Nikita Khrushchev, the grandson and namesake of the late Soviet leader, died Thursday, his aunt said. He was 47.
Khrushchev had been hospitalized after suffering a stroke Sunday, Rada Khrushcheva told The Associated Press.
Khrushchev - one of six grandchildren of the Soviet leader - had worked as a journalist at the liberal weekly newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti from 1991 until his contract expired in December.
The RIA-Novosti news agency said that, since leaving Moskovskiye Novosti, he had worked for a newspaper connected with the Union State - a proposed, on-again, off-again union between Russia and Belarus.
Khrushchev had long worked to help his father, Sergei, gather material for his books in Russian archives and other institutions. Sergei - a former missile engineer turned writer and the Soviet leader's only remaining son - emigrated to the United States in the 1990s and now is a senior fellow in international studies at Brown University.
In a 1999 newspaper column, he complained that once his father had applied for U.S. citizenship, the young Khrushchev found that doors previously open to him were shut in his face.
Khrushchev, who lived with his mother, Galina, was not married and did not have any children, his aunt said. 
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