Kremlin wives

Documentary and journalistic research of Larisa Vasilyeva is devoted to the fate of those women whose husbands were the leaders of the Soviet state. From the hope of Krupskaya to Raisa Gorbacheva, the author draws portraits of “Kremlin wives”, telling about their characters, actions and complex intricacies of their life path. What were these companions of the first persons of the USSR? Was their life happy behind the Kremlin walls? Why were some of them arrested or sent to exile? A special place in the book is occupied by those who are not in the role of a wife, but as a comrade -in -arms entered the corridors of the Kremlin: Larisa Reisner, Alexander Kollontai, Galina Semenova. The book is built on unique archival materials, personal impressions, conversations with eyewitnesses and memoirs of contemporaries