Nikita Khruschev, 47, Grandson of Soviet Icon
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Nikita Khrushchev, the grandson and namesake of the late Soviet leader, died in a Moscow hospital Thursday. He was 47 and had recently suffered a stroke.
Khrushchev, one of six grandchildren of the Soviet leader, worked as a journalist at the liberal weekly newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti from 1991 until December.
The RIA-Novosti news agency said since leaving Moskovskiye Novosti, he worked for a newspaper connected with the Union State, a proposed union between Russia and Belarus.
Khrushchev helped his father, Sergei, gather material for books on Russian archives and other institutions. Sergei a former missile engineer and the Soviet leader’s only remaining son emigrated to America in the 1990s and now works as a senior fellow in international studies at Brown University in Providence, R.I.
In a column published in 1999, he complained that once his father had applied for U.S. citizenship, the young Khrushchev found that doors that were previously open to him were shut in his face.
