Andrey Andreyev

Who was Andrey Andreyev?

Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev was a Soviet politician.

He was the son of a peasant who became a munitions worker. During World War I he joined the Bolsheviks. His wife was Dora Khazan.

He was a member of the Politburo from 1932 until 1952. Andreyev was a Chairman of the Soviet of the Union from 1938 until 1946 and later directed the party's Control Commission. In 1949 he was briefly People's Commissar for Agriculture. This was also the year of the Leningrad case for which Andreyev built up a case against Nikolai Voznesensky, accusing him of losing 526 documents from Gosplan.

Dismissed from Politburo during 1952 when he was completely deaf, he remained a vice-premier of the Soviet government but ultimately lost his positions during 1953 after the Central Committee Plenary Meeting where he blamed Beria in criticizing Stalin.

When Andreyev died neither Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the CPSU, or Alexei Kosygin, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers bothered to attend his funeral. He loved the music of Tchaikovsky, mountaineering and nature photography.