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Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina [a] (born Perl Solomonovna Karpovskaya; [b] 27 February 1897 – 1 April 1970) was a Soviet politician and the wife of the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Zhemchuzhina was the director of the Soviet national cosmetics trust from 1932 to 1936, Minister of Fisheries in 1939, and head of textiles ...
Dec 17, 2023 · Polina Zhemchuzhina (originally Pearl Semyonovna Karpovskaya) is a native of the village of Pologi, located in the Aleksandrovsky district of the Yekaterinoslav province. She was born on March 11, 1897. Her father was a simple tailor. Already as a teenager, Polina began to work.
Sep 30, 2019 · At the time of Stalin’s death, Molotov’s wife, Polina Zhemchuzhina, a former Party leader herself, had been in the gulag for more than four years; caught up in anti-Semitic purges, she had ...
Born Perl Karpovskaia, Polina Zhemchuzhina was the daughter of a tailor from Ekaterinoslav province. From 1911 until 1917, she worked in a cigarette factory and as a cashier in a pharmacy in Ekaterinoslav. Zhemchuzhina became a member of the Communist Party in 1918.
Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina [lower-alpha 1] (born Perl Solomonovna Karpovskaya; [lower-alpha 2] 27 February 1897 – 1 April 1970) was a Soviet politician and the wife of the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
Jan 30, 2024 · Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina was Jewish. She was a secular atheist in an officially atheistic nation who nevertheless retained a strong if mostly submerged Jewish identity. And when, years later, she revealed the true depth of her identity as a Jew, she got into trouble, potentially lethal, trouble, with the man who had partnered with Hitler.
The following excerpt sheds light on personal relations between Stalin and his Kremlin subordinates. More specifically, it is about V.M. Molotov, Stalin’s Foreign Minister, and his Jewish wife, Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina. After marrying Molotov, Polina became very close to Stalin's wife.
