Pyotr Kryuchkov
Pyotr Petrovich Kryuchkov (Russian: Пётр Петро́вич Крючко́в; 12 November 1889, Perm – 15 March 1938) was a soviet lawyer and the secretary of Maxim Gorky.
Career
Pyotr Kryuchkov was born in
“P.P. Kryuchkov is an excellent worker, a good friend, and neither you nor anyone else can shake my trust and respect for him. I will add that your attacks against him have destroyed my companionship towards you."[2]
He joined Gorky on a visit to the USSR in 1928, when they both met
Arrested late in 1937, Kryuchkov was one of the defendants of the
On 12 March 1938 Kryuchkov's father, also named Pyotr Petrovich, was executed by the NKVD in Novosibirsk. Kryuchkov's wife, Elizabeta Zakharevna Kryuchkova, was arrested by the NKVD on 29 April 1937 and executed on 17 September 1938.[8][9][10]
References
- ISBN 978-1-62097-079-9.
- ^ "Крючко́в, Пётр Петро́вич". Chronos. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ Report of Court Proceedings in the Case of the Anti-Soviet 'Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites'. Moscow: People's Commissariat of Justice of the USSR. 1938. p. 584.
- ^ McSmith. Fear and the Muse. p. 87.
- ISBN 0-86316-070-0.
- ISBN 1-86046-072-0.
- ^ McSmith, Andy. Fear and the Muse. p. 91.
- ^ Wadim S. Rogowin: Die Partei der Hingerichteten, Band 5, Mehring Verlag, 1999, S. 531 Online
- ^ Theo Pirker: Die Moskauer Schauprozesse, 1936–1938, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1963, S. 242 Online
- ^ Der Fall Bucharin – eine Dokumentation, Das vollständige Geständnis von Nikolai Bucharin am 2. Juni 1937, Auszüge aus dem Prozessprotokoll (Moskauer Prozess vom März 1938), das Urteil gegen Bucharin im Wortlaut und ein Nachwort dazu Zusammengestellt von Gerhard Schnehen, PDF-Datei, S. 34