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Alexei Vladimirovich Romanov (1908-1998) was a Soviet statesman. Candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1961-1986. Member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR (1961-1962). Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 6-8 convocations.

Biography
Born 3 (16) February 1908 in the city of Belev Tula province. In 1926-1929 he studied at the Higher State Literary Courses.

In 1929-1933 he was a literary employee, head of the department, executive secretary of the Steppe Truth newspaper, Aktobe.

In 1933-1944 - literary employee, head of the department, deputy executive secretary, executive secretary, deputy executive editor of the newspaper "Gorkov Commune", Gorky.

In 1944-1946 he was a correspondent of the newspaper Pravda in the Gorky region.

In 1946-1947 - executive editor of the newspaper "Gorkov Commune", 1947-1949 - executive editor of the newspaper "Soviet Belarus". In 1949 he graduated from the Higher Correspondence Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU(B).

In 1949-1955 he was a member of the editorial board of the CPSU(b), executive secretary, deputy chief editor of the newspaper of the Information Bureau of Communist and Workers’ Parties “For Lasting Peace, for People’s Democracy!”, published in Bucharest.

In 1955-1956 – consultant of the propaganda and agitation department of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the Union Republics. In 1956-1962 – Deputy Head of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the Union Republics. In 1961-1962 he was a member of the Bureau of the CPSU Central Committee for the RSFSR. In 1962-1963 – First Deputy Head of the Ideological Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU, member of the Ideological Commission of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

In 1963-1965 – Chairman of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on Cinematography. In 1965-1972 - Chairman of the Committee on Cinematography under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

In 1972-1983 – editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Soviet culture”.

Since November 1983, a personal pensioner of union significance.

He died on October 29, 1998 in Moscow. He was buried at the Kuntsevo cemetery (columbarium).

Contemporary assessments
Vladimir Baskakov recalled:
Personally, he was decent, gentle, but perhaps too disciplined. You could argue with him, he was not offended. When he didn't like a movie, he talked about it, but he didn't insist on his claims. But if there was an instruction from above, then it is another matter. I said to him, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t show our bosses all the movies.’ They're watching them on Sunday. They are in a special mood.” He replied, “How can you hide something from the party?” But I understand how difficult it was for him. After all, the reprimand “personally” from Brezhnev is not a joke at that time.

Screenwriter Boris Dobrodeev wrote:
A. Romanov remained in the memory of filmmakers as a very ordinary, but not evil official. On his own initiative, if he was not instigated by one of the zealous deputies, he did not arrange public vices, and he banned scripts and paintings, as a rule, on the command of the Central Committee.

Bibliography
Evenings in Oshminsky: Essays: O kolkhoz. village