Sergei Yakovlevich Efron

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Sergei Efron

Sergei Jakowlewitsch Efron (born October 11, 1893 in Moscow , † October 16, 1941 ) was a Russian writer and Soviet secret service agent.

Efron was the husband of the writer Marina Tsvetaeva , whom he married in 1912. In the same year he published a volume of short stories entitled Childhood . He volunteered for the front in 1914 and fought in the White Army in the Russian Civil War . After their defeat he went into exile, he first settled in Prague . His wife came there with their daughter Ariadna Efron in 1922. In 1925 their son Georgi was born. In the same year the family moved to Paris .

In 1931 Efron was recruited by the Soviet secret service OGPU . His duties included shadowing Lev Sedov , the Parisian son of the revolutionary Lev Trotsky . He also recruited Russian emigrants to return to Russia. Whether his wife knew of his agent activity is controversial among historians. In 1937, Efron had to return to the Soviet Union when the French police accused him of complicity in the murder of the Soviet dissident Ignatz Reiss .

At first he lived, isolated from his former acquaintances, in a dacha near Moscow, where his wife followed in the spring of 1939. But on August 27, her daughter Ariadna, who was a staunch communist, was arrested by the NKVD , and on October 10 it was Efron's turn. He was accused of being a French spy and having had contacts with the Gestapo . He also fought against the "establishment of friendly relations with Germany". It was the time of German-Soviet cooperation after the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was joined .

On October 16, 1941, Efron was sentenced to death for alleged espionage and shot. In 1956 he was posthumously rehabilitated .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sergei Efron: Detstvo . Moscow 1912.
  2. ^ Arkadi Waksberg: The persecuted of Stalin. From the KGB dungeons. Reinbek 1993, p. 120.
  3. ^ Arkadi Waksberg: The persecuted of Stalin. From the KGB dungeons. Reinbek 1993, p. 124.
  4. ^ Arkadi Waksberg: The persecuted of Stalin. From the KGB dungeons. Reinbek 1993, p. 121.
  5. ^ Arkadi Waksberg: The persecuted of Stalin. From the KGB dungeons. Reinbek 1993, pp. 126-127.
  6. ^ Arkadi Waksberg: The persecuted of Stalin. From the KGB dungeons. Reinbek 1993, p. 128.

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SURNAME Efron, Sergei Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Эфрон, Сергей Яковлевич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1941