Nikolai Vlasik was born. Bodyguard of Stalin. The real story of Nikolai Vlasik. Vlasik’s “know-how”, or what security measures the chief bodyguard has developed

Wherever Stalin was, the faithful Vlasik was closest to him. Submitting to the leadership of the NKGB, and then the MGB, General Vlasik, who had three classes of education, was always close to Stalin, in fact being a member of his family, and the leader often consulted with him on state security matters. This could not but cause irritation in the leadership of the ministry, especially since Vlasik often spoke negatively about his superiors. He was arrested in the “doctors’ case,” which was discontinued after Stalin’s death and all those arrested were released - all except Vlasik. He was interrogated more than a hundred times during the investigation. The charges included espionage, preparation of terrorist attacks, and anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. Moreover, for each of the charges he faced a considerable prison sentence. They “pressed” 56-year-old Nikolai Sidorovich in Lefortovo in a sophisticated manner - they kept him in handcuffs, a bright lamp was burning in the cell around the clock, they were not allowed to sleep, they were summoned for interrogation, and even behind the wall they constantly played a record with heart-rending children’s crying. They even staged a mock execution (Vlasik writes about this in his diary). But he behaved well and did not lose his sense of humor. In any case, in one of the protocols he gives the following “confession” testimony: “I really cohabited with many women, drank alcohol with them and the artist Stenberg, but all this happened at the expense of my personal health and in my free time from service.”
And Stalin’s personal bodyguard had plenty of strength. They tell the following story. One day, a young state security operative unexpectedly recognized in the crowd on a Moscow street a strong man dressed in an excellent coat as the head of the Main Security Directorate (GUO) of the USSR Ministry of State Security, Lieutenant General Vlasik. The operative noticed that a suspicious guy was hanging around him, obviously a pickpocket, and began to quickly move towards the general. But, as he approached, he saw that the thief had already put his hand in Vlasik’s pocket, and he suddenly put his powerful hand on the coat on top of the pocket and squeezed the thief’s hand so that, as the operative said, the crack of breaking bones could be heard. He wanted to detain the pickpocket, who was white with pain, but Vlasik winked at him, shook his head negatively and said: “There’s no need to jail him, he won’t be able to steal anymore.”

It is noteworthy that Vlasik was removed from his position on April 29, 1952 - less than 10 months before the murder of I.V. Stalin. The adopted daughter of Nikolai Sidorovich, in her interview with the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper on May 7, 2003, noted “that his father would not have let him die.” This interview, as we will see below, turned out to have sad consequences for her.
Here's what Irina Shpyrkova, an employee of the Slonim Museum of Local Lore, said:
- Nikolai Sidorovich’s personal belongings were transferred to the museum by his adopted daughter, his own niece Nadezhda Nikolaevna (he did not have any children of his own). This lonely woman spent her entire life trying to rehabilitate the general.
In 2000, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dropped all charges against Nikolai Vlasik. He was rehabilitated posthumously, restored to his rank, and his awards were returned to his family. These are three Orders of Lenin, four Orders of the Red Banner, Orders of the Red Star and Kutuzov, four medals, two honorary Chekist badges.
“At that time,” says Irina Shpyrkova, “we contacted Nadezhda Nikolaevna. We agreed to transfer awards and personal belongings to our museum. She agreed, and in the summer of 2003 our employee went to Moscow.
But everything turned out like in a detective story. An article about Vlasik was published in Moskovsky Komsomolets. Many called Nadezhda Nikolaevna. One of the callers identified himself as Alexander Borisovich, a lawyer and representative of State Duma deputy Demin. He promised to help the woman return Vlasik’s priceless personal photo archive.
The next day he came to Nadezhda Nikolaevna, allegedly to draw up documents. I asked for tea. The hostess left, and when she returned to the room, the guest suddenly prepared to leave. She never saw him again, nor did she see the general’s 16 medals and orders, or the general’s gold watch...
Nadezhda Nikolaevna only had the Order of the Red Banner left, which she donated to the Slonim Museum of Local Lore. And also two pieces of paper from my father’s notebook.

Here is a list of all the awards that disappeared from Nadezhda Nikolaevna (except for one Order of the Red Banner):
St. George's Cross 4th degree
3 Orders of Lenin (04/26/1940, 02/21/1945, 09/16/1945)
3 Orders of the Red Banner (08/28/1937, 09/20/1943, 11/3/1944)
Order of the Red Star (05/14/1936)
Order of Kutuzov, 1st degree (02/24/1945)
Medal of the XX years of the Red Army (02/22/1938)
2 badges Honorary Worker of the Cheka-GPU (12/20/1932, 12/16/1935)

General N.S. Vlasik occupied a special place in the family of I.V. Stalin. He was not just the head of security, under whose vigilant eye was the entire Stalinist house. After the death of N. S. Alliluyeva, he was also a teacher of children, an organizer of their leisure time, and an economic and financial manager.

In the Soviet and foreign press, with the light hand of Svetlana Alliluyeva, he will be called Nikolai Sergeevich, a rude martinet, a rude and domineering chief of security who has been close to Stalin since 1919. Is this all true? Let's look at some archival documents.

“I, Vlasik Nikolai Sidorovich, born in 1896, native of the village of Bobynichi, Slonim district, Baranovichi region, Belarusian, member of the CPSU since 1918, lieutenant general,” he wrote in his autobiography. - Was awarded three Orders of Lenin, four Orders of the Red Banner, Kutuzov I degree, medals: “20 years of the Red Army”, “For the defense of Moscow”, “For victory over Germany”, “In memory of the 800th anniversary of Moscow”, “30 years” Soviet army and Navy,” I have the honorary title “Honorary Security Officer,” which was awarded to me twice with a badge.

N.S. Vlasik appeared in the guard of I.V. Stalin in 1931. Before that he served in the Cheka-OGPU. Menzhinsky recommended him for this post. Until 1932, his role was invisible. Stalin preferred to move around the city without security, and even more so in the Kremlin.

The main thing in his activity was the protection of the dacha. Since 1934, the staff at the dacha began to change, and all those newly admitted were enrolled in the staff of the OGPU, and then the NKVD, conferring military ranks. Left without a wife, Stalin, with the help of Vlasik, began to improve his life. The dacha in Zubalovo was left to Sergei Yakovlevich Alliluyev and his wife, where the commandant was Sergei Aleksandrovich Efimov. The dacha in Kuntsevo, the old estate along the Dmitrovskoe highway - Lipki, dachas in Ritsa, Crimea, and Valdai were subordinated, along with the security staff, maids, housekeepers and cooks to Vlasik.

Two people lasted the longest in protecting Stalin's family - Svetlana Bychkova's nanny and Vlasik himself. The rest changed. For almost six years, the cousin of L.P. Beria’s wife, Major Alexandra Nikolaevna Nakashidze, worked as a housekeeper, who went to the theaters with the children, checked their homework and reported this to Vlasik. Children were transported to and from school by car, accompanied by security officers, and this applied to everyone - Yakov, Vasily and Svetlana. This function was performed by I. I. Krivenko, M. N. Klimov and others.

Busy as servants to Stalin's family, the guards lived well, did not stay in rank, and there were no problems with food or housing. With rare exceptions, they received all this quickly.

After appearing in Moscow, A. N. Nakashidze quickly became a major and brought her mother, father, sister and two brothers closer to her, who received apartments and dachas.

All security personnel were provided with special food rations. This issue was sanctioned by I.V. Stalin himself and a special decision of the Council of Ministers.

Almost all the everyday problems of the head of state lay on the shoulders of N.S. Vlasik. In 1941, due to the possibility of the fall of Moscow, he was sent to Kuibyshev. He was entrusted with overseeing the preparation of conditions for the government to move here. The direct executor in Kuibyshev was the head of the main construction department of the NKVD, General L. B. Safrazyan.

A large regional committee building, several colossal bomb shelters and dachas on the banks of the Volga were prepared for I.V. Stalin in Kuibyshev, and for children - a mansion on Pionerskaya Street with a courtyard where the museum used to be located.

Everywhere N.S. Vlasik was able to almost exactly recreate the Moscow environment that Stalin loved. The children of government members studied in a special school here.

Stalin's first grandson, Sasha, the son of Vasily, was also born in Kuibyshev.

Children and relatives watched films and newsreels right at home, in the hallway, for which Vlasik received praise. Did Vlasik manage to become a skilled guardian for Stalin’s children and was he a good assistant to the latter? Judging by the memories of children and grandchildren, then no.

On December 15, 1952, he was arrested. At this time he held the position of head of the Main Security Directorate of the Ministry state security THE USSR. The trial took place on January 17, 1955. The materials of the court case give us the opportunity to understand the life, character, personality, and moral character of Vlasik, the officials around him and his so-called friends.

Presiding Judge: Accused Vlasik, do you plead guilty to the charges brought against you and do you understand them?

Vlasik: I understand the accusation. I admit myself guilty, but I declare that I had no intent in what I did.

Chairman: Since when and for what time did you hold the position of head of the Main Security Directorate of the former Ministry of State Security of the USSR?

Vlasik: From 1947 to 1952.

presiding officer; What were your job responsibilities?

Vlasik: Ensuring the protection of party and government leaders.

Chairman: This means that you were given special confidence by the Central Committee and the government. How did you justify this trust?

Vlasik: I took all measures to ensure this.

Chairman: Did you know Stenberg?

Vlasik: Yes, I knew him.

Chairman: When did you meet him?

Vlasik: I don’t remember exactly, but this dates back to approximately 1934-1935. I knew that he was working on decorating Red Square for the holidays. At first, our meetings with him were quite rare.

Chairman: Were you already part of the government security force at that time?

Vlasik: Yes, I was assigned to government security since 1931.

Chairman: How did you meet Stenberg?

Vlasik: At that time I was courting a girl. Her last name is Spirina. This was after I separated from my wife. Spirina then lived in an apartment on the same staircase with the Stenbergs. Once, when I was at Spirina’s, Stenberg’s wife came in and we were introduced to her. After some time, we went to the Stenbergs, where I met Stenberg himself.

Chairman: What brought you and Stenberg together?

Vlasik: Of course, the rapprochement was based on drinking together and meeting women.

Chairman: Did he have a comfortable apartment for this?

Vlasik: I visited him very rarely.

Chairman: Did you have official conversations in the presence of Stenberg?

Vlasik: The individual official conversations that I had to conduct on the phone in Stenberg’s presence did not give him anything, since I usually conducted them in very monosyllables, answering “yes” and “no” over the phone. There was once a case when, in the presence of Stenberg, I was forced to talk with one of the deputy ministers. This conversation concerned the issue of setting up one airfield. I then said that this issue did not concern me, and suggested that he contact the head of the Air Force.

Presiding Judge: I read out your testimony given at the preliminary investigation on February 11, 1953:

“I must admit that I turned out to be such a careless and politically narrow-minded person that during these revelries, in the presence of Stenberg and his wife, I had official conversations with the leadership of the MGB, and also gave service instructions to my subordinates.”

Do you confirm this testimony?

Vlasik: I signed this testimony during the investigation, but there is not a single word of mine in it. All this is the investigator’s formulation.

I said at the investigation that I did not deny the facts that I had official conversations with Stenberg on the phone during drinks, but I stated that nothing could be understood from these conversations. In addition, please take into account that Stenberg worked for many years on the design of Red Square and knew a lot about the work of the MGB.

Chairman: You state that your words are not in the protocol. Does this apply only to the episode we are examining or to the whole case as a whole?

Vlasik: No, it can’t be assessed that way. The fact that I do not deny my guilt in the fact that I had conversations of an official nature on the phone in the presence of Stenberg, I stated this during the investigation. I also said that these conversations may have touched on issues that could be familiar to Stenberg, and he could learn something from them. But the investigator recorded my testimony in his own words, in a slightly different formulation than the one I gave during interrogations. Moreover, investigators Rodionov and Novikov did not give me the opportunity to make any corrections to the protocols they recorded.

Chairman: Was there a time when you spoke with the head of government in the presence of Stenberg?

Vlasik: Yes, such cases occurred. True, the conversation boiled down only to my answers to the questions of the head of government, and Stenberg, besides the person I was talking to, could not understand anything from this conversation.

Chairman: Did you call the head of government by his first name, patronymic or last name?

Vlasik: During the conversation, I called him by his last name.

Chairman: What was this conversation about?

Vlasik: The conversation was about a package that was sent to the head of government from the Caucasus. I sent this parcel to the laboratory for analysis. The analysis took time, and, naturally, the parcel was delayed for some time. Someone reported to him that the parcel had been received. As a result of this, he called me, began to ask the reasons for the delay in the delivery of the parcel to him, began to scold me for the delay and demanded that the parcel be immediately transferred to him. I replied that I would now check what the situation was and report to him.

Chairperson: Where did this conversation come from?

Vlasik: From my country dacha.

Chairman: Did you make the phone call yourself or were you called to him?

Vlasik: They called me to the phone.

Chairman: But you could, knowing who the conversation would be with, remove Stenberg from the room.

Vlasik: Yes, of course, I could. And, it seems, even I closed the door to the room from which I was conducting the conversation.

Presiding Officer: How many times have you given Stenberg a seat on an official plane owned by the Security Directorate?

Vlasik: It seems like twice.

Chairman: Did you have the right to do this?

Vlasik: Yes, I did.

Chairman: Was this provided for by any instruction, regulation or order?

Vlasik; No. There were no special instructions in this regard. But I considered it possible to allow Stenberg to fly on the plane, since it was going on the flight empty. Poskrebyshev did the same, granting the right to fly in this plane to Central Committee employees.

Chairman: Doesn’t this mean that, in particular, your friendly and friendly relations with Stenberg took precedence over official duty?

Vlasik: It turns out like this.

Chairman: Did you issue passes to your friends and live-in partners to enter Red Square during parades?

Vlasik: Yes, he did.

Chairman: Do you admit that this was an abuse of power on your part?

Vlasik: Then I didn’t attach much importance to it. Now I regard this as an abuse committed by me. But please take into account that I only gave passes to people I knew well.

Chairman: But did you give a pass to Red Square to a certain Nikolaeva, who was connected with foreign journalists?

Vlasik: I only now realized that I had committed a crime by giving her a pass, although at the time I didn’t attach any importance to it and believed that nothing bad could happen.

Chairman: Did you give your partner Gradusova and her husband Schrager tickets to the stands of the Dynamo stadium?

Vlasik: Yes.

Chairman: And where exactly?

Vlasik: I don’t remember.

Chairman: I remind you that, using the tickets you gave, they ended up on the stands of the Dynamo stadium in the sector where the senior officials of the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers were located. And then they called you about this, expressing bewilderment at this fact. Do you remember this?

Vlasik: Yes, I remember this fact. But nothing bad could happen as a result of such my actions.

Chairman: Did you have the right to do so?

Vlasik: Now I understand that I had no right and should not have done this.

Chairman: Tell me, have you, Stenberg and your cohabitants been to the boxes intended to protect the government, those available at the Bolshoi Theater and others?

Vlasik: Yes, I was at the Bolshoi Theater once or twice. Stenberg and his wife and Gradusova were there with me. In addition, we were two or three times at the Vakhtangov Theater, Operetta Theater, etc.

Chairman: Did you explain to them that these boxes are intended for security personnel of government members?

Vlasik: No. Knowing who I am, they could have guessed it themselves.

“Stenberg and his cohabitants were not only not supposed to be in these lodges, but also to know about them. I, having lost all sense of vigilance, visited these lodges with them myself and, moreover, committing a crime, repeatedly gave instructions to let Stenberg and his cohabitants into the boxes for the secretaries of the Central Committee in my absence.”

This is right? Were there such cases?

Vlasik: Yes, they were. But I must say that members of the government have never been to such places as the Operetta Theater, the Vakhtangov Theater, the circus, etc.

Chairman: Did you show Stenberg and your cohabitants the films you made about the head of government?

Vlasik: This took place. But I believed that if these films were made by me, then I had the right to show them. Now I understand that I shouldn't have done this.

Chairman: Did you show them the government dacha on Lake Ritsa?

Vlasik: Yes, he showed it from afar. But I want the court to understand me correctly. After all, Lake Ritsa is a place that, on the instructions of the head of government, was provided to thousands of people who came there on an excursion. I was specifically given the task of organizing the procedure for excursionists to see the sights of this place. In particular, boat rides were organized, and these boats kept their route in close proximity to the location of the government dachas, and, of course, all the excursionists, at least most of them, knew where the government dacha was located.

Chairman: But not all the excursionists knew which dacha belonged to the head of government, and you told Stenberg and your cohabitants about this.

Vlasik: All the excursionists knew her whereabouts, which is confirmed by numerous intelligence materials that I had at that time.

Chairman: What other secret information did you divulge in conversations with Stenberg?

Vlasik: None.

Chairman: What did you tell him about the fire at Voroshilov’s dacha and about the materials that were lost there?

Vlasik: I don’t remember exactly about this, but a conversation about it took place. When I once asked Stenberg for light bulbs for the Christmas tree, I somehow incidentally told him what happens when the electric lighting of a Christmas tree is handled carelessly.

Chairman: Did you tell him about what exactly died in this fire?

Vlasik: It is possible that I told him that valuable historical photographic documents were lost in a fire at the dacha.

Chairman: Did you have the right to inform him about this?

Vlasik: No, of course he didn’t. But I didn’t attach any importance to it then.

Chairman: Did you tell Stenberg that in 1941 you went to Kuibyshev to prepare apartments for members of the government?

Vlasik: Stenberg also returned from Kuibyshev at that time, and we had a conversation about my trip to Kuibyshev, but I don’t remember what exactly I told him.

Chairman: You told Stenberg how you once had to organize a deception of one of the foreign ambassadors, who wanted to check whether Lenin’s body was in the Mausoleum, for which he brought a wreath to the Mausoleum.

Vlasik: I don’t remember exactly, but there was some conversation about it.

“I blurted out secret information to Stenberg only because of my carelessness. For example, during the war years, when Lenin’s body was taken out of Moscow, one of the foreign ambassadors, deciding to check whether it was in Moscow, came to lay a wreath at the Mausoleum. I was informed about this by telephone at the dacha when Stenberg was with me.

After talking on the phone, I told Stenberg about this incident and said that in order to deceive the ambassador, I had to accept the wreath and set up a guard of honor at the Mausoleum.

There were other similar cases, but I don’t remember them, because I didn’t attach any importance to these conversations and considered Stenberg an honest person.”

Are your readings correct?

Vlasik: I told the investigator that there may have been a case when they called me on the phone. But I don’t remember whether Stenberg was present during the conversation on this topic.

Chairman: Did you tell Stenberg about the organization of security during the Potsdam Conference?

Vlasik: No. I didn't tell him about this. When I arrived from Potsdam, I showed Stenberg a film that I had shot in Potsdam during the conference. Since in this film I was filmed in close proximity to the person being guarded, he could not help but understand that I was in charge of organizing the security.

Presiding Judge: Accused Vlasik, tell me, did you reveal three MGB secret agents to Stenberg - Nikolaev, Grivova and Vyazantseva?

Vlasik: I told him about Vyazantseva’s annoying behavior and at the same time expressed the idea that she might be connected with the police.

“I only know from Vlasik that my friend Galina Nikolaevna Grivova (who works in the Moscow City Council External Design Trust) is an agent of the MGB, and also that his partner Vyazantseva Valentina (I don’t know her middle name) also collaborates with the MGB.

Vlasik didn’t tell me anything more about the work of the MGB bodies.”

Vlasik: I told Stenberg that Vyazantseva called me on the phone every day and asked me to meet with her. Based on this and the fact that she worked in some kind of food tent, I told Stenberg that she was a “big talker” and, in all likelihood, was cooperating with the criminal investigation department. But I didn’t tell Stenberg that she was a secret agent of the MGB, because I didn’t know about it myself. I must say that I knew Vyazantseva as a little girl.

Chairman: Did you show Stenberg the intelligence file on him that was conducted by the MGB?

Vlasik: This is not entirely true. In 1952, after returning from a business trip from the Caucasus, the deputy called me to his place. Minister of State Security Ryasnoy and gave an undercover file on Stenberg. At the same time, he said that in this case there is material about me, in particular, about my official conversations on the phone. Ryasnoy told me to familiarize myself with this case and remove from it what I considered necessary. I was not familiar with the whole matter. I only read the certificate - a submission to the Central Committee for the arrest of Stenberg and his wife. After that, I went to Minister Ignatiev and demanded that he make a decision regarding me. Ignatiev told me that I should call Stenbert and warn him about the need to stop all meetings with inappropriate people. He ordered the file to be archived and in case of any conversation about this, to refer to his instructions. I called Stenberg and told him that a case had been opened against him. Then he showed him a photograph of one woman in the case and asked if he knew her. After that, I asked him several questions, inquiring about his meetings with various people, including a meeting with one foreign correspondent. Stenberg replied that he met him by chance at the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station and never saw him again. When I told him that the file contained materials indicating that he had met with this correspondent in Moscow, already being acquainted with me, Stenberg began to cry. I asked him the same thing about Nikolaeva. Stenberg began to cry again. After that, I took Stenberg to my dacha. There, to calm him down, I offered him a drink of cognac . He agreed. He and I drank one or two glasses each and started playing billiards.

I never told anyone about this matter. When I was removed from my post, I sealed Stenberg’s file in a bag and returned it to Ryasnoy, without removing a single piece of paper from it.

“When I showed up late in the evening at the end of April 1952, upon Vlasik’s summons, to his service in the building of the USSR Ministry of State Security, he, offering me a cigarette, told me: “I must arrest you, you are a spy.” When I asked what this meant, Vlasik said, pointing to a voluminous folder lying on the table in front of him: “Here are all the documents for you collected.” Your wife, as well as Stepanov, are also American spies.” Further, Vlasik told me that Nikolaeva Olga Sergeevna (Vlasik called her Lyalka) during interrogation at the MGB testified that I allegedly visited embassies with her, and also visited restaurants with foreigners. Nikolaeva’s testimony was read to me by Vlasik; it talked about some Volodya, with whom Nikolaeva, along with foreigners, visited restaurants.

Flipping through the voluminous folder, Vlasik showed me a photocopy of the document about my transition to Soviet citizenship. At the same time, he asked if I was a Swedish subject. I immediately reminded Vlasik that at one time I told him in detail both about myself and about my parents. In particular, I then informed Vlasik that until 1933 I was a Swedish subject, that in 1922 I traveled abroad with the Chamber Theater, that my father left the Soviet Union for Sweden and died there, etc.

Looking through the materials for me, Vlasik showed me a photograph of Filippova and asked who she was. In addition, I saw a number of photographs in this case. Vlasik also asked if my wife Nadezhda Nikolaevna Stenberg and I were familiar with the American Lyons; whether my brother knew Yagoda, who gave me a recommendation when becoming a Soviet citizen, etc.

At the end of this conversation, Vlasik said that he was transferring the case against me to another department (Vlasik named this department, but it was not preserved in my memory), and asked me not to tell anyone about the summons to him and the content of the conversation.

...Vlasik told me that “they wanted to arrest you (meaning me, my wife, Nadezhda Nikolaevna, and Stepanov), but my boyfriend intervened in this matter and delayed your arrest.”

Is the witness's testimony correct?

Vlasik: They are not entirely accurate. I have already shown the court how it all really happened.

Presiding Officer: But you told Stenberg that only your intervention prevented the arrest of him and his wife.

Vlasik: No, that didn’t happen.

Chairman: But by showing Stenberg the materials of the intelligence file against him, you thereby revealed the working methods of the MGB agencies.

Vlasik: Then I did not understand this and did not take into account the full importance of the offense.

Chairman: Did you tell Stenberg that the Potsdam Conference was being prepared before everyone knew it officially?

Vlasik: No, that didn’t happen.

Presiding Judge: Accused Vlasik, did you keep secret documents in your apartment?

Vlasik: I was going to compile an album in which the life and work of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin would be reflected in photographs and documents, and therefore I had some data for this in my apartment. In addition, I was found with an agent note about the work of the Sochi city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and materials concerning the organization of security in Potsdam. I thought that these documents were not particularly confidential, but, as I see now, I had to deposit some of them with the MGB. I kept them locked in desk drawers, and my wife made sure that no one climbed into the drawers.

Presiding: Accused Vlasik, you are presented with a topographic map of the Caucasus marked “secret”. Do you admit that you had no right to keep this card in the apartment?

Vlasik: Then I didn’t consider it secret.

Chairman: You are presented with a topographic map of Potsdam with points marked on it and the conference security system. Could you keep such a document in your apartment?

Vlasik: Yes, I couldn’t. I forgot to return this card after returning from Potsdam, and it was in my desk drawer.

Chairman: I present to you a map of the Moscow region marked “secret”. Where did you keep it?

Vlasik: In a desk drawer in my apartment on Gorky Street, in the same place where the rest of the documents were found.

Chairman: Where was the agent note about the people living on Metrostroevskaya Street, the agent note about the work of the Sochi city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, government train schedules kept?

Vlasik: All this was kept together in a desk drawer in my apartment.

Chairman: How do you know that these documents were not the subject of inspection by anyone?

Vlasik: This is impossible.

Chairman: Are you familiar with the expert opinion on these documents?

Vlasik: Yes, I know him.

Chairman: Do you agree with the conclusions of the examination?

Vlasik: Yes, now I realized all this very well.

Presiding Judge: Show the court how, using your official position, you used products from the kitchen of the head of government to your advantage?

Vlasik: I don’t want to make excuses for this. But we were placed in such conditions that sometimes we had to ignore costs in order to provide food at a certain time. Every day we were faced with the fact of changing the time of his meal, and in connection with this, some of the previously prepared products remained unused. We sold these products to service personnel. After unhealthy conversations around this arose among employees, I was forced to limit the circle of people who used the products. Now I understand that, given the difficult times of the war, I should not have allowed these products to be used in this way.

Chairman: But your crime is not only this? You sent a car to the government dacha to buy food and cognac for yourself and your cohabitants?

Vlasik: Yes, there were such cases. But I sometimes paid money for these products. True, there were cases that they were delivered to me for free.

Chairman: This is theft.

Vlasik: No, this is an abuse of one’s position. After I received a remark from the head of government, I stopped it.

Chairman: Since when did your moral and everyday decay begin?

Vlasik: In matters of service, I was always on the spot. Drinking and meeting women was at the expense of my health and during my free time. I admit that I have had a lot of women.

Chairman: Did the head of government warn you about the inadmissibility of such behavior?

Vlasik: Yes. In 1950 he told me that I was abusing women.

Member of the court Kovalenko: Did you know Sarkisov?

Vlasik: Yes, he was attached to Beria as a guard.

Member of the court Rybkin: Did he tell you that Beria is debauched?

Vlasik: This is a lie.

Member of the court Rybkin: But you admitted the fact that you were once informed that Sarkisov was looking for suitable women on the streets and then taking them to Beria.

Vlasik: Yes, I received intelligence materials about this and passed them on to Abakumov. Abakumov took upon himself the conversation with Sarkisov, and I avoided this, because I believed that it was not my place to interfere in this, since everything was connected with the name of Beria.

Member of the court Rybkin: You testified that when Sarkisov reported to you about Beria’s depravity, you told him that there was no point in interfering in Beria’s personal life, but that it was necessary to protect him. Did this take place?

Vlasik: No, that's a lie. Neither Sarkisov nor Nadaraya reported this to me. Sarkisov once turned to me with a request to allocate him a car for business needs, citing the fact that he sometimes had to use a “tail” car when carrying out Beria’s assignment. What exactly this machine was needed for is unknown to me.

Member of the court Rybkin: Defendant Vlasik, how could you allow a huge overspending of public funds under your management?

Vlasik: I must say that my literacy suffers greatly. My entire education consists of 3 classes at a rural parish school. I did not understand anything about financial matters, and therefore my deputy was in charge of this. He repeatedly assured me that “everything is fine.”

I must also say that every event we planned was approved by the Council of Ministers of the USSR and only after that was carried out.

Member of the court Rybkin: What can you show the court about the use of free rations by security department employees?

Vlasik: We discussed this issue several times, and after the head of government gave instructions to improve the financial situation of security officers, we left it as it was before. But the Council of Ministers made a special decision on this matter, and I, for my part, considered this situation to be correct, since security workers were away from home more than half the time a week and it would be inappropriate to deprive their families of rations because of this. I remember that I raised the question of conducting an audit of the 1st department of the security department. At the direction of Merkulov, a commission chaired by Serov carried out this audit, but no abuses were found.

Member of the court Rybkin: How often did you go on carousings with women you knew?

Vlasik: There were no revelries. I was always on the spot for work.

Member of the court Rybkin: Did the shooting take place during the revelry?

Vlasik: I don’t remember such a case.

Member of the court Rybkin: Tell me, did you conduct official conversations on the phone in the presence of Stenberg from your apartment or from his?

Vlasik: The conversations were both from my apartment and from his. But I considered Stenberg a reliable person who knew a lot about our work.

“In the presence of Stenberg, from his apartment, I repeatedly had official conversations with the duty officer at the Main Security Directorate, which sometimes related to the movement of government members, and I also remember, from Stenberg’s apartment, I talked on the phone with the Deputy Minister of State Security about the construction of a new airfield in the vicinity of Moscow.” .

Vlasik: This is the investigator’s wording. In my official telephone conversations that took place in the presence of Stenberg, I very limited my statements.

Court member Kovalenko: Do ​​you know Erman?

Vlasik: Yes, I know.

Member of the court Kovalenko: What kind of conversation did you have with him about the routes and departures of the protected person?

Vlasik: I didn’t talk to him about this topic. Besides, he himself is an old security officer and knew all this perfectly well without me.

Member of the court Kovalenko: For what purpose did you keep a diagram of the access roads to the Blizhnaya dacha in your apartment?

Vlasik: This is not a diagram of access roads to the dacha, but a diagram of the internal routes of the dacha. Even during the Patriotic War, the head of government, walking around the territory of the dacha, personally introduced his own amendments to this scheme. Therefore, I saved it as a historical document, and the whole point was that with the old arrangement of the exit routes from the dacha, the headlights of the cars hit Poklonnaya Gora and thereby immediately revealed the moment the car was leaving.

Member of the court Kovalenko: Were his instructions carried out as indicated in the diagram?

Vlasik: Yes, but I declare once again that all these paths were inside the dacha, behind two fences.

Member of the court Kovalenko: Did you know Shcherbakova?

Vlasik: Yes, he knew and was in close contact with her.

Court member Kovalenko: Did you know that she had connections with foreigners?

Vlasik: I found out about this later.

Court member Kovalenko: But even after learning this, they continued to meet with her?

Vlasik: Yes, he continued.

Member of the court Kovalenko: How can you explain that you, having been a member of the party since 1918, have reached such filth both in official matters and in relation to moral and political decay?

Vlasik: I find it difficult to explain this with anything, but I declare that in official matters I was always in place.

Member of the court Kovalenko: How do you explain your action, which was that you showed Stenberg his intelligence file?

Vlasik: I acted on the basis of Ignatiev’s instructions and, frankly, did not attach any special importance to this.

Member of the court Kovalenko: Why did you take the path of stealing trophy property?

Vlasik: Now I understand that all this belonged to the state. I had no right to turn anything to my advantage. But then such a situation was created... Beria arrived and gave permission for the security management to purchase some things. We made a list of what we needed, paid money, received these things. In particular, I paid about 12 thousand rubles. I admit that I took some of the things for free, including a piano, grand piano, etc.

Presiding Officer: Comrade Commandant, invite witness Ivanskaya to the hall.

Witness Ivanskaya, show the court what you know about Vlasik and his case?

Ivanskaya: It seems that in May 1938, my acquaintance, NKVD officer Okunev, introduced me to Vlasik. I remember they came to see me in a car, there was another girl with him, and we all went to Vlasik’s dacha. Before reaching the dacha, we decided to have a picnic in a clearing in the forest. This is how my acquaintance with Vlasik began. Our meetings continued until 1939. In 1939 I got married. Okunev continued to call me periodically. He always invited me to come to Vlasik’s parties. Of course, I refused. In 1943, these invitations were more persistent, and Okunev was joined by requests from Vlasik himself. For some time I resisted their insistence, but then I agreed and visited Vlasik’s dacha and his apartment on Gogolevsky Boulevard several times. I remember that at that time Stenberg was in the companies, once there was Maxim Dormidontovich Mikhailov and very often Okunev. Frankly, I had no particular desire to meet Vlasik or generally be in this company. But Vlasik threatened me, said that he would arrest me, etc., and I was afraid of this. Once, I was at Vlasik’s apartment on Gogolevsky Boulevard with my friends Kopteva and another girl. Then there was some artist there, it seems Gerasimov.

Chairman: What accompanied these meetings and for what purpose were you invited?

Ivanskaya: I still don’t know why he invited me and others. It seemed to me that Vlasik gathers company only because he likes to drink and have fun.

Chairman: What was your goal in attending these parties?

Ivanskaya: I rode them simply out of fear of Vlasik.

At these parties, as soon as we arrived, we sat down at the table, drank wine and had a snack. True, Vlasik made attempts against me as a woman. But they ended in vain.

Chairman: Were you and Vlasik at the government dacha?

Ivanskaya: I find it difficult to say what kind of dacha we were at. It looked like a small rest home or sanatorium. There we were met by some Georgian who managed this building. Vlasik told us about him then that he was Stalin’s uncle. This happened before the war, in 1938 or 1939. The four of us arrived there: Okunev, Vlasik, me and some other girl. Besides us, there were several military men there, including two or three generals. The girl who was with us began to express special sympathy for one of the generals. Vlasik did not like this, and he, taking out his revolver, began to shoot the glasses standing on the table. He was already tipsy.

Chairman: How many shots did they fire?

Ivanskaya: I don’t remember exactly: one or two. Immediately after Vlasik’s shooting, everyone began to leave, and Vlasik and this girl got into the general’s car, and I got into Vlasik’s free car. I persuaded the driver and he took me home. A few minutes after my arrival, Vlasik called me and reproached me for leaving them.

Chairman: Tell me, do you remember where this dacha was located, in what area?

Ivanskaya: I find it difficult to say where she was, but I remember that we first drove along the Mozhaisk highway.

Vlasik: No. I just can't understand why the witness is telling a lie.

Chairman: Tell Vlasik, what kind of dacha are we talking about in connection with your shooting?

Vlasik: There was no shooting. We went with Okunev, Ivanskaya, Gradusova and Gulko to one subsidiary farm, which was managed by Okunev. Indeed, we drank and ate there, but there was no shooting.

Presiding Judge: Witness Ivanskaya, do you insist on your testimony?

Ivanskaya: Yes, I showed the truth.

Presiding Judge: Accused Vlasik, tell me, what interest does it have for a witness to tell the court a lie? What, you had an adversarial relationship with her?

Vlasik: No, we didn’t have hostile relations. After Okunev left her, I lived with her as with a woman. And I must say that she called me more often than I called her. I knew her father, who worked in a special group of the NKVD, and we never had any quarrels.

Chairman: How long did your intimate relationship with her last?

Vlasik: Quite a long time. But meetings were very rare, about once or twice a year.

Presiding Judge: Witness Ivanskaya, do you confirm the testimony of the defendant Vlasik?

Ivanskaya: I don’t know why Nikolai Sidorovich talks about the alleged intimate relationship between us. But if he was capable of masculine feats, then this applied to other women, and, in all likelihood, he used me as a screen, since everyone knew me as the daughter of an old security officer. In general, I must say that Vlasik behaved defiantly towards others. For example, when I tried to refuse meetings with him, he threatened to arrest me. And he completely terrorized the cook at his dacha. He spoke to him only using obscenities, and was not embarrassed by those present, including women.

Presiding Judge: Witness Ivanskaya, the court has no further questions for you. You are free.

Comrade Commandant, invite witness Stenberg to the room.

Witness Stenberg, show the court what you know about Vlasik.

Stenberg: I ​​met Vlasik around 1936. Before the war, our meetings were rare. Then, from the beginning of the war, meetings became more frequent. We went to Vlasik’s dacha, to his apartment, drank there, played billiards. Vlasik helped me work on portraits of government members.

Presiding Officer: During these meetings and drinks, were there women with whom you cohabited?

Stenberg: There were women there, but we had no connection with them.

Chairman: Did Vlasik have official conversations on the phone in front of you?

Stenberg: There were separate conversations. But Vlasik always answered only “yes” and “no”.

Chairman: What did he tell you about the fire at Voroshilov’s dacha?

Stenberg: Vlasik told me that as a result of careless handling of the electric lighting of the Christmas tree at Voroshilov’s dacha, there was a fire, during which a valuable photo archive burned down. He didn't tell me anything more about this.

Chairman: Did Vlasik tell you that in 1941 he went to Kuibyshev to prepare apartments for members of the government?

Stenberg: I ​​knew that Vlasik went to Kuibyshev, but for what exactly, I did not know. He only told me that he had to fight rats there somewhere.

Presiding Judge: I read out the testimony of witness Stenberg:

“At the beginning of 1942, Vlasik told me that he went to Kuibyshev to prepare apartments for members of the government. At the same time, he said: “This is the city, you can’t imagine how many rats there are.” This is a whole problem - a war with them.”

Do you confirm these statements?

Stenberg. Yes, they are mostly correct.

Chairman: Vlasik told you that he once had to deceive a foreign ambassador who was trying to find out whether V.I. Lenin’s body was in Moscow?

Stenberg: As far as I remember, Vlasik once, in my presence, gave instructions to someone to set up a guard of honor at the Mausoleum. After talking on the phone, he explained to me why it was needed. This happened either at the dacha or at Vlasik’s apartment.

Chairman: Did Vlasik tell you about organizing security for the Potsdam Conference?

Stenberg: Long after the Potsdam Conference, Vlasik told me that he had to go to Potsdam and restore “order” there. At the same time, he told the details, in particular, that he had to bring all the products there in order not to use locally produced products. As he said, only live cattle were bought from the local population.

Chairman: What films about members of the government did Vlasik show you?

Stenberg: I ​​saw, in particular, films about the Potsdam Conference, about Stalin and members of the government, about the arrival of Vasily and his sister to Stalin.

Chairman: Who, besides you, was present when watching these films?

Stenberg: As far as I remember, there was one military man, everyone called him “Uncle Sasha”; the women were Anerina and Konomareva. I introduced Vlasik to Anerina in 1945, and Konomareva was known to him earlier. I personally lived with Konomareva.

Chairman: Did Vlasik show you the dacha of the head of government on Lake Ritsa?

Stenberg: When we were on Lake Ritsa, Vlasik, filming us during our walk, showed me the location of Stalin’s dacha.

Chairman: Tell me, didn’t Vlasik’s behavior seem strange to you? Did he have the right to show you the location of Stalin’s dacha, films about him and members of the government?

Stenberg: There was nothing bad in those films.

Chairman: But you know the procedure for allowing such films to be viewed?

Stenberg: I ​​didn’t attach much importance to it then.

Chairman: How many times did Vlasik provide you with the opportunity to fly on a business plane?

Stenberg: Three times. The first time was when I was flying to a resort in the Caucasus, the second time from Sochi to Moscow, then Vlasik got me a ticket to a conference and, so that I could be on time for it, allowed me to fly on a business plane. Two days later, when the conference ended, with Vlasik’s permission, I flew on the same plane back to Sochi.

Chairman: Did Vlasik tell you the names of Nikolaeva, Vyazantseva and Grivova as secret agents of the MGB?

Stenberg: Vlasik said that Nikolaeva and Vyazantseva are informants and report various information to the MGB. Regarding Grivova, he said that insofar as she is a member of the party, she is obliged to do this herself, on her own initiative.

“I only know from Vlasik that my friend Galina Nikolaevna Grivova (who works in the Mossovet External Design Trust) is an agent of the MGB, and also that his partner Vyazantseva Valentina (I don’t know her middle name) also collaborates with the MGB.”

Do you confirm these statements?

Stenberg: Perhaps, by giving such testimony, I expressed my conclusions.

Presiding Judge: Tell the court what happened with your acquaintance with the undercover case that was conducted in the MGB.

Stenberg: I ​​remember Vlasik called me on the phone to his place. When I showed up at his office in the MGB building, he told me that he had to arrest me. I replied that if necessary, then please. After that, he showed me a volume and said that there was a lot of material on me, in particular, that Nikolaeva and I wandered around foreign embassies and met with foreign correspondents.

Presiding Judge: Did he tell you that the arrest of you and your wife was prevented thanks to his intervention?

Stenberg: Yes, some time after the conversation I mentioned above, Vlasik told me and my wife that our arrest was prevented only by the intervention of him, Vlasik, and one of his “guys.”

Chairman: Tell me, did Vlasik show you the materials of this undercover case?

Stenberg: He asked me about some of my acquaintances and at the same time, showing Filippova’s photograph, asked who she was. Then he asked me when I became a Soviet citizen. I answered him everything.

Chairman: For what purpose was Filippova’s photograph placed in this file?

Stenberg: I ​​don't know.

Chairman: What other documents from this case did he read to you?

Stenberg: None.

Chairman: Did you believe Vlasik that his intervention prevented your arrest?

Stenberg: Frankly, no. I regarded this more as his desire to boast of his “power.”

Chairman: Tell me, were there many women with whom Vlasik cohabited?

Stenberg: I ​​find it difficult to say how many women he cohabited with, because it often happened that during our meetings at his dacha, he and one woman or another would retire to other rooms. But I don’t know what he was doing there.

Presiding Officer: I am reading an excerpt from your own testimony.

“I must say that Vlasik is a morally corrupt person. He cohabited with many women, in particular, Nikolaeva, Vyazantseva, Mokukina, Lomtionova, Spirina, Veshchitskaya, Gradusova, Amerina, Vera G...

I believe that Vlasik also cohabited with Shcherbakova, with the Gorodniv sisters, Lyuda, Ada, Sonya, Kruglova, Sergeeva and her sister and others, whose names I do not remember.

Maintaining friendly relations with me, Vlasik got me and my wife drunk and cohabited with her, which Vlasik himself later cynically told me about.”

Do you confirm these statements?

Stenberg: Yes. Vlasik himself told me about some of them, but about others I guessed myself.

Chairman: Did you know Kudoyarov?

Stenberg: Yes, I did. I remember that Spirina once told my wife that Kudoyarov’s sister was married to some American money “king,” and when Kudoyarov went abroad on a business trip, her sister sent him a blue express to the border. Once I saw Kudoyarov at Vlasik’s dacha.

Court member Kovalenko: Did Vlasik warn you not to tell anyone about the incident when he summoned you to his office at the MGB?

Stenberg: Yes, there was such a fact.

Presiding Judge: Accused Vlasik, do you have any questions for the witness?

Vlasik: I have no questions.

Presiding: Witness Stenberg, you are free.

Member of the court Kovalenko: Defendant Vlasik, show the court about your acquaintance with Kudoyarov.

Vlasik: Kudoyarov worked as a photojournalist V the period when I was attached to the security of the head of government. I saw him filming in the Kremlin, on Red Square, and heard reviews of him as an excellent photographer. When I bought myself a camera, I asked him for photography advice. He came to my apartment and showed me how to use the camera and how to take pictures. Then I visited his darkroom on Vorovskogo Street several times. And only a long time later I learned that his sister was abroad and was the wife of some American billionaire. Then they told me that during his business trip abroad, his sister actually sent him a blue express to the border. As a result of this, I concluded that Kudoyarov is an employee of the authorities, and therefore did not attach much importance to everything.

Presiding Judge: You heard here the testimony of the witness Stenberg, who told the court that you deciphered Grivova, Nikolaeva and Vyazantseva to him as secret agents of the MGB. Do you admit it?

Vlasik: No. Regarding Grivova and Nikolaeva, these are Stenberg’s inventions. As for Vyazantseva, I told Stenberg that perhaps she has connections with the police. In addition, I warned Stenberg that Nikolaeva has connections with foreigners.

Member of the court Kovalenko: Defendant Vlasik, show the court what you acquired from the trophy property illegally, without payment.

Vlasik: As far as I remember, I purchased a piano, a grand piano, and, it seems, 3-4 carpets in this way.

Member of the court Kovalenko: And the watches, the gold rings?

Vlasik: I haven’t acquired a single watch this way, most of them were given to me as gifts. Regarding gold rings, I remember that when we discovered a box with gold items and jewelry in one place, the wife exchanged one ring she had for another from this box.

Member of the court Kovalenko: How did you acquire the radio and receiver?

Vlasik: Vasily Stalin sent them to me as a gift. But then I gave them to the Blizhnaya dacha.

Member of the court Kovalenko: What can you say about the fourteen cameras and lenses for them that you had?

Vlasik: I received most of them through my official activities. I bought one Zeiss device through Vneshtorg, and Serov gave me another device.

Court member Kovalenko: Where did you get the camera with the telephoto lens?

Vlasik: This camera was made in Palkin’s department especially for me. I needed it to photograph I.V. Stalin from long distances, since the latter was always very reluctant to allow photography.

Court member Kovalenko: Where did you get the movie camera?

Vlasik: The film camera was sent to me from the Ministry of Cinematography specifically for filming I.V. Stalin.

Court member Kovalenko: What kind of quartz devices did you have?

Vlasik: Quartz devices were intended for illumination during photographic filming.

Member of the court Kovalenko: Where did you get crystal vases, glasses and porcelain dishes in such huge quantities?

Vlasik: In particular, I received a porcelain service for 100 items after the Potsdam Conference. Then there was an instruction to give the senior security staff one set each. At the same time, several crystal vases and glasses were placed in my drawer without my knowledge. I didn’t know about this until the box was opened in Moscow. And then he left it all for himself. In addition, when an order was placed for dishes for the “Blizhnaya” dacha and this dishes subsequently, for some reason, could not be used for their intended purpose, I bought one wine service for myself. All this taken together created such a large amount of dishes in my home.

Presiding Judge: Accused Vlasik, the court has no more questions for you. How can you supplement the judicial investigation?

Vlasik: I showed everything I could. I can’t add anything more to my testimony. I just want to say that I realized everything that I had done only now, and before I did not attach any importance to it. I thought all this was in order.

Presiding Judge: I declare the judicial investigation into the case completed.

Defendant Vlasik, you have the last word. What do you want to tell the court?

Vlasik: Citizens judges! I didn’t understand much before and didn’t see anything other than protecting the head of government and didn’t take anything into account to fulfill this duty. Please take this into account.

By a court decision, Vlasik was stripped of the rank of lieutenant general and subjected to exile for a period of 10 years. But in accordance with the Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 27, 1953 on amnesty, this period was reduced to five years, without loss of rights. He died in Moscow shortly after Svetlana failed to return to her homeland from India.

* * *

Time is a harsh judge. And only it pronounces the final verdict on the era and those who stood at the pinnacle of power. J.V. Stalin is precisely the figure who is both the personification of power and its leader. The time of his reign has already become history, painful and tragic, and inspired, and forward-looking.

Turning today to the fate of his family, we strive to penetrate deeper into the events of time, to understand them in all their contradictions, as they were. No one can turn the wheel of history differently, just as no one can cross out this page in the centuries-old history of our long-suffering Motherland.

Stalin's family bears the contradictory stamp of time in all its manifestations. Stalin himself was not given the opportunity to become the happy head of the family. Both of his wives died very early, in different ways, unable to combine themselves with him. His eldest son, deprived of maternal affection in life, not always understood by his father, rejected by him with the harsh stigma of a traitor to the Motherland and sharing the terrible fate of millions of compatriots in captivity, decades later returned to us from oblivion as the personification of courage and perseverance, remaining the son of his land, his Fatherland . It would seem that all doors were open to Vasily Stalin; any of his good thoughts could find real embodiment in life. But the instability of his character, the shadow of his father and even more so his environment covered him so much that, after leaving prison eight years later, he could no longer find his place in life.

Stalin's beloved daughter, Svetlana, was given the opportunity to receive an excellent education and become a mother, but was not given happiness in her homeland, despite an attempt to return.

In 1989, those belongings that she had once left at home were sent from the USSR to the USA. And it seems that now her fate has already been irrevocably determined, although there may still be zigzags here, as well as the fact that today everything that she wrote is available to us.

Stalin's grandchildren living today have been given a real opportunity to participate in the revolutionary events opened by perestroika, and we, without idle speculation and gossip, can understand the issues that interest us on the basis of documents.

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Nikolai Sidorovich Vlasik(May 22, 1896, Bobynichi (Belorian)Russian Slonim district of the Grodno province (now Slonim district of the Grodno region) - June 18, 1967, Moscow) - employee of the state security agencies of the USSR. Head of Stalin's security (-). Lieutenant General ().

Start of service

N. S. Vlasik with I. V. Stalin and his son Vasily. Near dacha in Volynskoye, 1935	N. S. Vlasik with his wife Maria Semyonovna, 1930s	N. S. Vlasik (far right) accompanies J.V. Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, August 1, 1945	N. S. Vlasik in his office. Early 1940s

Since 1947, he was a deputy of the Moscow City Council of Workers of the 2nd convocation.

In May 1952, he was removed from the post of head of Stalin’s security and sent to the Ural city of Asbest as deputy head of the Bazhenov forced labor camp of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Arrest, trial, exile

By a resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 15, 1956, Vlasik was pardoned and his criminal record was expunged, but his military rank and awards were not restored.

In his memoirs, Vlasik wrote:

I was severely offended by Stalin. For 25 years of impeccable work, without a single penalty, but only incentives and awards, I was expelled from the party and thrown into prison. For my boundless devotion, he handed me over to the hands of his enemies. But never, not for a single minute, no matter what state I was in, no matter what bullying I was subjected to while in prison, I had no anger in my soul against Stalin.

Last years

Lived in Moscow. He died on June 18, 1967 in Moscow from lung cancer. He was buried at the New Donskoy Cemetery.

Rehabilitation

Awards

• St. George's Cross, 4th degree [[K:Wikipedia:Articles without sources (country: Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#property" was not found. )]][[K:Wikipedia:Articles without sources (country: Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#property" was not found. )]]
• Three Orders of Lenin (04/26/1940, 02/21/1945, 09/16/1945)
• Three Orders of the Red Banner (08/28/1937, 09/20/1943, 11/3/1944)
• Order of the Red Star (05/14/1936)
• Order of Kutuzov, 1st degree (02/24/1945)
• Medal of the XX years of the Red Army (02/22/1938)
• Two badges Honorary Worker of the Cheka-GPU (12/20/1932, 12/16/1935)

Ranks

• Major of State Security (12/11/1935)
• Senior Major of State Security (04/26/1938)
• State Security Commissioner 3rd rank (12/28/1938)
• Lieutenant General (07/12/1945)

Personal life and hobbies

Nikolai Vlasik was fond of photography. He is the author of many unique photographs of Joseph Stalin, members of his family and immediate circle.

Wife - Maria Semyonovna Vlasik (1908-1996). Daughter - Nadezhda Nikolaevna Vlasik-Mikhailova (born 1935), worked as an art editor and graphic artist at the Nauka publishing house.

see also

Film incarnations

• - “The Inner Circle”, in the role of N. S. Vlasik - People's Artist of the USSR Oleg Tabakov.
• - “Stalin. Live ", in the role of N. S. Vlasik - Yuri Gamayunov.
• - “Yalta-45”, in the role of N. S. Vlasik - Boris Kamorzin.
• - “Son of the Father of Nations”, in the role of N. S. Vlasik - Honored Artist of Russia Yuri Lakhin.
• - “Kill Stalin”, in the role of N.S. Vlasik - People's Artist of Russia Vladimir Yumatov.
• - Documentary series “Vlasik”, in the role of N. S. Vlasik - Konstantin Milovanov.

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Literature

• Vlasik N. S."Memories of J.V. Stalin"
• // Petrov N.V., Skorkin K.V./ Ed. N. G. Okhotin and A. B. Roginsky. - M.: Links, 1999. - 502 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 5-7870-0032-3.
• V. Loginov.. - M.: Sovremennik, 2000. - 152 p. - ISBN 5-270-01297-9.
• Artyom Sergeev, Ekaterina Glushik. Conversations about Stalin. - M.: Crimean Bridge-9D, 2006. - 192 p. - (Stalin: Primary sources). - 5000 copies. - ISBN 5-89747-067-7.
• Artyom Sergeev, Ekaterina Glushik. How I. V. Stalin lived, worked and raised his children. Eyewitness testimony. - M.: Crimean Bridge-9D, Scientific and Technical Center "Forum", 2011. - 288 p. - (Stalin: Primary sources). - 2000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-89747-062-4.

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Excerpt characterizing Vlasik, Nikolai Sidorovich

– This place is sacred to me, Ramon. It is not for worldly meetings and conversations. And except for my daughter, no one could bring you here, and she, as you see, is now with me. You were following us... Why?
I suddenly suddenly felt an icy cold pull down my back - something was wrong, something was about to happen... I wildly wanted to scream!.. To warn somehow... But I understood that I can’t help them, I can’t reach out across the centuries, I can’t intervene... I don’t have that right. The events unfolding in front of me took place a very long time ago, and even if I could help now, it would already be an interference in history. Since, if I had saved Magdalene, many destinies would have changed, and perhaps the entire subsequent Earthly history would have been completely different... Only two people on Earth had the right to do this, and I, unfortunately, was not one of them... Then everything happened too quickly... It seemed that it wasn’t even real... Smiling coldly, a man named Ramon suddenly grabbed Magdalena by the hair from behind and with lightning speed plunged a narrow long dagger into her open neck... A crunch was heard. Without even having time to understand what was happening, Magdalena hung on his arm, not showing any signs of life. Scarlet blood streamed down her snow-white robe... The daughter screamed shrilly, trying to escape from the hands of the second monster, who grabbed her fragile shoulders. But her scream was cut off - just like a rabbit’s thin neck was broken. The girl fell next to the body of her unfortunate mother, in whose heart the crazy man was still endlessly stabbing his bloody dagger... It seemed that he had lost his mind and could not stop... Or was his hatred so strong that it controlled his criminal hand? .. Finally, it's over. Without even looking back at what they had done, the two heartless killers disappeared into the cave without a trace.
Only a few short minutes had passed since their unexpected appearance. The evening was still just as beautiful and quiet, and only darkness was slowly creeping down to the ground from the tops of the blue mountains. On the stone floor of the small “cell” a woman and a girl lay peacefully. Their long golden hair touched in heavy strands, mixing into a solid golden blanket. It seemed that the dead were sleeping... Only scarlet blood was still spurting out from Magdalene’s terrible wounds. There was an incredible amount of blood... It flooded the floor, gathering into a huge red puddle. My legs gave way from horror and indignation... I wanted to howl like a wolf, not wanting to accept what had happened!.. I couldn’t believe that everything happened so simply and imperceptibly. So easy. Someone had to see this! Someone should have warned them!.. But no one noticed. And he didn’t warn me. There was simply no one around at that moment... And, torn off by someone’s dirty hand, two Bright, Pure Lives flew away like doves to another, unfamiliar World, where no one could harm them anymore.
Golden Maria was no longer on our evil and ungrateful Earth... She went to Radomir... Or rather, her Soul flew to him.

Vlasik Nikolai Sidorovich (1896, Bobynichi village, Slonim district, Grodno province - 1967). head of security I.V. Stalin, lieutenant general (07/09/1945).

Born in the Baranovichi region, Belarusian. Member of the RCP(b) since 1918. Member of the Cheka since 1919. Appeared in Stalin’s security guard in 1931 on the recommendation of V.R. Menzhinsky (S. Alliluyeva writes that Vlasik was Stalin’s bodyguard since 1919). In 1938-1942 - Head of the 1st department of the GUGB NKVD of the USSR, in 1941-1942. - NKGB-NKVD of the USSR. In 1942-1943. - Deputy Head of the 1st Department of the NKVD of the USSR. In 1943 - head of the 6th directorate of the NKGB of the USSR and head of the 1st department of the 6th directorate of the NKGB of the USSR. In 1946 - Commissioner of the USSR Ministry of State Security for the Sochi-Gagrinsky region; in 1946-1952 - Head of the Main Security Directorate of the USSR Ministry of State Security.

He was awarded three Orders of Lenin, four Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Kutuzov, 1st degree, and medals.

Vlasik lasted the longest in Stalin's guard. At the same time, almost all the everyday problems of the head of state lay on his shoulders. Essentially, Vlasik was a member of Stalin's family. After the death of N.S. Alliluyeva, he was also a teacher of children, an organizer of their leisure time, and an economic and financial manager. Stalin's dacha residences, along with the staff of security, maids, housekeepers and cooks, were also subordinate to Vlasik. And there were many of them: a dacha in Kuntsevo-Volynsky, or “Near Dacha” (in 1934-1953 - Stalin’s main residence,1 where he died), a dacha in Gorki-tenty (35 km from Moscow along the Uspenskaya road) , an old estate on Dmitrovskoe highway - Lipki, a dacha in Semenovskoye (the house was built before the war), a dacha in Zubalovo-4 (“Far Dacha”, “Zubalovo”), 2nd dacha on Lake Ritsa, or “Dacha on the Cold River” (in the mouth of the Lashupse River, which flows into Lake Ritsa), three dachas in Sochi (one is not far from Matsesta, the other is beyond Adler, the third is not reaching Gagra), a dacha in Borjomi (Liakan Palace), a dacha in New Athos, a dacha in Tskaltubo, dacha in Myusery (near Pitsunda), dacha in Kislovodsk, dacha in Crimea (in Mukholatka), dacha in Valdai.

After the Great Patriotic War, three Crimean palaces, where government delegations of the Allied powers stayed in 1945, were also “mothballed” for such dachas. These are the Livadia Palace (formerly royal, where a sanatorium for peasants was opened in the early 1920s), Vorontsovsky in Alupka (where the museum was located before the war), Yusupovsky in Koreiz. Another ex royal palace- Massandrovsky (Alexandra III) also turned into a “state dacha”.

Formally, it was believed that all members of the Politburo could rest there, but usually, except for Stalin and occasionally Zhdanov and Molotov,3 no one used them. However, at each of the dachas a large number of servants lived all year round, everything was kept in such a way as if the leader was constantly here. Even dinner for Stalin and his possible guests was prepared daily and accepted according to the act, regardless of whether anyone would eat it. This order played a certain conspiratorial role: no one was supposed to know where Stalin was now and what his plans were (Rise. 1990. No. 1. P. 16; Volobuev O., Kuleshov S. Purification. M., 1989. P. 96) .

On December 15, 1952, Vlasik was arrested. He was accused of embezzling large sums of government money and valuables.4 L. Beria and G. Malenkov are considered the initiators of Vlasik’s arrest. By a court decision, he was stripped of his general rank and exiled for ten years. But according to the amnesty on March 27, 1953, Vlasik’s sentence was reduced to five years, without loss of rights. Died in Moscow.

Svetlana Alliluyeva characterizes her father’s favorite as “illiterate, stupid, rude” and an extremely arrogant satrap. During the life of Nadezhda Sergeevna (Svetlana’s mother), Vlasik was neither heard nor seen, “he didn’t even dare to enter the house”... However, later the authorities corrupted him so much that “he began to dictate to cultural and artistic figures “the tastes of Comrade Stalin.” .. And the leaders listened and followed these advice. Not a single festive concert at the Bolshoi Theater or St. George’s Hall took place without Vlasik’s sanction.” Svetlana is trying to convince readers of her father’s amazing gullibility and helplessness against people like Vlasik. At the same time, she more than once mentions Stalin’s rare insight. The leader really knew Vlasik’s weaknesses and vices very well. And yet he remained under Stalin for many years, while others, honest and decent, fell from grace and were expelled. Obviously, it was Vlasik who arranged it (Samsonova V. Stalin’s Daughter. M., 1998. P. 175-177).

Born in 1896, Belarus, Grodno province, Slonim district, village of Bobynichi; Belarusian; Parochial school; Arrested: December 15, 1952

Source: Krasnoyarsk Society "Memorial"

Nikolai Sidorovich Vlasik(May 22, 1896, Bobynichi village, Slonim district, Grodno province (now Slonim district, Grodno region) - June 18, 1967, Moscow) - figure in the USSR security agencies, head of I. Stalin’s personal security, lieutenant general.

Member of the RCP(b) since 1918. Expelled from the party after his arrest in the doctors' case on December 16, 1952.

Biography

Born into a poor peasant family. By nationality - Belarusian. He graduated from three classes of a rural parochial school. He began his working career at the age of thirteen: as a laborer for a landowner, as a navvy on the railroad, as a laborer at a paper mill in Yekaterinoslav.

In March 1915 he was called up to military service. He served in the 167th Ostrog Infantry Regiment, in the 251st Reserve Infantry Regiment. For bravery in the battles of World War I he received the St. George Cross. During the days of the October Revolution, being in the rank of non-commissioned officer, he and his platoon went over to the side of Soviet power.

In November 1917, he joined the Moscow police. From February 1918 - in the Red Army, a participant in the battles on the Southern Front near Tsaritsyn, and was an assistant company commander in the 33rd Rogozhsko-Simonovsky Infantry Regiment.

In September 1919, he was transferred to the Cheka, worked under the direct supervision of F. E. Dzerzhinsky in the central apparatus, was an employee of the special department, senior representative of the active department of the operational unit. From May 1926 he became the senior commissioner of the Operations Department of the OGPU, and from January 1930 he became an assistant to the head of the department there.

In 1927, he headed the Kremlin's special security and became the de facto head of Stalin's security.

At the same time, the official name of his position was repeatedly changed due to constant reorganizations and reassignments in the security agencies. From the mid-1930s - head of the 1st department (security of senior officials) of the Main Directorate of State Security of the NKVD of the USSR, from November 1938 - head of the 1st department there. In February - July 1941, this department was part of People's Commissariat state security of the USSR, then was returned to the NKVD of the USSR. From November 1942 - First Deputy Head of the 1st Department of the NKVD of the USSR.

Since May 1943 - head of the 6th directorate of the People's Commissariat of State Security of the USSR, since August 1943 - first deputy head of this directorate. Since April 1946 - Head of the Main Security Directorate of the USSR Ministry of State Security (since December 1946 - Main Security Directorate).

In May 1952, he was removed from the post of head of Stalin’s security and sent to the Ural city of Asbest as deputy head of the Bazhenov forced labor camp of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Arrest, trial, exile

On December 16, 1952, in connection with the doctors’ case, he was arrested because he “provided treatment to members of the government and was responsible for the reliability of the professors.”

“Until March 12, 1953, Vlasik was interrogated almost daily (mainly in the doctors’ case). The investigation found that the charges brought against the group of doctors were false. All professors and doctors have been released from custody. Recently, the investigation into Vlasik’s case has been carried out in two directions: disclosure of secret information and theft of material assets... After Vlasik’s arrest, several dozen documents marked “secret” were found in his apartment... While in Potsdam, where he accompanied the USSR government delegation, Vlasik was engaged in junk..." (Certificate from the criminal case).

On January 17, 1953, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR found him guilty of abuse of office under especially aggravating circumstances, sentencing him under Art. 193-17 paragraph “b” of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 10 years of exile, deprivation of the rank of general and state awards. Sent to serve exile in Krasnoyarsk. According to the amnesty on March 27, 1953, Vlasik’s sentence was reduced to five years, without loss of rights. By a resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated December 15, 1956, Vlasik was pardoned and his criminal record was expunged. He was not restored to his military rank or awards.

On June 28, 2000, by a resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia, the 1955 verdict against Vlasik was canceled and the criminal case was terminated “for lack of corpus delicti.”

Head of Stalin's security

Vlasik was Stalin’s personal bodyguard for many years and held this post the longest. Having joined his personal guard in 1931, he not only became its chief, but also took over many of the everyday problems of Stalin’s family, in which Vlasik was essentially a family member. After the death of Stalin's wife N.S. Alliluyeva, he was also a teacher of children, practically performing the functions of a majordomo.

He N. S. Vlasik] simply prevented Beria from getting to Stalin, because his father would not let him die. He would not wait for a day outside the doors, like those guards on March 1, 1953, when Stalin “woke up”...

N. S. Vlasik’s daughter Nadezhda Vlasik in the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” dated 05/07/2003

Vlasik is assessed extremely negatively by Svetlana Alliluyeva in “20 Letters to a Friend.”

In his memoirs, Vlasik wrote:

I was severely offended by Stalin. For 25 years of impeccable work, without a single penalty, but only incentives and awards, I was expelled from the party and thrown into prison. For my boundless devotion, he handed me over to the hands of his enemies. But never, not for a single minute, no matter what state I was in, no matter what bullying I was subjected to while in prison, I had no anger in my soul against Stalin.

According to his wife, until his death, Vlasik was convinced that L.P. Beria “helped” Stalin die.

Awards

• St. George's Cross 4th degree
• 3 Orders of Lenin (04/26/1940, 02/21/1945, 09/16/1945)
• 3 Orders of the Red Banner (08/28/1937, 09/20/1943, 11/3/1944)
• Order of the Red Star (05/14/1936)
• Order of Kutuzov, 1st degree (02/24/1945)
• Medal of the XX years of the Red Army (02/22/1938)
• 2 badges Honorary Worker of the Cheka-GPU (12/20/1932, 12/16/1935)

Special and military ranks

• State Security Major (12/11/1935)
• senior major of state security (04/26/1938)
• State Security Commissioner 3rd rank (12/28/1938)
• Lieutenant General (07/12/1945)

(1896 , village Bobynichi, Slonim district, Grodno province. - 1967 ). Born into the family of a poor peasant. Belarusian. In KP with 11.18 .

Education: parochial school, Bobynichi 1910 .

Day laborer for a landowner, Slonim district 09.12-01.13 ; excavator on the Samara-Zlatoust railway. d., Zhukatovo station, Ufa province. 01.13-10.14 ; laborer at the Kofman and Furman paper factories, Ekaterino-slav, Nizhny Island, Dneprovsk 10.14-03.15 .

In the army: ml. non-commissioned officer 167th infantry. Ostrog Regiment 03.15-03.17 ; platoon commander 251 spares infantry shelf 03.17-11.17 .

Policeman of the Petrovsky Police Commissariat, Moscow 11.17-02.18 .

In the Red Army: pom. com. company 33 Rabochiy Rogozhsko-Simonovsky infantry. shelf 02.18-09.19 .

In the bodies of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD-MGB from 09.19: co-workers OO; completed and Art. completed active department of operations. dept. OGPU USSR 01.11.26-01.05.29 ; Art. completed 2 departments of opera. dept. OGPU USSR 01.05.29-01.01.30 ; pom. beginning 5th department of opera. dept. OGPU USSR 01.01.30-01.07.31 01.07.31-? (mentioned) 02.33 ); pom. beginning 1st department of operations dept. OGPU USSR 1933-01.11.33 ; pom. beginning 4 departments of opera. dept. OGPU USSR 01.11.33-10.07.34 ; pom. beginning 4 departments of opera. dept. GUGB NKVD USSR 10.07.34-? ; beginning department 1 department GUGB NKVD USSR ?-19.11.38 ; beginning 1 department GUGB NKVD USSR 19.11.38-26.02.41 ; beginning 1 department (security) NKGB USSR 26.02.41-31.07.41 ; beginning 1 department NKVD USSR 31.07.41-19.11.42 ; 1st deputy beginning 1 department NKVD USSR 19.11.42-12.05.43 ; beginning Exercise 6 NKGB USSR 12.05.43-09.08.43 ; 1st deputy beginning Exercise 6 NKGB-MGB USSR 09.08.43-15.04.46 ; beginning Ex. Security No. 2 of the USSR MGB 15.04.46-25.12.46 ; beginning Ch. ex. security of the USSR MGB 25.12.46-29.04.52 ; deputy beginning Ex. Bazhenovsky ITL Ministry of Internal Affairs 20.05.52-15.12.52 .

Arrested 15.12.52 ; was under investigation for 01.55 ; Convicted by the USSR All-Russian Military Commission 17.01.55 according to Art. 193-17 "b" of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for 10 years of exile and deprived of the rank of general and awards; exiled to Krasnoyarsk, where he was until 1956 ; Under the amnesty, the term of exile was reduced by half. Pardoned Post. PVS USSR from 15.15.56 , released from serving his sentence with his criminal record expunged; military rank has not been restored.

Ranks: Major GB 11.12.35 ; Art. Major GB 26.04.38 ; GB Commissioner 3rd rank 28.12.38 ; lieutenant general 12.07.45 .

Awards: badge “Honorary Worker of the Cheka-GPU (XV)” 20.12.32 ; badge "Honorary Worker of the Cheka-GPU (XV)" 16.12.35 ; Order of the Red Star 14.05.36 ; Order of the Red Banner 28.08.37 ; medal "XX years of the Red Army" 22.02.38 ; The order of Lenin 26.04.40 ; Order of the Red Banner 20.09.43 ; Order of the Red Banner 03.11.44 ; The order of Lenin 21.02.45 ; Order of Kutuzov 1st degree 24.02.45 ; The order of Lenin 16.09.45 .

From book: N.V.Petrov, K.V.Skorkin
"Who led the NKVD. 1934-1941"

Three months before his death, I. Stalin repressed the head of his guard, General Vlasik, who served him faithfully for a quarter of a century

On January 17, 1955, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, chaired by Colonel of Justice V.V. Borisoglebsky and members of the court - Colonels of Justice D.A. Rybkin and N.E. Kovalenko, considered a criminal case against the former head of the Main Security Directorate of the USSR Ministry of State Security, Lieutenant General Vlasik Nikolai Sidorovich and found him guilty of committing a crime under Art. 193-17, paragraph “b” of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (abuse of official position under especially aggravating circumstances).
According to the verdict, Vlasik N.S. was subjected to exile “to a remote area of ​​the USSR” for a period of five years, deprived of the military rank of “lieutenant general”, four medals, two honorary badges “VChK-GPU”, and later, on the basis of an instituted petition from the Supreme Commissariat of the USSR Armed Forces to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR , deprived of nine orders: three Orders of Lenin, four Orders of the Red Banner, Orders of the Red Star, Kutuzov I degree and the medal “XX Years of the Red Army”.
It was also “property acquired through criminal means was seized and turned into state income.”
On June 28, 2000, by a resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, chaired by V.M. Lebedev, this verdict was overturned and the criminal case against Vlasik N.S. terminated due to lack of evidence of a crime.
Before me is an autobiography from the personal file of Nikolai Sidorovich Vlasik, head of the security of I.V. Stalin in the period from 1927 to 1952

See the original material on the “Top Secret” website: http://www.sovsekretno.ru/articles/id/3335/.
Born on May 22, 1896 in Western Belarus into a poor peasant family. This clarification - “in a poor peasant family”, as well as “in a worker’s family”, “in a farm laborer’s family” - in the first years of Soviet power was like a start to a career. Someone used this as a “cover” for a non-proletarian biography. Vlasik wrote the true truth. At the age of three he lost his parents: first his mother died, and then his father. He graduated from three classes of a rural parochial school. At the age of 13, he began his career: he worked as a laborer at a construction site, as a bricklayer, and later as a loader at a paper factory. At the beginning of 1915 he was called up for military service and took part in the First World War. He was noted by his commanders and awarded the St. George Cross for bravery in battle. In 1916 he was wounded, after hospitalization he was promoted to non-commissioned officer and appointed platoon commander of the 25th Infantry Regiment in Moscow. In the first days of the revolution, together with his platoon, he went over to the side of the Soviet regime and became a member of the regimental committee.
In 1918, in battles on the Southern Front near Tsaritsyn, Vlasik was seriously wounded. Then he was sent to the Special Department of the Cheka to Dzerzhinsky, from there to the Operations Department of the OGPU. The young commander's zeal for service was noticed. And in 1927, he was assigned to head the special security of the Special Department of the Cheka, the Kremlin, members of the government and Stalin’s personal security.
But he also had to be responsible for medical care for the country’s leadership, material support for their apartments and dachas, supply of food and special rations, construction and repair of office premises of the Central Committee and the Kremlin, organization of recreation for Stalin, his relatives and children at country dachas and in the south. And even control the studies and behavior of Stalin’s children, who were left without a mother in 1932. Stalin’s personal fund still contains documents that show that Vlasik, through employees appointed by him, monitored Stalin’s children, showing, frankly, maternal care.
But that was not all. Organization of demonstrations and parades, preparation of Red Square, halls, theaters, stadiums, airfields for various propaganda campaigns, movement of government members and Stalin around the country on various transport, meetings, seeing off foreign guests, their security and support. And most importantly - the safety of the leader, whose suspicion, as is known, exceeded all reasonable limits. Stalin more than once praised Vlasik for his ingenuity and generously showered him with awards. After all, it was Vlasik who came up with such a method of security as a cavalcade of ten to fifteen absolutely identical ZIS cars, in one of which sat I.V., and in the rest - “persons similar to him.” On rare flights, he prepared not one plane, but several, and which one to fly in was determined by Stalin himself at the very last moment. This is also security. Checking for the presence of poisons in food and generally monitoring Stalin’s diet was not a difficult task for Vlasik - there was a special laboratory.
In short, the chief of security had more than enough to do, and for all the years the leader did not have any troubles, although emergencies happened around him, and often: “blocs”, “centers”, sabotage, sabotage, the death of Menzhinsky, Kuibyshev, Gorky and his son Maxim, an attempt to poison Yezhov with mercury vapor, the murder of Kirov, Ordzhonikidze, the death of Chkalov.
By the summer of 1941, Vlasik already had the rank of general. During the war, worries increased, and accordingly the staff grew - up to several tens of thousands of people. Vlasik was entrusted with the evacuation of the government, members of the diplomatic corps and people's commissariats. The Main Security Directorate selected work premises and apartments for the government in Kuibyshev, provided transport, communications, and arranged supplies. Vlasik was also responsible for the evacuation of Lenin’s body to Tyumen and its protection. And in Moscow, he and his apparatus ensured security at the parade on November 7, 1941, at a ceremonial meeting that was held at the Mayakovskaya metro station the day before. In short, his service cannot be called “honey”. And then there are the “minor” questions.
Secret
DEPUTY HEAD OF 1ST DEPARTMENT
NKVD USSR
COMMISSIONER OF STATE SECURITY
3rd RANK
Comrade VLASIK N.S.
Conclusion on the state of health of Colonel Vasily Iosifovich STALIN
Comrade V.I. STALIN delivered to the Kremlin hospital 4/IV-43 at 11 o’clock due to wounds from a shell fragment.
A wound to the left cheek with a small metal fragment in it and a wound to the left foot with damage to its bones and the presence of a large metal fragment.
At 14:00 4/IV-43, under general anesthesia, prof. A.D. Ochkin performed an operation to excise the damaged tissue and remove fragments.
The foot injury is classified as serious.
Due to contamination of the wounds, antitetanus and antigangrenosis serums were introduced.
The general condition of the wounded man is quite satisfactory.
Head of the Kremlin Medical Center (Busalov)
Before reporting to his father about his son, N.S. Vlasik forced the Air Force command to submit a report on the circumstances of Vasily Stalin’s injury.
We didn't have to wait long for this.
SECRET. Ex. No. 1
Report of an emergency incident in the 32nd Guards IAP (fighter aviation regiment - Ed.)
The incident occurred under the following circumstances:
On the morning of April 4, 1943, a group of flight personnel consisting of regiment commander Colonel V.I. Stalin, Heroes of the Soviet Union Lieutenant Colonel Vlasov N.I., Captain Baklan A.Ya., Captain Kotov A.G., Captain Garanin V.I. ., captain Popkov V.I., captain Dolgushin S.F., flight commander senior lieutenant Shishkin A.P. and others, as well as the regiment’s weapons engineer, Captain Razin E.I. I went to the Selizharovka River, located 1.5 km from the airfield, to go fishing.
Throwing grenades and rockets into the water, they drowned out the fish, collecting them from the shore with a net. Before throwing a rocket, the regimental engineer, Captain Razin, first set the detonator ring to maximum deceleration (22 seconds), turned away the chickenpox, and then threw the projectile into the water. So they personally had 3 rockets thrown at them. Preparing to throw the last rocket, engineer-captain Razin turned the windmill as much as possible, and the shell instantly exploded in his hands, as a result of which one person - Captain Razin - was killed, Colonel V.I. Stalin. and captain Kotov A.G. seriously injured.
With this report, the faithful Nikolai Sidorovich went to the leader, and he burst out with an order:
COMMANDER OF THE RED ARMY AIR FORCE MARSHAL COM. I ORDER NOVIKOV:
1) Immediately remove the commander from his position aviation regiment Colonel STALIN V.I. and not give him any command posts until my order.
2) Announce to the regiment and the former regiment commander, Colonel Stalin, that Colonel Stalin is being removed from the post of regiment commander for drunkenness and riotous behavior and for the fact that he is spoiling and corrupting the regiment.
3) Deliver the execution.
People's Commissar of Defense
I. Stalin
May 26, 1943
But there were more serious matters. First of all, three conferences of the heads of the participants in the anti-Hitler coalition: Tehran (XI 28 – XII 1, 1943), Yalta (II/4–11/1945) and Potsdam (VII 17–VIII/2/1945).
And Vlasik was always next to Stalin - masquerading as a photojournalist. For the successful holding of the conference in Tehran, Vlasik was awarded the Order of Lenin, for the Crimean conference - the Order of Kutuzov, 1st degree, for the Potsdam conference - the Order of Lenin.
The war is over. The service continued. By decision of the Central Committee in 1947, funds were allocated for the construction and reconstruction of state dachas in the Crimea, Sochi, Gagra, Sukhumi, Tskaltubo, Borjomi, on Lake Ritsa and in the Moscow region. And again, all this was entrusted to N.S. Vlasik. Let me note: a person with a three-year education. But the Main Directorate had its own financiers, accountants, and construction specialists. So Vlasik himself, with his three classes, did not try to understand all this.
And trouble was not waiting for him here. As is known, he was subordinate to the leadership of the NKGB, and then to the MGB, and therefore to the well-known Beria, Merkulov, Kobulov, Tsanava, Serov, Goglidze. But Vlasik was the closest of them all to Stalin, and the leader sometimes consulted with him on MGB matters. This became known in Beria’s entourage. And it could not help but cause irritation, especially since Vlasik often spoke negatively about his bosses.
In 1948, the commandant of the “Near Dacha” Fedoseev was arrested. The investigation was conducted under the leadership of Serov. Under torture, Fedoseev testified that Vlasik wanted to poison Stalin.
Then the “Doctors’ Plot” arose. Testimony appeared that, together with doctors, Vlasik wanted to organize the treatment of A. Zhdanov and hatched the goal of killing Stalin. In May 1952, an in-depth audit of the financial and economic activities of the security department unexpectedly began. In addition to specialists, the commission included Beria, Bulganin, Poskrebyshev. Everything drunk, eaten and squandered was “pinned” on Vlasik and his deputy Lynko. They reported to Stalin. Lynko was arrested, and Vlasik was sent to the Urals, to the city of Asbest, to the post of deputy head of the Bazhenov forced labor camp of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. Later, the general recalled in his diaries that “the hats flew off” the heads of so many of his subordinates.
For six months - until December 1952 - he worked in Asbest and “bombed” Stalin with letters in which he swore his innocence and devotion. And on December 16, he was summoned to Moscow and arrested in the “Doctors’ Case,” accusing him of covering up “hostile actions” of professors Egorov, Vovsi and Vinogradov.
As you know, the “doctors’ case” was terminated after Stalin’s death and all those arrested were released - everyone except Vlasik. He was interrogated more than a hundred times during the investigation. The charges included espionage, preparation of terrorist attacks, and anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. Moreover, for each of the charges he faced a considerable prison sentence.
They “pressed” 56-year-old Nikolai Sidorovich in Lefortovo in a sophisticated manner - they kept him in handcuffs, a bright lamp was burning in the cell around the clock, they were not allowed to sleep, they were summoned for interrogation, and they constantly played a record behind the wall with heart-rending children’s cries. They even staged a mock execution (Vlasik writes about this in his diary). But he behaved well and did not lose his sense of humor. In any case, in one of the protocols he gives the following “confession” testimony: “I really cohabited with many women, drank alcohol with them and the artist Stenberg, but all this happened at the expense of my personal health and in my free time from service.”
He continues to be held in Lefortovo. And they are already accused of having a connection with the constructivist artist V. Stenberg, who allegedly engaged in espionage while designing festive events on Red Square.
On June 26, 1953, Beria, Kobulov, Goglidze, Merkulov were arrested and executed on December 23 of the same year. The KGB was headed by I. Serov, who promised to grind Vlasik into powder during Beria’s lifetime. This figure is ambiguous. For example, Beria’s son Sergo writes: “I knew Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov, who headed the KGB of the USSR in 1954–1958, very well. He was an impeccably honest man who did a lot to strengthen the rule of law. Serov graduated brilliantly Military Academy named after Frunze and was sent to the disposal of the new People's Commissar of the NKVD. Owned Japanese. Those who served under the Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General I.A. Serov, remembered him as a talented, very courageous and extremely educated person.”
And Deputy Minister of the Ministry of State Security V. Ryasnoy assessed the Colonel General somewhat differently: “... A Brandykhlyst, the likes of which the world has never seen. He will sneak everywhere, find, deceive, steal. With the help of Beria, he made sure that he was not overworked. As for sucking up to the top brass, Serov is irreplaceable, a very cunning person in this regard.”
In short, even under Serov, Nikolai Sidorovich Vlasik was kept under arrest. They dragged me every other day, and mostly at night, for interrogations. Counter-revolutionary, that is, political, crimes disappeared by themselves, thefts “from the master’s table” - too. Such an episode also disappeared.
After the Potsdam Conference in 1945, Vlasik, among other junk given to him as a gift from the Red Army, took a horse, two cows and one bull from Germany in the NKVD train. And he delivered all these animals to Belarus to his sister Olga.
After his arrest in 1952, they began to deal with this too. They found out that in 1941 his native village of Bobynichi, Baranovichi region, was captured by the Germans. The house in which the sister lived was burned, half the village was shot, the sister’s eldest daughter was taken to work in Germany (she never returned from there), the cow and horse were taken away. Olga, her husband Peter and two children went to the partisans, and then, when the Germans were driven away, she returned to the plundered village. So Vlasik delivered from Germany to his sister, as it were, part of her own goods.
This was reported to Stalin, and he, looking at Ignatiev who was reporting, said: “What are you, oh... or what?!”
Vlasik himself recalled this at the end of his life. I don’t know if this was actually the case, but if so, then we must give the leader his due: he was right.
By the way, Potsdam is the residence of the Prussian kings. Germany was very lucky that Vlasik, leaving there, satisfied only his “animal husbandry” interest, and did not get carried away, say, by the works of Rembrandt.
From the verdict:
“...Vlasik, being the head of the Main Security Directorate of the USSR Ministry of State Security, enjoying the special trust of the Soviet Government and the Central Committee of the CPSU, abused the trust placed in him and his high official position...” And then the accusations follow:
"1. He became morally corrupt, systematically drank, lacked a sense of political vigilance, and showed promiscuity in everyday relationships.
2. While drinking with a certain Stenberg, he became close to him and divulged secret information to him and other persons. From Stenberg’s apartment he conducted telephone negotiations with the head of the Soviet Government, as well as official conversations with his subordinates.
3. Deciphered three secret employees in front of Stenberg. Showed him his agent file.
4. When communicating with people who “did not inspire political trust” and who maintained connections with foreigners, Vlasik gave them passes to the stands of Red Square.
5. Kept it in my apartment official documents, in particular, the plan of Potsdam and the security system for the entire area of ​​the Potsdam Conference (1945), as well as a memorandum on the work of the Sochi department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the special period of 1946, the schedule of government trains and other documents.”
This was where the accusation ended. And the investigation lasted for more than two years!
Qualification – clause “b” of Art. 193-17 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (as amended in 1926).
"St. 193-17. a) Abuse of power, excess of power, inaction of power, as well as negligent attitude towards the service of a person of the commanding staff of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, if these acts were committed systematically, or for selfish reasons or other personal interest, as well as if they resulted in the disorganization of those entrusted to him forces, or the work entrusted to him, or the disclosure of military secrets, or other serious consequences, or even if they did not have the indicated consequences, but obviously could have them, or were committed in wartime, or in a combat situation, entail: imprisonment with or without strict isolation for a period of at least six months;
b) the same acts, in the presence of ESPECIALLY aggravating circumstances, entail:
HIGHEST MEASURE OF SOCIAL PROTECTION;
c) the same acts, in the absence of the signs provided for in paragraphs “a” and “b” of this article, entail: application of the Rules of the Disciplinary Charter of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army.”
But here is the data from Vlasik’s criminal case, more precisely, from the minutes of the court hearing dated January 17, 1955:
“It’s a question of the court. What brought you and Stenberg together?
Vlasik. Of course, the rapprochement was based on drinking together and meeting women.
Question of the court. Did he have a comfortable apartment for this?
Vlasik. I visited him very rarely.
Question of the court. Did you issue passes to Red Square to a certain Nikolaeva, who was connected with foreign journalists?
Vlasik. I only now realized that I had committed a crime.
Question of the court. Did you give your partner Gridusova and her husband Schrager tickets to the stands of the Dynamo stadium?
Vlasik. Gave.
Question of the court. Did you keep secret documents in your apartment?
Vlasik. I was going to compile an album in which the life and work of Comrade would be reflected in photographs and documents. I.V. Stalin.
Question of the court. How did you purchase the radio and receiver?
Vlasik. Vasily Stalin sent them to me as a gift. But then I gave them to the Blizhnaya dacha.
Question of the court. What can you say about the fourteen cameras and lenses you had?
Vlasik. Most of them I received through my professional activities. I bought one Zeiss device through Vneshtorg, another device was given to me by Comrade Serov...”
The evidentiary part of the verdict is interesting. She is simply unique.
“Vlasik’s guilt in committing these crimes was proven by the testimony of witnesses interrogated in court, preliminary investigation materials, physical evidence, as well as Vlasik’s partial admission of guilt.” That's all.
Sentence: ten years in exile. According to the amnesty of March 27, 1953, this period was reduced by half, that is, to five years. This is stated here in the verdict.
And the fact that Vlasik served more than two years in Lefortovo? It does not count? And if this counts, then how? There is not a word about this in the verdict.
For some reason he is in custody until May 17, 1956, and that’s another year and four months. True, already in a “remote area of ​​the USSR” - in Krasnoyarsk. By way of pardon (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on May 15, 1956, signed by Klim Voroshilov) he was released from custody and from further serving his sentence.
Returning to Moscow, Vlasik asks for an appointment with Prosecutor General Rudenko - he did not accept him. Sends a request for rehabilitation to the Party Control Commission (CPC) to N. Shvernik, then to A. Pelshe - again a refusal. The support of Marshals G. Zhukov and A. Vasilevsky did not help either.
His apartment on Gorky Street (in the building where the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall is located) was turned into a communal apartment. All property was removed during the investigation.
On June 18, 1967, N.S. Vlasik died of lung cancer, having achieved nothing.
In 1985, Chief Military Prosecutor A. Gorny responded to his daughter’s repeated appeal for posthumous rehabilitation of her father.
Nowadays, justice seems to have been restored, but again there are problems. For about a year, Vlasik’s daughter Nadezhda Nikolaevna received a stream of calls and letters of explanation from the Rehabilitation Commission and the FSB that her father was not convicted under Art. 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (state crime), and under Art. 193-17 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (simple military crime), as a result of this, N.S. Vlasik is allegedly not a victim of political repression, just as his daughter is not a victim.
What can I say to all this? Article 3 of the Law “On Rehabilitation” of October 18, 1991 states: “Persons who, for political reasons, were: a) convicted of state and other crimes are subject to rehabilitation.”
N.S. Vlasik was convicted of “other” crimes. For political or non-political reasons? I think there can be no two opinions here.
Nikolai Sidorovich Vlasik did not shoot or sign execution lists; he did not participate in “twos”, “troikas”, “special meetings”, he served conscientiously until he fell between a rock and a hard place.

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