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Kremlin princess Galina: Leonid Brezhnev's only daughter changed men, got drunk in psychiatry - Lifee.cz<

Galina married for the first time in 1951 at the age of 22. Leonid Brezhnev was then the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova. Galina studied philology at Chisinau State University. She met her future husband in a traveling circus. It was Yevgeny Milayev, an acrobat and strongman. A widower, twenty years older. At that time, Leonid first began to tear his hair out from Galina's love escapades. He said that he was watching the events in the country with one eye and Galina with the other.

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Galina Brezhneva and her men

When Galina returned after a year's stint with the circus, she little Victoria around her parents' neck. She accompanied her husband every step of the way. And thanks to her position, Yevgeny began to prosper. He was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor and later became the director of the Moscow Circus. However, the marriage fell apart due to his infidelity.

But Galina definitely did not plan to stay alone. At the age of thirty-three, the illusionist Igor Kio, who was half her age, became her chosen one. That was a very bitter pill for Leonid to swallow. Galina did not improve at all, on the contrary. They got married in Sochi, where Igor was performing. Brezhnev did not hesitate and sent KGB officers to the hotel, who tore up their marriage certificate. The official cancellation took place over the next few days. However, Galina met Igor for another three years.

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Leonid Brezhnev's troubles

Galina's stormy love life brought men with funny eyebrows to madness. He himself was faithful to his wife Viktoria all his life, at least formally. The psychic Wolfgang Messing became the last possibility to correct the failed daughter. The General Secretary asked him for a supernatural intervention. Galina should have found a decent man with a suitable profession. Just, for God's sake, no artist.

It is not known if the magic actually worked, however, Galina found a prison service officer, Yuri Churbanov. Because of her, he even divorced and left two children. And not to. Within a short time, he ended up as a deputy at the Ministry of the Interior with the rank of colonel general. But Galina was not happy in the relationship, she still thought of bohemian types. She started a romance with the great ballet dancer Maris Lijep and the circus performer Boris Buriac.

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Diamond Mafia

Galina Brezhneva loved dancing on tables and expensive jewelry. After Leonid's death, it became clear that she had incurred debts, as she had also paid with promissory notes, in the amount of 800,000 rubles. For comparison, the monthly salary of an engineer at that time was a maximum of 150 rubles. But after a while she stopped enjoying it.

Together with several friends and the circus performer Buriac, she created the so-called diamond mafia, which obtained precious things illegally. Apparently, she was also involved in the brutal murder of actress Zoya Fedorová. The perpetrators were never found, but the actress' ring appeared on Galina's finger.

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The sad end of Galina Brezhneva

With the advent of perestroika in 1985, pro Hard times for Galina. Her husband was accused of corruption and abuse of power, he could no longer protect her. She divorced him six years later. Due to her long-term addiction to alcohol, she also struggled with relapses. Viktoria's daughter got fed up one day and had her transferred to a psychiatric hospital. Galina Brezhneva died there four years later, at the end of June 1998. She was 69 years old.

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Sources of information: Wikipedia.org: Leonid Brezhnev, Galina Brezhnev Ciekawostkihistoryczne.pl: Galina – księżniczka from the Kremlin