Could there have been a different biography of Galina Brezhneva?

On the television screen, an elderly ugly woman with a stumbling voice demands to pour her more. No one expresses objections, from somewhere the bottle appears, apparently not the first one. There are shooting interviews for British television.

The general theme of the program is "Galina Brezhneva, biography". The children of Yevgeny Milyaev, the ex-husband of the daughter of the late general secretary and chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council, brought the English to their adoptive mother (she always treated them like relatives) and already cheerfully calculated the fee due to them. Pour began right from the morning, long before the filming began, and by the time the cameras were installed and turned on, the goal was achieved. The interview turned out well.

The biography of Galina Brezhneva undoubtedly deserves to be recognized by millions of people. She was born in 1929, entered the Dnepropetrovsk Pedagogical Institute, then the family of a high-ranking party worker moved to Chisinau, where the father headed the Communist Party of the Moldavian SSR. But there was a war, and problems in the family relations between the parents, and not less in the upbringing of the daughter.

About the son of Leonid Ilyich, Yuri, today they rarely remember, and it is not surprising. With his life there are no scandals, he, having received (for obvious reasons) a good position in the foreign trade, worked well and achieved much in his post. In general, for British television, he had no interest. Another thing is the daughter of the secretary general.

In Chisinau, the biography of Galina Brezhneva has already begun to be filled with facts that are different from the life path of the majority of her contemporaries. She studied at the university, but refused to join the Komsomol. L.I. Brezhnev even came to the school and asked other students to somehow influence the daughter, take her with him to all sorts of gatherings, dances and other activities that the Soviet youth were keen on. The exhortations were not crowned with success.

But at the age of 22, the biography of Galina Brezhnev was supplemented with the first significant act, she escaped with the circus tent. This was reminiscent of the act of a princess from a fairy tale about the Bremen musicians, her elect was a middle-aged actor, a widower with two children, the strongman Milaev.

She was beautiful, slim, gay, witty and absolutely not afraid of problems that could arise as a result of this desperate act. In the circus troupe Galina was engaged in business. She worked as a dresser and, of course, did everything that is necessary for a caring wife: she washed, cleaned, cooked and brought up children. Then the couple had a daughter, who was named Victoria.

We can assume that the relationship with her husband was based on sincere and devoted love, and who knows how the biography of Galina Brezhneva would have developed, if not for his betrayal. There was no forgiveness, followed by a divorce.

It is difficult to judge the daughter of the head of a powerful country for having felt permissiveness, becoming a free woman. Reckless deeds, a new marriage (also with a circus, eighteen-year-old Igor Kio), soon annulled, numerous novels. Among the lovers of the "Kremlin Princess" were famous journalists and artists, all as a selection of interesting people, intellectuals, but personal life did not want to evolve.

Handsome and on all sides, the positive lieutenant colonel of the militia, Yuri Churbanov, became the secretary-general's son-in-law, after which, after leaving prison, he confessed with sincere repentance. He liked the mighty father-in-law, but he did not live up to expectations. Galina Brezhneva also talked about the fact that her husband's surname corresponded to his relationship to married life.

Her biography after her father's death in 1982 began to resemble a slope on a car without brakes with faulty steering. Most of the "friends" were hangers-on, exceptions were units. Among the faithful comrades, Iosif Kobzon stood out, whose attitude to Galina did not change after she fell into disgrace. Ilya Glazunov, an artist, and several other real friends, who helped the deceased head of state, who was humiliated and deprived of all the benefits and benefits, were touching. Then there was a special medical institution, where the mother had identified her own daughter. During her tutelage, she solved all material problems, having ordered an apartment on Kutuzovsky and a dacha on Rublyovka.

Everything ended in 1998. Galina Leonidovna Brezhneva is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery next to her mother, under a modest granite slab with an Orthodox cross.