Yevgeny Alexandrovich Gnedin
Yevgeny Alexandrowitsch Gnedin ( Russian Евгений Александрович Гнедин ; born November 29, 1898 in Dresden , † August 14, 1983 in Moscow ) was a Soviet journalist and diplomat .
Life
Gnedin was a son of the Russian revolutionary Alexander Parvus (actually Israil Lasarewitsch Helphand). In the 1920s he held various diplomatic posts. In 1935 he was appointed First Secretary at the Soviet Embassy in Berlin . He later headed the press department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow. He was arrested and tortured in 1939 and sentenced to ten years in a camp in 1941. After Stalin's death, Gnedin was rehabilitated and re-admitted to the CPSU . In 1979 he left the party and died in Moscow in 1983.
Gnedin's wife Nadezhda Markovna Gnedina (1905–1991) was a writer and translator. His daughter Tatiana Evgenjewna Gnedina (* 1924) is a physicist and science fiction author.
Web links
- Biography at gulag.memorial.de
- Mikhail Ryklin : On the life story of a communist from the «Moscow Diary»
- Raissa Orlowa , Lev Kopelew : Reminders of a leading Soviet diplomat. Despite the torture, he did not sign anything
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gnedin, Yevgeny Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gnedin, Evgenij Aleksandrovich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet journalist and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 1983 |
| Place of death | Moscow |