Background
He was the son of a peasant who became a munitions worker
He was the son of a peasant who became a munitions worker
During World War I he joined the Bolsheviks. Andreyev was a Chairman of the Soviet of the Union from 1938 until 1946 and later directed the party"s Control Commission (until 1952). In 1949 he was briefly People"s Commissar for Agriculture.
This was also the year of the Leningrad case for which Andreyev built up a case against Nikolai Voznesensky, accusing him of losing 526 documents from State Planning Committee.
Dismissed from Political Bureau during 1952 when he was completely deaf, he remained a vice-premier of the Soviet government but ultimately lost his positions during 1953 after the Central Committee Plenary Meeting (convened immediately after Lavrentiy Beria"s dismissal) where he blamed Beria in criticizing Stalin (in other words, declared his disapproval of the party policy towards "destalinization"). When Andreyev died neither Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, or Alexei Kosygin, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers bothered to attend his funeral.
He loved the music of Tchaikovsky, mountaineering and nature photography.
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]
He was a member of the Political Bureau from 1932 until 1952.