Galina Aleksandrovna Zhukova: biography and photos

Today they write a lot about the Great Patriotic War. Most of the memoirs feature the name of the Marshal of Victory - Georgy Zhukov. In memory of his second wife, who was called Galina Aleksandrovna Zhukova, this article is devoted.

Beautiful girl named Galina

Galina was born in 1926 in Saratov. From childhood I dreamed about the profession of a doctor. Despite the fact that her youth was seared by the war, she was able to realize what she wanted. I entered the medical institute. She received a higher medical education and became a military doctor, since at that time such specialists in the field of medicine were required.

The military service threw Galina into the city of Sverdlovsk, which was far from her. However, the young girl did not know that it was in this city that she would meet her fate.

Galina in her youth was pretty, young people looked at her, but the girl was decorated not only by her appearance, but also by modesty. And after the war of the peers there was not much left, too terrible was the war, many young people never returned home, did not create their own families, did not have children. And the girls longed for one and only.

Unusual encounter

Galina Alexandrovna Zhukova (Semenova) met her future husband in Sverdlovsk, where she served as a military doctor. It happened in the distant 1950. Five years have passed since Marshal Zhukov, on a white horse, led the Victory Parade. Now the great military commander himself fell into disgrace. He could no longer stay in Moscow, fate threw him into the big cities of the Soviet province.

The famous marshal, then commander of the Ural Military District, was hospitalized in 1950 with a microinfarction. Zhukov was fascinated by a young woman doctor Galina Semenova, who accidentally saw in the hospital. Between them at once there were kind friendly relations which have passed to strong love affection.

By the way, it was an unusual couple. Zhukov was older than Galina for 30 years, but this did not stop the lovers from feeling infinitely happy. Indeed, love can transform us.

First difficulties

However, immediately became a wife in love with her marshal Galina Aleksandrovna Zhukova could not. The thing is that for many years Georgy Zhukov lived in a civil marriage with Alexandra Zuykova, from whom he had several children.

His civil wife, generally accustomed to the fact that her husband was known as a well-known ladies' man, this time made every effort to keep the marshal near him. As a result of a long struggle, it was Alexandra who forced Zhukov to marry her. This event happened already when Zhukov and Galina were familiar with each other and planned a joint family life.

It would seem that for Galina this should be a point in their relationship with Zhukov, but the marshal himself did not even want to hear about a possible break in relations.

He achieved that his beloved was transferred to Moscow, to the hospital named after Burdenko. I was able to help Galina and her mother in getting an apartment. The novel of the marshal and the young military doctor continued with renewed vigor, despite the fact that external circumstances contributed more to the rupture of their relations.

The birth of a daughter and hard tests

The joyful event of 1957 was the birth of the last daughter of Zhukov Maria. Galina Aleksandrovna Zhukova at that time was not yet officially married to her future husband.

Zhukov had to live in two families. This uneasy marital status of the well-known marshal in the USSR caused malicious ridicule among those around him. There were also those who aspired to revenge Zhukov for past grievances and write a denunciation that he behaves like a bigamist.

Galina Aleksandrovna Zhukova, being a fair and decent woman, had a hard time surviving the situation around her, because she also had to live in an atmosphere of envy and gossip. However, the birth of her daughter was a real miracle for her, because before that she lost her child.

Wedding

His marriage marshal and Galina were able to register only in 1965. Now everyone knew that Galina Aleksandrovna Zhukova was the wife of Marshal Zhukov, the official and legal one.

However, the very hero of the war, this marriage was expensive. At that time there was a struggle within the Central Committee of the CPSU for the role of the leader of the Soviet state, Zhukov, who occupied the post of Minister of Defense, also had to take part in this struggle. Therefore, he could not solve the questions of his personal life. Only after retiring, the marshal finally married the woman whom he loved with all his heart.

By the way, his first wife did not suffer the betrayal of her husband, tried in every possible way to return him to his family and died after a divorce three years later.

After the wedding, the Zhukovs began to live a quiet and peaceful life. Leaving somewhere on business, the marshal always wrote beautiful sincere letters to his wife, telling her everything he saw. These letters are full of love, tenderness and care.

Tragedy

It would seem that the difference in age between spouses could enable Georgy Konstantinovich to die peacefully in the hands of his beloved wife, but life prepared the last difficult test for the couple.

Galina Aleksandrovna Zhukova, whose biography tells us about her love for her husband, fell ill. The diagnosis was very serious: "breast cancer." Surgery was too late. Marshal, learning about this, he was very worried, which undermined his health.

Doctors vainly fought for the life of a very young woman, but nothing could be done. Zhukova's wife, Galina Aleksandrovna, died of cancer in 1973. She was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Georgiy Konstantinovich was inconsolable, although he did not show his grief to others. He survived his beloved wife only for six months, having died in 1974. The marshal asked him to bury him and his wife, but the USSR leadership decided to bury Zhukov's ashes in the Kremlin wall. The daughter of Maria's spouses is that 1974 was only 17 years old.

Memories of Masha's daughter

Maria Zhukova was the last and the youngest daughter of the marshal. Left at an early age without parents, Maria Georgievna keeps a bright memory of them all her life. It was Maria Zhukova, ten years ago, published a book of memories of her mother and father. In this book the author tells about what his last love meant in Zhukov's life, he quotes the texts of his father's numerous letters to Galina Alexandrovna.

Memories of the daughter of the marshal are permeated with the desire to tell about the most important thing that was in their family: love and mutual respect, which can destroy all obstacles.

His mother Maria Georgievna compares with the image of the doctor, who embodied in her filmmaking Elina Bystritskaya. Zhukova Galina Alexandrovna, whose photo is presented in the article, was a kind and devoted person. To the devotees of their profession, their business. She became the last love of the great Soviet military leader, giving him both his care and his tenderness.