About the book: 2011 / Not a single woman in the Soviet Union rose to such a pinnacle of power as Ekaterina Alekseevna Furtseva. She is remembered as the Minister of Culture, but before that she was one of the highest leaders of the Soviet state. She quickly made a career when women were not allowed into big politics. And she owed absolutely everything to herself. This cheerful woman with a stormy temperament and strong character could not bear one thing - when she was rejected, both in her personal life and in her political life. She seemed to have a will of steel, but she was internally vulnerable and tried to commit suicide. There are many mysteries in her life, and no one knows under what circumstances the Minister of Culture of the USSR passed away. Leonid Mlechin’s new book is the first complete political biography of E. A. Furtseva, one of the most prominent personalities of Soviet history. The book’s binding uses fragments of A. I. Volchkov’s paintings “Moscow. Bolshoi Theater. 1968" and D. A. Nalbandyan "Meeting of N. Khrushchev and E. Furtseva with cultural workers. 1962».