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. He was one of the defendants of the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" of 2-13 March 1938, alongside Genrikh Yagoda. He and Yagoda were sentenced to death and executed by the NKVD. 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.[1][2][3]

From left to right: Kryuchkov, Maxim Gorky and Genrikh Yagoda

References
  1. Wadim S. Rogowin: Die Partei der Hingerichteten, Band 5, Mehring Verlag, 1999, S. 531 Online
  2. Theo Pirker: Die Moskauer Schauprozesse, 1936–1938, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1963, S. 242 Online
  3. 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


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