Word: semionovna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hung from the ceiling to the floor. Behind the table stood a large portrait of Stalin, edged in red. There was no soft music, no suave couturiers. The mannequins (rather plump) sported no fancy make-up or nifty hairdos. Commissars, scholars, artists faced the circular platform. Paulina Semionovna Zhemchuzhina (Madame Molotov), head of the Soviet Cosmetics Trust, was there, chatting brightly with Textiles Vice Commissar Dora Moissevna Khazan. In Moscow's House of Fashions, tailors and dressmakers of the state were displaying what the well-dressed tovarish should wear...
More important, if less well known, heads were rolling too. Removed as alternate Committee member was Paulina Semionovna Zhemchuzhina, for five years head of Russia's big cosmetics trust, upped to Vice Commissar of the Food Industry in 1937-and the wife of Premier and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov...
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