It has been suggested that Yury DMITRIEV attracted the wrath of the authorities by exposing the members of the troika that issued thousands of death sentences in Karelia during the Great Terror or by naming the NKVD executioners who shot those thousands of men and women. Ivan Chukhin (photo) Yet as Irina FLIGE describes in … Continue reading “Judges” and Executioners [1]
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Remembrance (3): Four brothers
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
A wonderful person, a wonderful historian
On 3 January 2021 Mikhail ROGACHOV passed away in St Petersburg. He created "the best Book of Remembrance in Russia, the Komi Republic’s “Repentance” Martyrology," commented Anatoly Razumov and referred to his deceased colleague as "A wonderful person, a wonderful historian." Mikhail ROGACHOV (born Riga 1952; died 2021 of Covid-19 in Kronstadt hospital) Razumov continued: … Continue reading A wonderful person, a wonderful historian
The Dmitriev Affair 