Stalin and His Hangmen (79 page)

26. Leonid Nikolaev, killer of Sergei Kirov,
c.
1933

27. OGPU boss Filipp Medved, White Sea canal, 1931

28. Kirov in his coffin, December 1934

29. Prisoners at work, White Sea canal, 1933

30. Svirlag corrective labour camp, Leningrad province, 1936

31. Judges at Menshevik trial, 1931

32. Andrei Vyshinsky, chief prosecutor in the 1930s show trials

33. Faina Niurina, acting chief prosecutor of the Russian Federation in the 1930s

34. Rykov (front left) and Bukharin (centre) on their way to trial, 1938

35. Nikolai Ezhov (right) with his brother Ivan

36. Ezhov (left) conferring with Stalin, 1937

37. Ezhov and Orjonikidze at the dacha, 1936. Left to right: Ezhov’s foster-daughter Natalia, Ezhov, Ezhov’s second wife Evgeniia, Sergo Orjonikidze, Orjonikidze’s wife Zinaida and assistant Semushkin

38. Red Army leaders in the late 1920s. Left to right: defence commissar Klim Voroshilov, Marshal Tukhachevsky, Nikolai Muralov, chief of staff Aleksandr Egorov

39. Lazar Kaganovich, early 1930s