posts and pages "Judges" and Executioners [1]"Judges" and Executioners [2]"Judges", Executioners and ... [3] (forthcoming)Chukhin and Dmitriev (forthcoming) * The Great Terror in Karelia: A ChronologyExecutions in Karelia, 1937-1938: Locations, numbers & executioners
John Crowfoot
Those who did not return
“I would like to recall them all by name, but they’ve taken the list, there’s no way to find out” Anna Akhmatova wrote Requiem, from which this famous couplet is taken, over almost thirty years (1935-1961). In Russia the poem could not be published in full until 1987. Nikolai Gumilyov, Anna Akhmatova and their son Lev (1915) … Continue reading Those who did not return
Keeping track of the case
A new page has been added to the TRIALS menu (above). APPEALS, Aug. 2020-Nov. 2021 now follows TIMELINE 1 (1997-2018) and TIMELINE 2 (2018-2020). The CHARGES page has two essential reports that reveal much of what went on behind closed doors during the first two trials: Nikita Girin's long and informative article (in two parts) … Continue reading Keeping track of the case
“Judges” and Executioners [2]
In February 2021 after a visit to Petrozavodsk reporters eagerly repeated [Postscript] a suggestion of DMITRIEV’s 88-year-old acquaintance Alexander Selyutsky that the historian might have upset a local relative or descendant of the “Judges” or Executioners of 1937-1938: “He not only came across those who were arrested: the executioners were also named in those documents.” … Continue reading “Judges” and Executioners [2]
“He deserves a medal for what he did!” [1]
Over the past five years Yury DMITRIEV has become known far beyond his native Karelia, throughout Russia and around the world. Dmitriev with his foster daughter Natasha, b. 2005 (photo Novaya gazeta) He has received prizes since his first arrest in December 2016, from the Moscow Helsinki Group and most recently the Norwegian Sakharov Award. … Continue reading “He deserves a medal for what he did!” [1]
The Dmitriev Affair 