Katukova wife biography

Ekaterina Sergeevna was born on December 31 in Moscow in a large and very poor family of three sisters and two brothers. After graduating from a secondary school, in the year, the Komsomol was sent to the apparatus of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, where in the years she worked as a stenographer. She graduated from special courses on Sokolov’s system and knew how to print to words per minute.

In the year, she married an employee of the military department of the Central Committee, Alexei Zakharovich Lebedev, Komkor and the Hero of the Civil War, a gentleman of two orders of the Red Banner. In February, A. Lebedev was arrested by denunciation and six months later shot on charges of preparing a conspiracy on April 23. As a member of the enemy of the people, Article 58, was also arrested and spent a year and a half in Butyrskaya prison along with the wives of designer S.

Korolev, Y. Ruzutak, O. Schmidt, the wife of the ambassador in Berlin Emma Begzadyan, the wife and daughter of V. Blucher and many other famous figures of science and culture, military leaders. Ekaterina Sergeevna recalled about the period of the Stalinist repressions: “I have no resentment. In my book, I wrote that I did not want to change a single hour, not a single minute, not a single day in my life.

I am not a Stalinist, but I am the daughter of my era. This is my homeland, my life. Each generation makes mistakes, made our generation, and today they are committed. And today, probably, no less than blood in the country than in m, the prisons are also crowded. And what, you need to put everything to your homeland? These people do this, who have no honor or conscience.

And I believe in my Russia, I believe that it was not for nothing that I lived a long life and saw many large people who knew how to love their homeland and were devoted to it. ” In the end, in December she was hired by a stenographer for the All -Union Radio, to the Department of Last Izvestia, which was subordinated to the political administration of the Red Army.

In addition, she graduated from paramedic courses. In the year after the start of the Great Patriotic War, she ended up in a group of journalists who came to the First Guards General-Dankist M. Katukov, commander of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade, to highlight the exploits of his brigade near Orel and Mtsensky. After an interview with Katukov, there was communication in an informal setting - dinner.

On him, Mikhail Efimovich made an offer to Ekaterina Sergeevna, which changed her life-he told her: "Stay with me." Nobody was waiting for me at home. I realized that my chance came to prove to my homeland that I am not an enemy of the people. Love came much later. ” Ekaterina Sergeevna served the whole war next to Mikhail Efimovich. Ekaterina Katukova, the foreman of the medical service, took out the foreman of the medical service from the battlefield of the wounded, sent heavy to the rear, she herself was wounded twice.

In one Kursk battle, she took out 49 wounded! She herself almost lost her left hand in the battle for Moscow in the Volokolamsk direction. After the war in the year, Mikhail Efimovich and Ekaterina Sergeevna got married and lived together for 35 years. She was grateful to his death for the fact that he was a devoted friend for her, in many ways - a teacher, a caring husband and just a hero.

Katukov was in the column of the 1st Belorussian Front along Red Square, and Ekaterina Sergeevna received an invitation to the Victory parade, then together with M. Katukov was present at the reception in the Kremlin in honor of Victory. Later, Katukov was appointed Governor General in the German province of Saxony. In post -war Germany, the Katukov spouses lived for six years.

She learned the German language, graduated from a four-year course at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism. In the year, thanks to Ekaterina Sergeyevna, a factory of porcelain Meissen in Dresden was preserved. The factory installed a sign: "Frau Katukova saved the factory." In the year they moved to Moscow in connection with her husband’s studies at the Academy of the General Staff, then - to Bobruisk, to a new place of service.

Returned to Moscow in the year. After the death of her husband, I bought a sleeping pill in the year, wrote a will and decided to leave after. But she remained, she had to prove that "it is not enough to be a good wife, she also had to be a good widow, which is much more difficult." I did not go crazy in the first days of loneliness because I realized what the meaning of life without a husband is now.

After the death of Katukova, Ekaterina Sergeevna, keeping the memory of her husband, his heroic deeds, wrote eight books about him, ended the ninth, actively engaged in educational and organizational activities, patriotic education of youth. With its help, the museum complex “History of Tank T” on the Dmitrovskoye Shosse in the village of Sholokhovo was created, memorial museums of M.

were opened in the year Katukov in a Moscow apartment and at the dacha marshal. Many personal belongings of Marshal, books, photographs, documents, his orders and medals are presented here. Materials for museums were helped by former guards-tankers. Ekaterina Sergeevna also provided great assistance in the years in the creation of school museums of military glory in Moscow, in the Moscow Region, in the cities of Voronezh, Lipetsk and others.

The bright memory of Ekaterina Sergeevna Katukova will remain forever in our hearts.