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Article: OBITUARY: Victoria Brezhnev
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 11, 1995
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Victoria Brezhnev was the widow of the Russian president Leonid
Brezhnev and for the 54 years of their marriage his true and
forgiving friend.
Her kingdom was their main dacha (Brezhnev's favourite dacha was
another at Zavidovo), a three-storey building at Zarechye, west of
Moscow, 10 minutes from the Kremlin, where she controlled some 20
houseboys, all of them KGB officers, among whom her favourites were
Vladimir Medvedev, Brezhnev's personal bodyguard, and Tolya, his
hairdresser for his last 15 years.
When Victoria Petrovna was born in Kursk during the reign of the
last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, it was a provincial town with fewer
than 100,000 inhabitants. She was one of five children of ...