Stalin and His Hangmen (81 page)

53. Vsevolod Meierkhold

54. Meierkhold and a portrait of his wife Zinaida Raikh

55. Charlatan biologist Trofim Lysenko, late 1930s

56. Geneticist Nikolai Vavilov, Lysenko’s victim, late 1930s

57. Marina Tsvetaeva and her daughter Ariadna, 1925

58. Nuclear physicist Piotr Kapitsa (left) with Jewish actor Solomon Mikhoels, 1946

59. Nine NKVD men:

a.
Leonid Zakovsky (Stubis), head of Leningrad von Pilchau, last aristocrat NKVD, 1937

b.
Genrikh Liushkov, head of secret political section, defected to Japan, 1938

c.
Baron Romuald Pillar in NKVD

d.
Anatoli Esaulov, who interrogated Ezhov

e.
Vsevolod Merkulov, physics graduate and Beria’s deputy

f.
Akvsenti Rapava, head of Georgian NKVD, after his second arrest, 1953

g.
Bogdan Kobulov, Beria’s associate and NKVD representative in East Germany

h.
General Vlasik, chief of Stalin’s household and tutor to his children, after his arrest, 1952