Granddaughter of Stalin Biography

Where volcanoes periodically come to life, where civilization achievements are in a minimum set, where the most popular shoes are rubber boots. Catherine with her husband Vsevolod Kozev: they had a daughter Anya, but this did not save the family. The last month ago, the white light crossed out with an unprecedented emission of a volcanic ash. A square meter of land fell up to 30 kg of ash.

The Levinson-Lessing volcanological station belongs to the Kamchatka Institute of Volcanology. You can get to it through a tunnel broken in meter snowdrifts. Nikolai Alekseevich Zharinov lived most of his life in the keys. A quarter of a century was the director of the station, today he heads the laboratory. He hired Ekaterina Zhdanova to work as a researcher in the year. She came here a young girl in a scientific expedition, seconded from Moscow State University.

I played the guitar, loved songs from the repertoire of Bulat Okudzhava. She worked out summer and flew to Moscow, next year she suddenly returned. She is by education geophysicist, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences. After the coordination of her candidacy with the leadership, I issued an order to enroll her as a researcher, ”says Nikolai Alekseevich. And Catherine broke a family.

And Seva drank strongly. They had a daughter, but this did not stop him. Ekaterina Yuryevna washed with a little Anya by expeditions. About her life in the "first family" of the USSR never remembered and stopped talking on this topic. The tragic shot once at the volcanic station celebrated the birthday of one of the employees. And one technician, a front -line soldier, tipsy, suddenly banged: "But I never loved Stalin.

Nothing." Catherine changed in her face, stood up abruptly from the table and, minting the words, replied: “You don’t know anything about him! Don’t dare to say that. It was the holy people who wrote several scientific articles. When her daughter Anya was still a small child, the granddaughter of the Generalissimo, eaten by cirrhosis, decided to suicide and fired in his mouth in a tight The kitchen.

I began to avoid people. Marina Semenovna Agafonova worked for many years by local mail. One of her daughters is a classmate of the great -granddaughter of Stalin, Anna. Marina Semenovna recalls that Ekaterina Zhdanova had a subscriber mailbox for many years, periodically came after mail. She dressed modestly, spoke little, smoked "Belomor". In her name, packs of congratulatory telegrams came to the Soviet holidays.

Many - from Georgia, from the homeland of her legendary grandfather. She never opened the door to the forks of telegrams, they pushed them into the gap of the door. They left with that. The black windows of life a hundred meters from the volcanological station lurked a house with a blue porch and the same blue pediment. Instead of the fence, a number of low chocks, gaping void instead of a gate.

Kutsai logs of firewood are densely covered with volcanic ash. It can be seen that firewood has not been taken for a long time. Ekaterina Zhdanova lives in this house today. He does not accept anyone, a lone light burns in the window at night. In the courtyard, white from the snow that fell on the eve of the snow, afternoon, but there are no traces. I knock on the door.

First carefully, then stronger. With small breaks for five minutes. He went around the house: dirty windows are curtained by something incomprehensible. The house with civilization connects only the thread of sagging electric wires. Returning, I tell Demyankchuk about my failure. Daughter Anna recently took her to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, fed, healed and brought back.

Catherine does not want to live anywhere except here, says Yuri Nikolaevich. He sometimes meets Stalin’s granddaughter on the street - she occasionally leaves the house, more often in the evening. Seeing Demyanchuk, turns away and does not greet. When Svetlana Alliluyeva died in the United States in November, the news of her death came to the e -mail of the Klyuchevskaya volcanological station.

This was announced by their American colleague, who knew that Catherine was living here. Demyanchuk tried to convey that sad letter to Ekaterina Yuryevna. He still remembers her icy eyes and a whistling whisper: “I do not know any Svetlana Alliluyev Katya was born on May 5, and when I began to open the world, the debunking the cult of the personality of her grandfather fell on her with an avalanche.

The relationship with the mother was always complicated. The eldest son of Svetlana Alliuyeva, he is also the brother of Catherine Joseph, said: "My mother is an absolutely unbearable person in the sense of character, managed to quarrel with all her children." Catherine could not forgive her mother. With his father Yuri Zhdanov, who for many years was the rector of the University of Rostov, talked, a couple of times flew to visit him from Kamchatka.

After the death of Svetlana Alliluyeva, journalistic attention increased to her. Reporters were frequent in the keys. But no one was able to talk to her. Dmitry Lazarchik, living in the neighborhood, admits that in a dozen years I saw Stalin’s granddaughter five to seven times, but a couple of times he drove in a car when she walked from a store with heavy bags.

In the evenings in the house dull a lone light.Ekaterina answers the neighbor’s proposals equally: "Thank you, nothing is needed." She does not let the village power on the threshold. And too - any offers to help her meet a refusal. Mother and daughter were extremely similar fate. Similar to their tragic fracture. Svetlana Alliluyeva fled from herself and life to the small American town of Riccland-Senter.

She never forgave her omnipotent father, splashing out the full grievances of the memoirs on him. Her daughter Ekaterina Zhdanova also ran away - Klyuchi in the Kamchatka village. Where a century lives, fenced off from a small local world and a distant big life. Probably, she also could not forgive her mother and hides the memory of her under the ashes of the harsh volcanoes of Kamchatka.

Probably, it is not easy for her to lead the life of an ordinary person, knowing that once his grandfather performed the fate of the world and the world remembers this. The village of Klyuchi - in km from Ust -Kamchatsk.

Here, on the edge of the earth, Stalin's granddaughter tried to hide from people. Photo: Google. And for what purpose are you interested in? She does not give any interview. Please leave us alone from the biography of the daughter of I. by that time, after a divorce from Grigory Morozov, Svetlana remained with the three -year -old son of the axes, and I was an idle demobilized major, an assistant in Moscow State University.

"Divorced the year.