Ekaterina Furtseva was able to build a dizzying career. She was a successful politician, held the post of Minister of Culture for many years, but Furtseva’s personal life was not happy.
early years
Ekaterina Alekseevna was born on December 7, 1910. The family lived in the city of Vyshny Volochyok (Tver region). Parents were workers, mother was a weaver, father died in the First World War.
After seven years Furtseva got a job at a weaving factory, where her mother worked. At that time, Katya turned 15.
Career
Furtseva became a Komsomol member and, thanks to her keen mind, began to quickly advance along the party line. She was sent to the Kursk region to help organize agriculture.
Soon she became secretary of the Komsomol district committee, she was transferred to Feodosia. Catherine received the post of secretary of the Komsomol city committee, having worked until 1933. In this period, she joined the party.
Furtseva was later sent to Leningrad to take Aeroflot courses, where Katya met her love. The couple worked in Saratov, and then in the capital, where Furtseva was an instructor in the department of the Komsomol Central Committee.
During the war, Catherine was the secretary of the Kuibyshev city party committee, then worked for 8 years in the district committee of the Frunze district, taking the post of 1st secretary. Her successes were noticed, in 1950 she received the position of secretary of the city committee.
In the next 12 years, Furtseva was a deputy of the Supreme Council, then she became secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. In 1960, Ekaterina Alekseevna was appointed Minister of Culture, she worked in this post until the end of her life.
Later, Furtseva was accused of not understanding art, Ekaterina Alekseevna forbade much. She did not allow the Rolling Stones, The Beatles to give concerts in the USSR, banned the performance of Yuri Lyubimov’s Live. Rostropovich and Vishnevskaya emigrated, they had to do this, because they helped Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
However, thanks to Furtseva, exhibitions of paintings by Fernand Leger, Svyatoslav Roerich, Marc Chagall, and the Dresden Gallery were organized. Successfully held concerts of Simone Signoret, Yves Montana, Goodman Benny Orchestra.
The capital spent weeks of Italian, French cinema. Furtseva allowed the artists to tour abroad. Several theaters were created, some of the theatrical institutions operating earlier received new buildings.
Furtseva died on October 24, 1974. The cause was a heart attack.
