Alexander Pokrovsky and his three brothers were born in a village in what today is Russia's Oryol Region. By the early 1930s, they had moved to Moscow. Ivan (1904-1933), Simeon (b. 1911), and Sergei (b. 1915) There in summer 1932 the OGPU (predecessor of the NKVD) arrested them and by October that year all four … Continue reading Remembrance (3): Four brothers
Day: 13 May 2021
Remembrance (2): Shot at Sandarmokh
Alexander Pokrovsky, 1912-1937 "Remembrance (1)" recalled the efforts of volunteers like Yury DMITRIEV over the past quarter century, thanks to which the names and reputations of some three million victims of the Soviet regime have been restored. It would be natural to proceed from the discovery of the killing field at Sandarmokh in 1997 to … Continue reading Remembrance (2): Shot at Sandarmokh
The Dmitriev Affair 