Anna Samoilovna Karpova

Anna Samoilowna Karpowa ( Russian Анна Самойловноа Карпова ; * 1883 in Kamjanez-Podilskyj , † 1968 in Moscow ) was a Ukrainian - Russian revolutionary, historian and old Bolshevik .

Karpowa came from a family of jewelers. She joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia (Bolsheviks) in 1902 and was arrested several times in Kiev for her propaganda activities. In 1915 she graduated from the then Moscow Higher School of History .

In 1917 she was appointed head of the consular department at the embassy in Finland. From 1925 she headed the propaganda department of the Rayon Committee of the Krasnopresnensk Rajones , at the same time she headed the Marxism training in the Moscow Oblast . From 1927 to 1929 she herself studied Marxism at the Central Committee of the Communist Party . From 1935 she was rector of the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History . In this role she was responsible for deciding that the children of parents who had fallen victim to the political cleansing of the Great Terror were not excluded from lectures. From 1940 to 1963 Karpowa was the director of the State Historical Museum , where under her leadership the number of employees increased significantly and research work became the focus of museum activity.

Karpova was married to the chemist Lev Jakowlewitsch Karpow , their son Vladimir Lvowitsch Karpow was also a chemist. Her sister Rosalija Samoilovna Salkind was, like Anna Karpova, a revolutionary. Karpova is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Карпова, Анна Самойловна . In: С. О. Шмидт (Ed.): Московская Энциклопедия, Том 1 - Лица Москвы . tape 2 . Фонд Московские энциклопедии, 2008, ISBN 978-5-903633-01-2 , p. 126 .