha often showed up at her father’s work,” says Lydia Nikolaevna. - We thought she was a narrow-minded girl, even stupid. Sometimes, she would begin to tell something, she would begin to carry, to carry ... After five minutes she could no longer remember what she wanted to say. Yuri Borisovich could not stand it, he made remarks to her: "Stop it!" Despite the fact that Natasha graduated from school somehow, Levitan went to Moscow State University for an appointment with the rector, they did not dare to refuse him, they accepted their daughter. But Natasha did not study, but suffered: endlessly retaking exams. Only thanks to the loud name of her father she was given a diploma. Around everyone kept repeating: "Like an apple fell far from an apple tree."
- Yuri Borisovich called his daughter "my fool", - recalls Roza Georgievna Medvedeva, who at one time was in charge of the department at the All-Union radio. “Like any Jew, he was an ideal father. Realizing that his daughter does not shine with intelligence, he commented on her actions with humor. But his patience was also coming to an end. Sometimes, when he heard his daughter's voice in order to evade meeting and communicating with her, he hurried to retreat through the emergency exit.
- Natalia, like her father, worked as a radio announcer?
- Yes you! Here the authority of Yuri Borisovich would not have helped. This is a responsible job. Levitan placed Natasha as an editor at Inovation, then she worked at the Tourist radio station, where she was engaged in answering letters from radio listeners.
- Natasha did not get married for a long time, - continues Roza Georgievna. - Then Yuri Borisovich introduced her to the quiet, docile physician Leva, whom Natasha pompously called “academician”. When she became pregnant, she walked, sticking out her stomach in every possible way. Even for a long time, she wore tight dresses. When she appeared in our radio studio, the men averted their eyes in embarrassment. And Natalya, it seemed, was not at all embarrassed. She was a very strange woman. All of a sudden I could start singing and reciting poetry.

"The grandson was Levitan's favorite"

- Levitan adored his grandson?
- I doted. At that time I had a son, Boris, and he had a grandson, Boris, ”continues Roza Georgievna. - We had a constant topic of conversation. Since childhood, Levitan's grandson was littered with toys. He was allowed to do whatever he wanted. In order not to embarrass his daughter's family, Yuri Borisovich moved to a neighboring house on Medvedev Street, buying there a cooperative two-room apartment.
- It's just that it became more and more difficult for Levitan to find a common language with his daughter, - lawyer Alexander Ostrovsky is sure. - When we were on vacation together in Pitsunda, he talked about the difficult relationship with Natasha.
The death of her father was a disaster for Natalya, who was not adapted to life.
- Natasha became even more isolated, she did not let anyone into the apartment, - says Roza Georgievna. - When I came to her in Vorotnikovsky lane to pick up Yuri Borisovich's party card, Natasha was waiting for me on the stairs in the corridor, and there she gave the document.
Subsequently, she never gave a memorial to her father. We brought snacks to the cemetery in bags. They were located right on the bench near the monument. Natasha approached, took a sip of a glass, ate a snack and kept asking: "Do you remember your father, except for this day?" I only called with reproaches: “Why didn't you come to your father’s grave this year?” But the people of our generation are all already sick, getting out of the house is a whole problem for us.
- Natalya Yuryevna did not talk about the mental disorders of her son Boris?
- I remember Boris as a smart boy. Levitan could not get enough of him: in the report cards, the grandson had more fives than fours. After school, Borya entered the university at the prestigious Faculty of History. After graduation, he worked in some research institute, went on business trips. Then in one of the telephone conversations Natasha mentioned that her son got married, did not want to talk about her daughter-in-law, she only said that she was "liable for military service." In the future, she did not even mention her son's family. Natasha was a very secretive woman. She did not invite anyone to her house. She told us by phone that she had buried her husband only two months later. And we would have come and said goodbye to Lyova. He was a good man. And he died a good death - right at the table from a heart attack. They say that Borya changed a lot after that. Leo, unlike Natasha, was an adequate person, he could talk, calm his son. His mother often turned him on on purpose ... In what happened to Borya, there is also Natasha's fault. She did not bring the warmth to the family that the child needed. When her son matured, she actively intervened in his personal life and eventually divorced him from his wife. After the death of Bore's father, they often called an ambulance.
In April 1998, one of the teams took Boris to a psychiatric hospital. Boris spent two weeks in the hospital building behind two fences. An entry appeared on his medical record: "paranoid schizophrenia." Having received a disability, he no longer worked anywhere. His world was closed by the walls of an elite apartment, which he practically never left.
Natalia lived on the memories of her great father. They obscured her reality.
For days on end, she negotiated with various authors to write the book. However, I was in no hurry to transfer these rights to anyone in particular.
“With the archive collected by Levitan, Natasha behaved like a dog in the manger,” says radio veteran Vladimir Churikov. - Yuri Borisovich with a friend - Boris Leshenko - at one time began to write a book. When Levitan died suddenly, his daughter hid all the manuscripts, did not give a single leaflet to the co-author from the archive, but she promised all the time - she drove the elderly man by the nose. Once she got a call from the Museum of Modern History, asked for archival documents for the design of the exhibition about the announcers of the Great Patriotic War. Natalya, under a plausible pretext, refused them too.
- Natasha went to the authorities, bothered to organize the Levitan Museum in her apartment, - says Nina Eremina, who lives next door. - But the house is nomenclature: security, concierge. She was not given permission.
Natalya Yurievna, it seems, was not at all embarrassed by the fact that her sick son lived in the same apartment, and, in the end, her fifteen-year-old grandson was growing up.
“The daughter-in-law and her grandson Arthur lived separately,” says Roza Georgievna. - Natasha did not communicate with them. How many phoned us - if only she said a word about her grandson!
With the death of her husband, the incomes of Natalya Yuryevna, who has practically never worked all her life, fell dramatically. When at “Mayak” they wanted to make a program about Yuri Levitan, she first of all asked what the fee was due to her. In 2004, for her father, she was awarded the “Radiomania” prize in the “Radio Legend” nomination. Natalya Yurievna, both in the office, and even standing on the stage, was interested in whether she was entitled to a sum of money.
But at the same time, Natalya Yuryevna, like her son Boris, knew perfectly well that she was literally sitting on a treasure. The expert invited to the prosecutor's office knew that in the post-war years, her father - “the voice of the Soviet Information Bureau” - the major who stormed the Reichstag handed over the most valuable documents of the Third Reich. Yuri Borisovich kept them away from sin literally behind seven locks, saying that it was not time to publish them yet. Kept in the archives of Levitan and papers from the headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. Operatives assume that shortly before her death, Natalya Yuryevna showed someone some of the documents from the archive. At least the experts were missing in one of the fifteen-sheet folders. They stole the documents or Natalya voluntarily handed them over to someone - so far it remains a secret. As well as whether the papers were the cause of the death of the 65-year-old pensioner.

"Natalia was buried by her stepbrother"

On February 6, Natalya Yurievna was going to come to congratulate the oldest radio operator Boris Leshenko on his birthday. And on February 4, she was gone. This number became fatal for the Levitan family. On the night of August 4, 1983, the country lost Yuri Borisovich. On the night of February 4, his daughter was killed.
At the coffin of Natalya Sudarikova, in addition to representatives of the Moscow government, the oldest announcers - friends of Yuri Levitan, there was Natasha's husband's sister and her grandson Arthur, not recognized by her. Natalya never made friends in her entire life.
The funeral was organized by her half-brother Semyon, with whom she, due to her difficult nature, did not communicate for 17 years.
- At the cemetery, Semyon stood aside, did not talk to anyone, - says Lyudmila Larionova. - We only knew that he studied in Poland, knows Polish well, worked as a radio journalist for more than ten years, then went into the furniture business, left for permanent residence in Israel. He learned about the murder of Natasha on the radio in the car. I immediately took a ticket and came to help with the funeral. Moreover, he basically refused material assistance from the Moscow government.
- Semyon is a wealthy man. Apparently, he remembered how Yuri Levitan helped their family in his time. Celebrating the New Year at the WTO restaurant, the announcer invited his closest friends to the celebration, including his ex-wife with her husband and son, says Lydia Chernykh. - Introducing Paradise to those around him, he said: "My cousin", nodded at her military spouse: "This is also one of my relatives." Helped Levitan and Semyon, who at one time worked in the Polish editorial office on the radio. Everyone around was convinced that he was Yuri Borisovich's nephew.
When the coffin was lowered into the ground, someone quietly said: "Thank God that Levitan did not live to see this day."

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When his mother was buried, Boris was in the familiar Gannushkin psychiatric clinic. Four days later, having removed an acute attack with droppers, he was transferred to the Serbsky Institute, where he will undergo a forensic psychiatric examination for a month.
We managed to contact the doctors of the Institute of Psychiatry and ask them a few questions.
- What could provoke an acute attack in a patient?
“Any emotional shock,” says an experienced psychiatrist Irina Abramova. - Schizophrenia is a hereditary disease that can begin at any age, but in men it often manifests itself in 25-30 years. Typical symptoms include different types of delusions. It seems to the patient that someone is putting thoughts into his head, influencing the body, forcing him to do things. In books, newspapers, television programs, the patient sees hidden messages addressed to him personally. A companion of schizophrenia is hallucinations in the form of “voices in the head” that tell the patient to do something. It happens that a patient has only one attack in his entire life.
- Boris was already admitted to a psychiatric hospital eight years ago.
- After treatment, he should have been prescribed supportive therapy. Another thing is that at home, patients often violate the medication regimen. Perhaps this happened to our ward.
- The operatives said that in the department, filling out the questionnaire, Boris clearly answered the questions, he remembered his passport number by heart.
- There is nothing surprising. The polyphony in the head does not prevent schizophrenics from acting logically and consistently even during an acute crisis.
- Can you recover over the years?
- No, schizophrenia is a chronic disease. It is not contagious and not fatal, although such patients live on average 10 years less than mentally normal people: they often commit suicide, and men more often than women.
Now specialists are constantly watching Boris: they talk, analyze the materials of the criminal case. If he is found insane, and most likely will happen, he will be sent for several years for compulsory treatment in one of the closed suburban psychiatric hospitals. Based on what Boris has done with his mother, he faces a “fortress clinic” named after Yakovenko. And in a few years Boris may be released. Whose soul would he still want to wash?
The Levitan family's entourage is now discussing only one question: who will get the priceless archive?