Ekaterina Alekseevna Furtseva is the only woman who has reached such heights of power in the USSR. She was both the secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee, and the first secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee, and the Minister of Culture of the USSR. The path traveled from a provincial girl from Vyshny Volochyok to the main woman of the USSR is winding, unpredictable and dramatic.