Screenwriters and writers, who in different years tried to profit from the theme of Brezhnev’s adultery, gradually blinded him into the mass consciousness of a pathological erotomaniac, whose life consisted of a permanent desire to seduce another woman. Of course, this is nonsense.
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Yes, there was a military field affair with the doctor Tamara Laverchenko, because of which, following the war, he almost divorced his wife. After demobilization, there was also a connection with the soloist of the Sochi Philharmonic Anna Shalfeeva: the lovers met in the resort town when Leonid came there without his family. Many years later, Anna, who huddled in her old age in a communal apartment, sent him a letter in which she enclosed their joint photo, and immediately received a two-room apartment on the street. Ordzhonikidze.
By the way, military doctor Tamara Mikhailovna Laverchenko also got luxurious apartments following the war, but already in the capital. Although there is no evidence of Brezhnev’s involvement in this, except for the memoirs of his niece, who lives in the USA.
Once at the Politburo, Nikita Khrushchev joked:
– Look at Leonid – not only is he handsome, a thunderstorm of women … And how people love him! They will follow him into fire and water …
This image – “handsome, a thunderstorm of women” – and migrated to films regarding the leader. Although he had no more women than any average man.
There was talk regarding the passion of the 60-year-old general secretary with a slender blonde named Maria. She commanded the servants in the residence in Zarechye, which was listed as object No. 1. The entire staff of this three-story dacha in the Moscow suburbs, from the gardener to the maid, consisted of KGB officers, i.e. Maria wore epaulettes no lower than the Major’s. The granddaughter of Secretary General Vika, of course, did not hold a candle, but 20 years later, in the editorial office of Express Newspaper, she did not deny that the 30-year-old officer might well give in to her grandfather’s persistent courtship. At least for career reasons.
– Maria accompanied grandfather on his trips, helped in personal matters. He took her with him to hunt in Zavidovo. That is, there were many opportunities to remain alone. But my grandmother pretended not to see anything, – Victoria Brezhneva said in an interview.
The Western press also wrote regarding Brezhnev’s passion for the daughter of the leader of Bulgaria, Todor Zhivkov, but this, perhaps, is not even worth commenting on.
And finally, the sensational story regarding his “last love” – personal nurse Nina Korovyakina. This lady in the series was portrayed by Maria Shukshina.
“Proximity to Brezhnev brought her many benefits,” recalled the legendary Professor Chazov, “a three-room apartment in one of the houses of the Central Committee of the CPSU, material well-being, a quick rise from captain to general of her husband, who was close in all respects.
However, the famous photographer Vladimir Musaelyan, who was friends with our bild editor Anna Semyonovna Itenberg, said that in the last years of his life, Leonid Ilyich had no time for intimacy. From the word “absolutely”. Nevertheless, the authorities out of harm’s way, by deceit, transferred Korovyakina to another place of work.
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