Polina Zhemchuzhina

Polina Zhemchuzhina
Полина Жемчужина
Zhemchuzhina in 1936
People's Commissar for Fisheries
In office
19 January 1939 – 21 November 1939
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byAlexander Ishkov
Personal details
Born
Perl Solomonovna Karpovskaya

(1897-02-27)27 February 1897
Polohy, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire
Died1 April 1970(1970-04-01) (aged 73)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
CitizenshipSoviet Union
NationalityRussian (1897–1970)
Soviet (1917–1970)
Political partyRussian Communist Party (1918–1948)
Spouse
(m. 1920)
Children2
RelativesVyacheslav Nikonov (grandson)

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 production in the Ministry of Light Industry from 1939 to 1948. In 1948, Zhemchuzhina was arrested by the Soviet secret police, charged with treason, and sent into internal exile, where she remained until after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.
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