Catherine Furtseva Biography

Fame is very contradictory: some Ekaterina Alekseevna still be confused on what the light is standing, others recall with reverence. Her biography is typical of a party employee of the Soviet era. Born on November 24, December 7, at the age of 14, joined the Komsomol, at twenty - in the CPSU b. Further, the career staircase progressively led it in cities and towns, gradually raising in the Komsomol service: Kursk, Crimea, Saratov and finally Moscow!

Before the war, Catherine managed to graduate from the Moscow Institute of Thin Chemical Technologies, and serious party work began. Back at the end of the year. Khrushchev became his ally in the struggle for power, which unfolded after the death of Stalin. At this time, the peak of her career came. Amazing performance, grip of mind, a firm character, interspersed with the time manifested by charm, the ability to feel the party conjuncture - all these qualities helped Ekaterina Furtseva become the first secretary of the Moscow city committee.

Furtseva 2nd on the right in the front row with actors at a suburban cottage during a meeting of party leaders and government with cultural and art figures. July G. built the Central Stadium of V. Lenin now the Luzhniki sports complex, where in Tchaikovsky, the holding of the Moscow International Film Festival was resumed. All this happened, including under the direct control of Furtseva, engaged in cultural and ideological work.

Only three women before her held the posts of ministers in the history of the RSFSR and the USSR, but for her this appointment was a clear decrease but could not resist the saddle, fate made a zigzag, and on May 4, G. Furtseva became the Minister of Culture of the USSR. Furtseva and Italian actress S. Loren at the IV Moscow International Film Festival. Photo: RGAKFD in the Party struggle and Culuar intrigues at first brought the new minister to depression, but she managed to get together and returned to the arena very soon.

The theaters of A. Efrem, O. Efremov appoints new artists, M. At the same time, many cultural figures of that time are unlikely to have good words for Furtsev: she is actively involved in ideological study and persecution of dissenters. Many theatrical productions, for example, the play "Living" the Taganka Theater based on the novel by Boris Mozhaev, were also banned. They put Furtseva in the fault and a poor understanding of many areas of art, especially painting and music on the night of October 24 to 25, Furtseva died suddenly.

Officially, the cause of death was called acute heart failure.

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