Khrushchev’s Daughter Wins Approval In West

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29746, 13 February 1962, Page 2

Khrushchev’s Daughter Wins Approval In West

[By

SUSAN VAUGHAN]

Once upon a time the world’s most fascinating and mysterious women came from Hollywood. Think of Greta Garbo and Theda Bara, for example. But judging by the attention being given to Mrs Rada Adzhubei, they now seem to live behind the Iron Curtain. Mrs Adzhubei is the 31 - year - old younger daughter of the Russian Premier, Mr Khrushchev, and she has been visiting North and South America with her husband, Alexei Adzhubei, editor of “Izvestia.”

She is a reminder that Russian women are not necessarily podgy, hornyhanded daughters of toil.

Mrs Adzhubei, a blonde with pale blue eyes, is as trim as any Western diplomat’s wife. Impressively, she managed to convey allure without jewellery or perfume. She likes furs and has a splendid sable and mink coat. Mrs Adzhubei’s life compares in interest with that of any women in the West. Her husband is a man on the way up. He has raised the circulation of “Izvestia” by more than two million copies in two years. Brash, good looking and a raconteur, he has often visited the rich, strange world outside Russia. Paris nightclubs, roulette at Reno, and surf-riding near Melbourne — he has “done” them all. He does not hesitate to say that he likes jazz or that he was impressed by the cascades of coloured lights on Broadway. When he can, he takes his wife with him. In 1959 they visited Paris and watched a nude show in a night club until early in the morning. Generally speaking, Mrs

Adzhubel approved of the city. "I prefer it to America,',’ she said. "It is far more colourful, it has so much more character. But I cannot tell you if I find the women more elegant; I am not interested in those kind of things.” She is interested in her three boys, aged from three to nine. In Paris she bought them toys. Mrs Adzhubei is no stay-at-home mother. She says she would be cranky if she stayed at home the whole time. So she works five hours a day on a magazine. Like her husband, whom she met when they were students in Moscow, she is interested in giving a Western brightness to the dull Russian press.