Lyudmila Zhivkova

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Lyudmila Zhivkova (Bulgarian: Людмила Живкова) (26 July 1942 - 21 July 1981) was a Bulgarian politician from the Bulgarian Communist Party and daughter of Communist leader Todor Zhivkov, with whose nepotism she reached the rank of a Politburo member.

Born in Sofia, Zhivkova studied history at Sofia University (1965) and history of art at Moscow State University (1970), she then became assistant president of the Committee for Art and Culture (1972-1973), its first vice president (1973-1975) and its president (with the rank of a minister) after 1975 until her death of cancer in 1981. An admirer of Eastern culture, she was distrusted by the USSR ideological censors.

Lyudmila Zhivkova was a deputy in the 7th (1976-1981) and 8th (1981) National Assembly of Bulgaria.

Zhivkova had a daughter from her first marriage, Evgeniya (Zheni), who is a fashion designer and a Coalition for Bulgaria deputy. Her second marriage was with Ivan Slavkov, a former Bulgarian Olympic Committee president and former IOC member, and the two had a son, Todor Slavkov.

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