Personal life of Gorbachev's youngest granddaughter. Ksenia Virganskaya-Gorbacheva. Quiet wedding and quick divorce
In 1980, a daughter was born. They named the girl Xenia.
Childhood years of the presidential granddaughter
The baby was adored by all household members, but they did not indulge. She was brought up in strictness, from childhood she was told about the rules of etiquette. Xenia's mother developed her daughter in every possible way, tried to give her a good education, knowing that all this would be useful to her in the future.
The grandmother, Raisa Maksimovna, also invested her share in the upbringing of her granddaughter. She devoted a lot of time to communicating with Ksyusha, explaining how and why to act in specific situations. Grandmother never imposed her opinion and views, but only guided the girl to choose the right decision.
Every year, Ksyusha and her family rested in the Crimea, and the girl always looked forward to these trips. She adored the sea and the Yalta coast.
Ksenia, her bright and interesting, remembers her childhood with special warmth. Many pleasant moments remained in her memory: how fairy tales were read to her every evening before going to bed, how the whole family gathered at a large table and discussed pressing problems, how grandmother and eternally busy grandfather walked with their favorite - she remembers everything to the smallest detail. Particularly vivid memories are associated with how my mother brought Ksyusha, a first-grader, to the line to school, and after 10 years she met a graduate with a certificate in her hands. She also did not forget about her first love.
Ksenia Gorbacheva studied at the Bolshoi Ballet School. For 10 years of study, she performed on stage several times, but she could not become an outstanding ballerina. The reason was frequent diseases and injuries of the joints, knees. Adult Xenia, recalling her ballet lessons, regrets that she did not have a childhood with games and communication with her peers. The girl's day was scheduled to the minute. Daily classes and workouts took a lot of time.
Debutante at the Paris Ball
In France, a charity ball is held annually, in which 23 girls from around the world take part. Debutantes are chosen very carefully. Both the nobility of origin and the amounts in parental bank accounts are taken into account. Participation in such an event for young debutantes can be the beginning of their career in the modeling business.
In 2001, she became one of the debutantes Ksenia Gorbacheva. Photos, in which the granddaughter of Mikhail Sergeyevich is dressed in a chic evening dress from Dior, then adorned the pages of European magazines. Noticing the beauty in a gorgeous dress, fashion designer Laura Biagiotti invited her to take part in Milan Fashion Week. She invited the girl to walk the runway to demonstrate her new collection. Gorbacheva never dreamed of becoming a model, but gladly agreed.
MGIMO student. Meeting your future spouse
Ksenia Gorbacheva wanted to study abroad. But grandfather Mikhail did not allow his granddaughter to leave the country. She entered MGIMO at the faculty of international journalism. She learned Spanish at the institute and successfully passed the state exam. In 2003, Gorbachev's eldest granddaughter received a specialist diploma.
Ksenia Gorbacheva met Kirill Solod at the institute, who also studied at the Faculty of Journalism, but was 2 years younger. The couple started dating. Gorbachev liked the chosen one of his granddaughter. And Ksenia and her mother made a good impression on Cyril's parents. In a girl, they liked modesty, unspoiltness, intelligence and the ability to behave with dignity in society.
Quiet wedding and quick divorce
In the spring of 2003, the wedding of Gorbachev's granddaughter and the son of businessman Solod took place. About 140 people were invited to the celebration. There were politicians, businessmen from different countries. The holiday was quiet and calm, which surprised the journalists very much. Each participant was assigned a role. The bride was taken to the groom by her grandfather, Mikhail Sergeevich.
After the wedding, she took her husband's surname and, with all her belongings, moved to the apartment Ksenia Gorbacheva, donated by his parents. Personal life with Cyril did not work out, their marriage lasted only a couple of years. After the divorce, she again became Gorbacheva.
Favorite work of Ksenia Gorbacheva
Ksyusha, entering MGIMO, dreamed of a career as a journalist. She liked this profession. Once, while relaxing with a group of friends, Viktor Drobysh introduced her to Joseph Prigogine. The girl was offered a job related to artists. For her, everything was new and unknown, but she agreed to try herself in this direction.
Soon, having gained experience, she began working in the production company of V. Drobysh's National Music Corporation. At the same time, she was one of the freelance correspondents for the Grace newspaper.
Wedding with Dmitry Pyrchenkov
Ksyusha met her second husband at work. Dima Pyrchenkov was a concert director in the past. In 2009, their wedding took place. Compared to the first wedding, everything this time at Ksyusha was more modest, there were fewer guests. The media were not informed about the painting. The couple did not want to be under the gun of the paparazzi. We celebrated a solemn event in one of the restaurants on Rublyovka.
Daughter of Alexander
Dmitry and Xenia Alexandru. A woman gave birth in Germany. In Berlin, she did not choose a clinic, but a doctor who helped her child be born. In one interview, Ksenia Gorbacheva admitted that she did not want and did not intend to give birth in Russia.
When the young mother heard the first cry of her baby, and then felt the touch of her little body on her chest, she burst into tears.
After the birth of her daughter, Ksenia Gorbacheva lived with her family in Germany. Sashenka studied at a Berlin school. The fact that she has famous Russian figures in her family is told to the girl by showing photographs. The family comes to Russia only for the New Year holidays.
Details about how Gorbachev's eldest granddaughter lives are carefully hidden. She rarely appears at social events, spends time with her family, devotes herself to her favorite work. Her personal life has always interested journalists. But Ksyusha Gorbacheva, like her younger sister Nastya, does not allow the public to find out more than it needs to.
The change in the usual way of life that took place in the early 90s, not everyone was ready to accept. We remember the last years of the existence of the USSR not only by rapid changes, but also by the rule of a rather young politician by those standards - Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev.
How is the former leader of the country doing now and what are his descendants doing?
The daughter and granddaughters of Mikhail Gorbachev have always attracted the attention of the press. And this is absolutely normal, because the descendants of famous politicians, and even more so presidents, are always forced to reflect the rays of glory of their high-ranking relatives. The only daughter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Irina Virganskaya, is already 60 years old. She married a second time and lives a measured married life with businessman Andrei Trukhachev. 
Irina no longer appears at social events, because she spends most of her free time working at the Gorbachev Foundation, of which she is vice president. Therefore, the daughter of the last president of the USSR has to live in two cities. She spends a lot of time both in Moscow and in Munich, dealing with the affairs of her father's fund.
The press pays much more attention to Irina's daughters - Xenia (born in 1980) and Anastasia (born in 1987). The girls grew up spectacular, even tried themselves on the podium, although the eminent grandfather and mother saw them in a different area. 
Over time, the fashion world stopped attracting girls. Both granddaughters of Mikhail Gorbachev got married, and now they devote all their time to the family hearth, avoiding social events.
Back in 2003, Ksenia Virganskaya married classmate Kirill Solod, but the marriage with the son of a businessman lasted only two years. Then Dmitry Pyrchenkov, the former concert director of Abraham Russo, became Xenia's companion. 
As for Ksenia's work, it is worth noting the post of editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the magazine L "Officiel, in which Ksenia Sobchak replaced Gorbachev's granddaughter at one time.
Anastasia Virganskaya married in 2010 a successful PR manager Dmitry Zangiev. According to close friends of the couple, the wedding cost about 1 million rubles. Given the small salary of Dmitry himself, the banquet was probably paid for by Anastasia's loving grandfather. The event was attended only by the closest friends and relatives. Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev himself was also present. 
It is worth noting that Anastasia managed to work in the Grazia magazine, as well as the editor-in-chief at the trendspace.ru portal. She also travels a lot around the world and actively helps her mother in her work with the Gorbachev Foundation.
Now both Gorbachev's granddaughters regularly attend only events related to the work of grandfather's personal funds, as well as their mother, Irina Virganskaya. Therefore, most often you can see the granddaughters of the ex-president in the United States, where the office of the Gorbachev Foundation is located, or in Germany, where Irina Virganskaya lives. By the way, Xenia, the eldest of the granddaughters, also lives in Germany now. 
The daughter of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last President of the USSR, and his granddaughters have always been in the spotlight of the press. And in general, the children of high-ranking officials, and especially presidents, bear us a heavy cross for themselves, a heavy cross of the glory of their fathers.
Irina Virganskaya, who will turn 60 in a couple of years, after her second marriage to businessman Andrei, has moved away from a vibrant social life and lives in two houses - in Moscow and Munich, she is vice president of the Gorbachev Foundation.
But much more than about Irina, the press wrote about her daughters, Gorbachev's granddaughters - Xenia and Anastasia.
Both of them grew up as bright girls, both tried themselves on the podium, although both grandfather and mother dreamed of a different profession for them. But then the girls settled down, got married and now live quite closed in the interests of their families.
Ksenia 12 years ago married her classmate at MGIMO Kirill Solod, but the marriage did not last long. The second spouse of Gorbacheva was the former concert director of Abraham Russo Dmitry Pyrchenkov. Ksenia Gorbacheva's most notable post was as editor-in-chief of the Russian version of L'Officiel magazine, but not so long ago she was replaced by Ksenia Sobchak.
Her sister married Dmitry Zangiev, a PR manager for a large company, five years ago. Both sisters live in Moscow, do not attend social events, except for those organized by the grandfather's fund. Ksenia is now 35, Nastya is 28.
Gorbachev's granddaughters do not appear on the pages of Russian gossip columns, but they do not miss foreign events related to honoring their grandfather or the work of Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev personal funds.
The first and last president of the USSR admitted in all interviews that he loved only one woman all his life - his wife Raisa Maksimovna. They met in their student years, and since then they have never parted. The children of Mikhail Gorbachev are the only daughter Irina. In his book Mikhail Gorbachev. Everything has its time. My life ”, the former president revealed many details about his personal life, including how many children he and Raisa Maksimovna could have and why she did not terminate her first pregnancy. This happened when their young family was just beginning to exist, and the news that Mikhail Gorbachev's wife was expecting a child came as a surprise to them, but despite the fact that they had long dreamed of children, Raisa had to have an abortion. The doctors insisted on this, because a year before that she had been ill with severe polymyalgia rheumatica and childbirth could have ended tragically for Raisa Maksimovna.
In the photo - Mikhail Gorbachev's daughter Irina Virganskaya
The decision to have an abortion was not easy for them, but Mikhail Sergeevich tried to reassure his young wife, saying that they could still give birth to children, and her health and even life could be irretrievably lost. Only moving to Gorbachev's homeland in Stavropol helped Raisa regain her health, and two years after they settled in a new place, she gave birth to a daughter, Irina. All her childhood and youth were spent in the Stavropol Territory, where she graduated from high school with a gold medal, and then entered a medical institute.
When Gorbachev was transferred to Moscow, Irina transferred to the Second Medical Institute. N.I. Pirogova, graduating from which in 1981, became a general practitioner. She was never a practicing doctor - at first she was engaged in scientific work, and later she completely retrained, graduating from the international business school on the basis of the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation and became an employee of the International Public Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Research (Gorbachev Foundation).
In the photo - Gorbachev's granddaughters - Ksenia and Anastasia
The personal life of the daughter of Mikhail Sergeevich did not develop immediately. She divorced her husband, Anatoly Virgansky, and raised her two daughters Xenia and Anastasia alone. The eldest daughter of Irina Virganskaya in 2003 married Kirill Solod, the son of a famous businessman, but this marriage was short-lived, and in 2009 she again started a family - with the former concert director of Abraham Russo Dmitry Pyrchenkov and gave birth to a daughter, Alexandra, the great-granddaughter of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev.
Anastasia, the youngest granddaughter of the former president of the USSR, graduated from MGIMO and works as an editor-in-chief at the Trendspace.ru website. She is married to Dmitry Zangiev, a graduate of the Eastern University under the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Civil Service under the President of the Russian Federation. Irina Mikhailovna herself, who after the divorce gave herself the word never to marry again, married a second time - to Andrei Trukhachev, and since then has been happily married to him.
The horrors of repressions and executions, the Gulag and the Holodomor - it was all for the sake of a bright communist future.
Under the leadership of the Bolsheviks and Soviet leaders, the country was moving by leaps and bounds towards a bright communist future - not for itself (they did not dream of themselves), for their children and grandchildren. Yes, but the descendants of these leaders, who offered everyone to sacrifice themselves for the sake of future generations, prefer to live and live in the West (in "decaying" Europe and "damned" America).
The main person involved in this epic, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, had no children. But look at the geography of the settlement of the offspring of the Bolshevik-Communist elite, including also the contemporaries-successors of the post-Sovieticus, the families of the current deputies and ministers.
After the collapse of the communist experiment, the descendants of its builders did not go to finish the realization of the Great Dream in China, North Korea or Cuba. They all moved to normal countries, the EU and the US.
Stalin's son Vasily died at the age of 40. Daughter Svetlana, in 1966 in friendly India, came to the American embassy and asked for political asylum. In 1970, she married an American and changed her name to Lana Peters. She gave birth to a daughter, Chris Evans.
In 1984, she came to the USSR and restored Soviet citizenship, but 2 years later she renounced it for the second time and returned to the United States. The older children, son and daughter, whom she abandoned in the USSR after her escape, never found a common language with her mother.
In 2008, in one of her rare TV interviews with a Russian journalist, Svetlana refused to speak Russian, arguing that she was not Russian: her father was Georgian, and her mother was half German, half Gypsy. She died in 2011 in the USA, her body was cremated. Where the ashes of Stalin's only daughter are buried is unknown. Stalin's granddaughter Chris Evans lives in the USA, does not understand Russian and works in a clothing store.
Stalin's granddaughter is Chris Evans. She is 40 years old, lives in Portland, the owner of a vintage store (vintage store).
The son of Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei Khrushchev, was awarded the Star of the Hero of Socialist Labor and the title of Lenin Prize laureate, has been living in the United States since 1991, received American citizenship.
America has also become a home for Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev through his eldest son Leonid, about the circumstances of whose death historians are still arguing.
The son of the former First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev, left for Brown University (USA) in 1991 to lecture on the history of the Cold War, which he specializes in now. Remained permanently in the United States, currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, has American citizenship. He is a professor at the Thomas Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
The great-granddaughter of Nikita Sergeyevich, Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva, teaches at the Faculty of International Relations at New School University in New York.
Choreography teacher in Miami, granddaughter of the Chairman of the KGB of the USSR and Secretary General of the CPSU Yuri Andropov - Tatyana Igorevna Andropova. In the same place, in the USA, her brother, Konstantin Igorevich Andropov, lives.
The great-grandchildren of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev on the line of his son, Dmitry Andreevich and Leonid Andreevich graduated from Oxford University.
The niece of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Lyubov Yakovlevna Brezhneva, lives in California.
The daughter of the main ideologist of late communism, the ascetic Mikhail Suslov, Maya Mikhailovna Sumarokova, has been living in Austria since 1990 with her husband and two sons.
Gorbachev's daughter, Irina Virganskaya, lives mainly in San Francisco, where the main office of the Gorbachev Foundation is located, in which she is vice president.
Irina Virganskaya admitted in an interview that she could easily imagine herself outside of Russia. She often travels around the world. The German press wrote that the former president of the USSR has a castle in the Bavarian Alps (he himself denies this). The eldest granddaughter of Mikhail Sergeevich, Ksenia Pyrchenko (Virganskaya), lives in Germany. “I have many friends in Berlin, and in Germany I feel free,” she told a German journalist.
As you can see, all the children of the leaders of the USSR preferred to live abroad. None of them live in the house that they built (their fathers-grandfathers built). Apparently they built this house for us, and not for themselves. Here is such a “communist paradise”, from which everyone is leaving.