Stalin's daughter-in-law was from Odessa. Julia Meltzer - biography, information, personal life Is there at least one true film about Stalin

“Vasily Stalin’s cousin V.F. Alliluyev: “It was the spring of 1943, when on one of its days Volodya Shakhurin(son of the People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry) shot and killed Nina Umanskaya(daughter of the ambassador) , and then yourself. The fatal shots were fired from a Walther pistol that belonged to Vano Mikoyan(son of a Politburo member and People's Commissar of Trade) , with whom Volodya studied at the same school. This “Walter” and Volodya’s diary were at one time in our cupboard.

My mother found this diary and immediately gave it to S. M. Vovsi, Volodya’s mother. What kind of diary this was, she, of course, had no idea. And it’s a pity, since from this diary it followed that Volodya Shakhurin was the “Führer” of the “underground organization”, which included my brother Leonid, Vano and Sergo Mikoyan, Artem Khmelnitsky, the son of Major General R.P. Khmelnitsky, and Leonid Barabanov, the son of A.I. Mikoyan’s assistant, all these guys studied at the same school. Sofya Mironovna, having received her son’s diary from my mother, after some time handed it over to...L. P. Beria, providing his comments. As a result, all these 13-15 year old teenagers ended up in the internal prison at Lubyanka. The last to be arrested was Sergo Mikoyan.

The investigation lasted about six months, and then the guys were sent to different places: some to Omsk, like Leonid, some to Tomsk, and Vano Mikoyan, at the request of his father, to the front, to service the planes on which the brothers flew.

...Former Kremlin security officer Krasikov:

“... Volodya was given a pistol by one of Mikoyan’s sons. Stalin said to this: “Wolf cubs.” An investigation began, and it turned out that the “Kremlin children” were playing “government”: they elected people’s commissars and even their own head of government.”

...Doctor of Historical Sciences Sergo Anastasovich Mikoyan:“Few people know that the repressions also affected Mikoyan’s family. In 1943, my brother Vano was taken to the Lubyanka, he was 15, and soon after, me, fourteen years old. The case they gave us was serious: “Participation in an organization that set as its goal the overthrow of Soviet power.” One of the guys we were playing with on the street had Hitler's book Mein Kamf. My brother and I spent about six months in Lubyanka. Then we were deported to Tajikistan.”

Zenkovich himself summarizes these messages as follows:

“You can interpret this story in different ways. But that's how I think. The war was going on, hard and merciless. And here are two more senseless corpses, a strange diary with strange pranks of the children of the “tops,” about which Stalin once said in his hearts: “Damned caste!” Then - these comments by S. M. Vovsi, gossip, conversations around this story. Was it possible to leave it without consequences, to hush it up? I doubt. The children, of course, were given a harsh lesson, which could not pass without leaving a trace on children’s souls.”

Yes, there was a war, and in this war Soviet teenagers died fighting the fascists, but these teenagers “played” at being fascists, and played seriously - with weapons, with the study of Mein Kamf. And not on a run-down collective farm, but in Moscow and in the same Rublyovka. And these “children’s souls” were brought up not among some criminals, but among the highest government elite of the USSR.

This, of course, is an example of the extreme ugliness of the Kremlin children, and their usual ugliness was the greed and thirst of the children of the near-Kremlin elite to stand out not for their intelligence and work, but for junk, and this thirst rallied lovers of this junk around the elite, and these lovers sought to join the environment of the near-Kremlin elite with all their might and all the cunning.

Could Stalin not see this? I saw, of course, hence his bitter words: “Damned caste!”, “Wolf cubs!”

And now the rhetorical question - did he want his grandchildren, based on their proximity to him, to enter this damned caste?

But let's return to the 30s to Jacob.

The period of “elegant” life

Julia Meltzer was the daughter of a Jewish merchant of the second guild from Odessa. The Jewish Encyclopedia reports that Yulia (Judith) Isaakovna Meltzer was born in 1911, that is, the encyclopedia made the girl 5 years younger. After the revolution, her father tried to take the family abroad along with the capital, but the GPU interfered, then her father gave Yulia in marriage. The same encyclopedia reports that: “I had a child from my first marriage (my husband is an engineer”)- but he doesn’t say where this child went. One must think that with her next marriage, Julia left the child to the engineer as a keepsake.

Yulia Dzhugashvili (Meltzer)

The encyclopedia also reports that Julia graduated from an unknown choreographic school in 1935. And although it is very doubtful that girls at the age of 29 would be accepted into such a school, we have to accept this as the education that Yulia had, since there is no information about any other work, nor about any other work of Yulia, except for the vague “dancer "

Having assigned Yakov to herself in the registry office, Yulia began to transform her status as the leader’s daughter-in-law into something more tangible and material: she was no longer satisfied with the “old trough”, and the family of Yakov Dzhugashvili, who was completely unpretentious to everyday life, moved to a four-room apartment in a prestigious house on Granovsky Street. Julia introduces Yakov to the singer Kozlovsky and composer Pokrass, and this is such happiness! As a hereditary intellectual, she needs trips abroad, and before the war she visits Germany, she seeks the right to use a car from the government garage, she, who does not work anywhere and is not occupied with anything, has a nanny and a cook in her house. Yulia clearly put the motto on the agenda: “You give an elegant life!” And since all this requires money, then, as you read above, Yakov’s help to his son became irregular. Not only that, Julia invites Olga to give her son Yakov to raise, citing the fact that Olga does not have the means to raise him. And somehow it didn’t bother Yulia that she had already abandoned one of her children and entrusted the other to a nanny. But what can we talk about - Yakov chose her himself.

Yakova gave birth to her daughter Galina Yulia in 1938.

Yakov Dzhugashvili with his daughter Galina

I'll digress a little again. I can’t help but pay tribute to Yakov’s daughter Galina in her struggle for her father’s honorable name, but her half-brother Evgeniy Dzhugashvili recalls, for example, this: “Working in the system of military representation, I was at the disposal of the S.P. Design Bureau. Koroleva in Podlipki. He worked on launch vehicles and space objects, and participated in launches at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Around 1956, Svetlana Alliluyeva called me and said that they had found a savings book with my father containing 30 thousand rubles and she decided to divide it between I.V.’s children. Stalin - 10 thousand each. But since Yakov was no longer alive, she offered to divide this amount between Yakov’s two children - that is, me and Galina. Due to the fact that Vasya was in prison, his share was divided among his four children. 10 thousand went to her. When she asked my opinion on this matter, I simply thanked her. After this, Svetlana told me that when she told Galina about this, she threw a tantrum at her, because she believed that Yakov’s entire share should have gone to her. At the funeral of Anna Sergeevna Alliluyeva in 1964, Svetlana tried to introduce me to Galina, who was also present at the funeral. After Sasha Burdonsky, Vasily’s son, and I took our turn in the guard of honor, Svetlana beckoned me to her and led me to the girl sitting next to me with the words: “Meet Zhenya, this is your sister Galya!” But the girl turned away and did not say a word. At that moment I remembered the saying: “Do not extend your lips when you are not being kissed.”.

And Galina left the following memory: “ I have no reason to consider this man a brother... My mother told me that one day she came across a letter from a certain woman from the city of Uryupinsk. She reported that she had given birth to a son and that the child was his father’s. Mom was afraid that this story would reach her father-in-law, and decided to help this woman. She began sending her money for the child. When my father accidentally found out about this, he was terribly angry. He shouted that he didn’t have any son and couldn’t have one. Probably, these postal orders from my mother were regarded by the registry office as alimony. That’s how Evgeniy got our last name.”

You need to love your mother very much to completely turn off your brain, repeating her blatant and stupid lies, in fact, chutzpah. You can, of course, shrug your shoulders at the message that a woman sitting on her husband’s neck, having abandoned her child, suddenly began helping a woman she didn’t know with money, without asking her husband’s opinion. You can shrug your shoulders at Galina’s naive idea of what alimony is. (After all, according to this lie, the transfers were from Yulia, why didn’t the registry office list as Yevgeny’s father the one from whom the money came - Yulia Meltser?) But at her age, to be sure that a woman just needs to show the chervonets and the employees of this institution at the registry office they will write in the certificate as the father of whomever the woman wishes - this is too much! Why didn’t Olga list Joseph Vissarionovich as the father of Stalin himself? It was not right for Galina to be a cuckoo.

But I brought up this dispute between relatives in order to show that Yakov really, as long as Julia’s scandals could be tolerated, transferred money to support his son. And this gives reason to take another look at Yakov.

He fulfilled his duty - a duty that only he knew about, he fulfilled it, despite the fact that it caused the displeasure of his wife. He gave his son his name, although he might not have given it, he helped with money, although he might not have done that. Moreover, it was not ostentatious; few people knew about this duty of his - he fulfilled this duty because he had a sense of duty, as such.

Well, to finish singing this song to the end, how Stalin’s family treated Yulia Meltzer.

Artem Sergeev writes: “When they lived on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, Vasya and I ran to their house from school during the big break. Yasha, as a rule, was not there, and Yulia fed us fried eggs. Julia was a very good wife for Yasha. No matter what they say about her now. And Yasha loved his family very much: his wife, daughter.”. The children liked her, but the adults... The adults kept quiet.

I repeat, the wife of Yakov’s uncle, Maria Svanidze, who lived in Stalin’s family and, by the way, was also a Jew, left an entry in her diary about this wife of her nephew: “... she is pretty, older than Yasha - he is her fifth husband... a divorced person, not smart, with little culture, caught Yasha, of course, deliberately setting everything up. In general, it would be better if this did not happen.” Artyom Sergeev remembered Stalin’s overheard conversation with these aunties, but probably did not understand all the bitterness of Stalin’s words: “When they were just dating, some aunties and relatives were sitting at the dacha one day and said that Yasha was going to get married. She is a dancer from Odessa. Not a couple. Stalin said: “Some people love princesses, and others love courtyard girls. Neither one nor the other gets any better or worse from this. Isn’t what you already had enough?”. Yes, Stalin remembered what happened - I repeat, Yakov’s attempt to commit suicide completely paralyzed Stalin as a father.

The trumpet is calling!

And it’s hard to say whether it was Stalin’s will or Yakov himself guessed that Peaceful time Is it over for the free hussar and is it time to go to service?

Yakov enters the Artillery Academy and begins to master the military specialty of an artilleryman. At the same time, as I see it, he, as he was, remains a reveler for so long. I judge by the years of his studies. In 1937, he entered the evening department, I believe, to receive basic military training - an idea of the army (the Academy itself had not yet moved from Leningrad). He entered the 4th year in 1938, but then he should have graduated from the Academy in 1940, but in fact he graduated only in May 1941. Judging by this, the academy teachers were not going to give him a diploma. Stalin, and sought real knowledge from him.

Moreover, the delay in education was not because Yakov was stupid, but because he was playing truant. None of the relatives remembers any illness in Yakov, and at the Academy he looks like an invalid: “...Has a large academic debt, and there are fears that he will not be able to eliminate the latter by the end of the new school year. Due to illness, I was not at the winter camp training, and also absent from the camps from June 24 to this time. Didn't take any practical classes. I don’t know much about small arms tactical training. Transfer to the 5th year is possible, subject to the completion of all student debt by the end of the next 1939/40 academic year.”

“Sociable, academic performance is good, but in the last session I had an unsatisfactory grade in foreign language. Physically developed, but often sick. Military training, due to a short-term stay in the army, requires more refinement.”

Nevertheless, Yakov joins the party and by the end of the academy proves that the teachers were not wasting their time in vain: “General and political development is good. Disciplined, executive. Academic performance is good. Accepts Active participation in Political and Social Work Course. Has finished higher education(heating engineer). On military service entered voluntarily. He loves construction work and studies it. He approaches issues thoughtfully and is careful and precise in his work. Physically developed. Tactical and artillery and rifle training is good. Sociable. Enjoys good authority. He knows how to apply the acquired knowledge in academic studies. Conducted a reporting and tactical lesson on the scale of a rifle division “good”. Marxist-Leninist training is good. Devoted to the Lenin-Stalin Party and the Socialist Motherland. By nature he is a calm, tactful, demanding, strong-willed commander. During his military internship as a battery commander, he revealed himself to be quite prepared. He did the job well. After a short internship as a battery commander, he is subject to appointment to the position of division commander. Worthy of being awarded the next rank - “captain”. He passed the state exams “good” in tactics, shooting, basic artillery weapons, English language; to “mediocre” - the foundations of Marxism-Leninism.” As for the latter, what to take from it - well, the hussars don’t like abstruse theories!

Let's summarize and try to compose psychological picture Yakov Dzhugashvili - what kind of person was he? Could he have surrendered or, having been captured in a helpless state, could he have told the Germans what the Germans presented to the world as his interrogation?

Again I rely on my own life experience. If Yakov had strived to be in the public eye, if he had climbed into presidiums or, figuratively speaking, demanded that his face not leave the TV screen, I would have believed that he had humiliated himself and behaved in this way. These alpha males will do anything for themselves and their loved ones. We have seen the transformation of these faithful Leninists into even more faithful capitalists.

But my life experience says that calm, kind people who do not climb to the top can go through hardships for the sake of their own principles.

But Yakov was a gentle and good-natured person, not claiming any leading roles, but, at the same time, he certainly had a sense of duty, with a heightened, even painful sense of self-esteem. He could not be placed in situations humiliating to his honor - for him it was worse than death, and he was not afraid of death even in his youth.

“They had a hard time…”

Now a few words about the bind in which Yakov Dzhugashvili found himself.

He was sent to serve in the 7th Mechanized Corps, which was stationed in Naro-Fominsk and Kaluga in peacetime. IN war time this corps was supposed to strengthen the second echelon of troops covering the border in the area of Smolensk and Vitebsk, in fact, together with other mechanized corps of the Red Army, form a strike force in this direction.

According to the USSR defense plans, the first echelon of covering troops was located at the very border. He was obliged to meet the German attack and, acting actively, that is, attacking the enemy himself, was obliged, if possible, to hold the Germans at the borders for about two weeks until the Red Army mobilized. The second echelon, located at a distance of up to 400 km from the borders, was obliged to replenish its composition at this time. And then, depending on the development of the situation, either move to the borders to help the divisions of the first echelon and start smashing the Germans together, or (which was considered more likely) wait until the first echelon moves away from the borders to the line of the second echelon, and from this line start together defeat of the invaders.

However, in this (Moscow) direction of the German attack, two tragic circumstances dramatically changed the planned situation within a few days. Firstly, the General Staff of the Red Army made a mistake in assessing the direction of the main German attack and did not expect that main blow The Germans will strike right here. Accordingly, the Germans had more forces here than it was planned to have Red Army forces in both echelons. Secondly, General Pavlov, who commanded the troops of the Western Special Military District, betrayed - Pavlov exposed the first echelon troops entrusted to him to the Germans, and within a week they were gone. Some were destroyed, some were captured, some, having lost heavy weapons, scattered through the forests and no longer represented a single military force. As a result, the second echelon, without having time to replenish and concentrate, was attacked by much superior enemy troops. The troops of the second echelon no longer had a chance to resist; they had to fulfill their duty at the cost of their own lives, and this duty consisted of inflicting as much damage as possible on the advancing Germans.

“They had a bad share...”

Yakov Dzhugashvili graduated from the Artillery Academy in May 1941 and was assigned as a battery commander to the 14th Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the 14th tank division 7th Mechanized Corps. But first he went on vacation due to him after graduating from the academy and went on vacation to the Caucasus. With the beginning of the war, his corps marched to its concentration area in the vicinity of the town of Liozno on the highway between Smolensk and Vitebsk. Yakov returned to Moscow, said goodbye to his family and rushed to catch up with his regiment. A postcard came from him from Vyazma: “26.6.1941. Dear Julia! Everything is going well. The journey is quite interesting. The only thing that worries me is your health. Take care of Galka and yourself, tell her that dad Yasha is fine. At the first opportunity I will write a longer letter. Don't worry about me, I'm doing great. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow I will tell you the exact address and ask you to send me a watch with a stopwatch and a pocket knife. I kiss Galya, Yulia, Father, Svetlana, Vasya deeply. Say hi to everyone. Once again I hug you tightly and ask you not to worry about me. Hello V. Ivanovna and Lidochka, everything is fine with Sapegin. All yours Yasha".

He never wrote a lengthy letter...

The number of such marriages really increased sharply at the beginning of the last century in Russia. But the reasons, of course, go deeper: not least - common goals, teamwork and the desire to “renounce the old world” and its customs. Or maybe the revolutionaries from the shtetls simply asserted their independence from the demands of Judaism or followed the path indicated by the leaders, because Marx and Lenin saw no other path for the Jews other than assimilation. The purpose of our not very serious note is to report facts that may not be known to everyone. And above the reasons large number Our reader can reflect on Jewish-Russian marriages of the romantic period of the revolution for himself.

Kliment Voroshilov - Golda Gorbman

In Arkhangelsk exile, the young Socialist-Revolutionary Golda Gorbman attracted the attention of working-class guy Klim Voroshilov. Their marriage was permitted subject to the wedding in church. The bride converted to Orthodoxy and became Catherine. In Golda’s homeland, in the presence of the entire population of the town, the rabbi put her under a curse (herem), and a mock grave appeared in the Jewish cemetery, to which Golda’s inconsolable parents came to remember their lost daughter. And the half-century marriage of Ekaterina Davidovna and Kliment Efremovich turned out to be extremely harmonious. They did not have their own children, but they raised five adopted children, including two children of Mikhail Frunze.

Their daughter-in-law remembers:

In Babi Yar, Ekaterina Davidovna’s sister and child died. Already taciturn, she became even more silent, but when the State of Israel arose, she could not restrain herself: “Now we also have a homeland.”

A few facts without comments or details: the wives of S. M. Kirov, G. V. Plekhanov, M. G. Pervukhin were Jewish. The Jewish wives of Yezhov, Rykova (sister of the architect Iofan), Kameneva (sister of Trotsky) were destroyed by Stalin even before the war.

Vyacheslav Molotov - Polina Zhemchuzhina

In 1921, at a meeting in Moscow, Molotov noticed the pretty, smart Polina Zhemchuzhina. She never returned home to Zaporozhye and soon became the wife of Vyacheslav Mikhailovich. However, the role of the apparatchik’s wife did not suit her. Smart and powerful, Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina (her real name is Pearl Karpovskaya) worked a lot in different years She was even the People's Commissar of the food and fishing industry. In 1948, Golda Meir, ambassador of the new State of Israel, attended an official reception at the Molotov house. In her book, Golda Meir recalls: “Molotov’s wife Zhemchuzhina came up to me and said in Yiddish: “I am the daughter of the Jewish people.” They talked for quite a long time, and, saying goodbye, Polina Semyonovna said: “All the best to you. If everything goes well for you, everything will be fine for all the Jews in the world.”

At the end of 1948, Stalin ordered the arrest of all Jewish wives of his closest associates. Andreev’s wife, Dora Moiseevna Khazan, and Poskrebyshev’s wife, Bronislava Solomonovna, were arrested. Polina Zhemchuzhina was also arrested. This is how Stalin tested the loyalty and devotion of his vassals.

Poskrebyshev's wife was the sister of Trotsky's daughter-in-law. Submitting an arrest warrant for his wife to Stalin for signature, Poskrebyshev asked to forgive her. Stalin signed the order. The unfortunate Bronislava Solomonovna, after being kept in prison for three years, was shot.

Yakov Dzhugashvili - Julia Meltzer

Yakov Dzhugashvili's wife was dancer Yulia Meltzer. When Yakov found himself in fascist captivity, Stalin gave Beria the order: “And this Odessa Jewish woman - in Krasnoyarsk region. Let him bask under the Siberian sun...” Someone noted that if Julia was among the people, the rumors about Yakov would be confirmed. It's better for her to go to jail, alone. Stalin agreed.

But Ekaterina Davidovna Voroshilova was not arrested. They say that when Beria’s people came for her, Kliment Efremovich fired a warning shot at the ceiling several times from a revolver. They asked Stalin. “To hell with him!” said the “father of nations.”

Zhemchuzhina spent about five years in the Gulag... After her death, the aged Molotov told the interviewer: “I had the great happiness of being married to such a woman. And beautiful, and smart, and most importantly - a real Bolshevik...”

Nikolai Bukharin - Esther Isaevna Gurvich and Anna Larina-Lurie

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin even had two wives: Esther Isaevna Gurvich and young daughter Bolshevik Larin (Mikhail Lurie) - Anna. During her arrest, her one-year-old son was taken away from her. She had not seen him for almost twenty years. The boy grew up in an orphanage with a false name, not knowing who his father was.

Here are some more facts without comment. The wife of the wise Russian minister Sergei Yulievich Witte was Jewish. And he himself was a descendant of one of the daughters of Peter’s chancellor Shafirov. Lilya Brik was the hero's wife Civil War- the legendary corps commander V.M. Primakov. And my wife famous Boris Savenkova was a certain E.I. Zilberg. The legendary Nikolai Shchors was married to a Jewish woman, Frum. Their daughter Valentina married the famous Soviet physicist Isaac Markovich Khalatnikov.

In the diary of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky on March 12, 1967 there is an entry: “The wife of the anarchist Kropotkin is Jewish.” Why did this fact stop Chukovsky's attention? Is it because the mother of his talented children and the mistress of the house was a Jewish woman?

It must be said that many Russian writers made the same choice. These are Leonid Andreev, Arkady Gaidar, and Vladimir Tendryakov. The brilliant Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov had two novels with Jewish women. The third, Vera Slonim, became his wife, beloved until the end of his days. They met abroad, where the Slonim family fled from the Bolsheviks, as did the Nabokov family of Russian aristocrats, principled fighters against anti-Semitism.

The poet Stepan Shchipachev, well forgotten today, wrote to his friend: “Only in ancient times did Jewish women have gray eyes like yours.”

And the famous words of Alexei Surkov from a song that the whole country sang:

“You are far, far away now.
Between us there is snow and snow.
It's not easy for me to reach you,
And there are four steps to death..."

were addressed to his wife Sofya Abramovna Krevs.

And here is another entry in Chukovsky’s diary: “May 13, 1956. Fadeev shot himself. I just thought about one of his widows, Margarita Aliger, who loved him most (she has a daughter from Fadeev).”

The prominent Soviet writer Valentin Kataev, having grown old, lived constantly in Peredelkino near Moscow. His beloved wife Esther Davidovna took care of him. She, according to eyewitnesses, despite her age, was surprisingly pretty. Their daughter Evgenia was the wife of the Jewish poet Aron Vergelis, long-time editor of the Soviet Gameland magazine.

The wife of the composer Scriabin (by the way, close relative V. M. Molotova) Tatyana Fedorovna Shletser came from Alsatian Jews. And their daughter Ariadne (after conversion - Sarah) - the heroine of the French Resistance - died at the hands of the Nazis.

The outstanding Russian composer A.N. Serov was the grandson of a baptized Jew from Germany, Karl Gablitz, who became a senator and vice-governor of the Tauride region in Russia. Serov married pianist Valentina Semyonovna Bergman, who gave Russia one of its most brilliant artists, Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov.

The glorious Soviet composer Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov headed the Union of Composers during the darkest Stalinist years. He did his best to save his fellow musicians from being torn to pieces. In 1997, in the International Jewish Newspaper, Khrennikov wrote: “During the period of the struggle against cosmopolitanism, I defended the Jews... My husband older sister“Tseitlin - and I myself are married to Jewish women - soon Klara Arnoldovna and I will celebrate the 60th anniversary of our life together.”

In July 1992, Soviet actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky came on tour to Israel. In an interview, he said: “My wife is Jewish. Her name is Shlomit. She was born in Jerusalem, near the Western Wall. In 1930, when she was little, her mother took her to Crimea, where a Jewish commune was created. There they were all robbed, half were transplanted. My mother-in-law only returned to Jerusalem two years ago.”

In general, as you can see, our topic is vast, so we will limit ourselves to what has been said.

More than 500 years have passed since the Jews were forced to leave Spain. But not everyone left. Jewish aristocrats who converted to Catholicism (Marans) remained and gradually dissolved and disappeared as Jews. Among their descendants are writers Miguel Cervantes and Michel Montaigne, General Franco, Joseph Broz Tito and even... Fidel Castro. In today's Spain it is considered a great honor to trace your ancestry from those Maranos: after all, this means that your family is more than 500 years old!

Today I propose to finish with him.
So...
Yakov went head over heels family problems to study. I had to learn a lot of new things, and then there was constant practice. First at the depot of the Kavkazskaya station, then at the locomotive repair plant in the city of Kozlov (Michurinsk), where he was able to pass the qualification exam and get the position of diesel engine driver. In the summer of 1932, Yakov received a long-awaited vacation and went to visit another Alliluyev relatives in Uryupinsk. There, in this very town on the Khoper River, Dzhugashvili met a girl who was able to win her heart. Her name was Olga Pavlovna Golysheva. The relationship somehow started immediately and continued (albeit remotely) even when Yakov left for Moscow. The following fall, Olga moved in with him and entered the aviation technical school. Things were heading towards the wedding and the newlyweds were even given an apartment, but..... the young people separated. After graduating from university, Yakov was hired as a diesel engineer at the Moskovsky Thermal Power Plant automobile plant, and Olga returned to Uryupinsk. On January 10, 1936, her son Evgeniy was born. He received his last name only a few years later, in childhood he was identified as Evgeniy Golyshev. Olga claimed that this was the son of Yakov (most likely this was the case, although disputes about his origin are still going on). In any case, not Svetlana Alliluyeva, not Galina - official daughter Jacob, they never recognized him as such. Nothing is known about the reaction of the Leader of the Peoples himself.

Olga Golysheva

Yakov started drinking, and in some restaurant he picked up the former ballerina Yulia (Judith) Isaakovna Meltzer. Julia was, as they say, a “seasoned” woman, having been married either twice or three times, and besides, she was a little older than Yakov. But at the same time very pretty and pretty. In general, it didn’t cost her anything to charm and captivate him. Less than a week after they met, she moved into his apartment. And on December 11, 1935, their marriage was registered in the registry office of the Frunzensky district of Moscow. It must be said that the whole family was opposed to Yulia, and best case scenario she was simply ignored. The father, however, did not interfere, being true to his word not to pay attention, although he expressed his dissatisfaction with Yakov’s choice in a private conversation. On February 10, 1938, the couple had a daughter, who was named Galina

Julia Meltzer

The younger Dzhugashvili liked to work as an engineer, but the elder felt that he needed to master other areas. Yakov was instructed to prepare for exams for the evening department of the Artillery Academy. F. E. Dzerzhinsky. In the fall of 1937, he passed these exams and was enrolled first in the evening and then in the full-time department of the academy. He graduated from it just before the war - on May 9, 1941, and after receiving the rank of senior officer, he was assigned to Narofominsk, to the post of commander of the howitzer battery of the 14th tank division. It is easy to notice that I studied for only 2.5 years, and not 4 or 5, as was customary. On June 24, his unit was moved to the Vitebsk region, where it entered into battle with the enemy. More fully and correctly, in fact, Yakov’s position sounds like this: commander of the 6th artillery battery of the 14th howitzer regiment of the 14th tank division, 7th mechanized corps, 20th army. On July 4th, the unit was surrounded, but then things get interesting...

Yakov with his daughter Galina

It is officially believed that Yakov was captured in the Liozno area on July 16. At first they didn’t miss him, but then they started looking for him seriously. They found a witness, a certain Red Army soldier Lopuridze, who said that the two of them left the encirclement with Yakov, but Yakov fell behind, said that his boots were rubbing and ordered the fighter to move on, and he would catch up. Lopuridze never saw Yakov again.
And a few days later the Germans spread the news - Senior Lieutenant Dzhugashvili was in their captivity.
This is official version. There is also an alternative truth, but more on that later.
After the first interrogations, Jacob was transferred to a camp in Hammelburg (Bavaria), from there in the spring of 1942 he was sent to a prisoner camp of the Polish army near Lubeck, and then in January 1943 he ended up in the famous Sachsenhausen, where different time Quite famous prisoners like Stepan Bandera, for example, were kept.

The most famous “captive” photograph of Yakov Dzhugashvili

Again, according to legend, Hitler offered to exchange him for Paulus, but Stalin noted: “ I’m not changing a soldier for a field marshal!"Although Svetlana Alliluyeva remembers it somewhat differently: " In the winter of 1942/1943, after Stalingrad, my father suddenly told me during one of our rare meetings: “The Germans offered me to exchange Yasha for one of their own. Will I bargain with them? In war it’s like in war!»
It is believed that Yakov died in the following way: on April 14, 1943, he did not obey the convoy’s demand to go to the barracks, but went out into no man’s land and threw himself onto the barbed wire, after which he was shot by a sentry. The bullet hit the head and caused instant death. Journalists from the German magazine Spigel even dug up the name of the alleged murderer of Stalin's son - this is a certain SS Rottenführer Konrad Hafrich. Although the Germans opened Yakov’s body and considered that death did not even come from a shot in the head, but earlier from an electric shock.

"Work liberates" inscription on the gates of Sachsenhausen

Jacob's body was burned in a local crematorium, and the ashes were scattered to the wind. After the war, Ivan Serov himself checked these facts and seemed to agree with this version, adding that the results of the investigation revealed that Yakov behaved with dignity, did not tarnish the rank of a Soviet officer and did not collaborate with the Nazis. It seems that we can put an end to this, but there is also an alternative version of the death of Yakov Dzhugashvili.
It was once defended by Artem Sergeev, about whom we will definitely talk in the following posts. So, Artem, who knew Yakov almost better than anyone, believes that he fell in battle in July 1941. And he would not surrender into captivity, under any circumstances. Plus, he emphasizes that the photographs of Yakov in captivity are of very poor quality and are always taken from some strange angle. Considering the successes of the Germans in the field of propaganda, and the quality of their photo and video equipment, this all looks very doubtful. Sergeev believes that instead of Stalin’s son, they used a person similar to him and until 1943 they tried to play a kind of game with the leadership of the USSR. But after the bluff was exposed, the false Yakov was eliminated.

Another photo of Senior Lieutenant Dzhugashvili in captivity

And I must say that I am rather ready to lean towards this version rather than towards the official one. Lots of inconsistencies. For example, the command of his corps began an active search for him too late. Well, of course it’s clear - the beginning of the war, encirclement, defeat. But, nevertheless, they knew who Senior Lieutenant Dzhugashvili was. Red Army soldier Lopuridze was constantly confused in his testimony, spoke Russian poorly, and generally did not know who was coming with him from the encirclement until the special officers informed him. Again, why and why did he leave Jacob alone? And whether it was Yakov or another officer of Georgian nationality is a big question. Here’s another point - the fighter said that they buried the documents and did not destroy them. This could have been verified, and then Yakov, during his first interrogation by the Germans, said that he had destroyed the documents. The interrogation is generally strange. So, for example, it says that Dzhugashvili spoke 3 languages - German, English and French. I have not seen this anywhere, but on the contrary, I read that he had no inclination to study languages. And then - French??? Come on…
There are still many questions that arise during the interrogation...

Ivan Serov. 1943

Further through the camps - they transferred him from camp to camp and kept him away from everyone, practically isolated. He didn’t make contact with anyone. All this is suspicious...
You may ask, what about Serov’s investigation? Well...after reading a little about this man, I am sure that he was ready with any information management needed. Ivan Aleksandrovich was a very slippery man... very. And there was some confusion regarding the dates. Doesn't struggle with documents from the German side.
So for now, information about how Yakov Dzhugashvili really died is hidden in a veil of secrecy.
It remains to add that after Yakov disappeared, his wife Yulia Meltzer was taken into custody by the competent authorities and kept in prison until 1943. After prison, she was ill for a long time and died in 1968.
Daughter Galina Yakovlevna studied at Moscow State University, where they initially did not want to take her for health reasons (she had problems with blood pressure), became a candidate of philological sciences and a good Arabic scholar. She married Algerian citizen Hussein bin Saad, but the family was not allowed to reunite for 20 years - they saw each other in fits and starts in the USSR until the mid-80s. In 1970, their son Selim was born. Unfortunately, the child has been disabled since childhood, but is still alive. Lives in Ryazan, and he is an artist.

Galina Yakovlevna Dzhugashvili

Galina herself received help from a certain Chinese company until the end of her life (the Chinese still greatly respect Stalin) and died in 2007 from a heart attack.
Evgeny Dzhugashvili, whom his relatives themselves did not recognize as Yakov’s son, is still very active. Former Colonel Soviet army he constantly appears on TV screens as the main defender of I.V.’s personality. Stalin, always suing someone and generally promoting himself. Knowing this is the fate of a person. Although he may simply see this as his goal in life.

Evgeny Golyshev (Dzhugashvili) in his youth

Evgeniy has 2 sons Vissarion and Yakov. The first is a builder, lives in the USA and has 2 sons - Vasily and Joseph. The second is an artist, lives in Tbilisi.
Evgeniy’s mother Olga Golysheva worked as a financial collector in the Air Force (apparently not without the patronage of Vasily Stalin) and died at forty-eight years old in 1957.
That's all, dear ones, that I wanted to tell you about Yakov Stalin.
To be continued….
Have a nice day!

Dzhugashvili Yakov Iosifov (1907-1943). Stalin's son from his first marriage to Ekaterina Svanidze. Born in the village. Badji Kutaisi province (according to other sources - in Baku). Until the age of 14, he was raised by his aunt, A.S. Monasalidze, in Tbilisi. According to Ya.L. Sukhotin - in the family of Semyon Svanidze’s grandfather in the village. Badji. In 1921, at the insistence of his uncle A. Svanidze, he came to Moscow to study. Yakov spoke only Georgian, was silent and shy.

The father met his son unfriendly, but his stepmother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, tried to look after him. In Moscow, Yakov first studied at a school on Arbat, then at an electrical engineering school in Sokolniki, from which he graduated in 1925. He got married that same year.

Gunina 3rd (Zina) Ivanovna (1908-1957) was the first wife of Yakov Dzhugashvili. Yakov's classmate. The priest's daughter. The wedding took place secretly from the father. Because of this marriage, Yakov had a conflict with his father, which almost ended in Yakov’s death due to a suicide attempt. He tried to shoot himself, but fortunately the wound was not fatal. After Yakov recovered, the newlyweds went to Leningrad to visit relatives along the Alliluyev line, where in 1929 they had a daughter, Galya, who died eight months after birth from pneumonia (buried in Detskoe Selo (Pushkin), where Zoya’s relatives lived ). Soon after the daughter's death, the marriage broke up. Zoya graduated from the Mining Institute in Leningrad and married policeman Timon Kozyrev, but kept the surname Dzhugashvili for herself. She named her second daughter Svetlana, changing her middle name: “Svetlana Timovna” (and not “Timonovna”, as she should have).
Svetlana worked as an engineer in Norilsk, where she married mining engineer Aliluyev. Thus, the second Svetlana Aliluyeva appeared, although her surname has one letter “l” in the first syllable. 3rd Ivanovna Dzhugashvili died in 1957 in Vinnitsa.

“Stalin did not want to hear about the marriage, did not want to help him... Yasha shot himself in our kitchen, next to his small room, at night. The bullet went right through, but he was sick for a long time. His father began to treat him even worse for this” (Alliluyeva S. “Twenty Letters to a Friend”, M., 1990. P. 124). On April 9, 1928, N.S. Alliluyeva received next letter Stalin: “Tell Yasha from me that he acted like a hooligan and a blackmailer, with whom I have and cannot have anything else in common. Let him live where he wants and with whomever he wants” (“Stalin in the Arms of the Family,” M., 1993, p. 22).

In 1930, Yakov returned to Moscow and entered the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers. F.E. Dzerzhinsky to the Faculty of Thermophysics, which he graduated in 1935. In 1936-1937 he worked at the thermal power plant of the Automobile Plant named after. Stalin. In 1937, he entered the evening department of the Red Army Artillery Academy, which he graduated from before the war. In 1938 he married Julia Meltzer.

Meltzer (Dzhugashvili) Julia (Judith) Isaakovna (1911-1968). Third wife of Yakov Dzhugashvili. Ballet dancer. Born in Odessa in the family of a merchant of the second guild. Mother is a housewife. Until 1935, Julia studied at a choreographic school and lived dependently on her father. From her first marriage (her husband is an engineer) she had a child. At one time she was married to the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Ukraine N.P. Bessarab (he worked together with S.F. Redens). In 1938 she married Yakov Dzhugashvili. M.A. Svanidze writes: “... she is pretty, older than Yasha - he is her fifth husband... a divorced person, not smart, uncultured, caught Yasha, of course, deliberately setting everything up. In general, it would be better if this did not happen. It’s a pity for our less than brilliant circle to have another member of society” (Diary of M.A. Svanidze; “Joseph Stalin in the Arms of the Family” (collection of documents). M., 1993. P. 192).

In 1939, Yakov and Yulia had a daughter, Galina. After Yakov was captured, Stalin ordered the arrest of Meltzer. She was arrested in Moscow in the fall of 1941 and remained in prison until the spring of 1943, “when it “turned out” that she had nothing to do with this misfortune, and when Yasha’s own behavior in captivity finally convinced his father that he, too, had nothing to do with it. was going to surrender himself” (Alliluyeva S.I. “Twenty letters to a friend.” M., 1990. P. 126). After leaving prison, Yulia was ill for a long time and died (“Friendship of Peoples”, No. 6. 1993).

It must be said that at the same time when Yakov married Meltzer, in Uryupinsk, where Yakov was in the spring of 1935, another woman, Olga Pavlovna Golysheva, was expecting a child from him. He was born a month after the registration of Yakov’s marriage with Julia. They named him Zhenya. Evgeny Yakovlevich Dzhugashvili - in the late 80s, reserve colonel, military historian. Evgeniy Yakovlevich has two sons - Vissarion and Yakov.

Dzhugashvili Vissarion Evgenievich was born on October 6, 1965 in Tbilisi. In 1982 he graduated from 23 high school(now No. 1253) in Moscow. In the same year he entered the Tbilisi Agricultural Institute. He completed compulsory military service in the RSFSR. After graduating from the institute, he entered the higher courses for directors and screenwriters at VGIK in Moscow. In 1998, his short film “Stone” won the Alexander Scotti Prize “For the best film about life and death” at the international short film festival in Oberhausen (Germany). In 2000 he completed work on his documentary film"Yakov is the son of Stalin." The film was shown on some TV European countries and on Adjara TV (Georgia) in 2001. Married, has two sons Joseph (born in 1994) and Vasily (born in 2000).

Yakov Evgenievich Dzhugashvili (born July 14, 1972, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR) - Georgian artist and public figure. Participant of the Russian social movement"Army of the people's will." Godson pilot, hero Soviet Union Z.S. Khitalishvili. Received secondary education in Moscow. In 1992-1994 he studied at the Tbilisi State Academy arts
He also received his education in the UK, graduating in 1997 from the Glasgow School of Art (painting and drawing) with a bachelor's degree, and studied there for three years. Then he worked in London for a year, exhibiting in galleries. Later he returned to Tbilisi.

Yakov Dzhugashvili sent a letter to Vladimir Putin, in which he asks to return “normal Russian citizenship” to him, says that he does not want to come to Russia as a foreigner or semi-foreigner, but wants to be a “full member of Russian society”...

Let's return to the story about Yakov Dzhugashvili. In 1941, Yakov joined the CPSU(b). From the first days of the war he went to the front.

On June 27, the battery of the 14th howitzer artillery regiment under the command of Y. Dzhugashvili as part of the 14th armored division entered fighting in the offensive zone of the German 4th Panzer Division of Army Group Center. On July 4, the battery was surrounded in the Vitebsk region. On July 16, 1941, less than a month after the start of the war, Senior Lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili was captured.

Berlin radio reported “stunning news” to the population: “From the headquarters of Field Marshal Kluge, a report was received that on July 16, near Liozno, southeast of Vitebsk, German soldiers motorized corps of General Schmidt captured the son of dictator Stalin - senior lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili, commander of an artillery battery from the seventh rifle corps of General Vinogradov.”

In the USSR, the place and date of Ya. Dzhugashvili’s capture became known from German leaflets. On August 7, 1941, the political department of the North-Western Front sent three such leaflets dropped from an enemy aircraft in a secret package to member of the Military Council A.A. Zhdanov. On the leaflet, in addition to the propaganda text calling for surrender, there is a photograph with the caption: “German officers talking with Yakov Dzhugashvili.” On the back of the leaflet the manuscript of the letter was reproduced: “Dear Father! I am a prisoner, healthy, and will soon be sent to one of the officer camps in Germany. The treatment is good. I wish you good health, hello everyone, Yakov.” A.A. Zhdanov informed Stalin about what had happened.

But neither the interrogation protocol (stored in “Case No. T-176” in the Archives of the US Congress) nor the German leaflets answer the question of how Ya. Dzhugashvili was captured. There were many soldiers of Georgian nationality, and if this was not betrayal, then how did the fascists know that it was Stalin’s son? Of course, there can be no talk of voluntary surrender. This is confirmed by his behavior in captivity and the unsuccessful attempts of the Nazis to recruit him. One of Jacob’s interrogations at the headquarters of Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge was conducted on July 18, 1941 by Captain Reschle. Here is an excerpt from the interrogation protocol:

How did it turn out that you are Stalin’s son if they didn’t find any documents on you?
- Some servicemen of my unit gave me away.
- What is your relationship with your father?
- Not so good. I do not share his political views in everything.
-...Do you consider captivity a disgrace?
- Yes, I think it’s a shame...

In the fall of 1941, Yakov was transferred to Berlin and placed at the disposal of Goebbels' propaganda service. He was placed in the fashionable Adlon Hotel and surrounded by former Georgian counter-revolutionaries. This is probably where the photograph of Ya. Dzhugashvili with Georgy Scriabin was born - supposedly the son of Molotov, the then chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (in fact, Molotov had no sons). At the beginning of 1942, Yakov was transferred to the officer camp "Oflag XSH-D", located in Hammelburg. Here they tried to break him with mockery and hunger. In April the prisoner was transferred to Oflag HS in Lübeck. Jacob's neighbor was a prisoner of war, Captain Rene Blum, the son of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of France, Leon Blum. By decision of the meeting, Polish officers allocated food to Jacob monthly.

However, Yakov was soon taken to the Sachsenhausen camp and placed in a department where there were prisoners who were relatives of high-ranking leaders of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition. In this barracks, in addition to Yakov and Vasily Kokorin (in captivity he pretended to be the nephew of V.M. Molotov), four English officers were kept: William Murphy, Andrew Walsh, Patrick O'Brien and Thomas Cushing. The German high command offered Stalin to exchange his son for Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, captured near Stalingrad in 1942. Stalin’s official response, transmitted through the chairman of the Swedish Red Cross, Count Bernadotte, allegedly read: “A soldier is not exchanged for a marshal” (this is one of the unsubstantiated myths about Stalin).

In 1943, Yakov died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. We have reached the following document, compiled by former prisoners and stored in the archives of the memorial of this concentration camp: “Yakov Dzhugashvili constantly felt the hopelessness of his situation. He often fell into depression, refused to eat, and was especially influenced by Stalin’s statement, repeatedly broadcast on the camp radio, that “we have no prisoners of war - we have traitors to the Motherland.”

Perhaps this pushed Yakov to take a reckless step. On the evening of April 14, 1943, he refused to enter the barracks and rushed into the “dead zone.” The sentry fired. Death came instantly. “An attempt to escape,” the camp authorities reported. The remains of Ya. Dzhugashvili were burned in the camp crematorium...

In 1945, a report from SS guard Harfik Konrad was found in an archive captured by the Allies, claiming that he shot Yakov Dzhugashvili when he threw himself onto a barbed wire fence. This information was also confirmed by the British prisoner of war Thomas Cushing, who was in the same barracks with Jacob.

The memoirs of former Polish prisoner of war Alexander Salatsky, published in the first issue of the Military Historical Review for 1981 in Warsaw, say that “in the barracks, in addition to Yakov and Vasily Kokorin, four more English officers were kept: William Murphy, Andrew Walsh, Patrick O'Brien and Cushing. Relations between them were tense.

The fact that the British stood at attention in front of the Germans was in the eyes of the Russians an offensive sign of cowardice, as they made clear more than once. Russian refusals to salute German officers, sabotage of orders and open challenges caused the British a lot of trouble. The British often ridiculed the Russians for their national "shortcomings." All this, and maybe also personal hostility, led to quarrels.

The atmosphere was heating up. On Wednesday, April 14, 1943, after lunch, a stormy quarrel occurred that turned into a fight. Cushing attacked Jacob with accusations of uncleanliness. All the other prisoners got involved in the conflict. O'Brien stood in front of Kokorin with an angry expression and called him a "Bolshevik pig." Cushing also called Yakov and hit him in the face with his fist. This is what the latter could not survive. For him, this was the culmination of his time in captivity. He can be understood. With on the one hand, the son of Stalin himself, who constantly resisted, despite punishment, on the other, a prisoner, a hostage, whose name became a powerful element in disinformation... What could await him even if he were released and sent to the USSR?

In the evening, Yakov refused to enter the barracks and demanded the commandant, and after refusing to see him, shouting: “Shoot me! Shoot me!” - suddenly rushed towards the barbed wire fence and rushed at it. The alarm went off and all the floodlights on the watchtowers came on..."

Stalin’s adopted son, General Artem Sergeev (son of the Bolshevik Artem), believes that Yakov was never in German captivity, but died in battle on July 16, 1941: “Yasha was considered missing for a long time, and then allegedly found himself in captivity. But there is not a single reliable original document indicating that Yakov was in captivity. He was probably killed in action on July 16, 1941. I think the Germans found his documents on him and staged such a game with our relevant services. At that time I had to be behind German lines. We saw a leaflet where supposedly Yakov is with a German officer who is interrogating him. And in my partisan detachment he ended up professional photographer. When I asked what his opinion was, he didn’t say anything right away, and only a day later, after reflection, he confidently declared: editing. And now forensic analysis confirms that all photographs and texts of Yakov allegedly in captivity are edited and fake. Of course, if Yakov, as the Germans claimed, had come to them, then they would have taken care of reliable evidence, and would not have presented dubious ones: sometimes blurry photographs, sometimes from the back, sometimes from the side. In the end, there were no witnesses either: either they knew Yakov only from photographs, but identified him in captivity, or the same frivolous evidence. The Germans then had enough technical means to film, photograph, and record voices. There is none of this. Thus, it is obvious that Stalin’s eldest son died in battle.”

Supporters of this version believe that instead of Yakov, the Germans used some other person for propaganda purposes.

Director D. Abashidze made the film “War for All” about Yakov Dzhugashvili. The poet Nikolai Dorizo wrote the tragedy “Yakov Dzhugashvili,” for which he collected materials for ten years. The work was first published in the magazine “Moscow” (1988).

On October 28, 1977, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Senior Lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili was posthumously awarded the Order for his steadfastness in the fight against the Nazi invaders and courageous behavior in captivity Patriotic War I degree. However, this Decree was closed, people knew nothing about it.

The feat of Yakov Dzhugashvili is immortalized on the memorial plaques of the deceased graduates of the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers and the Artillery Academy named after. F.E. Dzerzhinsky (Now the Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great (full name: “Order of Lenin, October revolution, Suvorov Military Academy missile forces strategic purpose named after Peter the Great"). In the MIIT museum there is an urn with ashes and soil taken from the site of the former crematorium of the Sachsenhausen camp.

Note: For more information about Yakov Dzhugashvili, see: Sukhotin Ya.L., “Son of Stalin. The life and death of Yakov Dzhugashvili.” L., 1990; Apt S. “Son of Stalin”, “Rise”, Voronezh, 1989. No. 4, 5.

Hello dears!
This is where we started talking about Yakov Dzhugashvili: today I propose to finish with him.
So...
Yakov immersed himself in his studies from family problems. I had to learn a lot of new things, and then there was constant practice. First at the depot of the Kavkazskaya station, then at the locomotive repair plant in the city of Kozlov (Michurinsk), where he was able to pass the qualification exam and get the position of diesel engine driver. In the summer of 1932, Yakov received a long-awaited vacation and went to visit another Alliluyev relatives in Uryupinsk. There, in this very town on the Khoper River, Dzhugashvili met a girl who was able to win her heart. Her name was Olga Pavlovna Golysheva. The relationship somehow started immediately and continued (albeit remotely) even when Yakov left for Moscow. The following fall, Olga moved in with him and entered the aviation technical school. Things were heading towards the wedding and the newlyweds were even given an apartment, but..... the young people separated. After graduating from university, Yakov was hired as a diesel engineer at the thermal power plant of the Moscow Automobile Plant, and Olga returned to Uryupinsk. On January 10, 1936, her son Evgeniy was born. He received his last name only a few years later, in childhood he was identified as Evgeniy Golyshev. Olga claimed that this was the son of Yakov (most likely this was the case, although disputes about his origin are still going on). In any case, it was not Svetlana Alliluyeva, not Galina, Yakov’s official daughter, who never recognized him as such. Nothing is known about the reaction of the Leader of the Peoples himself.

Olga Golysheva

Yakov started drinking, and in some restaurant he picked up the former ballerina Yulia (Judith) Isaakovna Meltzer. Julia was, as they say, a “seasoned” woman, having been married either twice or three times, and besides, she was a little older than Yakov. But at the same time very pretty and pretty. In general, it didn’t cost her anything to charm and captivate him. Less than a week after they met, she moved into his apartment. And on December 11, 1935, their marriage was registered in the registry office of the Frunzensky district of Moscow. It must be said that the whole family was opposed to Yulia, and at best she was simply ignored. The father, however, did not interfere, being true to his word not to pay attention, although he expressed his dissatisfaction with Yakov’s choice in a private conversation. On February 10, 1938, the couple had a daughter, who was named Galina

Julia Meltzer

It is officially believed that Yakov was captured in the Liozno area on July 16. At first they didn’t miss him, but then they started looking for him seriously. They found a witness, a certain Red Army soldier Lopuridze, who said that the two of them left the encirclement with Yakov, but Yakov fell behind, said that his boots were rubbing and ordered the fighter to move on, and he would catch up. Lopuridze never saw Yakov again.
And a few days later the Germans spread the news - Senior Lieutenant Dzhugashvili was in their captivity.
This is the official version. There is also an alternative truth, but more on that later.
After the first interrogations, Yakov was transferred to a camp in Hammelburg (Bavaria), from there in the spring of 1942 he was sent to a prisoner camp of the Polish army near Lubeck, and then in January 1943 he ended up in the famous Sachsenhausen, where at various times quite famous prisoners like Stepan were kept Bandera for example.

The most famous “captive” photograph of Yakov Dzhugashvili

Galina herself received help from a certain Chinese company until the end of her life (the Chinese still greatly respect Stalin) and died in 2007 from a heart attack.
Evgeny Dzhugashvili, whom his relatives themselves did not recognize as Yakov’s son, is still very active. A former colonel of the Soviet army, he constantly appears on TV screens as the main defender of the personality of I.V. Stalin, always suing someone and generally promoting himself. Knowing this is the fate of a person. Although he may simply see this as his goal in life.

Evgeny Golyshev (Dzhugashvili) in his youth

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