Vyacheslav Molotov
The factories fell under the supervision of Polina Zhemchuzhina, wife of Vyacheslav Molotov, who become head of the Soviet Union's cosmetics trust in the 1920s, a position she would hold until 1932 when she incurred Joseph Stalin's displeasure at the time of his wife's suicide. In 1948, fluent in Yiddish, she acted as translator for a diplomatic meeting between her husband, Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet Union's foreign minister, and Golda Meir, foreign minister of the new state of Israel. Shortly afterward she was exiled until after Stalin's death.