The House of Government

by Slezkine, Yuri

  Demchenko, Nikolai Nesterovich (b. 1896), first secretary of Kiev and Kharkov Provincial Party Committees; first deputy of the people’s commissar of agriculture; people’s commissar of grain producing and livestock raising state farms. Apt. 349.

  ■ His wife, Maria (Mirra) Abramovna Shmaenok (b. 1900).

  ■ Their sons, Nikolai (b. 1914) and Feliks (b. 1926).

  Eikhe, Robert Indrikovich (Roberts Eihe, b. 1890), first secretary of the West Siberian Party Committee; people’s commissar of agriculture. Apt. 234.

  ■ His wife, Evgenia Evseevna Rubtsova (b. 1898).

  Fedotov, Fedor Kallistratovich (b. 1897), trade union organizer in the United States; inmate of the Trenton Prison in New Jersey; Central Committee instructor (Central Asian Bureau). Fiction writer. Apt. 262.

  ■ His wife, Roza Lazarevna Markus (b. 1895), costume maker at the Moscow Youth Theater.

  ■ Their son, Lyova (b. 1923), diarist, fiction writer, musician.

  Gaister, Aron Izrailevich (b. 1899), deputy chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan); deputy people’s commissar of agriculture. Apt. 162.

  ■ His wife, Rakhil Izrailevna Kaplan (b. 1897), economist at the People’s Commissariat of Heavy Industry.

  ■ Their children, Inna (b. 1925), Natalia (b. 1930), Valeria (b. 1936).

  Goloshchekin, Filipp Isaevich (Shaia Itskov, “Georges,” b. 1876), commissar of the Urals Military District (entrusted with the execution of the tsar’s family); first secretary of the Party Committee of Kazakhstan; chairman of the State Arbitrage Court. Apt. 228.

  ■ His wife, Elizaveta Arsenievna (b. 1895).

  ■ Her son, Nikolai.

  ■ Her mother, Elizaveta Lukinichna Vinogradova (b. 1868).

  Granovsky, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (b. 1893), head of construction and director of the Berezniki Chemical Plant; director of the Central Administration of Railroad Construction. Apt. 418.

  ■ His wife, Zinaida Kolosova.

  ■ Their sons, Anatoly (b. 1922), NKVD agent, English-language memoirist; Valentin (b. 1927); Vladimir (b. 1934).

  Gronsky (Fedulov), Ivan Mikhailovich (b. 1894), responsible editor of Izvestia; editor in chief of Novyi mir; chairman of the Organizing Committee of the first Congress of Soviet Writers. Apts. 144, 18.

  ■ His wife, Lydia Aleksandrovna (b. 1905), theatrical set designer.

  ■ Their children, Vadim (b. 1927), Irina (b. 1934).

  ■ Lydia’s son, Igor Levashov (b. 1924).

  Iofan, Boris Mikhailovich (b. 1891), chief architect of the House of Government and Palace of Soviets. Apt. 426.

  ■ His wife, Olga Fabritsievna Sasso-Ruffo (b. 1883).

  ■ Her children, Olga Ogareva (b. 1909), Boris Ogarev (b. 1910).

  ■ Olga Ogareva’s son, Sergei (b. 1932).

  Ivanov, Boris Ivanovich (“the Baker,” b. 1887), chairman of the Flour Milling Industry Directorate; deputy chairman of the Main Administration of the Canned Food Industry. Apt. 372.

  ■ His wife, Elena Yakovlevna Zlatkina (b. 1897), seamstress, tannery worker, member of the Moscow City Soviet.

  ■ Their children, Vladimir (b. 1919), diarist, artist, actor, letter-writer; Anatoly (b. 1921); Galina (b. 1923).

  ■ Their adopted daughter, Olga Nikolaevna Bazovskaia (b. 1923).

  Ivchenko, Emelian Mikhailovich (b. 1905), House of Government guard; commander of armed labor-camp guards in Kolyma (Gulag). Apt. 107.

  ■ His wife, Anna Vladimirovna (b. 1915), Leningrad port worker; clerk at the House of Government post office.

  ■ Their children, Vladimir (b. 1935), Elsa (b. 1937), Boris (b. 1939), Viacheslav (b. 1941), Aleksandr (b. 1943).

  ■ Anna’s mother, Daria Ivanovna Chesheva (b. 1886), bathhouse attendant; cannery worker.

  Kerzhentsev (Lebedev), Platon Mikhailovich (b. 1881), ambassador to Sweden and Italy; head of the Russian Telegraphic Agency; chairman of the League of Time; director of the Institute of Literature, Arts, and Language at the Communist Academy; chief administrator of the Council of People’s Commissars, chairman of the All-Union Radio Committee; chairman of the Committee for the Arts; director of the Small Soviet Encyclopedia. Apts. 206, 197.

  ■ His wife, Maria Mikhailovna (b. 1901).

  ■ Their daughter, Natalia (b. 1925).

  Khalatov, Artemii Bagratovich (Artashes Bagirovich, Bagrationovich, b. 1896), chairman of the Commission for Improving the Living Condition of Scholars; chairman of the Committee on People’s Nutrition; head of the Association of State Book and Magazine Publishers (OGIZ). Apt. 229.

  ■ His mother, Ekaterina Gerasimovna (b. 1876), head of collections at the Lenin Library.

  ■ His cousin, Elena Bogdanovna Khalatova, actress at the Moscow Art Theater.

  ■ His wife, Tatiana Pavlovna (b. 1902), graphic artist.

  ■ Their daughter, Svetlana (b. 1926).

  Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich (b. 1896), first secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee. Apts. 199, 206.

  ■ His wife, Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk (b. 1900).

  ■ Their children, Rada (b. 1929), Sergei (b. 1935), Elena (b. 1937).

  Koltsov (Fridliand), Mikhail Efimovich (b. 1898), Pravda correspondent and essayist; editor in chief of Ogonyok, Krokodil, and Za rulem; founder and head of the Newspaper and Magazine Alliance, author of The Spanish Diary. Apt. 143.

  ■ His wife, Elizaveta Nikolaevna Ratmanova (b. 1901).

  ■ His common-law wife, Maria Osten (Gresshöner, b. 1908), journalist and fiction writer.

  ■ Their adopted son, Hubert L’Hoste (b. 1923).

  Kon, Feliks Yakovlevich (b. 1864), head of the Arts Section of the People’s Commissariat of Enlightenment; head of the All-Union Radio Committee. Apt. 198.

  ■ His wife, Khristina Grigorievna (Khasia Girshevna) Grinberg (b. 1857).

  ■ Their grandson, Grigory Grigorievich Usievich (b. 1917).

  Kraval, Ivan Adamovich (Jānis Kravalis, b. 1897), deputy people’s commissar of labor; deputy chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan); head of the Central Statistical Administration. Apt. 190.

  ■ His daughter, Elena (b. 1921).

  ■ His second wife, Minna Ilinichna.

  ■ Minna’s sister, Polina Ilinichna Shtykan.

  ■ Polina’s husband, Abram Borisovich Shtykan.

  Kritsman, Lev Natanovich (b. 1890), director of the Agrarian Institute of the Communist Academy; deputy chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan). Apt. 186.

  ■ His wife, Sarra Lazarevna Soskina, b. 1891.

  Kuchmin, Ivan Fedorovich (b. 1891), secretary of the Stalingrad Party Committee; deputy chairman of the Moscow Province Executive Committee; political commissar and director of the Moscow-Kazan Railway. Prototype of Aleksei Kurilov in Leonid Leonov’s novel The Road to Ocean. Apt. 226.

  ■ His wife, Stefania Arkhipovna Revenko, biology instructor at the Institute of Chemical Engineering; head of the Women’s Council of the Moscow-Kazan Railroad.

  ■ Their children, Oleg (b. 1922), Elena (b. 1926).

  ■ His wife’s sister, Anna Arkhipovna Revenko (b. 1903).

  Lakhuti (Lohuti), Abulkasim (Abulgasem, Abulqosim, b. 1887), Persian and Tajik poet; Pravda and Izvestia correspondent; secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers. Apts. 362, 110, 176.

  ■ His wife, Tsetsilia Bentsionovna Banu (Bakaleishchik, b. 1911).

  ■ Their children, Ateia (b. 1931), Delir (b. 1934), Giv (b. 1937), Leila (b. 1947).

  Lande, Efim Zosimovich (b. 1898), head of the Economic Planning Department of the State Bank. Apt. 153.

  ■ His wife, Maria Aleksandrovna Yusim (b. 1900), editor at the Party Publishing House.

  ■ Their son, Vladimir (b. 1927).

  Lander, Karl Ivanovich (Kārlis Landers, b. 1883), Cheka plenipotentiary for the North Caucasus and the Don Region (1920); head of the Agitprop Department of the Moscow Party Committee; Soviet representative at the foreign Famine Relief missions in 1922–23; member of the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Tr
ade. Apt. 307.

  Larina-Bukharina, Anna Mikhailovna (b. 1914), wife of Nikolai Bukharin. Apt. 470.

  ■ Her son, Yuri (b. 1936).

  ■ Her husband’s father, Ivan Gavrilovich Bukharin (b. 1862).

  ■ Her husband’s first wife, Nadezhda Mikhailovna Lukina (b. 1887).

  Mikhailov, Vasily Mikhailovich (b. 1894), head of the Moscow Trade Union Council; deputy head of construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Dam; head of construction of the Palace of Soviets. Apt. 52.

  ■ His daughters, Yulia (b. 1917), Nasdezhda (b. 1922).

  ■ His second wife, Nadezhda Ivanovna Ushakova (b. 1888).

  ■ Her daughter, Maria Nikolaevna Kulman (Musia, b. 1922).

  ■ Their daughter, Margarita (b. 1929).

  Mironov, Sergei Naumovich (Miron Iosifovich Korol, b. 1894), deputy head of the GPU [secret police] Highlands Department; head of the GPU Chechen-Grozny Department; deputy head of the GPU plenipotentiary in Kazakhstan; head of the OGPU Secret-Operational Department in Kazakhstan; head of the NKVD Directorate of Dnepropetrovsk Province; head of the NKVD Directorate of West Siberia; Soviet ambassador to Mongolia; head of the Far Eastern Section of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. Apt. unknown.

  ■ His wife, Agnessa Ivanovna Argiropulo (b. 1902), memoirist.

  ■ Their adopted daughter (Agnessa’s niece), Agulia (b. 1930).

  Moroz, Grigory Semenovich (b. 1893), head of the Cheka Investigations Department; Cheka plenipotentiary in the Kirgiz Territory; Cheka plenipotentiary in the Urals; secretary of the Urals Party Committee; chairman of the Moscow Control Commission; chairman of the Trade Employees Union. Apt. 39.

  ■ His wife, Fanni Lvovna Kreindel (b. 1897), pharmacist.

  ■ Their sons, Samuil (b. 1920), memoirist, poet; Vladimir (b. 1922), diarist; Aleksandr (b. 1928).

  Muklevich, Romuald Adamovich (Romuald Muklewicz, b. 1890), commander of Soviet Naval Forces; naval inspector general; deputy people’s commissar of defense industries. Apt. 334.

  ■ His wife, Anna Yakovlevna (b. 1890), head of supplies at the State Planning Committee (Gosplan).

  ■ Their daughter, Irina (b. 1923).

  Murzin, Pavel Gerasimovich (b. 1884), senior inspector, People’s Commissariat of Transportation. Apt. 130.

  ■ His niece, Nina Markelovna Andreeva.

  ■ His wife, Maria Semenovna (b. 1885).

  ■ Their children, Mikhail (b. 1913), Nikolai (b. 1915).

  ■ Mikhail’s wife, Zinaida Pavlovna (b. 1909).

  Orekhov, Vasily Andreevich (b. 1884), member of the Moscow Revolutionary Tribunal; deputy prosecutor of the Moscow Province; member of the High Court of Crimea; chairman of the Department of Party History of the Party Committee of Crimea. Apt. 384.

  ■ His wife, Elizaveta Ermolaevna (b. 1888).

  ■ Their children Vladimir (b. 1912), Tamara (b. 1923).

  Osinsky (Obolensky), Valerian Valerianovich (b. 1887), director of the State Bank; chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy (VSNKh); deputy people’s commissar of agriculture; ambassador to Sweden; director of the Institute of World Economy and Politics; head of the Central Directorate of Statistics; deputy head of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan); director of the Institute of the History of Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences. Apts. 389, 18.

  ■ His wife, Ekaterina Mikhailovna Smirnova (b. 1889), senior editor at Children’s Publishers.

  ■ Their children, Vadim (Dima, b. 1912); Valerian (Valia, b. 1923), classical philologist; Svetlana (b. 1925), memoirist and historian.

  ■ Their adopted son (Ekaterina’s nephew), Rem Vladimirovich Smirnov (b. 1923).

  ■ Vadim’s wife, Nadezhda (Dina) Dmitrievna Filatova (b. 1912), and their son, Ilya (b. 1937).

  ■ Ekaterina’s mother, Ekaterina Nartsissovna Smirnova (Zhurakovskaia).

  Ostroumova, Valentina Petrovna (b. 1898), stenographer of the Central Committee of the Party, Council of People’s Commissars, Comintern Executive Committee, and Cheka Collegium; head of the Igarka Political Department of the Main Administration of the Northern Sea Route; head of the Secretariat of Main Civil Aviation Directorate. Apt. 436.

  Ozersky, Aleksandr Vladimirovich (b. 1891), Soviet trade representative in Great Britain; head of the Central Directorate of Supplies, People’s Commissariat of Defense Industry. Apt. 208.

  ■ His wife, Maria Efimovna (Mirra Khaimovna) Kaminskaia (b. 1907).

  ■ Their children, Vladimir (b. 1924), Diana (b. 1935).

  Peterson, Rudolf Avgustovich (Rūdolfs Petersons, b. 1897), commander of Trotsky’s armored train; commandant of the Kremlin; deputy commander of the Kiev Military District. Apt. unknown.

  ■ His wife, Maria Stepanovna (b. 1894).

  ■ Their children, Irina (b. 1920), Maia (b. 1926), Marina (b. 1935).

  ■ Maria’s son, Igor Aleksandrovich Boiarsky (b. 1916).

  Petrovsky, Grigory Ivanovich (b. 1878), people’s commissar of internal affairs; chairman of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee; co-chairman of the All-Union Central Executive Committee; deputy chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Apt. 321.

  ■ His wife, Domna (Domenika) Fedotovna Sivakova.

  ■ Their children, Leonid (b. 1902), Antonina (b. 1906).

  ■ Leonid’s wife, Nadezhda Vasilievna Vikulova (b. 1902).

  Piatnitsky (Tarshis), Osip (Iosif) Aronovich (b. 1882), secretary of the Comintern Executive Committee. Apt. 400.

  ■ His wife, Yulia Iosifovna Sokolova (b. 1899), diarist.

  ■ Their sons, Igor (b. 1921), Vladimir (Vova, b. 1925), memoirist, historian.

  ■ Yulia’s father, Iosif Sokolov, his second wife, Sofia, and their daughter, Liudmila.

  Podvoisky, Nikolai Ilich (b. 1880), head of the Military Organization of the Petrograd Party Committee; chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee and commander of the storming of the Winter Palace; commander of the Petrograd Military District; people’s commissar of military affairs of the Russian Republic; people’s commissar of military and naval affairs of Ukraine; chairman of Sports International and Supreme Council of Physical Culture; member of the Party’s Central Control Commission. Apt. 280.

  ■ His wife, Nina Avgustovna Didrikil (b. 1882), editor at the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute.

  ■ Their children, Olga (b. 1908), Lev (b. 1911), Lydia (b. 1913), Nina (b. 1916), Elena (b. 1925).

  Poloz (Polozov), Mikhail Nikolaevich (b. 1890), Ukrainian ambassador to the Russian Republic; chairman of the State Planning Committee of Ukraine; people’s commissar of finance of Ukraine; deputy chairman of the Budget Committee of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. Apt. 199.

  ■ His wife, Tatiana Ivanovna Miagkova (“Tania,” b. 1897).

  ■ Their daughter, Rada Mikhailovna Poloz (b. 1924).

  ■ Tatiana’s mother, Feoktista Yakovlevna Miagkova.

  Postyshev, Pavel Petrovich (b. 1887), plenipotentiary of the Government of the Far Eastern Republic; first secretary of the Kiev Provincial Party Committee; first secretary of the Kharkov Provincial Party Committee; second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; secretary of the Central Committee of the Party; head of the Organizational Bureau and the Agitprop Department of the Central Committee; first secretary of the Kuibyshev Provincial Party Committee. Apt. 274.

  ■ His wife, Tatiana Semenovna Postolovskaia (b. 1899), secretary of the Party Committee of the Ukrainian Association of Marxist-Leninist Academic Institutions.

  ■ Their sons, Valentin (b. 1914), Leonid (b. 1920), Vladimir (b. 1922).

  ■ Tatiana’s mother, Maria Ignatievna, and sister, Nina Semenovna.

  Rabichev (Zeidenshner, Zaidenshner), Naum Natanovich (b. 1898), director of the Party Press; director of the Central Lenin Museum; deputy director of the Department of Culture and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Party. Apt. 417.

  ■ His mother, Sofia Markovna (b. 1876), researcher at the Institute of World Economics and Politics.


  ■ His wife, Vera Semenovna Kliachko (b. 1900).

  ■ Their son, Vladimir (b. 1919).

  Radek, Karl Berngardovich (Karol Sobelsohn, b. 1885), member of the Executive Committee of Comintern; rector of the Sun Yat-sen Communist University of the Toilers of China; head of the International Information Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party; head of the International Department at Izvestia. Apt. 20.

  ■ His wife, Roza Mavrikievna (b. 1885).

  ■ Their daughter, Sofia (b. 1919).

  Ronin, Solomon Lazarevich (b. 1895), head of the Financial Department of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan). Apt. 55.

  ■ His brother, Samuil (b. 1910).

  ■ His wife, Tatiana Vladimirovna (b. 1897).

  ■ Their children, Anatoly (b. 1921), Galina (b. 1930).

  ■ Tatiana’s mother, Dora Naumovna (b. 1873).

  Rozengolts, Arkady Pavlovich (b. 1889), secretary of the Moscow Soviet of Workers’ Deputies; head of the Main Directorate of the Air Force; ambassador to Great Britain; people’s commissar of foreign trade. Apt. 237.

  ■ His wife, Zoya Aleksandrovna (b. 1898).

  ■ Their daughters, Natalia (b. 1932), Zoya (b. 1934).

  ■ Arkady’s sister, Eva Pavlovna Levina-Rozengolts (b. 1898), painter, graphic artist. Her daughter, Elena (b. 1928).

  ■ Zoya Aleksandrovna’s brother, Evgeny Riashentsev.

  Rykov, Aleksei Ivanovich (b. 1881), people’s commissar of internal affairs; chairman of the Supreme Economic Council (VSNKh); chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars; people’s commissar of communications. Apt. 18.

  ■ His wife, Nina Semenovna Marshak (b. 1884), head of the Children’s Health Administration at the People’s Commissariat of Health.

  ■ Their daughter, Natalia (b. 1916).

  Serafimovich (Popov), Aleksandr Serafimovich (b. 1863), writer; author of The Iron Flood. Apt. 82.

  ■ His wife, Fekla (Fekola) Rodionovna Belousova (b. 1892).

  ■ His son, Igor Popov (b. 1903).

  ■ Igor’s first wife, Aleksandra Vladimirovna Maniushko (b. 1900).

  ■ Their daughters, Iskra (b. 1933), Svetlana (b. 1937).

  ■ Igor’s second wife, Izabella Veniaminovna Arutiuniants (b. 1910).