Yevgenia Gotlieb Bosch Евге́ния Богда́новна Бош |
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People's Secretary of Internal Affairs | |
In office 30 December 1917 – 1 March 1918 |
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Preceded by | position introduced |
Succeeded by | Yuriy Kotsiubynsky |
Chairman of the People's Secretariat (acting) | |
In office 30 December 1917 – 1 March 1918 |
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Preceded by | position introduced |
Succeeded by | Mykola Skrypnyk |
Personal details | |
Born |
Ochakiv, Russian Empire |
23 August 1879
Died | 5 January 1925 Moscow, Soviet Union |
(aged 45)
Citizenship | Russia, Soviet |
Nationality | German |
Political party |
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine |
Spouse(s) | Peter Bosch Georgy Pyatakov |
Children | two daughters: Olha Kotsyubynska ? |
Alma mater | Voznesensk Female Gymnasium (1903) |
Yevgenia Bosch (Ukrainian: Євгенія Богданівна (Готлібівна) Бош; Russian: Евге́ния Богда́новна (Го́тлибовна) Бош) (Yevgenia Bogdanovna (Gotlibovna) Bosh), also known as Evgenia Bosh, Evgenia Bogtdanovna Bosch or Evheniya Bohdanivna Bosch [her Russian patronym (Bogdanovna - "God's gift") is not directly translated from her Russified German patronim (Gotlibovna - "God's love")] (August 1879 – 5 January 1925) was a Bolshevik activist, politician, and member of the Soviet government in Ukraine during the revolutionary period in the early 20th century.
Yevgenia Bosch is sometimes considered the first modern woman leader of a national government, having been Minister of Interior and at one point the Acting Leader of the provisional Soviet government of Ukraine in 1917. For that reason she is also sometimes considered the first Prime Minister of independent Ukraine, but her memory lacks wide knowledge or even recognition, due to what is considered to have been a deliberate historical suppression by the Stalinist regime because of her sympathy with the opposition.
Officially Bosch was born in Ochakiv, in the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire, but some records have another information - village of Adjigol, Odessa uyezd, Kherson Governorate in a family of a German colonist, mechanic, and landowner Gotlieb Meisch and Bessarabian noblewoman Maria Krusser. Yevgenia Bosch was the fifth and the last born child in family. Soon after the death of Gotlieb Meisch, Maria Krusser married her husband's brother Theodore Meisch. For three years Yevgenia attended Voznesensk Female Gymnasium, after which due to her health conditions she worked for her stepfather as a secretary. Being stuck in parents household Yevgenia sought means to leave. Her older brother Oleksiy acquainted her with his friend Peter Bosch who was an owner of a local small wagon shop. At 16 Yevgenia married Bosch and later gives birth to two daughters.