Biography Furtseva Svetlana daughter

The last 13 years of life, she held the post of Minister of Culture. Around the name of Ekaterina Alekseevna, legends and myths still go. Political melodrama, ”knew the daughter of Ekaterina Alekseevna Svetlana for the last six years of her life. About how the heiress of a senior mother lived before and after her death, this story. Ekaterina Furtseva died on the night of October 25 under unclear circumstances.

She was 63 years old. The night before, the Ministry of Culture, which she headed, came from a telegram from the USSR Embassy in the Netherlands with a message about the sudden death of the famous violinist David Oistrakh. His recently sent Ekaterina Alekseevna to speak at negotiations on the discharge of international tension. Furtseva insisted. The minister’s chair was already staggering under her, and she decided to show the will.

Perhaps this telegram was the last straw. Furtseva ordered that Assistant Tanya prepare a letter in the name of a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU Alexei Kosygin with a request to allow the musician to bury the musician at the Novodevichy cemetery, not suspecting that he would be there after three days. Returning at about ten in the evening from Kosygin, Ekaterina Alekseevna gave Tanya a letter for execution, changed in a rest room and went home, warning her daughter to the Light on the phone that she was going to lie down early.

When Late in the evening Furtseva’s husband, a diplomat and party leader Nikolai Firyubin, returned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he found his wife dead. Svetlana lived separately from her mother and learned about her death almost the last. Ekaterina Alekseevna with her daughter Sveta and granddaughter Marina, when I was collecting material for the book, sought abroad daughter Firyubin from her first marriage to Margarita, and she assured that the stepmother committed suicide, opening the veins.

Rita, according to her, came to her father and Furtseva’s apartment at the moment when Ekaterina Alekseevna was carried out, covered with a bloodied sheet. Svetlana did not believe in the suicide of her mother: - She could not with the marinth granddaughter. In the hands of the world, she received the conclusion that death came from acute heart failure. But Margarita Firyubin believed: Furtseva had a tendency to suicide from her youth and that she committed suicide on the third attempt.

About the previous one, when she revealed her veins, is now known. It was the collapse of her dizzying party career. She was then miraculously saved ... The sudden death of the Minister of Culture was officially silent. There was a short message in the newspaper, and her name was immediately betrayed. But in Moscow there were rumors about the suicide of Furtseva. Arriving in Moscow, Svetlana wanted to establish the Mother Foundation with the aim of reviving culture and to help actors of the Soviet theater and cinema.

She spent the evenings of Furtseva’s memory, achieved the installation of a memorial plaque on the house near the central telegraph on Tverskaya, where they once lived. Now, Sveta settled outside the city, in a house built by the architect Leonid Aranauskas. It was he who designed the cottage in Zhukovka for Ekaterina Alekseevna, who was taken from the scandal. In those days, party leaders lived in state dachas.

Own, of course, was built, but from sin was recorded away from relatives. When they reported to Furtsev, the party control committee clung to it with a dead grip. As soon as they confiscated the cottage, there were rumors that this house had liked to someone from the Politburo. Svetlana until the end of days did not leave the thought of returning real estate in Zhukovka, but could not do anything.

Furtseva’s daughter repeatedly told me how she and her mother lived at state facilities. First in the village of Ilyich Testament, then in Pushkino. Then she was allocated the house of the son of Stalin - Vasily, who, after the death of the “father of the peoples”, Khrushchev ordered to arrest. Import furniture sets made up a beautiful interior. Dishes - ancient Saxon Services "Blue Swords".

Sauna, greenhouses, garage with a sports foreign car of Vasily, stables, but without horses. And cinema. Sveta even then saw the film “Doned by the Wind”, which we all watched only during the years of perestroika. After the death of her mother, she immediately felt that everything around her was changing. Two things helped survive Svetlana: a happy marriage and, most importantly, education in the spirit of Soviet morality received from Ekaterina Alekseevna.

But what a car is there, if a senior mother even forbade Svetlana to wear sunglasses that were rapidly in fashion, noting that it was a bad tone and a sign of bourgeoisness. And the grandmother of Matrena, the mother of Ekaterina Alekseevna, a rustic semi -literate woman, under the supervision of which the light grew, acted even cooler. For example, she could not stand granddaughter in her trousers and reported them, not embarrassed in expressions.

And when the growing light began to walk until late in the summer in the country, Matrena once pissed her and moved lower than her underwear with a linen rope. However, some of the environment of Minister Furtseva considered these methods of education necessary for Sveta. They called her echoing and spoiled. But, having entered the circle of her communication, I personally did not notice anything like that.In her Great Trekhurovna Village House, the comfort and spirit of hospitality reigned.

The architect Aranauskas, who was already under 90, often visited Sveta away. Surprisingly cute, intelligent, knowing languages ​​of a person. I was interested in whether he remembered the cottage in Zhukovka, which he designed for Ekaterina Alekseevna. And the architect immediately painted a plan of the one, modest by current standards, at home. Sveta, by the way, was very ridiculous.

Once it occurred to her that since Leonid Semenovich is a widower, I could have a couple of him. A friend was completely sincerely about to arrange my personal life, saying: - You will be behind him as behind a stone wall. He will repair your apartment. Once I come for dinner, and a stranger sits in the living room on the couch. While Svetlana was busy in the kitchen, the man got up and recommended: - Count Witte.

And when Sveta again began to advise, so that I would not lose sight of the elderly architect Aranauskas, I had to notice with a smile: - In my opinion, the count suits me more. Leonid Semenovich sometimes brought me home from Svetlana at his thirty -year -old "Lada". For all the intelligence and solid age, Aranauskas turned into Schumacher at the wheel. So I drove the Rublevsky slides that I was dying with fear: the car was a storm.

Once I asked: - Leonid Semenovich, why don't you buy a new car? There are many things left in the house from Ekaterina Alekseevna: furniture, paintings, vases, books, white piano - and this created the feeling that Furtseva is older here. Especially when Sveta and I sat at dusk in the fireplace hall and talked about it. She was tormented by guilt. Svetlana did not get along with her stepfather, her mother’s second husband, Firyubin, but once she admitted to me: “But Nikolai Pavlovich was a good person.” I ruined my mother’s life.

Often Svetlana recalled her deceased husband. It was a marriage by love, although Igor Kochnov, by her own admission, was not faithful to her. Nevertheless, Svetlana spoke only good about him and yearned for him very much. Igor died of a heart attack of the year. She jumped out for him at 17, because she dreamed of independence. After all, when her mother was in the party elite and they lived on Granovsky Street, they were served by a servant from the 9th KGB Directorate.

In addition to monitoring the special services, the mother’s hedgehog mittens were very weighed down. And I wanted will. Once Svetlana, during a foreign business trip with her mother, fell in love with a foreigner. But she stopped this relationship in the bud. Then Svetlana decided to marry at the first opportunity. However, she lost and again hit the high fence into the mansion of the party leader, where there was exactly the same control.

Her father -in -law - Frol Kozlov - was burdened with a kinship with Furtseva. As Olga told me, the sister of the first husband Svetlana, my father did not even go to meet the young from the registry office. But two weeks later, he still rolled them with a wedding banquet in his state giving. The celebration was attended by Mikoyan, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev was even a host.

In this marriage, the daughter of Marina was born, but this did not protect him from a divorce. Svetlana met the main love of her life - that very Igor Kochnov. He even adopted the baby. And Oleg Kozlov died young: they say he drank. The fund established by Svetlana lay on his side. Sveta did not have enough organizational abilities, but she did not throw what she started. She wanted to leave her girls business.

Marina grew up, also became a mother - she gave birth to Katya. When the baby turned three, a large family, headed by Svetlana, decided to go abroad. First to Germany, then to Spain. It was the idea of ​​a marine dentist.