Pyotr Petrovich Kryuchkov
Pyotr Petrovich Krjuchkow ( Russian Пётр Петрович Крючков ; * 1889 , † March 15, 1938 in Moscow ) was a Soviet lawyer and personal secretary of the writer Maxim Gorky .
Kryuchkov was one of the 21 defendants in the third Moscow show trial in 1938 . He was accused of having participated in Genrich Jagoda's order in a plot to murder Gorky and his son. Gorky's doctors Lev Grigoryevich Levin and Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Pletnjow were his accomplices. Kryuchkov and Levin were sentenced to death. In addition, their personal property should be confiscated. They were executed two days later. Pletnyov was sentenced to 25 years in prison and only shot in 1941 during a mass execution by the NKVD in Oryol .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wadim S. Rogowin : The party of the executed, Volume 5, Mehring Verlag, 1999, p. 531 Online
- ^ Theo Pirker : Die Moskauer Schauprozesse, 1936-1938, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1963, p. 242 Online
- ↑ The Bukharin case - a documentation, the complete confession of Nikolai Bukharin on June 2, 1937, excerpts from the trial protocol (Moscow trial of March 1938), the wording of the verdict against Bukharin and an epilogue compiled by Gerhard Schnehen , PDF file , P. 34
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| SURNAME | Kryuchkov, Pyotr Petrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Крючков, Пётр Петрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet lawyer and secretary to the writer Maxim Gorky |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1889 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1938 |
| Place of death | Moscow |