Tatyana Andropova

Tatyana Andropova (née: Lebedeva; 1917–1991) was a Soviet woman who was the second wife of Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov.[1]

Tatyana Andropova
Born
Tatyana Filippovna Lebedeva

1917
Died1991 (aged 7374)
NationalityRussian
OccupationPedagogue
Known forWife of Yuri Andropov
Children2

Biography

Lebedeva was born in 1917.[2] She graduated from a pedagogical school and joined the Komsomol activities where she was appointed to the Komsomol in Karelia in 1940.[3] The same year Tatyana met her future husband at the Komsomol work in Petrozavodsk where she was the secretary of the Zaretsk district committee.[4][5] At that time Yuri Andropov was serving as the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Karelo-Finnish SSR.[3] Andropov's wife and two children did not move to the region with him when he was appointed the post.[4] Following his contact with Tatyana Yuri Andropov divorced his first wife.[5] Tatyana and Yuri married in Summer 1941 and had two children, Igor and Irina.[1][6][7] Igor was born shortly before their marriage which was harmonious.[7]

In 1951 the family began to live in Moscow when Yuri Andropov was assigned to the central committee of the Communist Party.[8] From 1954 to 1957 Yuri Andropov served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union to Hungary.[6][9] Tatyana and their children accompanied him.[6] In the late October 1956 extensive protests against the Soviet Union occurred in Budapest, and their residence was besieged by the protestors which had negative long-term effects on Tatyana's health.[6] She left Budapest, but returned there after two months.[6] As a result of this incident Tatyana would experience hypertension and suffer from acute headaches during her lifetime.[6] In addition, since then, she was terrified of crowds and open spaces.[5]

The family lived at Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow where Suslov and Brezhnev also lived.[10] Due to health problems Tatyana did not fulfil the official duties when Andropov was the general secretary of the Communist Party and lived as a recluse in their apartment.[5] She died in 1991.[2][11]

References

  1. "Yuri Andropov". Global Security. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  2. "АНДРОПОВА (урожд. Лебедева) Татьяна Филипповна (1917 – 1991)". moscow-tombs.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  3. "Неразгаданная любовь Андропова". MK (in Russian). 9 February 2004. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  4. "Юрий Андропов" (in Russian). Republic. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  5. "Две жены, две семьи: какие тайны хранил генсек из КГБ Юрий Андропов". Krasnodar Media (in Russian). 23 March 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  6. Daniel Johnson (26 December 2019). "What happened to the wife of Yuri Andropov in Hungary". Global News. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  7. "Интимная жизнь чекиста. Какие тайны хранил генсек Юрий Андропов". Life (in Russian). 17 October 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  8. Yuri Glazov (October 1983). "Yuri Andropov: A New Leader of Russia". Studies in Soviet Thought. 26 (3): 176. doi:10.1007/BF00832689. JSTOR 20099269. S2CID 144155336.
  9. Oleg Yegorov (15 June 2019). "5 facts about Yuri Andropov, the only KGB agent to rule the USSR". Russia Beyond. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  10. Yuri Slezkine (2017). The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution. Princeton, NJ; Oxford: Princeton University Press. p. 926. ISBN 978-06911-927-27.
  11. M. Zyankovich (2005). Самые секретные родственники (in Russian). Олма-Пресс. p. 12. ISBN 978-5-94850-408-7.
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