It was not customary to lift the veil of secrecy over the personal lives of the leaders of the country, as well as to spread about the fate of their closest relatives. But there was constant talk about the children of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. Moreover, they gave enough reasons for discussion. There were literally legends about Galina Brezhneva. People's rumors did not bypass their attention and the son of the Secretary General - Yuri, although he was a seemingly quiet and modest man. How did the fate of the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the epoch-making Ilyich develop?

Galina Brezhneva, her daughter and granddaughter


Throughout her life, the "Kremlin princess" pleased her father with her indefatigable and high-profile novels. The only exception was the period of her first marriage. Married to Yevgeny Milayev, Galina did housework, helped her husband, a circus performer, gave birth to a daughter, Victoria, and raised her husband's two children from her first marriage.

Galina accompanied her husband on all tours, and therefore her grandmother, Victoria Petrovna, began to raise her daughter. However, the influential grandfather also did not stand aside. He, like his wife, loved his granddaughter very much, spent every free minute with her.


The daughter has repeatedly become the object of rumors and gossip. She unashamedly had affairs both during her marriage and during her divorce, she loved the jewelry that she collected. Another weakness of this woman is known. Galina Leonidovna eventually passionately fell in love with alcohol.

After the death of her father, the daughter of the Secretary General actually became an inveterate drunkard, being locked up in a dacha near Moscow. Then she moved to a Moscow apartment, where neighbors began to complain about constant drunken brawls. Daughter Victoria was eventually forced to hand over her mother to psychiatric clinic for the treatment of alcoholism. It was there that the Kremlin princess Galina Brezhneva died as a result in 1998.

The fate of the granddaughter of the Secretary General Victoria also developed far from in the best way. She was married twice, both times to actors Mikhail Filippov and Gennady Varakuta. After two divorces, she was left alone.


By the will of fate, daughter Galina was also treated for alcoholism in a psychiatric clinic, and Victoria herself fell for the bait of scammers and was left homeless. In the last years of her life, Victoria Filippova struggled with cancer. Passed away in January 2018.


Galina, great-granddaughter of the General Secretary, for a long time had no contact with her mother. Left homeless, she even spent the night in garages and children's summer houses. Later she spent a long time in a psychiatric clinic. After a television program about the fate of Galina, she was presented with an apartment in Zvenigorod, where she lives.


The great-granddaughter of Leonid Brezhnev is in desperate need. She receives a pension, which, according to her, is only enough for coffee, cigarettes and rent. The jewelry of Galina Leonidovna disappeared without a trace. And she does not maintain contact with her relatives, children and grandchildren of Yuri Leonidovich Brezhnev.

Yuri Brezhnev, his children and grandchildren


Yuri Leonidovich, before his father was appointed Secretary General, worked at a metallurgical plant in Dnepropetrovsk, and after that he made a good career in foreign trade. However, moving to Moscow leadership positions increased his addiction to alcohol.

Then Leonid Ilyich sent his son on a long business trip abroad to Switzerland. He had enough of the problems that Galina constantly created. Yuri Leonidovich worked conscientiously, but in moments of rest he liked to treat himself to strong drinks and often did not behave very nicely when drunk. After returning to Moscow in 1976, the son of the Secretary General was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR, three years later - First Deputy.


When Brezhnev Sr. died, his son was immediately fired from Vneshtorg. For a long time he remained silent, refusing any interviews and cooperation with the new government. found solace in breeding aquarium fish and collecting porcelain figurines of dogs. In 2013, he died of brain cancer.

Unlike his older sister, Yuri Leonidovich was married once and his wife Lyudmila Vladimirovna was smart, modest and educated. She was always next to her husband, preventing him from sinking or getting carried away with alcohol.


Two sons were born in the family - Leonid and Andrey. Leonid graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University, was engaged in teaching, later became quite successful businessman. Leonid Yurievich married more than once and became the father of three children. The son, named after his grandfather, became the successor of his father's work.


Andrei graduated from MGIMO, worked for a long time in Vneshtorg, was actively involved in politics. Along with this, he always defended the honor and dignity of his famous grandfather, believing that many attacks against Leonid Ilyich were dictated by Mikhail Gorbachev's hostile attitude towards him.

Andrei Yurievich became the father of two sons, Leonid and Yuri, to whom he gave a good education. Leonid later became a translator, Yuri, after graduating from Oxford, is engaged in software sales.

Andrei Brezhnev died suddenly of a heart attack in July 2018.

Very little was known about Soviet times and about . ]However, they themselves almost did not appear in public and led a very secluded life. And some of the companions themselves were carefully concealed by the leaders of the party elite of the USSR. Some were happy in their closed world, someone had a chance to threaten and blackmail her husband to refuse a divorce, and there were those who categorically could not even be shown to the public.

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev held the highest post Soviet Union- the post of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1966 to 1982. For so long, no one had the opportunity to stand at the helm of the USSR. Who were the people who surrounded the leader in the most intimate, family, atmosphere?

Big Brezhnev family. In the first row: wife Viktoria Petrovna and Leonid Ilyich himself with great-granddaughter Galya, in the second row: son-in-law Yuri Churbanov, grandchildren Victoria (Galina's daughter) and Leonid (Yuri's son), Galina with her brother Yuri, Elena (Leonid's wife), daughter-in-law Lyudmila (wife Yuri), grandson Andrey.


Parents

Father and mother of Leonid Ilyich - hereditary workers Ilya Yakovlevich Brezhnev and Natalya Denisovna Mazalova - were born in the current Kursk region.

Brother and sister

The younger brother is Yakov Ilyich Brezhnev (1912-1993). He had little resemblance to Leonid Ilyich: vertically challenged, reddish. He worked at a metallurgical plant as the head of a rolling shop, then at the USSR Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy. He was successful with women. He had the nickname "wedding brother" - he was invited to feasts, he undertook to solve the personal affairs of petitioners. He was forcibly treated for chronic alcoholism and the deviations in the psyche that arose on this sad basis. Yakov has two daughters from his first marriage - Elena and Mila, and a daughter from his second.

Sister - Vera Ilyinichna Brezhneva (1910-1997). Since moving to Moscow in 1966, she has not worked, she was married to Nikifor Andreyevich Grechkin, an engineer.

Lyubov Yakovlevna Brezhneva. niece

Daughter of Yakov Ilyich from his second marriage. She became famous for her connections with foreigners. In 1990, she emigrated to the United States, in 1999 she published a book of memoirs, The Secretary General's Niece.

Victoria Petrovna Brezhneva (Denisova)

In 1925, a student at a technical school, Leonid Brezhnev, met Victoria, a student at the Kursk Medical College. In 1928 they signed. Despite her husband's career, Victoria Petrovna devoted all her time to household children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

In 1929 their daughter Galina was born, in 1933 their son Yuri was born.

Galina Leonidovna Brezhneva

She was distinguished by an unusually strong, passionate, restless character. Over the years of her life, the leader's daughter worked in the circus, in the Novosti press agency, in the archival department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an adviser-envoy, at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Galina Leonidovna was only officially married three times and became famous for high-profile novels.

The first husband, an acrobat-strongman Yevgeny Milaev, was 20 years older than Galina and raised two children. For his sake, the daughter of the first secretary (at that time) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova ran away from home and traveled around the country as a circus dresser. From this marriage was born only daughter Galina Leonidovna - Victoria. The second husband, 18-year-old illusionist Igor Kio, was 15 years younger than Galina. However, their official marriage, which infuriated Leonid Ilyich, lasted only 10 days ...

In 1971, Galina Brezhneva married Lieutenant Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuri Churbanov, who was 7 years younger than her, left his wife and children for her, and became his second wife. For her, this marriage was the third.

In 1987, Churbanov was arrested on suspicion of corruption and expelled from the ranks of the CPSU, sentenced by the Military Collegium Supreme Court USSR to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property. While he was serving time, Galina Brezhneva filed for divorce and division of property.

During the third marriage, Galina started high-profile romance with the artist of the gypsy theater "Romen" Boris Buryatsa. At that time, the Secretary General's daughter was already over 50, and her lover was 17 years younger than her.

Galina abused alcohol, after the death of her father she was under virtual house arrest in the country. She went to a psychiatric clinic for treatment, where she died in the summer of 1998.

Victoria Milayeva

In the photo: Brezhnev with his granddaughter Victoria (to the left of the Secretary General), her second husband Gennady Varakuta and great-granddaughter Galya.

Victoria's first husband, Mikhail Filippov, worked in the Ministry foreign trade, then at the bank. Today he lives in Malta. The second spouse - Gennady Varakuta, rose to the rank of lieutenant general of the KGB. After 1991, he divorced Victoria, a businessman.

Galina Filippova

Victoria Evgenievna in 1973 had a daughter (great-granddaughter of Leonid Brezhnev) Galina Filippova. In the photo she is on her knees with her grandmother and namesake Galina Brezhneva.

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev with his wife Victoria Petrovna and great-granddaughter Galya.

Galina Filippova today

She graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University, was married, acquired alcohol addiction... After many years of treatment in a psychiatric clinic, she lost all her property. Today she lives in a modest apartment in the Moscow region, which one of her relatives bought for her.

Yuri Leonidovich Brezhnev

Yuri Brezhnev was born in 1933. Pinnacle of career: Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR. All my life I have been collecting porcelain dogs. There are four grandchildren and a great granddaughter. He died in 2013 at the age of 80.

His wife: Lyudmila Vladimirovna Brezhneva, in her youth was a pretty snub-nosed blonde with delicate pink skin. She behaved modestly. Unlike other nomenklatura wives of the Soviet elite, she is smart and well educated.

They had two sons: Leonid (born in 1956) is a teacher at the Faculty of Chemistry at Moscow State University, a businessman, he has three daughters (Alina, Maria) and a son, Yuri, a businessman.

Junior - Andrey Yuryevich Brezhnev (born 1961) economist and Russian politician, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Social Justice.

Andrey Yurievich Brezhnev

Grandson Secretary General Central Committee of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev, son of Yuri Brezhnev, Soviet economist and Russian politician. In 1983 he graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

His first wife, Nadezhda Lyamina, later became the wife of the banker Alexander Mamut. Son Leonid works as a translator in the military department, and son Dmitry graduated from Oxford University. The second wife's name is Elena.

Leonid Ilyich with his wife and grandson Andrei at the dacha, 1971.

Leonid Yurievich Brezhnev

Grandson of General Secretary Brezhnev, son of his son Yuri. Doing business. In the early 2000s, he lived in his grandfather's apartment at 26 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Entrepreneur. Married four times, three children.

She was called Brezhnev's favorite granddaughter. The birth in the family of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU seemed to guarantee a comfortable life and a happy fate. But it turned out differently ... Victoria Filippova died

January 5, 2018 at the age of 65 from cancer. The granddaughter of the Secretary General lived modestly and did not tell anyone that she had the last stage of the disease. Before the New Year, she asked to bring her daughter Galya to her, with whom she had not talked for a long time, she said that she wanted to make peace with her. And it turned out - said goodbye ... Meanwhile, the death of Brezhnev's granddaughter gave rise to an unexpected scandal, as familiar families told us about.

From the funeral made exclusive

Vika, the granddaughter of Leonid Ilyich, was born in the family of Galina Brezhneva and her first husband, circus performer Yevgeny Milayev, who had two children from a previous marriage, Natasha and Alexander Milayev, Igor Shchelokov, the son of the former Soviet Interior Minister and friend, told KP the Brezhnev family of Nikolai Shchelokov. - Brother and sister Vicki decided not to tell anyone about her death. They buried her quietly. None of her friends knew that she had died. And I would certainly come to say goodbye to Vitusya.

I am outraged by what happened, ”actress Victoria Lazich told KP. - I was friends with Galina Brezhneva, I have great respect for the family of Leonid Ilyich and his granddaughter Victoria. I and many of my friends would definitely come to the funeral. But the Milayevs, by their silence, actually forbade everyone who loved Brezhnev and his family to spend in last way his granddaughter! I was shocked when I saw the funeral service in the church on TV. There are only three people at the coffin - Sasha and Natasha Milaev and Victoria's own daughter Galochka. Excuse me, only the homeless or criminals are buried like that! The Milayevs gave this exclusive farewell to the TV channel, not for free, of course. They called the television and asked to help them with the funeral. We learned in fact - everything is buried! These are the new realities of our time, when even death can be sold. I have no questions for Victoria's daughter Galina, she is inadequate, she has not yet recovered from the alcohol syndrome. The same Milayevs sold an interview of Galina Brezhneva to the BBC channel many years ago, exposing her to ridicule when she danced the cancan drunk on the table. Victoria was offended by her mother and did not speak to them for many years.

The BBC channel then went out to Alexander Milaev, Igor Shchelokov assures. - They gave him and his sister a thousand dollars, bought a box of champagne and without warning came home to Galina Leonidovna. Then the Milayevs left, supposedly they had business. Galina Leonidovna drank with the reporters for the meeting, then another. And then they start filming drunk woman. Naturally, after this, Victoria did not communicate with her brother and sister for a long time.

"Drank, and very hard"

Shortly before her death, Victoria Filippova gave an interview, which, after her funeral, was shown in the program "Let them talk." The Secretary General's granddaughter spoke about her relationship with her grandfather, family problems and about why her mother handed over Galina Brezhneva and her daughter Galya to a mental hospital.

From my seven months I lived with my grandparents in the country, - said Victoria Evgenievna. - Grandpa was a very affectionate person. If he hadn’t held this difficult position and hadn’t given all his time to work, then he would have taken care of his grandchildren all the time ... I don’t like it when they say " last days Leonid Ilyich ". He just fell asleep - and he was gone. And the day before he was cheerful, like on all other days. I remember how that last evening he wanted to listen to the record, I sat on the bed next to him, and we listened to the songs of the military for a very long time I kissed him good night and he went to sleep in the morning he didn't wake up...

The girl was actually raised by her grandmother - the wife of Secretary General Victoria Brezhnev. Vicki's mother was busy organizing her turbulent personal life. With Vika's father, circus performer Yevgeny Milayev, Galina Brezhneva lived for five years and divorced because of his betrayal. This was followed by a series of stormy novels - with magician Igor Kio, ballet star Maris Liepa ...

Mom had real relationships and feelings with two men - my dad and Liepa. Mom was an ideal wife under my father: she cooked and cleaned herself. There was not a single housekeeper then. She did all the housework herself, because my father ordered so, - Filippova said in a television interview. - Mom was a smart woman until she started drinking. It happened early, when she began a relationship with Maris Liepa, she began to take alcohol. He didn't like it very much. It did not work out for them, because Maris Eduardovich was not going to leave the family.

Then my mother drank. I drank very hard. Something had to be done about it, otherwise it would have ended badly. I sent her to a psychiatric hospital - I couldn't let her die under the fence. She didn't want to live with me. I was called to the house where she lived, and they said: take her away from here or we will evict her. She was not alone for a day: all the time her friends were in the apartment, who flocked from everywhere, and were strangers, from the street ... Therefore, they disappeared, jewelry was stolen ...

When asked if she loved her mother Galina Brezhneva, Victoria Filippova replied: "I loved my childhood idea of ​​her. My mother and I were strangers, we rarely saw each other. I had a different life."

"Under Gorbachev, our family was persecuted"

While grandfather was alive, Victoria's life flowed well. The problems began after Brezhnev's death. The granddaughter of the General Secretary told how her family was persecuted under Gorbachev. It was at this time that Victoria became a victim of "black realtors" and lost her property and money.

I exchanged my apartment for two small ones: for myself and my daughter, but I didn’t receive my part of the money, Filippova said. - It was Gorbachev's time. And no one stood up. Why was it us, grandchildren, to poison? We were not in politics, the country was not robbed. They poisoned us, and with us our children. My Galya was not accepted into the Komsomol, they threw us out of all the clinics, from everywhere. In the end, I was laid off - kicked out of the State Committee for Publishing. When Boris Nikolayevich (Yeltsin. - Ed.) came, it became easier ...

Victoria's daughter Galina drank herself and became homeless: in the summer she spent the night on playgrounds, in the winter - in the porches. A few years ago, Victoria sent her daughter to a psychiatric clinic. Just like she did with her mother Galina Brezhneva.

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Both marriages were unhappy.

Victoria Filippova (Milaeva) was born in the family of the daughter of the USSR Secretary General Galina Brezhneva and circus performer Evgeny Milaev. They named her in honor of her grandmother - the wife of Leonid Ilyich Victoria Brezhneva. When the girl was five years old, her parents separated. Her stepfather in the future was Yuri Churbanov (Colonel General of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs).

After school, Victoria studied at Moscow State University, but transferred to GITIS. First husband - Mikhail Filippov, former employee Vneshtorg. In marriage, a daughter, Galya, was born. The second husband is Gennady Varakuta, Lieutenant General of the KGB.

Victoria was a housewife, then she worked at the State Committee for Publishing. In Gorbachev's times, she was left without a job. To provide for herself, she began to exchange apartments with a surcharge. I fell for the bait of "black realtors" and was left without a home. Her only daughter, Galya, was a wanderer. Recent years ten Victoria lived in Pavlovsky Posad in the house civil husband Dmitry.

Daughter identified in a psychiatric clinic. A few years ago, Galya left the hospital. An apartment in Moscow was helped by a Moscow deputy who saw on television a report about her miserable situation. Shortly before her death, Victoria Evgenievna nevertheless began to communicate with her daughter. Her daughter found out that her mother had cancer six months ago. It turned out that Victoria Evgenievna was diagnosed with cancer late, she knew that she was doomed, but she held firm.

She was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

Galina Brezhneva, the youngest, repeated the fate of her famous grandmother. She also ended up in a mental hospital. Like her grandmother, Galina was treated for alcoholism.

Galina Brezhneva: “I started drinking. I was wondering what it is, I decided to try it. I was 28… I tried both vodka and cognac.”

She is a philologist by education, graduated from Moscow State University, but did not really work anywhere, like her mother Victoria. The famous surname became an obstacle: in perestroika, it became a stigma, and the Brezhnevs were the first on the lists for reduction.

Both the great-granddaughter and granddaughter of Brezhnev turned out to be unsuitable for the blows of fate. While one sought solace in alcohol, the other became a victim of black realtors. Victoria Brezhneva lost 4 apartments, one of them on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, the other in the government building in Granatny Lane. The granddaughter of the Secretary General was left without housing and without money.

Having lost everything, Victoria wandered around friends. And her daughter Galina, in protest, began to live on the street.

Galina Brezhneva: “I lived on the street, which means from summer to March. They forced me to shpendel from mom to dad, from dad to mom, they played the fool ... But I sent them: then I will sleep on the bench like a bum. Well, like that, for about half a year, I hung out in the children's courtyard, in the house.

So the great-granddaughter of the all-powerful Secretary General became a homeless beggar. In the end, Galina ended up in a mental hospital. Her mother arranged for her there and never took her away, despite Galina's requests. Three years later, the great-granddaughter of the General Secretary was discharged, and her wanderings threatened to end in a boarding school for the mentally ill. But at that moment, journalists were already interested in her fate. As a result, Brezhnev's great-granddaughter was presented one-room apartment and issued a tiny disability pension, but Galina was glad about that too.

Then she lacked only one thing: news from her mother, whom she had not seen for several years. occurred on the air of the New Russian Sensations program. They reconciled, but this peace will not last long. Victoria Evgenievna soon died of cancer. After her death, her daughter disappeared again. Her search led to unexpected place: to the house Alexander and Natalya Milaev.

Alexander Milaev: “We took her away from there, it was more real help, that after all we pulled her out and helped her become an adequate, full-fledged person, made all her documents. We are the last ones left. And what was in the family, only I personally know, my sister Natalya Evgenievna and, to some extent, Galyuska, my niece.

Alexander Milayev has an answer to the question, where is now the famous collection of diamonds of his adoptive mother, the daughter of the Secretary General.

Alexander Milaev: "I have! I have all the diamonds. Galina Leonidovna left me before going to the hospital. I don’t show them to anyone and I’m not going to show them. ”

Whether this is actually the case is still unknown. Perhaps Milaev just wants to be talked about, or maybe he told the truth. Such an unexpected act is quite in the spirit of the extravagant tricks of Galina Brezhneva: to deposit a fortune and forget about it.