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Perfume & Frog Fat. Stalin rewarded the Hammer by showering his family with favors. Madame Paulina Molotov (her revolutionary name is Zhemchuzhina, meaning a pearl) is an olive-skinned Jewess, who looks a little like the Duchess of Windsor. She was born in the Ukraine, "the poorest of the poor," but as the Premier's wife,* was soon gaily commuting from a stylish glass-and-steel dacha on the Moscow River. When Stalin issued his famous Diktat-Let us be gay, Comrades-the Pearl was appointed boss of the Soviet Perfume and Cosmetics Trust. "My husband works on their souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Old Reliable | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...cold-eyed Georgy Malenkov had grown strong enough to electrify a party conference with rousing attacks on Communist bureaucrats, "windbags" and "ignoramuses." Soon after, several commissars were demoted and Polina Zhemchuzhina, wife of Vyacheslav Molotov, was booted out of her job as Commissar of the Fish Industry. Malenkov was honored with a junior membership in the Politburo, later became boss of the party apparatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dear Georgy | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mode for the Masses | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Paulina Karpovskaya Zhemchuzhina, wife of Russian Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov, acted as a judge at a Moscow fashion show. The no-fuss-&-feathers prizewinners were designs suitable for mass production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 2, 1945 | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...Molotov is better known as Paulina Zhemchuzhina (zhemchug means pearl). She is a slim, handsome woman, with a clear olive skin and discreet makeup. Moscow's prewar foreign community knew her as a charming and lavish hostess, a lover of French literature, a well-dressed woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Hammer | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

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