Sergey Khrushchev. My father wanted to touch a rockefeller Sergey Nikitovich Khrushchev
The only son of Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei Khrushchev, professor emeritus at Brown University in the United States, today is mainly engaged in what his dad did - the Cold War. With the difference that the son is fascinated by her scientifically - as history. For the past two decades, Sergei Nikitovich, who has been living in the United States, has recently presented his new book, Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower, to the readers' judgment.
Sergei was 20 years old when his father came to power. He studied, then worked as an engineer, later became the director of the institute, was engaged in rocket science and cybernetics. He traveled a lot with his father and was, as a rule, a tacit witness to historical events in Russia and in the world. Izvestia correspondent Alla BORISOVA spoke with Sergei KHRUSHCHOV at the University of Illinois, where he presented his book.
- Don't you think that the times of the Cold War can return? For example, aggressive intonations in the press are sometimes reminiscent of the old days.
I do not think. What is the Cold War? It was driven by two ideologies that no longer exist. After all, then the world had to be divided. And today Russia has a different budget. The Cold War was a strange time of transition from war to understanding how to live without fighting. When I arrived in the United States in 1991, I realized - yes, we were different civilizations and did not understand each other at all. But ... how close we were ideologically. We had a fear of each other, but there was no desire to start a war.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia was a weak country. We have grown stronger, grown into a superpower. And until Stalin's death, they lived in fear that America would start a war - this was the syndrome of the first German attacks in 1941. Like Pearl Harbor for Americans. I know people who laid down their lives waiting for the American invasion from Alaska. Tupolev honestly told Stalin at one time that he would not be able to build a missile that would reach America and would not be intercepted. But there was a man who said: "But I can." And the work began, the money went ... Stalin died. And my father was told that the rocket could reach America.
- Did your father ever think that war was possible?
My father sincerely believed that we would soon have a wonderful life, much better than in the United States. And then why fight? He wanted to invest in the economy, agriculture. What kind of war was there when the Russian economy was 1/3 of the American ...
Yes, and we began to build relations with the United States just in the 60s. We finally saw each other. The same faces, the same eyes ... My father, I remember, was introduced to Rockefeller, and he was simply amazed. Everyone said: "Wow, it looks just like us!" And he even wanted to touch him.
- Did he and Eisenhower understand each other well?
Absolutely! Both could not even hear about the war. And all the time they discussed how to behave with the military, who were in the USSR or in the USA all the time asking for money.
What is propaganda
- You had to travel a lot with your father. Never wanted to correct him, somehow influence?
I was 20 years old then ... Still, there is a difference in age. In public, I never objected to my father, but then we walked and talked a lot.
- Was he strict?
No, he was a very gentle person, he loved people, but, you know, when you hold such a post, you don't always like it when people object to you. Sometimes they argued until they were hoarse. About Lysenko, for example. I tried to prove that genetics existed, and he was convinced that his advisers knew better that it could not be. Then he almost kicked me out of the house.
- But how many curiosities we know! For example, while visiting the Prime Minister of Great Britain, standing by the fireplace and talking with the Prime Minister's wife, he said (you yourself told at the lecture): “Do you know how many missiles are needed to destroy your entire island? ... And we can do it! ".
Well, then I realized that this is also such a technique of diplomacy. And by the way, this conversation later played a role.
- And the famous story of the boot at the UN?
Do you know what is the most interesting? Now I’ll explain to you what propaganda is. Have you seen with your own eyes how Khrushchev banged his boot on the table at the UN? No? And nobody saw. Because it didn't happen. I can tell you what happened. A routine meeting is in progress. At some point, journalists surrounded his father, and someone stepped on his foot. The boot fell off. But he was a complete man and did not bend over. I put my shoe on the table next to it. And at some point he wanted to intervene in the discussion. Started waving this boot, drawing attention. That's all. But what is interesting: my London publisher asked me to find this historic shoe, I found a pair in which he left for the USA at that time, and gave it away. And then it suddenly turned out that this was the wrong shoe. The picture is different. It turns out that it was hot in New York then, and they bought him some sandals, probably American ones. Here he was in them. (Sergei Nikitovich, apparently, is still talking about another episode here. There is newsreel footage in which Nikita Khrushchev just knocks his boot in the UN meeting room. - Izvestia's note)
- And where are they now?
Rotted away. The son was digging in them in the courtyard of the house, well, somewhere they are in the ground ...
Returning to Lenin's precepts?
- How did your American path develop?
From a certain moment I became interested in what was happening in the country and in the world. He took a leave of absence at the institute and wrote the book "Pensioner of Union Significance". And I was invited to a conference at Harvard. It was 89, and the KGB did not want to release me even for a week. They managed to leave through Gorbachev. And then I received an invitation from the Kennedy Institute as an honorary fellow. And then I did not know English, looked into the dictionary and saw that fellow is a friend. Understood nothing, of course. And only later, when I arrived, I saw that the apartment, office, salary was already ready. I worked there for a semester. I had no intention of living in the USA. But the affairs of our ministry fell apart, and I stayed.
- Returning to your memories of your father ... What period seems the most interesting to you?
You know, he was an addicted person, and every period was interesting to him. Take, for example, decentralization. He began to prepare this reform, and if it succeeded, we would have market relations much earlier. They usually say to me: "No, he couldn't have done it." Not sure. Yes, he was a staunch communist, but he could, say, declare: "We are returning to Lenin's precepts." And everything is all right. After all, he was actively looking, thinking what to do. I climbed, for example, into the mines in Yugoslavia, everyone tried to understand what kind of democratic socialism this is. After all, he tried to turn the party leadership into modern managers.
“But he wouldn't change the system.
What is a system? It's not about the name, it's about the system should work better. It is difficult to conjecture a failed reform, but maybe in the 70s we would have overtaken America with our oil and economic reform?
- History does not tolerate the subjunctive mood.
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Biography
The son of the famous politician Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei, was born and raised in Moscow. At the age of 6, he suffered an injury: a fracture of the hip joint, as a result of which a plaster cast was applied. He survived such a terrible disease as tuberculosis. His parents raised him well, but strictly, so it is not surprising that the boy grew up obedient and disciplined. From childhood he was taught to honor and respect elders and, in spite of everything, in any situation "to remain human."
The long years of upbringing did not pass without a trace, all the good that was invested in the development of his personality had a favorable effect on education, future profession and the attitude of people towards him in general. Sergey Khrushchev has several higher educations, he is a great, honored person, the pride of his parents.
Currently, Khrushchev's son, Sergei, is a Soviet and American scientist, publicist, and professor. He defended his doctoral dissertation (Doctor of Technical Sciences). He is a lecturer at the Brown Institute in the United States. Despite the fact that he lives most of his life in America, he is an ardent supporter and patriot of Russia.
Personal life
It is difficult to find a lot of information about the personal life of Sergei Nikitich. But I still managed to find out something. Sergei Khrushchev had three wives. From the first, named Galina, he divorced a long time ago, there were no children. Immediately after the divorce, he announced that he had a beloved woman in Dushanbe. Her name is Olga. After several dates, the man took Olga to Moscow and invited her to live in a civil marriage. The woman gave birth to two children - a boy and a girl. But after several years of marriage, the couple divorced, and Sergei Nikitich married again, this time officially, to his ex-wife's friend, Valentina Nikolaevna, with whom she now lives in the United States. Valentina gave her husband two sons. The wife loves to cook, is engaged in baking, and in her free time she reprints Sergey Nikitich's articles.
His eldest son, Nikita, a journalist and editor of Moskovskiye Novosti, unfortunately died. The youngest son, Sergei, lives in Moscow. Nothing is said about his personal life in the biography of Sergei Khrushchev.
Reviews about Stalin
From an interview with Sergei Khrushchev, we managed to find out that he loved his father very much, always respected and listened to his opinion. Even now, when it comes to Nikita Sergeevich, the son always remembers him with warmth. In one of the television programs, Sergei Nikitich spoke out in defense of his father, sharing his thoughts and reviews about Joseph Stalin and his activities.
He also shared with the audience the story of how Sergei's father, Nikita Khrushchev, had a rest while visiting Stalin during his vacation. Sergei himself saw the "leader of the peoples" only once, at a demonstration.
Father was given his first leave, and immediately Stalin called him and invited him to talk, chat, have a good time in Sochi. Nikita Sergeevich wanted to take his wife, Sergei's mother with him, but Stalin did not want to hear about this. Khrushchev and Stalin lived together, and my mother lived separately. So it could be called a purely specific, official vacation. Stalin wanted to see only those close to him.
Son about father
Sergey Khrushchev is a wonderful, bright-hearted person, very open and reliable. His outlook on life is practical. He deals with history, gathers facts and analyzes them. In many ways, he justifies and supports his father, his political activities. Sometimes, however, there were cases when he criticized him and even argued with him on certain issues.
Sergei Nikitich wrote a trilogy book "The Reformer" about his father. It tells about the reforms taking place year after year in the country, about radical economic restructuring, about changes in education, science and culture, about bright victories and defeats, about the return of tens of thousands of exiled from the camps to their homeland - this is the merit of Nikita Khrushchev. All eleven years that he was in power are described in this interesting book. Since it was not easy for Sergei Khrushchev to find access to reliable information from the last century, he combined the writing of the essay with his memories, thoughts, and outlook on life.
Khrushchev about Putin
Sergei Nikitich has his own opinion on the policy of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. It cannot be said that he supports his policy and the specifics of governing the country. Rather, the opposite is true.
He believes that his term of office expired back in 2008. And if he left on time, he would be considered a normal leader. Sergei Nikitich does not know what the future holds for Ukraine, Russia and America. He only makes assumptions.
He deeply regrets the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now, as he says, things could have turned out quite differently and, most likely, for the better. Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev is a great man, his father could now admire and be proud of him.
Former in the 50-60s of the twentieth century, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Scientist and publicist, areas of research interests - the design of space systems and political science. Professor at Brown University in the USA, works there at the Institute for International Studies.
Childhood and youth
Sergei Khrushchev was born in Moscow on July 2, 1935. The third wife of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Nina Kukharchuk, became Sergei's mother. She was known for being the first among the spouses of Soviet leaders to officially accompany her husband at receptions and on trips abroad.
Nikita Khrushchev and Nina Kukharchuk, parents of Sergei Khrushchev in their youth
In addition to his son Sergei, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev had three daughters from this marriage. The first died in early childhood, the second daughter named Rada worked in the magazine "Science and Life" and was married to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Izvestia" Alexei Adzhubei. The third sister of Sergei Khrushchev was called Elena, and she, like her brother, was engaged in science.
The Khrushchev family lived mainly in Moscow - on Lenin Hills (now Vorobyovy Gory) and in the Government House on Granovsky Street, as well as for some time in Kiev and in the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara). After the resignation of Nikita Sergeevich, the family moved to the dacha in Zhukovka.
At the age of six, Sergei was hospitalized with a fracture of the hip joint and wore a plaster cast for a year. The boy studied in Moscow at school number 110, which he graduated in 1952 with a gold medal. In the same year, Sergei entered the Moscow Power Engineering Institute at the Faculty of Electrovacuum Engineering and Special Instrumentation, from which he graduated in 1958.
Career
In the 1960s, Sergei Khrushchev worked in the rocket and space industry. He developed landing systems for launch vehicles and spacecraft, created projects for ballistic and cruise missiles. He held the post of deputy director of the Electromash research and production association in Moscow and the post of professor at the Bauman Higher Technical School.
In the early 1990s, the state stopped funding research projects, which is why Sergei decided to leave rocketry and change his field of activity. Teaching history became a new area of his interests. In search of a place in life, Khrushchev turned his gaze towards the United States.
Sergey was invited to the United States in 1991. There he was to give a course of lectures on the history of the Cold War at Brown University. Khrushchev was supposed to spend a year in the United States and return, but he chose to stay there forever. Sergei received a permanent residence permit in 1993, with the support of presidents and.
In 1999 he received US citizenship. He lectured on the political and economic reforms carried out in Russia at that time, on Soviet-American relations in the 50-60s of the twentieth century and on the reforms of his father in the field of politics, economics and international security.
Sergei Khrushchev was supposed to go to Havana as part of an American delegation to participate in a conference on the Cuban missile crisis. But as a result, he, the only member of the delegation, was denied a Cuban visa, which Sergei mentioned in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper in 2003.
Sergey Khrushchev is also known as one of the authors of the script for the political detective "Gray Wolves", released in 1993. The film tells about a conspiracy against Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, organized to remove him from the post of First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. During the work on the script, real dialogues were used, the records of which were preserved in the archives of the KGB.
According to the recollections of one of the organizers of the conspiracy, Vladimir Semichastny, Sergei Khrushchev was directly involved in what was happening. It was to him that the guard of one of the participants in the conspiracy turned, who overheard the conversation of his boss and tried to convey information about what was happening to the circle of Khrushchev. At first, the guard tried to get out to the daughter of Khrushchev and her husband, Soviet journalist Alexei Adzhubei, but they considered this story a provocation.
Sergey Khrushchev, son of Nikita Khrushchev In contrast, Sergei Khrushchev took the report of the conspiracy seriously and passed it on to his father. However, Nikita Sergeevich did not believe that his position as the leader of the state was in danger, and did not consider the participants in the conspiracy named by Sergei to be opponents who were really worth paying attention to.
During his life, Sergei Khrushchev gave several interviews to various publications, including a Ukrainian journalist and writer, editor-in-chief of the Gordon Boulevard newspaper. In 2010, these interviews were published under the same cover in Dmitry's book "Son for Father".
Personal life
Sergei Khrushchev was married three times. In his youth, he married Galina Shumova, who bore him two sons. The eldest, Nikita Khrushchev, was born in 1959, and the youngest, Sergei, in 1974. Nikita worked at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of System Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he became a journalist and editor of the Moscow News newspaper. He was in a tense relationship with his father and became even more distant from him after Sergei moved to the United States with his new wife. Nikita himself lived in Moscow, where he died in 2007. The youngest son Sergei also lives in the capital. From him a grandson Dmitry appeared in a publicist in 1994.
Sergey Khrushchev divorced his first wife when the eldest son was 17 years old, and the youngest was only two years old. Immediately after the official parting with Galina Shumova, the scientist admitted that he had a mistress - a certain Olga Kreydik from Dushanbe. This woman, along with two children, moved to Khrushchev in Moscow and lived with him for a while in marriage, but then they divorced. Sergei had an affair with his second wife's best friend, Valentina Golenko. Khrushchev married her for the third time, and later the couple moved to the United States together.
Sergey Khrushchev now
Now Khrushchev's son continues to live in Providence, USA, and work at Brown University. Sergei writes books about the reforms of his father, about the historical events of the Soviet era, which he himself witnessed. In the books, the author gives his own assessment of the events described.
In 2018, Sergei Khrushchev starred in the program "Visiting Dmitry Gordon", where he talked about his inner circle, the life of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev and his impressions of modern Kiev. In 2017, in an interview with the Ukrainian TV channel 112.ua, Sergey Khrushchev shared his thoughts on the reasons for the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine:
"My father gave Crimea to Ukraine, because if you look at the map, Crimea will be" tied "to Ukraine, and when they began to deal with the economy there and, most importantly, to build the canal that has now, unfortunately, been buried, the State Planning Commission said that it is better if it will be built under one legal entity, and transferred to Ukraine, just as many regions were transferred. "
Bibliography
- 1990 - Sergei Khrushchev. Khrushchev on Khrushchev - An Inside Account of the Man and His Era, by His Son, Sergei Khrushchev
- 1991 - Khrushchev S. N. Pensioner of Union significance
- 2000 - Sergei Khrushchev. Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower
- 2003 - Khrushchev S. N. The birth of a superpower: A book about his father
- 2006 - Sergei Khrushchev. Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945-1964
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Sergey Nikitich Khrushchev(born July 2) - Soviet and Russian scientist, publicist. The son of the former First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev. Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor. Hero of Socialist Labor ().
Biography
Sergey Nikitich Khrushchev was born on July 2, 1935 in Moscow. At the age of 6, he suffered a fracture of the hip joint, spent a year in a cast. In 1952 he graduated from the Moscow school number 110 with a gold medal.
In the summer of 1952 he entered the Faculty of Electrovacuum Engineering and Special Instrumentation at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute with a degree in Automatic Control Systems. He recalled that the main role in his decision to go to study at the MPEI was played by his former rector, Malenkov's wife Valeria Golubtsova.
With his first wife - Galina Shumova - divorced. The second wife, Valentina Nikolaevna Golenko, lives with Sergei Nikitich in the USA. The eldest son Nikita, a journalist and editor of Moskovskiye Novosti, died on February 22, 2007 in Moscow. The youngest son Sergei lives in Moscow.
Publicistic activity
After the resignation of NS Khrushchev, he edited the book of his father's memoirs and sent it for publication abroad. Was under the supervision of the special services.
Later he released a number of his own books with memories of historical events, which he witnessed, and with his own balanced assessment of what was happening: "Pensioner of Union significance", "The birth of a superpower." In his works, he adheres to a clear anti-Stalinist position. He is currently working on books about "Khrushchev's reforms." The books have been translated into 12 foreign languages. One of the screenwriters of the film "Gray Wolves" (Mosfilm, 1993).
In 2010, a book by Ukrainian writer and journalist Dmitry Gordon "Son for Father" was published, which contains all the author's interviews with Sergei Khrushchev.
Major works
- Khrushchev S.N. A pensioner of federal significance. - M .: News, 1991 .-- 416 pages - ISBN 5-7020-0095-1
- Khrushchev S.N. The Birth of a Superpower: A Book about a Father. - M .: Vremya, 2003 .-- 672 pages - ISBN 5-94117-097-1
- Sergei Khrushchev. Khrushchev on Khrushchev - An Inside Account of the Man and His Era, by His Son, Sergei Khrushchev, Verlag Little, Brown and Company, 1990, ISBN 0-316-49194-2
- Sergei Khrushchev. Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-271-01927-1
- Sergei Khrushchev. Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945-1964, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-271-02861-0
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Literature
- Vladimir Skachko. Payment for Sovietism. The children and grandchildren of the leaders ignored the cause of their fathers and grandfathers. // "Kiev Telegraph". No. 27-29.
- Dmitry Gordon. A son for a father. Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev about his father, Stalin, time and himself. - Kiev: Shili Dnipra, 2010. - ISBN 978-966-8881-13-8
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Links
- Interview to the information agency CCI-INFORM 09/12/2013
- Interview to the information agency CCI-INFORM 09/11/2013
- Interview to the information agency CCI-INFORM 09/10/2013
- Interview to the newspaper "Segodnya", Ukraine, 18.06.2009
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Sonya, as red as red kumach, also held on to his hand and was all beaming in a blissful gaze fixed on his eyes, which she was waiting for. Sonya is already 16 years old, and she was very beautiful, especially at this moment of happy, enthusiastic revival. She looked at him, not taking her eyes off, smiling and holding her breath. He glanced at her gratefully; but still waiting and looking for someone. The old countess hadn't come out yet. And then footsteps were heard in the doorway. The steps were so fast that they couldn't have been his mother’s steps.But it was she in a new dress, still unknown to him, sewn without him. Everyone left him, and he ran to her. When they met, she fell on his chest sobbing. She could not raise her face and only pressed him to the cold cords of his Hungarian woman. Denisov, unnoticed by anyone, entered the room, stood there and, looking at them, rubbed his eyes.
“Vasily Denisov, a friend of your son,” he said, recommending himself to the count, who was looking at him inquiringly.
- Welcome. I know, I know, ”said the count, kissing and embracing Denisov. - Nikolushka wrote ... Natasha, Vera, here he is Denisov.
The same happy, enthusiastic faces turned to the furry figure of Denisov and surrounded him.
- Darling, Denisov! - Natasha squealed, not remembering herself with delight, jumped up to him, hugged and kissed him. Everyone was embarrassed by Natasha's act. Denisov also blushed, but smiled and took Natasha's hand and kissed her.
Denisov was taken to a room prepared for him, and the Rostovs all gathered in the sofa near Nikolushka.
The old countess, not letting go of his hand, which she kissed every minute, sat next to him; the rest, crowding around them, caught his every movement, word, glance, and did not take his eyes from him, enthusiastically in love. Brother and sisters argued and took seats from each other closer to him, and fought over who to bring him tea, a handkerchief, a pipe.
Rostov was very happy with the love that was shown to him; but the first minute of his meeting was so blessed that his present happiness seemed to him little, and he was still waiting for something else, and more, and more.
The next morning, the visitors slept from the road until 10 o'clock.
In the previous room lay sabers, bags, tashki, open suitcases, dirty boots. The cleaned two pairs with spurs have just been placed against the wall. Servants brought washstands, hot shaving water, and cleaned dresses. It smelled of tobacco and men.
- Hey, G "ishka, t" ubku! - Vaska Denisov's hoarse voice shouted. - Rostov, get up!
Rostov, rubbing his sticking eyes, raised his tangled head from the hot pillow.
- What's late? - It's late, 10 o'clock, - Natasha's voice answered, and in the next room there was heard the rustle of starched dresses, the whisper and laughter of girlish voices, and something blue, ribbons, black hair and cheerful faces flashed through the slightly opened door. It was Natasha with Sonya and Petya, who had come to visit, didn’t get up.
- Nikolenka, get up! - again Natasha's voice was heard at the door.
- Now!
At this time, Petya, in the first room, seeing and grabbing the sabers, and experiencing the delight that the boys feel at the sight of the warlike elder brother, and forgetting that it was indecent for the sisters to see naked men, opened the door.
- Is that your saber? He shouted. The girls jumped back. With frightened eyes, Denisov hid his shaggy legs in the blanket, looking back at his comrade for help. Petya passed the door and closed again. Laughter was heard outside the door.
“Nikolenka, come out in a dressing gown,” said Natasha's voice.
- Is that your saber? - asked Petya, - or is it yours? - With obsequious respect he turned to the mustachioed, black Denisov.
Rostov hurriedly put on his shoes, put on his dressing gown and went out. Natasha put on one boot with a spur and climbed into the other. Sonya was spinning and was just about to inflate her dress and sit down when he came out. Both were in the same, brand new, blue dresses - fresh, ruddy, cheerful. Sonya ran away, and Natasha, taking her brother by the arm, led him into the sofa, and they began a conversation. They did not have time to ask each other and answer questions about thousands of little things that could only interest them. Natasha laughed at every word that he said and that she said, not because what they were saying was funny, but because she was having fun and was unable to restrain her joy, which was expressed in laughter.
- Oh, how good, great! - she condemned to everything. Rostov felt that, under the influence of the hot rays of love, for the first time after a year and a half, that childish smile with which he had never smiled since he left home was blossoming on his soul and face.
“No, listen,” she said, “are you quite a man now? I am awfully glad that you are my brother. She touched his mustache. - I want to know what kind of men you are? Are we like us? No?
- Why did Sonya run away? - asked Rostov.
- Yes. This is a whole story! How are you going to talk to Sonya? Are you or are you?
“How will it happen,” said Rostov.
- Tell her you, please, I'll tell you later.
- What is it?
- Well, I'll tell you now. You know that Sonya is my friend, such a friend that I will burn my hand for her. Look here. - She rolled up her muslin sleeve and showed a red mark on her long, thin and delicate arm under her shoulder, far above the elbow (in the place that is also covered by ball gowns).
“I burned it to prove my love to her. I just kindled the ruler on the fire, and pressed it.
Sitting in his old classroom, on a sofa with cushions on handles, and looking into those desperately animated eyes of Natasha, Rostov again entered that family, childish world that had no meaning for anyone but him, but which gave him some of the best pleasures in life; and burning his hand with a ruler, to show love, did not seem useless to him: he understood and was not surprised at this.
- So what? only? - he asked.
- Well, so friendly, so friendly! This is nonsense - with a ruler; but we are forever friends. She loves whom, so forever; but I do not understand this, I will forget now.
- Well, what then?
- Yes, so she loves me and you. - Natasha suddenly blushed, - well, do you remember, before leaving ... So she says that you forget it all ... She said: I will always love him, and let him be free. After all, it is true that this is excellent, noble! - Yes Yes? very noble? Yes? Natasha asked so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what she was saying now she had previously said with tears.
Rostov pondered.
“I’m not taking back my word in anything,” he said. - And besides, Sonya is so lovely that what kind of fool would give up his happiness?
Sergey Nikitich Khrushchev was born on July 2, 1935 in Moscow. At the age of 6 he suffered tuberculosis of the hip joint, spent a year in a cast. In 1952 he graduated from the Moscow school number 110 with a gold medal. In 1958 he graduated from the Faculty of Electrovacuum Engineering and Special Instrumentation at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
In 1958-1968 he worked at the Chelomey Design Bureau as deputy head of the department, developed projects for cruise and ballistic missiles, participated in the creation of spacecraft landing systems, the Proton launch vehicle. Doctor of Technical Sciences. He was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, became a laureate of the Lenin Prize, the Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Member of several international academies.
Subsequently, he worked as Deputy Director of the Institute of Electronic Control Machines (INEUM), Deputy General Director of NPO Elektronmash. In Moscow he lived in Starokonyushenny lane, then in a mansion on the Lenin Hills.
In 1991 SN Khrushchev was invited to Brown University (USA) to lecture on the history of the Cold War. Remained permanently in the United States, currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island, has Russian and American (since 1999) citizenship. He is a professor at the Thomas Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
With his first wife - Galina Shumova - divorced. The second wife, Valentina Nikolaevna Golenko, lives with Sergei Nikitich in the USA. The eldest son Nikita died on February 22, 2007 in Moscow. The youngest son Sergei lives in Moscow.
Publicistic activity
After the resignation of NS Khrushchev, he edited the book of his father's memoirs and sent it for publication abroad. Was under the supervision of the special services.
Later he released a number of his own books with memories of historical events, which he witnessed, and with his own balanced assessment of what was happening: "Pensioner of Union significance", "The birth of a superpower", "Son for a father." In his works, he adheres to a clear anti-Stalinist position. He is currently working on books about the "Khrushchev" reforms. The books have been translated into 12 foreign languages. One of the screenwriters of the film "Gray Wolves" (Mosfilm, 1993).
Major works
- Khrushchev S. N. Pensioner of Union significance. Publishing house "Novosti", 1991.416 pp. ISBN 5-7020-0095-1
- Khrushchev SN The birth of a superpower: A book about the father. Ed. "Time", 2003. 672 pp. ISBN 5-94117-097-1.
- Sergei Khrushchev, Khrushchev on Khrushchev - An Inside Account of the Man and His Era, by His Son, Sergei Khrushchev, Verlag Little, Brown and Company, 1990, ISBN 0-316-49194-2
- Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-271-01927-1
- Sergei Khrushchev, Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945-1964, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-271-02861-0
