What kind of lover was Beria? Lavrenty Beria: biography, personal life and photos

Beria Lavrenty Pavlovich is a man whose name most adults in our country know. At one time he was one of the leaders of the USSR and at some time claimed the highest post in the state. But it didn't work out. Perhaps this was prevented by Beria's mistresses, who ruined his political career. We will talk about the love adventures of the People's Commissar today.

On our blog there is already an article about prominent figures of the USSR who have connections "on the side". Today's article is devoted to Beria's intimate relationships. A lot has been said about such adventures, and the truth cannot be distinguished from fiction. And this is due to the political activities of Beria. He started it in the Caucasus. He showed himself to be a great enthusiast, managed to curry favor with Stalin, and in 1938 he became People's Commissar of Internal Affairs (headed the state security).

An intelligent leader.

It must be said that during his tenure as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Georgia (1931-1938), the economy of the republic developed at a rapid pace. The oil industry, foreign trade in products of the subtropical climate led to the prosperity of the region.

When in 1938 Lavrenty Pavlovich became the People's Commissar of the NKVD, the Great Terror was raging in the country. With the arrival of Beria to the post of head of state security, the scale of repression decreased: about 170 thousand prisoners were released from the camps. But instead, there was a place for new, 200 thousand people, mainly from Western Belarus and Western Ukraine.

But let's not go deep into politics. According to the testimony of many people, Beria had sexual relations with a large number of women. The exact number of his mistresses is unlikely to be known (unless, of course, these women were indeed mistresses). Adjutant and head of Beria's security, State Security Colonel Rafael Sarkisov specially kept a list of his chief's women.

Beria's mistresses were even students.

The number of surnames in it was 39. In addition to the first list, there was a second - 75 names, and there was a third - 115. Different sources give different data on the number of women in the lists. According to the testimony of the same Sarkisov, Beria had a student of the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​Maya as his mistress. She subsequently became pregnant and had an abortion.

From another girl, about 18-20 years old, Beria had a daughter. However, her name and further fate are unknown. While at the post of the first secretary of the party of Georgia, Lavrenty Pavlovich had sexual intercourse with a certain citizen M., who then gave birth to a child. According to Colonel Sarkisov, he personally delivered him to one of the orphanages in Moscow.

The adjutant also said that a woman named Sophia had an abortion in an army hospital. And in 1943, Beria caught syphilis. And all this is from the words of Colonel Sarkisov.

The connections on the side did not prevent Beria from remaining an exemplary family man - he was married to Nino Gegechkori. He met her in the late 1920s, when he was at party work in Georgia. It so happened that Nino's brother was arrested and she decided to turn to Beria for help.

Acquaintance with my wife.

Beria helped, but as payment for his services, he raped the girl. But he really liked her and later he married her. However, Nino Gegechkori herself presents a different view of their acquaintance.

In her words, Beria did not rape her, although he acted in his own way, without taking into account the wishes of the girl. They had known each other for a couple of months and at one point Lavrenty said that he really liked her and would become his wife. Nino lived with her uncle, she did not have parents and she did not think for a long time. And what could she do - continue to live alone in those harsh years after the civil war?

It is not known exactly who spread the rumor about Beria's rape of his ex-wife. But the date of their acquaintance is indicated incorrectly. The son of the Beria couple, Sergo, was born in 1924. We return to the words of the adjutant Sarkisov.

Beria was not interested in the age of the woman / girl and her position in society. If she was beautiful, she should have been in his bed. Colonel Sarkisov was responsible for supplying mistresses, so to speak. Beria from the car pointed to the person he liked and the Chekist could only approach her and, under some pretext, invite her to the car to the boss.

Sometimes Lavrenty Pavlovich instructed the chief of security to keep an eye on certain ladies, to find out their names, surnames and addresses. Then they were brought to Beria's home. According to Sarkisov, Beria's house soon became known to half of the female population of Moscow.

... and even schoolgirls.

The chief of state security did not disdain the high school girls. Sarkisov personally brought them to him. One ballerina also talked about the love affair with Beria. She lived in Podolsk, there was no place to live in Moscow. Beria helped her get an apartment, in which, in addition to the ballerina, her mother also moved. When asked by the latter: "And who should I thank for such a gift?" Beria joked: "Say thank you to the Soviet government."

In general, ballerinas were not only the weakness of Beria alone, but also of many higher ranks of the 30-50s.

It will not be superfluous to listen to the relatives of Lavrenty Pavlovich. His son Sergo believes that his father, although he was a "womanizer", but not on the scale that is attributed to him. In particular, he confirms that Beria, the eldest, has a daughter (Lavrenty himself told about this). Isn't this the child that Colonel Sarkisov brought to one of the Moscow orphanages? Perhaps.

Let's give the floor to my wife.

And now let's turn to the memories of Beria's wife, Nino Gegechkori. After the execution of her husband, she was arrested and spent some time in exile. In 1990, she gave a short interview about her husband. Nino denies that Beria has mistresses. From her point of view, the situation was as follows.

Lavrenty Pavlovich headed intelligence and counterintelligence during and after the war. He had hundreds and thousands of people under his command. Naturally, there were female agents among this number. And when, after the arrest of Beria, the "purge" among his subordinates began, the women from the state security simply could not say that they were spies, informers: they called themselves his mistresses.

Nino Gegechkori said that her husband had an excellent memory. He kept all his business affairs, news and secrets in his head. For days Beria disappeared at work. He just didn't have time for mistresses. Although, the ex-wife of the once all-powerful man of the country did not ask to rehabilitate Lavrenty Pavlovich in moral terms. Apparently, she did not tell all the secrets.

But we must remember that Beria held a high post, and big politics will definitely intervene here. After Stalin's death in March 1953, Beria took over as Minister of Internal Affairs (from March 5 to June 26 of the same year). At this time, a struggle for power began, in which Khrushchev won.

Who could denigrate Beria and why?

According to the official version, Beria was arrested on June 26, 1953. Subsequently, a trial was held over him and his entourage, after which Lawrence was shot on December 23, 1953. But a number of historians are of the opinion that in fact Beria died at the end of June, during the storming of his house. Then the question arises - who was tried and who was shot?

The topic of sexual crimes in the Beria case stands apart and requires a separate study, because in the minds of our people it is driven in much more firmly than everything else - even his "treason".
To begin with, let's find out the essence of these crimes, in other words, what criminal acts were then included in this chapter of the RSFSR Criminal Code and what was supposed to be done for it.
So the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (ed. 1926), chapter 6.
Art. 150. Infection of another person with a venereal disease by a person who knew that he had this disease - imprisonment for up to three years.
Art. 151. Sexual intercourse with persons who have not reached puberty, coupled with molestation or satisfaction of sexual desire in perverse forms - imprisonment for up to eight years.
Sexual intercourse with persons who have not reached puberty, committed without the indicated aggravating signs, is imprisonment for up to three years.
Art. 153. Sexual intercourse with the use of physical violence, threats, intimidation or using, by deception, the helpless state of the victim (rape) - imprisonment for up to five years.
If the rape resulted in the suicide of the victim or was committed over a person who did not reach sexual maturity, or at least reached it, but several persons - imprisonment for up to eight years.
Art. 154. Forcing a woman to have sexual intercourse or to satisfy sexual desire in another form by a person in relation
of whom the woman was financially or in the service of a dependent - imprisonment for up to five years.
As you can see, the “range” of criminal acts related to infringements on the inviolability of a woman was very wide.
Now it is necessary to establish what Beria was found guilty of from the specified list of crimes. Where can you see it? In the verdict. Looking ahead, let's talk about this document. In the descriptive part of it, where it is a question of the established guilt, we read: “The judicial investigation also established the facts of other criminal acts of Beria, testifying to his deep moral decline.
Being a morally decayed person, Beria cohabited with numerous women, including those associated with foreign intelligence officers ... "
And at the end of the verdict, the conclusion is drawn: "To recognize Beria guilty of committing a crime under Part II of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 4, 1949" On increasing criminal liability for rape. " Beria was not charged with any other crimes related to this topic.
Now, as you can imagine, we need details, or, as practicing lawyers say, “episodes”.
First, I would like to remind you that for half a century there have been so many rumors, fears and stories about this among the people that sometimes it makes you shiver and feel uncomfortable.
In the book by A. Antonov-Ovseenko "Beria" we read: "The court presence was presented with lists of more than two hundred women who became victims of a high-ranking debaucher ..."
In the works of other authors, lists with a different number of women are mentioned. Their number reaches 700. Stories
It is believed that, on Beria's order, the guards seized women who liked him on the street, dragged them into a mansion, where they were subjected to violence and then destroyed. Several novels and memoirs have been written on this occasion. For example, actress T. Okunevskaya says: “A huge park. Almost two-storey palace. Winter Garden. The colonel has disappeared. The maid is different, with lowered eyes contempt. I don't touch anything at the table. He is the same as for the first time, he drinks expensive wines, eats with his hands, giggles, began to get drunk, his eyes are filled with fat ... I am grabbed in my arms, undressed, put on the table .. Resistance is pointless, impossible, humiliating ... If only my heart did not break ... A vile, ugly, fat, swelling toad ... Does not take his eyes off me, crawls on the bed, suffocates from the happiness of the conqueror ... the beast that caught the victim ... he is worn out, otherwise the night was for me would be deadly ... There is still no dawn ... He is here, somewhere nearby, eating, drinking .. "
I will not give other stories. I will say right away that there is indeed a list of women in the materials of the criminal case. It was led by the head of security R. Sarkisov, writing down the names of those who visited Beria in his book. Sarkisov's deputy, Colonel S. Nadaraya, also kept his list. But we are not just interested in the number of women who visited Beria (by the way, T.K. Okunevskaya does not appear in these lists of Sarkisov and Nadaraya: she, apparently, got to Beria without the help of guards), but the women against whom he committed crimes - rape. After all, we are investigating precisely Beria's crimes, and not his moral character.
In the verdict we read:
“The court established that Beria committed rape of women. So, on May 7, 1949, having fraudulently lured into his mansion 16-year-old schoolgirl Drozdova B.C., he raped her ... "
And that's all. This is where crimes of this kind end in the verdict. And where are the other hundreds of those who were raped? Why did the court dwell on only one fact, limiting itself to the framework of only this episode. According to the law, criminal acts of a person must be investigated comprehensively, fully and objectively and, if evidence is available, fully imputed. With
committed, for example, ten thefts. All of them must be investigated both during the investigation and in court. Made ten murders - the same thing. And here it turns out like this - he committed seven hundred rapes, one was written down in the verdict, and the rest were forgotten. Moreover, they not only forgot to write it down, but forgot to investigate even at the stage of preliminary investigation. By the way, the rape of Drozdova has not been investigated at all. This is already a reproach, as you know, to Rudenko and his investigation team. Let's analyze Rudenko's work on this episode based on the documents of the preliminary investigation drawn up with his participation.
According to the materials of the criminal case (volume 6) during the investigation, on July 11, 1953, 20-year-old Valentina Drozdova turned to the USSR Prosecutor General with a statement that four years ago (!) She was raped by Beria. The file contains her own handwritten statement about this. True, it is alarming that this statement has not been registered anywhere, there are no resolutions or other marks on it, she was not warned of criminal liability for knowingly false denunciation (in those years this was also provided). The applicant does not raise the issue of bringing Beria to criminal liability.
Here is the full text of her statement (spelling and style preserved).
“TO THE PROSECUTOR GENERAL S.S.S.R. Comrade RUDENKO
from Drozdova B.C. living on the street. Gorky 8 sq. 82
STATEMENT
After reading Pravda of July 10, 1953 about exposing the enemy of the people Beria, I want to ask you to take into account yet another atrocity that he committed against me 4 years ago. You only now recognized the face of this monster, and I knew already 4 years ago. I lived on the street. Herzen 52 sq. 20 (against the Beria mansion) 29
On March 1949, my grandmother, my mother's mother, suddenly died. Mom lost consciousness and was sent to the hospital. I was left alone under the supervision of neighbors. Once I went to the store for bread on the street. M. Nikitskaya, at that time an old man in pince-nez got out of the car, with him was a colonel in M.G.B.'s uniform, when the old man began to examine me, I was scared and ran away, a man followed me home. The next day, May 7 (? - Author), a colonel came to us, who later turned out to be Sarkisov. Sarkisov, fraudulently under the guise of helping my mother and saving her from death, took me to the house on M. Nikitskaya Street and began to say that his friend, a very great worker and very kind, would save my mother, he loves children very much and helps all the sick. At 5-6 o'clock in the evening, on May 7, 1949, an old man came in pince-nez, that is, Beria, greeted me very kindly, said that there was no need to cry, my mother would be cured and everything would be fine. We were given lunch. I believed that he was a kind person, in such a difficult time for me (my grandmother died and my mother died). I was 16 years old, I was in the 7th grade.
Then Beria grabbed me, carried me to his bedroom and raped me.
It is difficult to describe my state of mind after what happened. For three days I was not allowed out of the house, Sarkisov was sitting for a day, Beria's night.
The enemy of the people of Beria has been exposed. He deprived me of the joy of childhood, youth and all the good things in the life of Soviet youth.
I ask you to take into account, when analyzing all his atrocities, his moral face as a libertine and child-raiser.
Drozdova Valya. July. 1953 "
So, the application has been submitted. There are grounds for initiating a criminal case, as you understand, on this fact. The matter, I must say right away, is not an easy one. Four years have passed. Hundreds of questions arise. And the organization of the investigation of this four-year-old episode is very difficult. In any case, in my investigative practice, there have never been such time "gaps" between the commission of the rape and the statement of the victim. It used to be that the victim will turn to three or four days after the incident, and then questions arise where she used to
was, and in this case, four years have passed. What about examinations, inspection of the scene of the incident, the presence of bodily injuries, gynecology, biology, confiscation of clothing, linen, and other evidence? How to organize work with witnesses? And all these smears, washes, vaginal epithelium? Oh, believe me - a former investigator and prosecutor who went through the crucible of grassroots work - it's all so difficult. Hundreds of rape cases have gone through me. I will take the liberty of declaring that the investigative practice in this category of cases did not know intervals of four years.
Well, okay, we took the case to production. And what? Drozdova was briefly interrogated, without really finding out anything. Her mother was interrogated - the same thing. True, Drozdova's mother provided an interesting detail. In 1952, Valentina became pregnant with Beria, but she was admitted to the Kremlin hospital, where she had an abortion. An unusual situation for the qualification of rape. Is not it?
Beria was interrogated - he was refused. Sarkisov was interrogated. Five minutes of his interrogations in volume 3 and four minutes in volume 27. So what? Nothing, they interrogated so superficially and badly that it is impossible to draw any conclusions. By the way, Rudenko interrogated Sarkisov as early as July 1, 1953, before Drozdova approached him, “having read Pravda of July 10, 1953”. I would like to cite this protocol of interrogation of Sarkisov verbatim. At the July Plenum of the Central Committee, it was announced by N. Shatalin with his comments, adding a list of items of women's dress found in Beria's office.
PROTOCOL OF INTERROGATION OF THE ARRESTED July 1953 Moscow
The Prosecutor General of the USSR RUDENKO R.A. and the assistant to the Chief Military Prosecutor, Lieutenant Colonel of Justice N.A. BAZENKO interrogated:
SARKISOV Rafael Semenovich, born in 1908, a native of Kirovobad, a member of the CPSU since 1930, colonel - assistant
Head of Department I of the Main Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, married, Armenian, education of 6 classes, from a working class family, according to the words of no conviction.
The interrogation began at 20.30.
For 18 years I worked in Beria's security, at first in the role of an attached and recently in the position of chief of security.
Being close to Beria, I know his personal life well and can characterize him as a depraved and dishonest person.
I know Beria's numerous connections with all kinds of random women.
I know that through a certain citizen, Subbotina, Beria was acquainted with a friend of Subbotina, whose last name I do not remember, she worked in a model house. Subsequently, I heard from Abakumov that this friend of Subbotina was the wife of a military attaché. Later, while in Beria's office, I heard Beria call Abakumov on the phone and ask him why this woman had not yet been imprisoned.
In addition, I know that Beria cohabited with a student of the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​- Malochsheva Maya. Subsequently, she became pregnant with Beria and had an abortion.
Beria also cohabited with 18-20-year-old girl Lyalya Drozdova. She gave birth to a child from Beria, with whom she now lives in the former Obruchnikov's dacha.
While in Tbilisi, Beria met and lived with citizen Maximishvili. After cohabitation with Beria, Maksimishvili gave birth to a child, whom, at Beria's instructions, I, along with Bityukov, a guarantor, were taken and handed over to an orphanage in Moscow.
I also know that Beria cohabited with the wife of a soldier of the Hero of the Soviet Union, whose last name I do not remember, to call the wife of this serviceman Sofia, her phone number is D-1-71- 55, she lives on the street. Tverskaya-Yamskaya, I don't remember the house number. At the suggestion of Beria through the head of the dignity. part of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs Voloshin she had an abortion.
I repeat that Beria had a lot of such connections.

At the direction of Beria, I kept a special list of women with whom he cohabited. Subsequently, at his suggestion, I destroyed this list. However, I kept one list. This list contains the names, surnames, addresses and telephone numbers of 25-27 such women. This list is in my jacket pocket.
Thus, I was turned into a pimp by Beria. Being engaged in pimping, I often thought about Beria's behavior and was extremely indignant that such a depraved and dishonest person was in the government.
A year or a year and a half ago, Beria's wife told me in a conversation that as a result of Beria's connections with prostitutes, he was sick with syphilis. He was treated by the doctor of the polyclinic of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Yuri Borisovich, his last name is I
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I do not remember.
I do not know about the rape of Beria's girl, however, knowing Beria well, I admit that such a case could have taken place.
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The protocol was written down from my words correctly and was read to me.
The interrogation ended at 2300 hours. SARKISOV.
General Prosecutor of the USSR RUDENKO
Pom. Chief Military Prosecutor BAZENKO
I will say that if the investigator brought me such a protocol of interrogation of one of the main witnesses in the case, then this investigator would fly out of my office overnight. I picked up some pieces and excerpts, I didn't really find out anything, I didn't pose any control questions, I got carried away with "Beria's cohabitation and debauchery", while this is not a subject of proof, and so on.
True, even from this so-called protocol, something can be learned.
Sarkisov shows: “Beria also cohabited with 18-20-year-old girl Lyalya Drozdova. She gave birth to a child from Beria, with whom she now lives at Obruchnikov's former dacha ”. B.C. Drozdova, who turned to Rudenko, and Lyalya Drozdova, mentioned in the protocol of Sarkisov's interrogation, are one

and the same face. And now, as you understand, it is necessary to find out from Drozdova a lot of questions: about the child, and about the abortion, and about the Obruchnikov's dacha, and about cohabitation with a “villainous rapist” for four years, and how this is consistent with rape, and, of course, draw conclusions confirming or not refuting Beria's guilt in this episode. But alas. And in this form, without confrontations and recognition of Drozdova as a victim (she remained a witness), this episode "moved" to the court.
In other protocols, Sarkisov continued to show that Beria was a "big lecher". Since 1937, he, Sarkisov, knew about Beria's permanent cohabitation with various women. Beria turned him and another guard, Nadaray, into pimps. They delivered various women to his apartment and mansion. In 1944, Beria sent him by plane to Krasnodar to select good girls. All this was written out by me word for word from the minutes of Sarkisov's interrogations. But, as you can see, rape is not reported here. And control questions are not posed.
The judicial investigation in this part was also interesting. A sample of how it shouldn't be.
We read the minutes of the court session.
“Drozdova: In May 1949, I was walking down the street. At this time, a car stopped, a man got out of it, he carefully examined me. I got scared and ran away, but noticed that a man was following me. The next day a colonel came to our apartment, later I found out that it was Sarkisov. At that time, my mother was seriously ill and was in the hospital. Before that, our grandmother died, and we were very saddened by her death. Sarkisov became aware of all our family affairs, that my mother was in the hospital in a very serious condition, began to tell me that he would help my mother and call a good professor to her, that he would take me to a person who would help save my mother. We drove up to some house, as I later learned, belonged to Beria. At about 5-6 pm an old man, whom I had seen on the street the day before, came to the room where I was sitting with Sarkisov. He told me, do not worry, I will help you, your mother will be cured and everything will be in order.
ke. Then he offered to dine with him and, despite my refusals, still sat me down at the table. Then Beria invited me to go inspect the rooms, I refused, but he still made me go with him. Entering one of the rooms, Beria grabbed me, carried me into the bedroom and raped me.
Beria: Drozdova is not telling the truth. I didn't rape her, but what I did is a heinous crime.
President of the Court Konev: Accused Beria, you lured her into a mansion under the guise of helping her mother?
Beria: I didn't rape her.
Member of the court Moskalenko: Accused Beria, you are lying, a 16-year-old girl could not voluntarily come to your mansion and have sexual intercourse with an old man. This is unnatural. She had not yet reached puberty.
Beria: I once again affirm that I did not rape Drozdova.
President of the Court Konev: Witness Drozdova, continue to testify to the court.
Drozdova: I was not allowed out of the mansion for three days, I was in a very serious condition and cried all the time. Before being released from the mansion, Beria and Sarkisov warned me not to tell anyone about this, otherwise they would threaten me with reprisals. I did not tell anyone about what had happened, I just told my mother and she went to Beria's mansion to talk to him about this issue.
Beria: The fact that she was with me for three days is not true, it is her invention. She was with me for 30-40 minutes and left.
President of the Court Konev: Witness Drozdova, you are free.
President of the Court Konev: Accused Beria, did you commit the rape of a minor Valentina Drozdova?
Beria: It's hard for me to talk about it, but I didn't rape her.
President of the Court Konev: Comrade. Commandant, invite witness Hakobyan to the hall. Witness Hakobyan, the court warns you that you must show only the truth. Do you confirm your testimony given by you during the preliminary investigation?

Hakobyan: Yes, I confirm the testimony I gave during the preliminary investigation. On March 29, 1949, my mother died, her death struck me so much that I lost consciousness and was sent to the hospital. My daughter Valentina was left alone and fell into the hands of this man through Sarkisov. Beria, apparently, did not consider us as people, he imagined that it was flattering for us, simple, poor people to enter into a relationship with such a person. Upon my return from the hospital, my daughter told me about the monstrous crime that Beria had committed against her. At first I did not believe that such a meanness could have been committed by Beria, I thought that it was done by one of his subordinates, but my daughter claimed that Beria himself had committed the violence. I was in a terrible state. When I got to Beria's mansion, I gave him a slap in the face. I said that I would write to Stalin, and he answered me that all my statements would get to him anyway. I even told him that I was ready to kill him. Beria insisted that my daughter have an abortion. I told him that I would go and complain to Stalin's son, and he replied that Stalin's son was a drunkard and he himself was not allowed to see his father.
Court member Gromov: Witness Hakobyan, did the defendant Beria threaten you with reprisals?
Hakobyan: When my daughter and I were leaving Beria's mansion, he warned us not to tell anyone about what had happened, otherwise he would destroy us
President of the Court Konev: Accused Beria, do you plead guilty to the crime you committed against Drozdova?
Beria: I admit that I did not need to meet with Drozdova, but I provided her with systematic material assistance.
President of the Court Konev: What does this mean for a person's honor?
Beria: I am not guilty, I did not rape her
President of the Court Konev: Witness Hakobyan, you are free. Accused Beria, sit down.
At 11 h. 50 min. a break is announced "
After a break, the court did not return to this episode, considering the scanty evidence obtained as sufficient to find Beria guilty of this crime. And the sentence is strengthened by the following paragraph:

“The judicial investigation also established the facts of other criminal acts of Beria, testifying to his deep moral decline.
Being a morally decayed person, Beria cohabited with numerous women, including those associated with foreign intelligence officers. "
Naturally, there are no references to articles of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. Do you know why? Because all this is not a crime. There were simply no such articles in the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, and there are none now.
I think if you show all this to any judge of a district scale and ask him a question: if he would have been found guilty of raping a person if there was such a quantity and quality of evidence in the case, then the answer, I am sure, will be the same: no. Moreover, I think that the judge will propose to return the case for additional investigation on other grounds as well. That's why.
The witness Kalashnikova, interrogated during the investigation, testified that in September 1942, in his mansion, Beria invited her, a sixteen-year-old girl, to have sexual intercourse with him, while threatening: “If you don’t want to cut firewood, then agree”. After that, as it is written in the protocol, "he raped me, depriving me of my virginity, in the following days at different times he performed intercourse with me three more times against my will."
Witness Chkhikvadze said that in 1945, having learned about the arrest of his brother, he and his wife, V.V. Kvitashvili. left for Moscow with a statement to Beria. Beria raped his wife, arranging her abduction with the help of Sarkisov.
All of this is in Volume 27.
And in volume 34 we read the testimony of the witness Chizhova that on January 13, 1950, Beria deceived her to his mansion, where he used some kind of narcotic substance on her at dinner, as a result of which she lost consciousness. The protocol reads: "In the morning I woke up in bed all bloody, and next to me this bandit Beria was sleeping." She immediately realized that Beria had raped her, depriving her of her virginity. She became pregnant and had to have an abortion.

In the future, as follows from the testimony of Chizhova, Beria repeatedly performed sexual acts with her. Beria constantly threatened her with physical destruction and exile of her mother if she, Chizhova, told anyone about the rape.
All this also had to be investigated and proven. And in great detail and carefully. Here, as you can see, there were already episodes of the "sample" not of 1949, but of 1945 and even 1942. W all interviewees use the word “rape”. Meanwhile, a good investigator will never write this word in the interrogation protocol, since this is a complex evaluative, legal category and experience shows that sometimes the interrogated persons understand absolutely nothing here. Often the applicant has to explain that what happened to her, assessed by her as “rape”, is not such at all and is called quite differently. You also need to know that the investigation of rape in accordance with both the old and the new CPC is built according to the rules of the so-called private prosecution cases. This means that if there is a procedurally issued statement on bringing a person to criminal liability for rape, then there is a case, and if there is no such statement, then there is no such case. And there is nothing to talk about the moral decay, littering the case and hammering the head of the prosecutor with any ... Well, in short, it is clear with what.
Another question arises. Did the members of the investigation team know all these "technical details" that are known to every trainee of the district prosecutor's office? Did they know the methodology for investigating rape? I can say one thing: Rudenko, Kamochkin, Tsaregradsky and Bazenko knew everything perfectly. These are the most experienced investigators. The first three are in the ranks of generals. They were well versed in the legislation. They knew how to investigate criminal cases of any category, including rape.
How not to recall here the notorious case of our famous football player Eduard Streltsov. Exactly five years later, the same Prosecutor's Office of the Union, with the participation of the same Rudenko and Kamochkin, was prosecuting the rape of the girl Marianne JT by Streltsov. at a dacha near Moscow in the village of Prav
yes Mytishchi region. In his interview, the former prosecutor of the Investigation Department of the Union Prosecutor's Office E.A. Mironova recently spoke about the progress of the investigation in this case, the participation of Rudenko and Kamochkin in it. I will say that there are a lot of questions and there are a lot of questions, but the verdict is “worth it”, despite the outrage of the public, because they worked there competently. 400 pages of the case file, expert examinations, examinations, confrontations, even an investigative experiment for audibility: the prosecutor Mironova at the scene of the incident shouted: "A-ah-ah !!!" street or not. Funny? No! There they proved their guilt. And here, in the Beria case, they didn't even try. The volume of charges of counter-revolutionary crimes was sufficient to destroy Lavrenty Pavlovich without mentioning the rape of Lyalya Drozdova and others.
To strengthen the accusation, an operational certificate was filed into the case, drawn up by a secret employee of the USSR Ministry of State Security, already addressed to Malenkov:
“In 1947, the Chekist authorities arrested the worst enemy of the Soviet state, the American spy film actress Zoya Alekseevna F.1. From the materials of the eavesdropping technique, it is known that F. was in an intimate relationship with Beria and at the same time cohabited with the assistant to the naval attaché of the American embassy, ​​Captain Tate (from him she gave birth to a girl). Since I personally led the development of it, I was instructed to arrest F. at the apartment or rent her on the street. When she was arrested, F. persistently sought permission from me to speak with Beria on the phone. I refused her this and reported it to Abakumov. I do not know whether her testimony about meetings with Beria was recorded. I think not, because his name was carefully guarded. "
All this, in the language of preference, "went up the hill." And in order to better keep the accusation of debauchery, they attached a statement from Beria's wife with the words:
“... I did not know anything about his immoral actions in relation to his family, which I was also told about during the investigation.
"The surname is omitted by the author.

I, as a wife, considered his betrayal to be accidental and partly blamed myself, because during these years I often went to my son, who lived and studied in another city. "
They tried to find out from her during interrogations.
“Question: But could you still consider him honest, did you not know about his criminal moral corruption, in particular, manifested in his relations with women?
Answer: At first I did not know about this, and then I became convinced of his connections with strangers when he fell ill. True, Sarkisov recently told me that Beria has a woman who lives on Gorky Street and whom Beria is going to marry. "
They tried to find out the same details from Beria's son Sergo. In almost every protocol, there is a dialogue between Sergo and his investigator Kamochkin. Here are some of the answers.
“... Sarkisov told me that Beria L.P. there is a second family, there is a child; that Beria cohabited with his secretary named Vardo and ended by saying to me “at Beria L.P. there were so many women that you can’t count them ”. As far as I remember, I did not convey the content of the conversation with Sarkisov to Nina Teimurazovna, but I told her that I had decided to leave Beria L.P. and start living separately from him. Nina Teimurazovna agreed with me.
... Returning to the depraved way of life of L.P. Beria, I must inform you that in 1952 my family and mother, Nina Teimurazovna, were forced to live in Gagra for six months because L.P. Beria. did not allow us to return to Moscow. Later, from Sarkisov, I learned that during this period of time in the apartment or at the dacha of Beria L.P. lived women.
... Around 1946, I learned from my mother that she had not lived with her father for seven years, and this, in particular, was expressed in the fact that she lived with me for 4-5 months in Leningrad. Later, living in Moscow, I realized that the reason for the gap between father and mother was the depraved lifestyle of my father, which Sarkisov told me in detail several times, from him I learned that my father had a second family.

In the family, the father was closed, stingy with words. Apparently, Beria L.P. I guessed that I was aware of his depraved lifestyle and this undoubtedly alienated him from me and vice versa.
... In a relationship with my father, I could not forget about his depraved lifestyle. And my father himself alienated me from himself. Mother with my wife and children lived in the country, I paid money for food, L.P. Beria. he came to the dacha on Sundays and rarely stayed overnight in the separate half of the dacha he occupied. In Moscow, I lived in the same house with my father, but in a separate apartment, with a separate passage. "
Why were these issues so persistently discussed? There is only one answer - to create around Beria a "halo" of a rapist, a scoundrel, a scoundrel, capable of various abominations, not only in relation to the party and the state, but also in relations with women whom he raped and "even" cohabited with them. When they began to write the indictment, and then the verdict in relation to specific articles of the Criminal Code, providing for liability for sexual crimes, then of the "drawn" episodes, of course, nothing came of it, except for the confused testimony of Lyalya Drozdova and her mother. On the other hand, moral decay is going well. Here we went on it. True, without reference to the law.
Two comic episodes from this part of the criminal case are cited by the writer K. Stolyarov in his book "Executioners and Victims". Beria, through the administration of the Council of Ministers, improved the living conditions of his mistress, an artist, and she and her old mother moved from a room in a communal apartment in Podolsk near Moscow, to a three-room apartment on Chkalova Street, right to the house where our illustrious pilot lived until J 938 ... (This is opposite the old exit from the Kurskaya metro station, where the Zvezda cinema is.) During the next conversation, the artist told Beria that her mother was asking her - whom to thank? Lavrenty Pavlovich, without hesitation, replied: "Let him say thanks to the Soviet government."
In another episode, another artist in a similar situation asked Beria to help her mother with dental prosthetics. Moreover, the artist asked to put the crowns in gold. To this, Beria told her his generally fair to me
the idea that crowns made of simple metal are more reliable, much stronger and cheaper ... All this is in a criminal case. And laughter and sin.
Nevertheless, it must be admitted that the goal was achieved. And it went like clockwork. And the most amazing thing is that all this is "enjoying success" even now. Even from specialists. Almost half a century later, in 1999, the chief military prosecutor Yu. Demin sent an opinion on the Beria case to the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (about which a little later). On page 146 of this document, in the place where the analysis of evidence confirming Beria's guilt, we read the following: women to have sexual intercourse, forcing them to abortion and depriving mothers of children born from Beria are confirmed by various materials and documents (Volume 9, pd 90-99; Volume 12, pd 18-32, 33-37, 38-42, 43-46, 47-55; Volume 35, ld 119-153, 259-260, 293-298; Volume 39, ld 249-251; Special folder No. 3, ld . 11-12, 13-15, 88-93, 93-94, 95, 109-113, 115, 116, 148-149, 150, 176; Special folder No. 4, l.d. 87-88, 97- 98) ".
As you can see, the "immoral" Beria, not regulated by the norms of criminal law, was deeply ingrained not only in the minds of members of the special judicial presence in 1953, but still remains in the minds of modern prosecutors, since "deserved" a separate paragraph even in the conclusion of the chief military prosecutor in 1999.
In the same conclusion, the chief military prosecutor Yu. Demin clarifies that one of the women who became pregnant with Beria was ... Who do you think? You will never guess. The wife of ... the Hero of the Soviet Union (this is from the interrogation protocol of Sarkisov). What can I say here? Yes, this is, of course, very important! Such a success for the wife of a Hero of the Soviet Union !!! And you can do it differently. Here is Beria - a scoundrel! What has brought the wife of a Hero of the Soviet Union ?!
The situation is approximately the same with Beria's disease - syphilis. This has not been documented. There are no medical documents, medical records and protocols of interrogations of medical workers. Have short questions

Rudenko and short answers of Beria himself, Sarkisov's guard, Beria's wife. Similar to this: "Have you had syphilis?" Answer: "Yes, I was sick, but I was cured." And that's all. There is evidence that Beria was also ill with gonorrhea. But it's not that. It is not a crime to have a sexually transmitted disease, but to deliberately infect another person with it. All this had to be thoroughly investigated and proven. In the criminal case of Beria, no such work was carried out and the question was not raised that way, although there were grounds. He was not accused of committing a crime under Article 150 of the RSFSR Criminal Code, which provides for responsibility for this, and no victims of his actions, that is, women infected by him, were found.
It is interesting that Vardo's mistress, who appears in the protocols, is also mentioned in the book by P. Sudoplatov “Lubyanka and the Kremlin. Special operations ". He writes: “There were rumors that she became Beria's mistress back in Tbilisi, as a student of the medical faculty, and after moving to the capital, he took her to work in his secretariat, then arranged so that she married an ordinary NKVD officer, also a Georgian ... I was invited to the wedding so that I could take a closer look at her and her husband and appreciate their demeanor (for example, if they drink too much). Such a need was caused by the fact that the newlyweds were going to be sent to Paris to work in the local community of Georgian emigrants. After one or two years of work in Paris, Vardot returned to Moscow, where she served in intelligence until 1952. In 1952 she was arrested on charges that while in Paris she participated in a conspiracy against the Soviet state. "
By the way, during interrogation in the case of Beria Vardo, who had been his mistress for 15 years, also first stated that Beria had raped her in 1938. But how this happened was again not found out during interrogations in 1953.
In concluding this chapter, it seems to me that it is necessary to say the following. December 1953, the newspaper "Pravda" published a government message (under the heading "In the Supreme Court of the USSR"), in which it was brought to the attention of the people that on December 23, 1953, the consideration of the criminal case of Beria and his group was completed.

py. The verdict was carried out. It also reported on specific actions in which Beria was found guilty. Here are snippets from this post.
“... The court established that, having betrayed the Motherland and acting in the interests of foreign capital, the accused Beria formed a traitorous group of conspirators hostile to the Soviet state ... deeds over the party and government to seize power, liquidate the Soviet workers 'and peasants' system, restore capitalism and restore the rule of the bourgeoisie.
... Beria L.P. maintained and disseminated secret contacts with foreign intelligence services.
.. Becoming the Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR in March 1953, the accused LP Beria, preparing the seizure of power, began to vigorously promote the members of the conspiratorial group to leading positions both in the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and in its local bodies.
... In their anti-Soviet treasonable aims, Beria L.P. and his accomplices took a number of criminal measures in order to activate the remnants of bourgeois-nationalist elements in the union republics, sow enmity and discord between the peoples of the USSR and, above all, undermine the friendship of the peoples of the USSR with the great Russian people.
... Acting as a vicious enemy of the Soviet people, the accused LP Beria in order to create food difficulties in our country, he sabotaged and interfered with the implementation of the most important measures by the party and government aimed at raising the economy of collective and state farms and a steady increase in the well-being of the Soviet people.
... It has been established that, hiding and disguising his criminal activity, the defendant Beria L.P. and his accomplices committed terrorist reprisals against people from whom they feared exposure.
... The court also established the crimes of LP Beria, testifying to his deep moral decay, and the facts of criminal selfish actions and abuse of power committed by Beria.

As you can see, all the attention of the authorities is paid to crimes against the state, and crimes related to rape are not mentioned at all, with the exception of the general phrase about “his deep moral decay”.
This is further evidence that no one properly dealt with this issue either during the investigation or in court, since it was far from the main thing.
Here you can also recall that after a six-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, the Military Collegium in February 1954 was convicted of complicity in treason and the head of Beria's security, Rafael Sarkisov. He got 10 years. It is interesting that among the criminal episodes for the indicated state crime, such a figure appears in the verdict.
“... Sarkisov, on the instructions of Beria, made acquaintance with many women, including those who had connections with employees of foreign embassies, with official representatives of foreign intelligence services and correspondents of a number of capitalist countries, and brought these women to the country house or to Beria's mansion.
Subsequently, many of these women received passes to the stands of Red Square during parades, tickets to the Bolshoi Theater for ceremonial meetings, vouchers to sanatoriums, apartments, etc.
Sarkisov, using his position as an employee of the state security organs and resorting to intrigues, deception, provocations and direct threats, forced women, including underage girls, to cohabit with Beria, bringing them to Beria in a mansion that has essentially become a den of debauchery.
Sarkisov took an active part in organizing criminal abortions for Beria's concubines, and also placed a child born from Beria's relationship with his employee in an orphanage. " This was regarded by the court as ... treason. By the way, in 1955, another guard, Nadaraya, was sentenced to 10 years. He, too, was found guilty of a state crime.
In short, there is only one conclusion: judicial practice in those years mixed traitors to the motherland and womanizers on occasion and qualified their actions in the same way - Article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code (counter-revolutionary crimes).

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V. Drozdova's statement about the rape of her L. Beria in 1949

IS53, July 14 days, USSR Prosecutor General Rudenko, having considered the present case on the charges of L.P. BERIA. according to "tr. st. 56-1 "b" and 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and taking into account that the data of the investigation BERIA additionally incriminated that on May 2, I94S, he fraudulently lured into his mansion a minor student of the 7th grade Valentina Drozdova, take advantage of her takelsh morale in connection with the death of the grandmother and the serious illness of the mother, as well as her helplessness, “raped her, - on the basis of Art. 128 and 129 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR
DECIDED
To present Beria to Lavrenty Pavlovich an additional charge under part 2 of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR FROM January 4, 1949 "On increasing criminal liability 8a rape."

/ R. RUDENKO /

Post but: "Mwp pl" r.st "rttynp

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L. Beria was additionally charged with the rape of V. Drozdova on July 15, 1953 at 0 hours 15 minutes.

Chapter 6 VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW DURING THE INVESTIGATION IN THE CASE OF BERIA
Half a century later, in hindsight, it is easy, of course, to look for, as the prosecutors say, "fleas", that is, mistakes made in the course of the investigation in the Beria case. And yet, the task of any investigator is to ensure that there are no violations of the law at all. Moreover, the investigation is being conducted by the USSR Prosecutor General himself. Personally!!!
P. Sudoplatov wrote about this well. Speaking about their meeting with Rudenko during interrogation, he, Sudoplatov, recalls that Roman Andreevich uttered an interesting, almost historical phrase, in my opinion, especially characteristic of discussing the issue of compliance with the law in the investigation of all these cases.
“We will not stick to the rules when interrogating the sworn enemies of the Soviet regime. You might think that formalities were observed in the NKVD. We will do the same with you, Beria, and with your entire gang. "
What to say? Comments, as they say, are superfluous. Superfluous - if it comes from a simple "opera". But it was said, according to Sudoplatov, by the Prosecutor General. And this is completely different. And there are reasons to believe Sudoplatov. There are many violations of procedural legislation in the case.
To begin with, I will say that Rudenko should not have accepted the case for his own proceedings. For this he had an experienced investigative apparatus. According to the law, he, Rudenko, as the Prosecutor General, must supervise the investigation in this case, check the quality and volume of work, monitor compliance with the terms of the investigation and the detention of the accused, give instructions, participate in certain investigative actions, and at the end - approve accusatory

conclusion. In our case, however, Rudenko acted both as an investigator and as a prosecutor. The question arises - who supervised the investigation headed by Rudenko? I answer - no one, since it was he, Rudenko, who was the highest official in the prosecutor's office. It turns out that Roman Andreevich exercised prosecutorial supervision over himself. It was only in A. Dumas's novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" that the Crown Prosecutor de Villefort undertook to personally investigate the murder of Cadrus, and then he himself went to court to support the state prosecution in the same case. How that story ended - remember.
In the prosecutor's office there is an offensive phrase - "pocket prosecutor". This is what they say when the prosecutor has ceased to carry out his supervisory functions, "merged" with the local authorities and blindly obeys them in all matters, including in the field of his professional activities. Frankly speaking, during the years of Soviet power, all of us - prosecutors - to one degree or another depended on local authorities. Some less, some more, but practically all were subordinate to the party organs. This is a fact that you can't get away from. I can prove it to anyone. But I also take the liberty of saying that one of the first “pocket prosecutors”, in the classical, so to speak, form, was Rudenko himself. This follows from the Beria case. It was he, Rudenko, who received various illegal orders from the leadership of the CPSU Central Committee in the Beria case, daily reporting on the progress of the investigation, presenting the originals of procedural documents, including interrogation protocols, did not react to obvious violations of the law in this case, blindly obeying all possible orders of the party the top of the country.
Here is a typical document, but simply another example of lawlessness.
"Resolution of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU on the composition of the court, draft indictment and information report on the case of LP Beria." September 17, 1953.
Top secret.
...NS. 33 / 3.0 proposals of the Prosecutor General of the USSR in the Beria case.

(Comrades Rudenko, Pervukhin, Saburov, Mikoyan, Kaganovich, Bulganin, Khrushchev, Molotov, Malenkov) [attended the meeting]. Instruct comrade Rudenko R.A., taking into account the amendments given at the meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee, within two days:
a) Finalize the submitted draft indictment in the Beria case.
b) Submit proposals on the composition of the Special Judicial Presence of the Supreme Court of the USSR. Consider the case of Beria and his accomplices in a court session without the participation of the parties. Instruct comrade Suslov M.A. to take part in the preparation by the USSR Prosecutor General of both the draft indictment in the case and the draft report from the Prosecutor's Office *.
It got to the point that at the end of the investigation on December 10, 1953, another special resolution of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee was issued on the Beria case. In this document, in paragraph 3, we read:
“To approve comrade Rudenko draft indictment in the case of Beria and, together with him, Merkulov, Dekanozov, Kobulov, Goglidze, Meshik and Vlodzimirsky "*. What is it? This is an unprecedented shame of the prosecutor's office! When did the authorities approve the indictment in the case? This is a blatant lawlessness, which is understood as the phrase "pocket prosecutor".
What kind of indictment could Rudenko, or rather Beria and Co., have been approved by the authorities? It is clear which one is beneficial for oneself. Here are excerpts from it.
“The accused in the present case were participants in a criminal treasonous group of conspirators, who set as their criminal aim to use the organs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, both in the center and in the localities, against the Communist Party and the Government of the USSR in the interests of foreign capital, deeds over the Party and the Government to seize power and liquidate the Soviet workers 'and peasants' system in order to restore capitalism and restore the rule of the bourgeoisie. "
The indictment is long, but what you have just read is only a part of it, but even from what you read you can see the "party" bias of what was written, as well as the editorial revision of the Central Committee.

The text of the indictment itself - the main final document of the preliminary investigation - was sent out even before the trial to members and candidates for membership of the CPSU Central Committee, first secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Union republics, regional and regional party committees.
Let me remind you that, according to Article 96 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (ed. 1926), the disclosure of data from the preliminary investigation was a criminal offense and was then punishable by imprisonment for up to six months or a fine of up to 500 rubles.
Moreover, in the decision, which gives an order to send the text of the indictment to various instances, it is indicated that it should also be sent to ... the Attorney General.
Yes! Thank you, of course, for not forgetting the Attorney General!
At all times, the indictment was prepared in the prosecutor's office on the basis of the collected evidence at the stage of preliminary investigation. And here the opposite is true. The Central Committee of the CPSU approves and sends the indictment to the Prosecutor General. By the way, violating Lenin's precepts, because in his work "On double subordination and legality" he said, in short, that the prosecutor's office should not obey anyone "horizontally".
As for purely procedural violations, they are also in abundance in this case, despite the fact that the investigation, I repeat, is being conducted by the Prosecutor General himself.
By law, a case must be investigated comprehensively, fully and objectively.
To do this, it was necessary to accurately and strictly comply with the requirements of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR. In all matters. Well, let's see.
The case materials are full of contradictions: Merkulov says that he knows almost nothing about the work of Mairanovsky's laboratory, and Mairanovsky and Beria claim that it was Merkulov who directed it. Beria says that the list for the execution of 25 people in 1941 was prepared by Merkulov and Kobulov, and the latter declare that this is not so. Tsereteli and Mironov show that the wife of the envoy Bovkun-L was killed by Wlodzimirski with a hammer near the Ghanskiy, and Wlodzimirski says that he did not. Kobulov "does not remember" anything at all.

In these cases, according to the law, confrontations are held for the collection and subsequent assessment of evidence. There is nothing complicated here. Moreover, all the accused are in the same city. The guards are taken, two interrogated are seated in the office opposite each other, and they are asked control questions in turn. A protocol is being drawn up. This is a very important and necessary investigative action. It requires, of course, some psychological and organizational efforts. Especially in the district prosecutor's office. Security, car, delivery, office and more. So, in the Beria case, there were no confrontations at all. Such an investigative action simply "did not exist" for Rudenko. It seems to me that this violation was committed intentionally. The investigation considered everything proved and without confrontation. And of course there were no "organizational problems" there. For the same reason, there is not a single expert examination, not a single investigative experiment in the case, and a forensic photograph was not used. Solid simplification and "primitive". This is the first thing.
Second. All episodes of Beria's criminal activity were investigated superficially, without a deep study of the necessary circumstances. For example, on the basis of the drawn-out “rape” of Lyalya Drozdova. She shows that in 1949 she "got into the Beria mansion." How did it get there? Why and why? Not clarified. Further, she, however, like some other victims, shows that "Beria committed rape." It is written like this: "He raped me." And how and what he did specifically - not a word about it. And it is necessary, discarding bashfulness, using the knowledge of physiology and gynecology (if they, of course, are available) to understand in detail - what, where, when, how, where, why and why. Every novice investigator knows about this. And Rudenko knew how such cases were investigated. I have already written about the case of the football player Streltsov. Why was the investigation conducted so superficially? I answer - the fate of Beria and the others was a foregone conclusion. Formalities remained.
The case itself is 90 percent not original documents and protocols, but typewritten copies certified
Major of the administrative service of the GVP Yuryeva. Where the originals are located is anyone's guess. Not a single prosecutor will allow a case to be presented to him without the originals. This is an unwritten rule of the prosecutor's office. And Rudenko broke it.
But the main violation, it seems to me, should not be sought here. The case has not been fully investigated. It got into only what lay on top and was beneficial for the investigation and the country's leadership at that time, and what was unprofitable - was not written there.
For example, on September 6, 1941, Stalin, with the knowledge of the members of the State Defense Committee, signed an order of the NKVD on the execution of 170 convicts in the Oryol prison without any judicial or other formalization. The NKVD carried out all this clearly.
Beria signed a recommendation on this action with the words "The NKVD of the USSR considers it necessary to apply capital punishment to them."
The question is - who should be responsible for this? Beria? That's right, he is guilty for giving the boss such advice. And what about the responsibility of the rest? No way. It is better to forget this episode altogether and not remember it, at least during the investigation.
And what about the deportation of Chechens and Ingush to Kazakhstan during the war? Exactly the same picture. Beria - suggests that Stalin and the members of the State Defense Committee obey, and half a million people are expelled from their historical homeland in a matter of days. The dead and those shot at the same time number in the thousands. The corpses were taken out in wagons. One third of the Chechen people died.
The resettlement of the Chechen-Ingush people, as a criminal episode of the NKVD, was not reflected in the conclusion of the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office already in 1999, where the content of the entire criminal case was essentially analyzed. This was not done in the definition of the Military Collegium of May 29, 2000. I think it's wrong. After all, then on the Chechen land the tragedy of the Belarusian village of Khatyn was repeated many times. With the only difference that the role of punishers was performed there
troops of the NKVD, led by People's Commissar Beria. And everything else was like in Khatyn: sheds, boards, nails, hay, gasoline, matchesamp; ^ and people driven into these sheds ...
True, it should be noted here that from reading Beria's certificate to the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) about what the "individual Chechen residents" organized in gangs were doing in relation to our soldiers and officers, the hair, as they say, also stands on end.
On May 20, 1944, Beria sent Stalin a memorandum on the eviction of 710 families of Kabardians to the Dzhambul and South Kazakhstan regions of the Kazakh SSR, with a total of 2467 people. In the note, Beria proposes (literally): "The eviction should be carried out in the same manner as the Karachais, Chechens and Ingush were evicted." And what about Stalin? Here is his resolution. “To Comrade Beria. Agree. I. Stalin ". The leader stressed the word "agree" twice.
Who should be responsible for this? Beria? Yes, he must be held accountable. And Stalin?
Or, let's say, the operation to eliminate Leon Trotsky on August 20, 1940. Let me remind you that a young Spanish revolutionary and former partisan Ramon Mercader, on the instructions of our special services, entered Trotsky's villa in Mexico and killed the latter with a climbing ice ax, for which he received 20 years in prison in Mexico, and upon leaving there in 1960 from the hands of the chairman of the KGB of the USSR Shelepin in Moscow for the same received the star of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
By and large, the murder of Trotsky must be considered a crime: there was no trial over him, just as there was no sentence. And in general, this kind of execution of the sentence, even if it were, is illegal.
As you remember, the murder of the wife of Marshal Kulik and the spouses Bovkun-Lugantsov without trial and investigation was regarded as a crime. And how does the assassination of Trotsky differ from them? Yes, nothing!
The organization of the massacre of Trotsky could be safely included in the accusation of Beria. After all, it was he who "blessed" Sudoplatov and Eitingon for this, who organized the action. But that was not the case, since the "inspirer" of the NKVD for all this was himself

Stalin with his Politburo. And only then Beria. Putting Stalin, the Politburo of the Central Committee and Beria on a par, then, in 1953, was simply unacceptable. That is why the episode with Trotsky in the Beria case is not mentioned at all.
But the example with the execution of Polish officers in 1940 is especially characteristic. The infamous Katyn tragedy. She was also not included in Beria's accusation, although this action was carried out with his direct participation. But something else is interesting. The shooting of Polish officers was preceded by a special discussion of this issue by the country's leadership. And there, unexpectedly, even a written consent and a whole set of autographs are found: Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Mikoyan.
However, it should be noted here that in 1953 we still had a historical fake, which successfully passed even through the Nuremberg trials, that the perpetrators of the Katyn tragedy were not us at all, but the Germans. This conclusion was reached during the war years by a special government commission, which included the writer A. Tolstoy, academician N. Burdenko and other authoritative people. Later, in our days, everything fell into place.
The preparation for the murder of scientist P. Kapitsa in 1946, as evidenced by, has not been investigated at all. The same can be said about the episode with the preparation of the destruction of the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs M. Litvinov in 1940. It is clear that behind these “ideas” there was also an “authority”.
And the famous Raoul Wallenberg case? More precisely, the little-known case of the Swedish diplomat R. Wallenberg. He helped thousands of Jews to escape by arranging through his embassy their departure from Germany and Hungary mainly to their historical homeland in Palestine, generously paying the Gestapo for this work. At the same time, it seems, he worked for the American and British, and at the same time for German intelligence. He was the nephew of a large Swedish financial tycoon, from whom a large loan could be obtained in the form of a ransom for him. In 1945, Wallenberg was arrested in Budapest by the Smersh military counterintelligence authorities on suspicion of espionage and transported to Moscow, where he went with him for two years.
was already engaged in the NKGB, then headed by Merkulov, and since 1946 - by Abakumov. Wallenberg perished in the bottomless dungeons of the Lubyanka. Until now, the secret of his death and the whole case has not been fully disclosed. And it will hardly ever be revealed, since it was necessary to begin to understand even when Merkulov was alive. Here he knew everything. However, like Abakumov. But this complex and big issue was not even touched upon either in the Merkulov case or in the Abakumov case. No questions asked. Vsevolod Nikolayevich took all the secrets of this case with him on the day of the execution - December 23, 1953, and Abakumov - exactly one year after that.
At the origins of the above action (with Wallenberg) there was again an "authority": Stalin, Molotov, etc. Therefore, I repeat, this issue was not dealt with in the Beria case either. As you know, it is not recommended to cut the branch on which you are sitting. * *
Here you can also recall one more episode from the Beria case.
Beria's literary and historical activities remained outside the scope of the official accusation. But this question is interesting. We are talking about the brochure "On the question of the history of Bolshevik organizations in the Transcaucasus." This is his only work. And this was the case.
By the mid-1930s, after the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), held in February 1934, at which there was no longer any opposition, and the former oppositionists repented and glorified "the wise leader - the great Stalin" - in his speech Bukharin even called him " field marshal of the proletarian forces "- Stalin felt cramped in the role of" a great disciple and brilliant successor of Lenin's cause. " The concept of two leaders began to be hastily created. Expressions like "the party of Lenin - Stalin", "Lenin and Stalin are the leaders of the October Revolution", etc., became common.
a party not only from the Leninist Union of the Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class in St. Petersburg, but also from the social democratic organizations of the Transcaucasus, which were then led by the young Stalin. And the role of "collective propagandist and agitator" and "collective organizer" in the revolutionary Marxist movement was played not only by Lenin's newspaper Iskra, but also by the newspaper Brdzola (Struggle) published by Georgian Marxists. All this had to be put into literary form, professionally, scientifically and beautifully.
There are two versions of how this concept was created. According to one of them, the idea belonged to the "leader and teacher" himself. He suggested that M. Orakhelashvili, the first secretary of the Transcaucasian regional committee of the party, already familiar to us, should take up its development, but he did not show due zeal. Then Stalin replaced him with Beria. This one turned out to be more diligent and quick - he gathered a group of historians, talked to them "heart to heart", after which they gave this "epoch-making work" to the mountain.
According to another version, which belongs to Beria himself, he did not receive such an assignment from anyone, but simply drew attention to the manuscript of the director of the branch of the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute in Tbilisi and the editor of the Kommunist newspaper E. Bedia organizations in the Transcaucasus ”. He liked this manuscript, Beria. He gathered 20 historians, including the rector of Tbilisi University M. Torshelidze, responsible worker of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Georgia P. Sharia and others. About 100 people were interviewed - veterans of the revolutionary movement. As a result, a report “On the question of the history of Bolshevik organizations in the Transcaucasus” appeared. It was with this report that Beria spoke at a meeting of the party activists in Tbilisi on July 21-22, 1935. Then the text of the report was published in two issues of the newspaper Zarya Vostoka (July 24-25, 1935).
They reported to Stalin. He liked the report. Later, in his speech at the July (1953) Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU
A. Mikoyan recalled what Stalin said about this: “You see, Beria is a fine fellow, he picked up the material, studied it, worked on
by myself (? - Author), wrote a good book. " And official recognition came immediately: already on August 10, 1935, in the editorial of the Pravda newspaper entitled “Contribution to the chronicle of Bolshevism,” this thoroughly false opportunistic report (Beria himself later admitted “that this brochure is a complete falsification, a number of facts and articles , unsubstantiatedly attributed to Stalin) was called "the most valuable contribution to historical science."
Success inspired Beria, the report was published in the form of a brochure under his name. At the hearing on December 21, 1953, answering the question of a member of the court Moskalenko, Beria admitted that "he did it wrong." But that was later, and then the book went through nine editions (the last in 1952) and invariably received high praise as "a great contribution to the scientific history of the Bolshevik Party."
During the investigation, P. Sharia testified:
“As you know, Beria became a large-scale political figure thanks to the famous book“ On the Creation of Bolshevik Organizations in Transcaucasia ”, although he did not take part in the compilation of this work ... Meanwhile, the people who directly compiled the work had to remain unknown. Moreover, some of them were repressed in 1937 ... "
The first to fall was the main author Bedia, who had the imprudence to openly resent the fact that he wrote the report, and all the honors and awards go to another. This Beria could not stand. He ordered Kobulov and Goglizda to eliminate the presumptuous "co-author". To give the massacre at least some semblance of legality, a counter-revolutionary group was urgently "organized". Bedia was immediately "installed" into it, who was arrested on October 20, 1937. For two days he did not give confessionary statements. Then, at the direction of Kobulov, to

Bedia, physical pressure was used, or, more simply, torture, after which he declared not only that he was a member of a counter-revolutionary organization and involved new members in it, but also that he was preparing a terrorist act. Against whom do you think? That's right, against Beria.
It has long been known that the most terrible item on the list of items of the infamous 58th article was item 8 - the commission of terrorist acts. The person on whom this item was "hung" was doomed, there could be no salvation. So it happened this time: on December 7, 1937, the "troika" of the NKVD of Georgia, chaired by Goglidze, sentenced Bedia to death, the sentence was carried out on the same day. Bedia's wife, the Mingrelian princess Nina Chichuya, was also destroyed. It was rumored that Beria personally shot her. But this is not confirmed by anything.
Another "co-author" Malakia Torshelidze, who was declared a member of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center in Georgia, also died in the same years in Beria's dungeons. But Pyotr Sharia turned out to be smarter, he never crawled out talking about his participation in the creation of "labor", but simply quietly and calmly gave out materials for the book and, under the auspices of Beria, successfully moved forward and upward. He was one of the secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, was a teacher, received the title of professor, became a doctor of sciences. True, in November 1951, Sharia was among a group of persons arrested on charges of belonging to a Mingrelian nationalist organization allegedly unsealed in Georgia, headed by M. Baramia, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Georgia. In the aforementioned speech of A. Mikoyan at the July (1953) Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU it was said: "... the Mingrelian case was created in order to arrest Beria on this basis." Stalin really gave instructions to the leaders of the MGB to "look for a big mingrelian", apparently, he was clearly approaching Beria. However, immediately after Stalin's death, on April 10, 1953

year by the decision of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU, inspired by Beria, the investigation in this case was terminated, and all persons who passed through it - Beria's fellow countrymen - were rehabilitated, they were returned to their big posts and positions. Sharia became an assistant to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR, the "big mingrelian". Finally, the star Sharia rolled down after the fall of the almighty boss. He was arrested again in 1953 as a member of the "Beria gang" and was sentenced after the execution of his patron for 10 years, which he served "in good faith" "from bell to bell" in Vladimirsky central.
This is the story of Beria's only literary work, which, like that first pancake from the old Russian proverb, “turned out to be lumpy” and did not get into the indictment, and then into the verdict, since it was classified as a “small thing”.

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I. Stalin's resolution on L. Beria's memorandum
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PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
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to comrade STALIN
In the camps * for prisoners of war of the NKVD of the USSR and in the prisons of the # jgHGjjgyey of Ukraine and Belorusski, there is currently a number of former Polish officers, former employees of the Polish police and camp; ^ acirahw ^ cjgsaTiyf to-p rebel organizations- "/ / 1DOO * defectors and cs. ALL-SN ^^ ya? This is sworn enemies
full of hatred for advice
Zoenkolleny officer and policemen, being in la geryarg, "yyta" edrya work, carry on anti-Soviet propaganda. One of them is just waiting for release in order for them to actively join the struggle against the Syrian * power.
The body of the aga NKVD in the western regions of Ukraine and Belarus has opened a number of rebel organizations. In all these K-p organizations, former officers of the former Polish army, former policemen and gendarmes played an active leading role.
Among the haunted defectors and roc offenders
The birth of the Katyn tragedy. 1940 year.
(I. Stalin, K. Voroshilov, V. Molotov, A. Mikoyan - “for” the elimination of Polish officers,
M. Kalinin and L. Kaganovich gave their consent by phone,
what the note was made by Poskrebyshev)

the border also revealed a significant number of persons who are members of the K-p espionage and insurgent organizations.
In the prisoner-of-war camps, only C is kept, not counting the soldiers and non-commissioned officers) - 14,736 businessmen, officials, landowners, policemen, laiadarms, tzeremtsiks, siege workers and scouts - by nationality over 975? Poles.
Of them:
Generals, colonels and lieutenant colonels - 295
Kayors and Captains - 2.080
Lieutenants, second lieutenants and khorunzmkh - 6.049
Officers and junior commanders of the police, border guard and gendarmerie - 1.030
Ordinary police officers, gendarmes, toremists and scouts - 5.138
Officials, medics, priests and sieges - 144
In the territories of the western regions of Ukraine and Belarus "
in total there are 18.632 arrested persons (of which 10.685
Poles), including:
bnshchu officers - 1.207
former police intelligence officers and kandarms - 5.141
Spies and saboteurs - 347
Former landlords, manufacturers and officials - 465
Members of various k-p and insurgent organizations and various k-p elements - 5.345
Defectors - 6.127

Proceeding from the fact that they are all inveterate, incorrigible enemies of the Soviet regime, the NKZD USSR considers it necessary:
USSR: Cases of 14,700 former Polish officers, officials, landowners, police officers, intelligence officers, gendarmes, besiegers and jailers in prison camps, as well as cases of 11,000 arrested and imprisoned in the western regions of Ukraine and Belarus in the number of 11,000 a number of espionage and sabotage organizations, former landowners, manufacturers, former Polish officers, officials and defectors -
- to consider in a special order, with the application of the capital punishment to them - execution.
P. Consideration of cases shall be carried out without summoning the arrested persons and without prior accusation;
on the completion of the investigation and the indictment - in the following order:
a) on persons in prisoner-of-war camps - according to certificates provided by the Office for Prisoners of War of the USSR VKVD.

b) on persons arrested - according to certificates from cases submitted by the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR and the NKVD ECCF.
Sh. Consideration of cases and submission of pel to a troika, consisting of comrade jtkUtfi ", MEKUYUVY (Head of the 1st Special Department of the NKVD of the USSR). ^

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Who Should Be Responsible?
(The surname Kobulov was inscribed by Stalin instead of Beria)

During the trial of Lavrenty Beria, it was mentioned about the many rapes he committed. Beria raped many young women whom his bodyguards grabbed on the street and brought to the chief's mansion. By means of threats, he persuaded the wives of Soviet officials to have sex.

According to open Soviet archives, Beria committed "dozens" of attacks on women during the period when he was at the head of the NKVD. Stalin's biographer Simon Sebag-Montefiore writes that Beria proved to be a sexual predator who used his power to enjoy constant debauchery.

... The inventory of the contents of Lavrenty Pavlovich's table, made after his arrest, reveals Beria's interests. He was attracted by power and sex. In his office, Beria kept batons for torturing prisoners and a mountain of women's underwear, sex toys, and pornography. They found eleven pairs of silk stockings, eleven teddy bears, seven silk nightgowns, a woman's sportswear, blouses, silk scarves, an endless number of obscene love letters and a huge number of items of male debauchery.

Despite the fantastic amount of work, Beria found time for an active sex life. Everything about her was equal: love, rape, and perversion. The war provided Beria with the opportunity to significantly surpass their predecessors in terms of sexual exploits. Secret police chiefs have always held an unspoken license to sexual permissiveness. Lavrenty Pavlovich had the right to follow everyone. Only SMERSH could watch him. It turned out that Beria had the right to do literally whatever he wanted.

It used to be thought that the scale of Lavrenty Pavlovich's sexual life was exaggerated. However, the disclosure of the records of his interrogations stored in the archives, as well as the testimony of witnesses and raped victims, suggest otherwise. In these documents, a sexual predator appears who used power to fulfill perverse desires. It is often very difficult to divide the victims into two categories: those whom he seduced and raped when they came to ask for the lives of loved ones, and those whom he abducted and raped. There were, of course, such mothers, and quite a few who were engaged in pimping. They gave their daughters to a sex addict in exchange for cars and privileges.

Lavrenty Beria, when he wanted, could well create the appearance of a gentleman. With some of his mistresses, he treated so tenderly and affectionately that they never criticized him. These women were silent even when they made the main Bluebeard of the Soviet Union from Beria.

Muscovites are used to seeing an armored Packard slowly rolling through the streets of the capital. “Beria went out hunting again,” they whispered. The People's Commissar regularly ordered the Caucasian bodyguards, Colonels Sarkisov and Nadaraya, to put the women he liked in the car. The colonels carried out assignments with great reluctance, but preferred to keep quiet. Sarkisov wrote down all the perversions of the boss in order to sniff Stalin on him.

Women and girls were usually brought to the city mansion of Beria, where, like a parody of Caucasian chivalry and hospitality, a rich Georgian table with wine was waiting for them. On the way back, one of the colonels always gave the victim of the People's Commissar a bouquet of flowers. If the abductees resisted, they were often simply arrested and thrown into prison. Actress Zoya Fedorova was captured by the Chekist colonels when she was still breastfeeding a small child. She was brought to a big party. There was a set table in the room, but there were no guests. Then Lavrenty Pavlovich came out to the guest. Fedorova begged to let her go, because the actress had chest pains after feeding. Beria was furious. She was later arrested.

At the end of the war, Beria invited the film actress Tatyana Okunevskaya to speak to members of the Politburo, but instead of the Kremlin he took her to his dacha. He vigorously gave the guest wine, often pouring over her knees. After supper he undressed. Fat folds and bulging eyes made him look like a hideous toad.

“You can shout, but it doesn't matter,” he warned. - Better think and behave properly.

Then the People's Commissar raped the actress. Soon after this meeting, Okunevskaya was also arrested. She was put in solitary confinement, then sent to Siberia. She felled the forest in the taiga and, if not for the kindness of ordinary people, she would never have survived in the camp.

Violence against women was only the tip of the iceberg of the moral decay of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs. The priapic energy of Beria was just as overwhelming as the activity of an official. “During the war, in 1943, I think I contracted syphilis,” he later admitted. - I had to be treated.

After the war, Vlasik and Poskrebyshev, who did not forget about Bronka, told Stalin about Beria's syphilis. Sexual maniac Beria neatly recorded his victories on the love front. His colonels also kept the score. Some say there were thirty-nine names on the lists, while others say seventy-nine. “Most of these women were my mistresses,” Lavrenty Pavlovich admitted.

Beria ordered Sarkisov to destroy the lists, which he did. But, being a true Chekist, he kept one copy and later used it against his master.

Some of Beria's mistresses, for example Sophia and Maya, students of the Institute of International Relations, became very inappropriately pregnant. And again there was work for Colonels Sarkisov and Nadaraya. They arranged an abortion for them in the medical unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If Beria still had children, then the colonels handed them over to an orphanage.

Stalin tolerated the antics of his courtiers as long as they remained politically loyal to him. During the war, Lavrenty Beria pulled half the economy of the USSR. When the leader was informed about his sexual exploits, the secretary general answered with a condescending smile: "Comrade Beria was overworked and tired." But the less he trusted Beria, the less tolerant he became of licentiousness and permissiveness. Once upon learning that [his daughter] Svetlana is at Beria's house, Joseph Vissarionovich suddenly panicked. He immediately called her and told her to leave immediately. “I don’t believe Beria,” he explained.

When Beria noticed that Poskrebyshev's daughter was as beautiful as her mother, the chief of Stalin's cabinet said to the girl:

- Never get into Beria's car if he offers to give you a lift.

The wives of the leaders Lavrenty Pavlovich hated Beria. Ashkhen Mikoyan refused to go to a banquet or any solemn event, if the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs could also be there.

“Tell me I had a headache,” she said to her husband and stayed at home.

Beria's wife Nina confessed to Svetlana and other close friends that she was very unhappy. “Lawrence is not at home all the time,” she complained. “I’m alone all the time.” But her daughter-in-law claims that Nina Beria, in spite of everything, still loved her husband. She, of course, knew that he had other women, but decided to treat this with the tolerance inherent in Georgians. Before her husband came home for the weekend, she spent hours doing manicures and makeup. Nina lived downstairs in her room. When Lavrenty arrived, she moved to the second floor to share a matrimonial bed with him. They sat comfortably by the lighted fireplace and watched Western films, most often Westerns about cowboys and Mexican bandits. Lavrenty Pavlovich's favorite painting was the western "Viva Vilya!" about a Mexican national hero. The couple spoke affectionately in the Mingrelian dialect.

Nina refused to believe in all the horrors that popular rumor attributed to Beria. At least she didn't believe in all his crimes. “I don’t understand when only Lawrence finds time to seduce these hordes of women? She asked incredulously. "After all, he spends his days and nights at work." Therefore, she concluded that all the women they talk about are simply Beria's secret agents ... (S. Sebag-Montefiore The Red Monarch: Stalin and the War.)

It was not in vain that the bouquet of flowers was handed over to the women raped by Beria. If the victim accepted it, it meant that the sex was committed by mutual consent. Refusal to take flowers led to arrest. Sarkisov reported that one woman brought to his boss rejected all harassment and ran out of the office. Sarkisov handed her flowers by mistake, and Beria, upon learning of this, declared in a rage: “Now it will not be a bouquet, but a wreath! She can leave him to wither on her grave! " That woman was arrested the next day by the NKVD.

Inclining Tatyana Okunevskaya to have sex and offering to release her father and grandmother from prison for this, Beria deliberately lied: he knew that Okunevskaya's relatives had been executed several months ago.

Having shown interest in Marshal Voroshilov's stepdaughter during a party at their summer cottage, Beria, on the way back to the Kremlin, followed their car relentlessly, terrifying Voroshilov's wife.

Beria himself later admitted the fact of his infection with syphilis during interrogation. And on January 17, 2003, the Russian government recognized the authenticity of Sarkisov's handwritten "list", but decided not to disclose the names of Beria's victims until 2028.

There is evidence that Beria not only kidnapped and raped women, but also killed some of them. His former mansion in Moscow (Malaya Nikitskaya street, 28/1) is currently occupied by the Embassy of Tunisia. During work on its territory in the mid-1990s, the bones of several young girls were found buried in the garden. According to Martin Sixsmith in the BBC documentary, “Beria spent nights with girls and girls who were kidnapped from the streets and brought here to rape him. Those who resisted were strangled and buried in his wife's rose garden. "

Former mansion of Beria in Moscow on Malaya Nikitskaya street

The testimony of Sarkisov and Nadaraya is partially supported by Edward Ellis Smith, an American who worked at the Moscow US embassy after the war. He reports that Beria's women's adventures were well known to the embassy staff, because his house was on the same street as the American residence. Those who lived in it saw the girls brought to Beria late at night in a limousine.

Lavrenty Beria is a deeply negative person. Few of the researchers can say at least one kind word to the General Commissioner of State Security, who fiercely fought against the "enemies of the people." Many incredible stories are associated with his name. They tell about the mass executions of innocent people, and about the personal life of the People's Commissar.

Before giving the names of Beria's mistresses, it is worth talking about his wife. Indeed, even regarding his relationship with his wife, there are many conflicting versions.

Kremlin wife

She had no girlfriends or friends, and even more so lovers or admirers. Colleagues shunned her. With her son or daughter-in-law, she could talk more or less frankly only on the street - all her conversations in the house were tapped. It happened not because she knew some secrets, but because she was the wife of a man whose name alone terrified her contemporaries.

Nino Gegechkori was a beautiful woman in adulthood, and even more so at 16, when her first meeting with her future husband took place. Lawrence Beria was then 22 years old. They met in Sukhumi. There is plenty of gossip and all kinds of speculation around this event.

Some told an extremely beautiful story: the future People's Commissar saw the beautiful Nino among the lilac bushes and fell in love at first sight. Others were more skeptical. They claimed that Lavrenty Beria met a girl in prison. Still others said that the first meeting of the "Kremlin executioner" with his future wife took place in the house of an old Bolshevik, who was Nino's uncle.

Beria from an early age was eager for women. Seeing a young, blooming Nino, he decided to kidnap her, which he easily succeeded. He allegedly kept the girl in his bedroom for several days, but afterwards he treated her relatively nobly, not as cruelly as he did later with his numerous mistresses. Beria raped Nino and then married her. By the way, this is not the most common version about the acquaintance of the People's Commissar with his future wife. There is another story, in the veracity of which many historians are convinced.

Romantic version

Once at the station, a girl approached Lawrence and asked for help. Her brother was arrested, and she, knowing about the capabilities of this man, hoped for his assistance. Beria helped her. He freed Nino's brother from prison, then proposed to her. She agreed only because it was difficult to refuse in her position. But there is also a doubtful moment in this story: when Beria met his future wife, he had not yet held a position that would allow him to influence the fate of those arrested. Power came to him much later, but by that time he had become an exemplary family man (at least, he made such an impression).

A marriage of love and convenience

And what did the wife of Lavrenty Beria herself tell about their acquaintance? In 1990, the newspaper "Top Secret" published an interview with the widow of the General Commissioner for State Security. Eighty-year-old Nino Gegechkori confirmed the romantic version, namely: he met her at her uncle's house, gallantly offered her hand and heart, and showed no rudeness towards her. True, he wanted to marry sixteen-year-old Nino not only out of great love, but also in connection with a possible business trip to Belgium. Only married employees were allowed to travel abroad.

Mistresses or Secret Agents?

It was not by chance that the wife of the NKVD People's Commissar was told in such detail - these contradictory versions confirm the mystery and ambiguity of the People's Commissar's personality. The figure of Lavrenty Beria has become a gloomy symbol of the Stalin era. During his lifetime he was the object of a cult, after his death he turned into an executioner. It was possible to safely hang all the dogs on the executed State Security Commissioner, which, according to the historian Boris Sokolov, his former comrades-in-arms did.

The list of Beria's mistresses, according to his assistant Rafael Sarkisov, was extensive. Lavrenty Pavlovich allegedly took advantage of his position, he sought women by force. However, this version was denied by the widow of the People's Commissar, who claimed that the women who were ranked among Beria's mistresses actually performed the functions of secret agents.

Exemplary family man

During the investigation, which began in June 1953 and ended with a death sentence, Lavrenty Pavlovich denied accusations of espionage and conspiracy, but admitted to numerous connections with women.

His son, who published a book of memoirs in the nineties, claimed that his father almost spoke to himself. Love novels, according to Sergo Beria, did not happen to him, and in general he was an exemplary family man, a loving and understanding father and husband.

The following are several stories from the personal life of the "bloody executioner" (this is how Beria was called after 1953). But it is worth remembering: not many of them are documented. In the stories about Beria's numerous mistresses, perhaps there is a good deal of fiction.

Nina Alekseeva

Sarkisov meticulously recorded data on all the women with whom his boss had relations. In the list of Beria's mistresses, compiled by him, there are 39 names. One of these women is Nina Alekseeva.

Lavrenty Pavlovich was a member of the selection committee of the NKVD ensemble and saw the girl for the first time at an audition, which she told about in her book of memoirs. Photo of Beria's mistress is presented below.

People's Commissar Sarkisov instructed to follow the young artist. According to Alekseeva's memoirs, once a car drove up to her on the street, a man in military uniform looked out of the window. It was Sarkisov who invited her to get into the car. Alekseeva politely refused, then, realizing what Beria's interest in her person is fraught with, hastily left Moscow.

For some time she lived in Kaliningrad. There she got married, gave birth to a child. Upon returning to the capital, she was accepted into the prestigious Moscow orchestra. The concert hall was located near the house of the General Commissioner of State Security. It is not surprising that Beria once saw Alekseev, and then ordered an assistant to bring the girl to his mansion. This time Sarkisov fulfilled the order. This is the story of one of the mistresses of Lavrenty Beria.

Tatiana Okunevskaya

According to the memoirs of the star of Soviet cinema, among her fans were Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the NOAU Kocha Popovich, and Minister of State Security Viktor Abakumov, and, of course, Lavrenty Beria. A photo of the mistress of a man who was nicknamed "the bloody executioner" is well known to fans of old Russian cinema. Okunevskaya played in such films as "Pyshka", "Last Night", "The Mysterious Wanderer". The actress spoke about her relationship with Lavrenty Beria in her autobiographical book "Tatiana's Day".

Sophia Shchirova

In the list of Beria's mistresses, the name of this woman is also there. Unlike most of the victims of the loving commissioner, something is known about her. Sophia was the wife of a pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union. Upon learning that his wife was raped by Beria, this man, being an awkward ten, went into a rage. He began to threaten the People's Commissar, for which he paid with freedom. A case was fabricated against Shchirov, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

There is much less information about other women who became Beria's mistresses against their will. The names and photos of famous actresses presented above are easy to find in publications. But on the account of the commissioner there were more than thirty victims, about whom very little is known. Sarkisov often wrote down the name, age, but did not indicate the girl's surname.

Ballerinas were not only the weakness of Lavrenty Beria. He had an intimate relationship with at least one of the dancers. The People's Commissar gave the girl an apartment, into which she moved with her mother. A naive woman asked Lavrenty Pavlovich about who should be thanked for such a generous gift. Beria joked: "Thank Soviet power!"

Valentina Drozdova

Relatives called her simply Lyalya. A photo of Beria's mistress, who at the time of her acquaintance with the People's Commissar was only 16 years old, is presented below. The schoolgirl became a victim of violence - Beria deceived her into his mansion. In 1949, Lyalya gave birth to a daughter from him. In fact, she became his second wife.

It is noteworthy that after the arrest of Beria, Drozdova wrote a statement of rape. But it happened a few years after they met. Most likely, she was forced to testify against her lover.

Drozdova's personal life did not work out. She was twice in a civil marriage. Both her husbands were shot in the sixties.

Blue Beard

In the years of perestroika, many terrible legends appeared about Stalin's times. In many of them, Lavrenty Beria was the protagonist. This politician especially often appeared on the pages of the yellow press. It was said that he not only raped women, but also killed, and using a terrible method, he let the bodies down the drain. These semi-mystical stories were debunked by the historian, and part-time former KGB officer A. Martirosyan.

After Beria was shot, his family was sent into exile. Nino Gegechkori spent some time in prison. A warden once told a woman that there are more than seven hundred names on the list of her husband's mistresses. Gegechkori was surprised a lot. How did a man who worked 18 hours a day find the time to meet with so many women?

During the war years and in the late forties, Beria headed counterintelligence. He also oversaw all scientific research related to the creation of nuclear weapons. He, of course, was not a monk. But rumors about the commissioner's legion of mistresses are greatly exaggerated.

The mansion overlooking Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, Malaya Nikitskaya and Vspolny lane, built in 1884 for the mayor of Stepan Tarasov, once attracted the almighty Lavrentiy Beria. Since then, ominous rumors have surrounded him. There was a time when the old residents of these places, instinctively muffling their voices, told the horrors about what was happening on the territory of the old manor. This is how a legend has developed, in which truth and fiction can no longer be distinguished.

When workers once dug a pit for a heating plant on Kachalova Street (as Malaya Nikitskaya was called in Soviet times), they stumbled upon bones.
The common grave dates back to the times of Stalinist repressions. But the closer the pit got to the mansion, the more skeletons were dug up. So the rumors about the women raped by Beria and killed on his order were indirectly confirmed.
As Anton Antonov-Ovseenko tells in his book about L. Beria, a stone crusher was found in the basement of the mansion, with the help of which, apparently, the remains of the murdered women were crushed before they were released into the sewer.
According to other sources, a small crematorium was equipped in the courtyard of the estate, in which the bodies of the victims of the executioner-women-lover were burned. In any case, the record of L. Beria's arrest contains an inventory of women's blouses, stockings, combinations, tights, kerchiefs, and scarves seized during a search in his mansion. The "collector", apparently, did not deny himself the pleasure of leaving something in memory of his charming captives.
The childish sizes of some things confirm the rumors that teenage girls often fell prey to the voluptuous marshal. Colonel Rafael Sarkisov supplied sex slaves to his boss. He usually went to negotiations with a lady who liked Lavrenty Pavlovich, politely but persistently asked for a phone number and delivered the guest to the mansion at night.
Beria rudely raped some, treated others and entertained them with conversation - everything depended on the mood and the time available. He was not embarrassed if the woman was married, because he knew that there was no knight in the country who would dare to defend the honor of his wife if she liked such a gentleman.

However, there was at least one exception. In 1944, the "harem" on Vspolny was replenished with another beauty - Sophia Shchirova. She married the ace pilot Sergei Shchirov - Hero of the Soviet Union, who shot down 21 enemy aircraft during the war years and distinguished himself by taking Marshal Josip Broz Tito out of the fascist encirclement in the most difficult mountainous terrain and bad weather.
The honeymoon has not yet ceased, as Beria was flattered by the newlywed. Returning from a business trip on the tenth day after the wedding, Sergei did not find his wife at home. She was brought by a car at two in the morning. The hero dared to defend his wife's honor. Sophia smelled of expensive wine. She did not deny it and, bursting into tears, confessed everything to her husband.
Sharp and direct, Shchirov began to loudly threaten Beria. Soon he was arrested, a case was fabricated against him. The pilot believed that at the trial he would just tell the whole truth about the seducer-rapist. The naive hero did not expect that he would be assigned 25 years in the camps without providing an excuse.
As the head of the security of the chief of the NKVD of the USSR, Colonel Sarkisov, showed later during interrogation in the Prosecutor General's Office, Sofia Shchirova was included in the list of women brought to the mansion at number 117 (in total, the hunter's "trophies" were numbered more than 200, according to other sources - 760, however, Beria's wife Nina Teimurazovna assured that all these women were scouts - agents and informants).
In 1953, immediately after Stalin's death, Shchirov was released. The 37-year-old man, who is fearfully looking around, hunched over, toothless, found his beloved - Sofia, who had already married another, disgustedly slammed the door in front of her ex-husband. The ace pilot got drunk in three years.

Raisa, the housekeeper-Tatar, who served with Beria and for some reason enjoyed his respect, noticing once that the owner was picking up her teenage daughter by the elbow, fearlessly yelled: "Well, let your daughter go, shaitan!" Lavrenty Pavlovich, who did not expect such a rebuff, immediately turned everything into a joke. Raisa later said that under Vspolny Lane there was an underground passage from the estate, where the house guards dragged the torn female bodies. When the underground passage was excavated, dozens of skeletons were removed from it. Beria remained unpunished for many years, until in 1953, during a fierce struggle for power with Nikita Khrushchev, the recent executioner himself turned out to be a victim.