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An obelisk-Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev will appear in the Moscow region in the arms of a nurse Nina Korovyakova.
"Nina reminded him of his front-line passion"
Nina Aleksandrovna Korovyakova spent her last years in complete seclusion. Only the closest knew about her death two years ago. Korovyakova was Brezhnev's personal nurse in the early 1970s. Then she was about forty, Brezhnev - over sixty.
- I worked with Nina Aleksandrovna even before her transfer to Brezhnev in the polyclinic at the 4th Main Directorate, - said Valentina Leleko, the last nurse of the Secretary General, who replaced Korovyakova. - A professional with overestimated ambitions and self-confidence. Grippy, nimble, punchy, proud.
Of course, Leonid Ilyich liked Korovyakova very much, and he did not hide it. That very much annoyed his wife, Victoria Petrovna. According to the recollections of the personal photographer of the General Secretary Vladimir Musaelyan, Korovyakova reminded Leonid Ilyich of his great "military" love, the doctor Tamara, whom Brezhnev brought home from the front! Then the wife asked the "newcomer" to leave the family alone: they say, they have two children. She managed to save her marriage. They say that Brezhnev, seeing off Tamara, ran after the departing train and cried.
Drug story
- I was appointed the personal physician of Leonid Ilyich in 1975, said physician Mikhail Kosyrev. - I was amazed at what role his personal nurse plays for Leonid Ilyich! She removed all the doctors from him. She herself healed her throat, nose, and ears. Toothache was relieved with massages, herbs ... Leonid Ilyich trusted her infinitely.
This nurse was dismissed by the late personal doctor of Brezhnev, Nikolai Rodionov. He was aged, ill, apparently tired of Leonid Ilyich and entrusted him to a nurse. She quickly realized that you can twist the secretary general to your advantage. She knocked out an apartment in Moscow, added her daughter, and achieved her husband's promotion from captain to general. The general secretary went everywhere with her, donated imported rags.
Brezhnev's health was undermined by the sleeping pills that she gave him and on which he became addicted. I talked about this with Evgeny, Chazov (at that time a famous cardiologist). The entire Politburo knew about the nurse. They were unanimous: it should be removed. But so that Leonid Ilyich is not greatly disturbed mentally.
They began to slowly abandon her on trips abroad. In 1976, Korobkova was informed that she was being transferred to another job. She demanded a meeting with Leonid Ilyich. The farewell was arranged in the street. Chazov was holding Brezhnev by the arms, guards were all around. Nina tried to say something, but she was interrupted, and Brezhnev was turned around and taken to the house.
Parting was hard for Brezhnev. He suffered, yearned, asked about Nina. Then he grew old somehow.
She was hired as a dietitian in a special dining room at the 4th Main Directorate, and later she retired. About four years ago I accidentally ran into Nina in a store. I hardly recognized it - a bent old woman.
Andropov's agent
“The story of this nurse was passed on by word of mouth,” retired KGB general Gennady Bazyl said. - I once asked the Brezhnev doctors; how to twist tricks in his 70 years. I was told that he was in order with male functions, not weakened. As I was told, she was a KGB agent. She played the role of an informant - she gave Andropov everything that Brezhnev breathed.
- Ho they say that it was Andropov who ordered to take it off.
- At some stage, it performed its functions well. But it's one thing when an agent in a skirt falls in love with an object, another thing is when she falls in love herself. The KGB received information that Korovyakova began to read, on her own initiative, all the documents that were given to Brezhnev for signature. He consulted with her about state affairs. - And she was going to divorce her husband. Her husband got drunk at social gatherings and said that his wife had an intimate relationship with Brezhnev! It was obvious that we had to quit with this.
"Obelisk of Love"
- I was friends - with Galina Brezhneva, - said the socialite of the Soviet elite Victoria Lazich, now a restaurateur. - Galina said that her father simply changes his face when Nina is near!
Nina Korovyakova suffered for her love, paid with her career. Her personal life did not work out. I could have become rich by publishing a memoir at the border. But she didn’t trade feelings.
- The people who knew the secretary general had the idea to make an obelisk - Brezhnev in the arms of his last beloved woman, - explains Lazic. - I offered to erect a monument in front of the former Kremlin restaurant "Dubrava", which is in the suburbs. Leonid Ilyich himself liked to visit this restaurant, it was built by his order. Then the restaurant fell into disrepair. I bought it, restored it, opened a museum in it.
"How I miss him!"
Nina Korovyakova gave her only interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda. She stated that she did not add Brezhnev to drugs, but gave only those medications that were prescribed to him. She said that she loved him, but was not a mistress in the common sense. And they took her away from Brezhnev by force.
“I cannot tell everything, otherwise they will destroy me,” Korovyakova said then. - I and so remained outside of life, everyone turned away from me. It was not by chance that the husband died in a car accident. But I do not regret that I was next to Leonid Ilyich. How I miss him!
- -And here is what the grandson of the Secretary General Andrei Brezhnev says:
- I knew the nurse Nina Korovyakova. Nice woman. The fact that she was labeled as guilty of her grandfather's drug addiction is nonsense! She couldn't get the sleeping pills herself! It was not sold freely. I think Korovyakova was blamed for mistakes or for the secret intent of high-ranking Kremlin doctors.
No matter how much Brezhnev loved his nurse, it was she who played a fatal, even tragic role in his fate. Brezhnev has suffered from insomnia in recent years. Due to the weak heart of the secretary general, personal doctor Mikhail Kostyrev did not prescribe sleeping pills for him. But then Nina Korovyakova decided to serve Brezhnev again.
Until now, no one knows where the nurse obtained the potent drugs of the narcotic spectrum, but the supply has not been interrupted for many years. After Brezhnev's death, it was rumored in the Politburo that she was Andropov's agent and had deliberately driven the aging general secretary into the coffin. Brezhnev developed an addiction that everyone knew about. The cardiologist warned that his heart gave out badly and he needed to stop taking sleeping pills.
After that, the confidants separated the secretary general from the nurse. She was transferred to the dining room at the General Administration, where Nina Aleksandrovna worked until her retirement as a nutritionist. Brezhnev was very upset about parting with his dear Nina, yearned and constantly asked about her. Many noticed that after she left, he immediately gave up, grew old overnight, and soon died. So if not medicines, then parting with this femme fatale cost the secretary general his life.
No matter how much Brezhnev loved his nurse, it was she who played a fatal, even tragic role in his fate. Brezhnev has suffered from insomnia in recent years. Due to the weak heart of the secretary general, personal doctor Mikhail Kostyrev did not prescribe sleeping pills for him. But then Nina Korovyakova decided to serve Brezhnev again.
Until now, no one knows where the nurse obtained the potent drugs of the narcotic spectrum, but the supply has not been interrupted for many years. After Brezhnev's death, it was rumored in the Politburo that she was Andropov's agent and had deliberately driven the aging general secretary into the coffin. Brezhnev developed an addiction that everyone knew about. The cardiologist warned that his heart gave out badly and he needed to stop taking sleeping pills.
After that, the confidants separated the secretary general from the nurse. She was transferred to the dining room at the General Administration, where Nina Aleksandrovna worked until her retirement as a nutritionist. Brezhnev was very upset about parting with his dear Nina, yearned and constantly asked about her. Many noticed that after she left, he immediately gave up, grew old overnight, and soon died. So if not medicines, then parting with this femme fatale cost the secretary general his life.