The almighty "dictator" of Russia in his personal life was a lonely person: his second wife Nadezhda committed suicide from despair caused by the conditions of the "workers 'and peasants' paradise". Son Jacob was taken prisoner by Germany. Daughter Svetlana avoided her father.
This happened in early November 1932, during the annual celebrations of the October Revolution. On that frosty autumn night, no one heard the shot, and there are still several versions of the tragedy described below. Stalin's wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, at less than 32 years old, young and attractive, after a public quarrel with her husband, returned home early from a party party. The next morning she was found dead in their bedroom, covered in blood. Nearby lay a small Walther, a pistol that her brother had brought as a present from Germany. Just in case - for self-defense, she said, asking him for this service. Hope was considered a good shooter. Now the bullet hit her right in the heart. Who should have told Stalin about this? He still slept, as often happened, until about noon, on the sofa in his study. And none of the messengers had the courage to wake him up.
The night before, all members of the Politburo with their wives and other invited guests celebrated the anniversary of the October Revolution. Stalin was in a good mood, flirting recklessly. Nadezhda Alliluyeva, being 22 years younger than her husband, found a reason for jealousy. She bore him two children, undermining her physical and nervous health. And nevertheless, she began her studies, wishing to become independent from the stingy, hot-tempered Joseph Vissarionovich, who thought only about state affairs, forgetting that housekeeping also costs money. And the wife of the leader of the peoples was angry that almost nothing could be bought in stores, that hunger was raging in Ukraine - how could this be if the party was on the right track?
Joseph Stalin with his wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva.
She would have left him long ago, but where? She is Stalin's wife and has two children. Escaping somewhere far from Moscow, which Nadezhda was increasingly thinking about, would become a social and political scandal. Indeed, it has long been rumored in Kremlin circles that she is one of the harshest political critics of her husband. Was it desperate suicide? Was this murder on order, out of hurt pride? The press kept silent about the cause of death: it was reported that Nadezhda Alliluyeva died suddenly. Even the daughter Svetlana, who was then six years old, only as an adult learned the details about the true circumstances of her mother's death. True, the farewell letter, which Alliluyeva wrote shortly before her death, was heatedly discussed in the closest family circle, but it disappeared without a trace on the same day.
Funeral of Nadezhda Alliluyeva.
Two days later, the first lady of the Soviet Union lay in an open coffin on a dais in Moscow's GUM, a huge mass of people expressed condolences, and Stalin stood, like a stone, at a coffin covered with red, decorated with flowers. His eleven-year-old son Vasily wept bitterly. Then Stalin said loudly, so that others could hear near him: "She left as a traitor!" - and turned away sharply. He took Nadezhda's death as a stab in the back. His family, his personal life were now destroyed forever. There is no confirmation of whether Stalin ever visited the grave of Nadezhda. There are legends about the lonely midnight visits of a Georgian to the Moscow Novodevichy cemetery; at least there he was seen by the leader's personal bodyguard Rybin. True, other Kremlin officials dispute that the dictator wasted time on sentimental feelings.
Stalin with children Svetlana and Vasily.
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But he could no longer live as before, in his apartment in the Kremlin with his children Jacob, Vasily and Svetlana. Iosif Vissarionovich ordered to build a new three-story residence on a forest plot south-west of Moscow, which the famous architect had to remake to the taste of the owner of the house. In this three-story "dacha" in Kuntsevo, Stalin then lived for almost 20 years until his death, alone among the continuously growing number of servants. He did not take his children with him, they were looked after by educators and home teachers under the supervision of the head of the personal guard Vlasik at a dacha located quite far from Moscow in a remote place called Zubalovo.
Stalin remained a widower and never married. His intimate life seemed to run dry. True, once his attention was attracted by the ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater, whom he, as they say, not only read.
The father of nations called her "my goat", the old lady still says on the phone. They said that he asked the widow of Nadezhda, a beautiful woman, to take over the housekeeping, because he had long laid eyes on her. When she refused, Stalin ordered her arrest. She paid for her refusal by six years behind bars. They said that Kaganovich's daughter and the wife of his secretary, Poskrebyshev, became pregnant with him. Most likely, these novels after the death of Nadezhda belong to the realm of legends. Rather, it can be assumed that Stalin, as a prim Georgian, was disgusted with extramarital sex. He endured the wild antics of his loyal Kremlin comrades, for example, Lavrenty Beria, in order to then have more opportunities to compromise on occasion, and then to eliminate them. Stalin sublimated his own instincts through brutal power.
True, Stalin's novels before the October Revolution have been actually and documented
The Georgian was engaged in underground political activities against the tsar, he was continually arrested and sent into exile in the Russian North or Siberia. At this time, in the small town of Solvychegodsk near Arkhangelsk, he made a close acquaintance with the beautiful mistress of the house, Maria Kuzakova, a widow with three blond children. When Stalin had to leave again, he left her pregnant - in 1911, a dark-haired son, Konstantin, was born. When he grew up and began to ask about his father, his mother answered him that it would forever remain her secret. But one day, on the football field, Konstantin met an older neighbor who looked at him carefully. "So, you are Stalin's son ?!" he said respectfully. When Kuzakova learned that Stalin had made a career in Moscow, she turned to him in writing for support, but received no response. After that she wrote to Lenin,and in the secretariat the letter fell into the hands of Nadezhda Alliluyeva. So she learned about her husband's other family. However, without saying anything to Stalin, she ordered the transfer of money to the widow Kuzakova.
Kuzakov with his daughter. Stalin with his daughter.
After Konstantin graduated from school, an NKVD officer from Moscow came to the town and asked him who he wanted to become. Then a young talented guy was sent to study in Leningrad at public expense. After he was forced in 1932 to sign a receipt never to divulge the "secret of his birth", in Moscow he very soon rose to the position of deputy head of the press department in the Central Committee of the party and only after the death of the leader was harassed. Both father and son were afraid of the meeting: once Stalin ordered Konstantin to appear to him, but shortly before the meeting in the Kremlin canceled it. So Kuzakov, who had an attractive appearance and was respected, never managed to personally talk to his father, although he worked in close proximity to him.
After Stalin's death, Kuzakov, like many of Stalin's relatives, was almost arrested, but then he managed to make a career in the Ministry of Culture, and later on Soviet television, where before retirement he achieved great success and was respected. He has two grandchildren and several great-grandchildren who are still ambivalent about their origins. Stalin never officially recognized Konstantin Kuzakov as his son.
The descendant of another extramarital affair of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin lives in Siberia today.
Yuri Alexandrovich Davydov, Siberian grandson of Stalin. photo: kuzbass85.ru
This is Yuri Davydov, a descendant of Stalin's son Alexander, born in 1917 by a Siberian peasant woman Lydia Pereprygina: at that time she was barely 15 years old. From recently discovered documents of the secret police, it is known that during Stalin's exile in Kureyka near the Arctic Circle, not only the Russian police were involved in the case. Pereirygina accused Stalin that he had dishonored her. In Kureyka with a population of 80 people, where everyone knew each other, it could not be hidden. Although Stalin never paid child support, he wanted to take his son Alexander to Moscow when he grew up. However, the son refused. He rose to the rank of major in the Soviet army and told his sons who their grandfather was only when they finished their studies, because in 1935 he also had to give a receipt to the NKVD never to speak of his origin in the NKVD. About this SiberianStalin did not care about the line of his family.
Born in 1878 in backward Georgia, Stalin, already in early childhood, was imprinted by tough, extremely pragmatic relations in the family. Growing up as the only son of poor parents in the village of Gori in the Caucasus, he soon felt the heavy hand of his father, who beat him and his mother when he was drunk. It is proved that Stalin, having matured, in anger and out of a sense of justice, grabbed a knife and threw himself at his father to protect his mother from another attack of violence from her husband.
Stalin as a child.
Only by chance did he then become a murderer. Convinced by his ambitious mother that studying to be a priest was the best lot for him, Stalin became a novice of an Orthodox seminary in the Georgian capital of Tiflis.
Here he used a rich library, read classics, philosophers and political works of the recently emerged European Social Democracy in Georgian and Russian. At this time, at the very beginning of the new century, fermentation was taking place in the tsarist empire, the political discontent of the peoples with tsarist centralism was clearly felt in Georgia.
Stalin dropped out of the seminary and joined the underground leftist revolutionary party. He was arrested and interrogated several times by the secret police, as evidenced by the minutes of several pages and photographs of the young Stalin in the Moscow archives.