28 Facts About Yevgenia Bosch

Yevgenia Bosch is sometimes considered the first modern woman leader of a national government, having been Minister of Interior and the Acting Leader of the provisional Soviet government of Ukraine in 1917.

Yevgenia Bosch was the fifth and youngest child in the family.

For three years, Yevgenia attended Voznesensk Female Gymnasium, after which, due to a health condition, she worked for her stepfather as a secretary.

Yevgenia Bosch's 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 gave birth to two daughters.

Yevgenia Bosch's parents quarrelled often and her childhood was reportedly an unhappy one.

Yevgenia Bosch tried to educate herself while raising her two daughters.

The Yevgenia Bosch house was searched by the police for illegal political literature in 1906.

The police search was unsuccessful, but Yevgenia Bosch left her husband and fled to Kyiv, where she joined the revolutionary underground.

In 1907, she divorced her husband and moved to Kyiv where Yevgenia Bosch lived at vulytsia Velyka Pidvalna, 25.

Yevgenia Bosch was head of the Kyiv Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Worker's Party.

Alongside Pyatakov, Yevgenia Bosch managed to escape from Kachuga volost, first to Vladivostok, and then, with a short stint in Japan, to the United States.

Yevgenia Bosch accepted Lenin's invitation and attended the conference of Russian revolutionaries in Bern in 1915.

Yevgenia Bosch was initially opposed to Lenin's desire to urge the proletariat towards revolution.

Yevgenia Bosch moved soon afterwards to Kyiv, where she was elected chairman of the party committee for the Southwestern region.

Yevgenia Bosch then returned to what was then the Russian Republic, originally aiming at organizing an opposition to Lenin.

Yevgenia Bosch was elected chairman of a district Party Committee and then of a provincial Party Committee in the Southwestern Krai.

Yevgenia Bosch was instrumental in launching the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets.

Yevgenia Bosch was elected to the People's Secretariat of the Bolshevik government of Ukraine.

Yevgenia Bosch became Minister of the Interior when the Bolsheviks took control of the government in January 1918.

Yevgenia Bosch resigned her government post in protest and organised worker battalions to resist the advance of the German army through Ukraine.

Yevgenia Bosch enlisted, along with Pyatakov and her daughter Maria, in the Red Army forces led by Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko.

Yevgenia Bosch became ill with tuberculosis and heart disease and after several months of recuperation, she left Ukraine for Russia, where she filled political and military administrative posts for the next few years as the civil war continued.

Yevgenia Bosch was then posted to the Caspian-Caucasus front, and later to Astrakhan.

Yevgenia Bosch occasionally held secondary positions in the Central Committee of the All-Russian Union of Land and Forest Workers, the People's Commissariat of Education, the Central Union Commission and the People's Commissariat of Food for the provision of aid to the starving, and the People's Commissariat of Workers' and Peasants' Inspection and wrote her memoirs.

Yevgenia Bosch was a supporter of Leon Trotsky and signed The Declaration of 46, the first official statement by the opposition to Joseph Stalin.

Yevgenia Bosch's suicide was met with an immediate, deliberate effort by the Soviet government to suppress official acknowledgement of her status as a major Bolshevik leader.

The site of the Yevgenia Bosch bridge is the location of the Metro Bridge.