"you are my guardian angel" - so Фаина Раневская talked about Catherine Фурцевой. And in people Фурцеву nicknamed Catherine Great, hinting both at her unbelievable political career (not a single woman in the USSR before did not rise to such heights - secretary of ЦК and minister of culture) and on her stormy personal life (the first husband went away, giving up Фурцеву with a 4-monthly child, and for the sake of her left a wife and children the second).As a simple weaver became the "first lady ЦК", "first beautiful woman of Kremlin" and most "stylish woman of the USSR"? (Фурцева every day hurried and did a gymnastics, was an excellent swimmer, tennis player and gliding, splendidly and with large taste got dressed, the first was on the Kremlin reception in a ball-dress.) How always did she follow own commandments: not to "do a career through a bunk" and "cry only in a pillow"? From what did try to do away with itself, unsealing veins? And to believe whether to the rumors, that was early death of Фурцевой (on an official version, from a heart failure) actually suicide?This book is not political memoirs, and personal confession of "Catherine Great", therefore the first publication took place abroad. And only now these sensational revelations of "surprizing woman of the USSR" go back to home readers.