Young Stalin (78 page)

33 · “DARLING, I’M IN DESPERATE STRAITS”

1.
Yenisei: Service,
Stalin
, pp. 107–9.
Istoricheski Arkhiv
, no. 5, 1956, p. 116. GARF 5449.1.63: B. Ivanov,
Stalin i Sverdlov v Turukhanskoi ssylke
. V. Zavialov, “Tov. Stalin v Turuskanske,”
Krasnoiarsky Rabochyi
, 21 Dec. 1939. Trotsky,
Stalin
, p. 170. Lenin,
Biograficheskaya khronika
, 3:125–50. Ostrovsky, pp. 387–88. Dubrovinsky’s library: Trifonov,
Otblesk kostra
, pp. 35–37. A. V. Antonov-Ovseenko,
Stalin bez maski
, p. 383.F. Zakharov story quoted in Kun, p. 164.

2.
RGASPI 558.4.220. Slavatinskaya: RGASPI 124.1.1782 Lenin,
Biograficheskaya khronika
, 3:125–50. RGASPI 558.1.52. RGASPI 55.1.49. RGASPI 558.1.89. RGASPI 558.1.659. GARF 102.00.1914.5–25b. RGASPI 558.1.4234. Also: Trifonov,
Otblesk kostra
, pp. 559–65. RGASPI 5581.1.5168. Bathhouse with Sverdlov: Kun, pp. 163–65. Escape suspicions: Zavialov, “Tov. Stalin.” RGASPI 558.1.4235. Money received, 135 roubles: Ostrovsky, p. 395. Move to north: RGASPI 558.1.51. RGASPI 558.4.234. K. T. Sverdlova,
Y. M. Sverdlov
, pp. 175–77. Sverdlov and Stalin, week together, escape plans: E. Gorodetsky and Y. Sharapov,
Sverdlov
, pp. 95–100.

34 · 1914: ARCTIC SEX COMEDY

1.
Kureika: Chernenko,
I. V. Stalin v sibirskoi ssylke
, pp. 140–42. I. M. and A. S. Taraseev and other memoirs: RGASPI 4.662 and 581. Money orders: Ostrovsky, p. 397. Mali novsky Case: RGASPI 558.1.52. Yakov Sverdlov,
Izbrannye
, pp. 267–80. Gorodetsky and Sharapov,
Sverdlov
, pp. 99–101. Vera Shveitzer,
Stalin v turukhanskoi ssylke
, including visit to Stalin in Kureika and his room, singing, Kamenev, pp. 30–32 and 47–50.

2.
Ostrovsky, p. 397. Malinovsky: RGASPI 558.1.52. Sverdlov,
Izbrannye
, pp. 266–80, letters to Sara Sverdlova, L. I. Besser, D. F. Petrovskaya, wife Klavidia Novogorodzeva (depression, June 1914), p. 321, L. Dilevskaya (no trace of comradeship or community). Gorodetsky and Sharapov,
Sverdlov
, pp. 99–103. Shveitzer,
Stalin v turukhanskoi ssylke
, pp. 30–32 and 47–50. Ilizarov, pp. 291–93.

3.
Malinovsky case: Ellman,
Roman Malinovsky
, pp. 31–66. Radzinsky,
Stalin
, quotes Lenin, p. 86.
Molotov Remembers
, p. 101. Smith, p. 249. Daly,
Watchful State
, pp. 150–53. Krylenko, Elena Rozmirovich: Vaksberg,
Stalin’s Prosecutor
, pp. 33 and 328.

4.
Sverdlov feud: Sverdlov,
Izbrannye
, pp. 266–80, 321. Gorodetsky and Sharapov,
Sverdlov
, pp. 99–103. GARF 5449.1.63 and 75, B. I. Ivanov. A. M., A. S. and F. A. Taraseev memoirs: RGASPI 558.4.581,667 and 662. On movements from house to house in Kureika: Ostrovsky, pp. 397–99. Antonov-Ovseenko,
Stalin bez maski
, pp. 380–90. Ostrovsky believes there may have been an escape attempt: Ostrovsky, pp. 402–3. Kun, pp. 169–75.

5.
Lidia and Laletin: RGASPI 558.4.662, L. P. Pereprygina-Davydova and F. A. Taraseev. RGASPI 558.4.667, M. A. Merzliakov. RGASPI 558.1.5169. A. Kolesnik,
Khronika zhizni semia Stalina
, pp. 58–62. Sukhotin, “Bastardy krasnogo vozhdia.” A. Rokhlin, “Gde pryatali nezakonnnorojdennogo syna Stalina?,”
Moskovsky Komsomolets
, 22 June 1996. Ivan Serov memo to Politburo: RGASPI 558.11.1288.
Izvestiya
, 8 Dec. 2000. Antonov-Ovseenko,
Stalin bez maski
, pp. 380–90. Pereprygin household, first Laletin sabre incident: Chernenko,
I.V. Stalin v sibirskoy ssylke
, pp. 140–49.
Vstrechi s vozhdem: Rasskazy krestyan s Kureiki o tov. Staline
, pp. 21–23 Anfisa Taraseeva—Stalin arrives; daughter Dasha on his back; songs; taught dancing; rubbed ointment versus rheumatism; Tishka dog; pp. 23–25 Ivan Saltykov on children, reading; writing more; making hut on Polovinsky Island, living there for weeks; hiding the rifles for Stalin; games out hunting; Pereprygins very poor. Elizaveta Taraseeva quoted in Ilizarov, pp. 308–9; Ilizarov quotes Merzliakov, pp. 300–305, and Lidia Pereprygina, pp. 310–11. Lidia in love:
http://memorial.krsk.ru/Work/Konkurs/4/Panteon_stalina/00.htm
. Kun, pp. 169–75. Svetlana Alliluyeva,
Only One Year
, pp. 381–82. Woman and child in exile: I. D. Perfilev in Volkogonov,
Stalin
, p. 8. Siberian girl steals into bed at night: Essad Bey, p. 191. Mark Franchetti, “Stalin’s Secret Son by Girl 14,”
Sunday Times,200
1.

6.
Spandarian arrives: Suren Spandarian,
Statii, pisma dokumenty
, pp. 340–41. RGASPI 161.1.10, V. L. Shveitzer. Shveitzer,
Stalin v Turukhanskoi ssylke
, pp. 18–31. Kun, p. 129. Dr. Dan Healy advised on the Tsarist age of consent and concept of statutory rape. Stalin on the First World War: Stalin,
Works
, 3:39–40.

35 · THE HUNTER

1.
Winter, 1914–15. Turukhansk money receipts, 1913–15 collected by NKVD boss N. I. Yezhov and found in his safe: thanks to Professor J. Arch Getty for sharing this: RGASPI 671.1.287. Postal orders, letters to Alliluyevs, etc.: RGASPI 558.1.55 and 558.1.53. Visit to Stalin in Kureika and his room, singing, Kamenev: Shveitzer,
Stalin v turukhanskoi ssylke
, pp. 30–32 and 47–50. Memoirs of Stalin in Kureika by Lidia Pereprygina, Daria Ponamareva and others: RGASPI 558.4.662. Stalin on Merzliakov: RGASPI 558.11.773. Extracts from Merzliakov and Lidia Pereprygina: Ilizarov, pp. 300–305 and 310–11. Kun, pp. 169–75.
Vstrechi s vozhdem: Rasskazy krestyan s Kureiki o tov. Staline
, pp. 21–23 and 23–25. Sverdlov gets fifty roubles per month salary in exile: Sverdlov,
Izbrannye
. Eating frozen fish flakes: Charkviani, “Memoirs.” Lost in the blizzard, fishing, wood goblin and Tishka my companion, unfit for military service: A. S. Alliluyeva,
Vospominaniya
, pp. 55 and 62–63. Dog and hunting story:
Komsomolsky Pravda
, 10 Jan. 2007, Yuri Zhdanov memoirs. Stalin and Spandarian to Lenin, quoted in Service,
Lenin
, p. 112. Lenin to Zinoviev, do you remember last name of Koba, to V. A. Karpinsky, Koba sends regards, big request: Lenin, PSS, 48:101, 131, 161. Radzinsky,
Stalin
, p. 84. Pockmarked Joe:
Molotov Remembers
, p. 165. Shooting twelve partridges, skiing 48 versts and First World War:
Khrushchev Remembers
1:302 and 385. Ulcers of war: Stalin,
Works
, 3:61.

36 · THE ROBINSON CRUSOE OF SIBERIA

1.
Summer–Winter 1915. Visits to Monastyrskoe, Party trial, Spandarian. F. Samoilov, “Bolshevistskaya fraktsiya IV Gosudarstvennoy Dumy v yeniseiskoi ssylke pered fevralskoie revolyutsiey.” Spandarian to Lenin, 20 Aug.: Josef sends you all his warmest regards; 28 Sept.: Josef 150 versts away but . . . we’ll see each other: Spandarian,
Statii, pisma, dokumenty
, p. 284. Last meeting: RGASPI 558.4.582 and 558.4.662 V. Shveitzer. Stalin and Spandarian: RGASPI 558.4.662, B. Ivanov. G. Petrovsky—Bolshevik meeting: RGASPI 558.4.662. Also GARF 5449.1.75. Money, I thought forgotten, Kamenev wet hens: RGASPI 558.4.54. Writing big articles—Stalin to Kamenev, send this to Lenin: RGASPI 558.1.56. I’ve found out nothing: RGASPI 558.4.662. Robbery and trial, Sverdlov accused: GARF 5449.1.75. RGASPI 558.4.662. A. E. Badaev, “O Staline,”
Pravda
, 19 Dec. 1939. Sverdlov,
Izbrannye
, pp. 266–80, 321. Gorodetsky and Sharapov,
Sverdlov
, pp. 84–86 and 99–103. Ostrovsky, p. 408. RGASPI 558.11.1288. Spandarian ill: Ostrovsky, p. 409. Stalin inquires after Spandarian: S. Alliluyev,
Pravda
, 22 Dec. 1939. Vera Shveitzer: RGASPI 558.4.662. Condemnation of Kamenev: Merridale, “The Making of a Moderate Bolshevik,” pp. 31–33, including Trotsky quote. Service,
Stalin
, pp. 109–10. Stalin noncommittal at Kamenev trial: Robert M. Slusser,
Stalin in October: The Man Who Missed the Revolution
(henceforth Slusser), pp. 13–14. Merzliakov and Lidia Pereprygina: Ilizarov, pp. 300–305 and 310-11. Revolution inevitable: Stalin,
Works
, 1:79. Kamenev and Stalin friends: Mikoyan,
Tak bylo
, p. 352. Kamenev gives Stalin Machiavelli: Rayfield,
Stalin and the Hangmen
, p. 22. Sweet revenge: Robert Conquest,
Stalin: Breaker of Nations
, p. 107.

2.
A. Lazebnikov, “Linii sudby,”
Sovetskaya Kultura
, 16 July 1988. Merzliakov/ Badaev, etc.: RGASPI 558.4.662. Moving house again, boat borrowed: RGASPI 86.1.112. RGASPI 558.4.54. Writing big articles—Stalin to Kamenev, send this to Lenin: RGASPI 558.1.56. I’ve found out nothing: RGASPI 558.4.662. Ostrovsky believes this was a full escape: pp. 409–13. F. Samoilov,
Po sledam minuvshego
, pp. 523–35. Pregnancy confirmed by General I. Serov: RGASPI 558.11.1288. Stalin drops in on Rukhadze: RGASPI 558.4.662, Kuzma Gavrilenko—Stalin on way from Kostino to Kureika via Miroedikha. Letter to author from Eva Purins, 9 Nov. 2000. Note in suit pocket: A. S. Alliluyeva,
Vospominaniya
, pp. 44–45. Spandarian: “Suren Spandarian in Siberian Exile.”

37 · STALIN’S REINDEER-PROPELLED SLEIGH AND A SIBERIAN SON

1.
Conscripted. Stalin volunteered: Ilizarov, pp. 311–12. Sleighs used first dogs, then reindeer, then horses; Stalin on go-slow: Shveitzer,
Stalin v Turukhanskoi ssylke
, pp. 43–51. Reindeer:
Alliluyev Memoirs
, pp. 189–90. RGASPI 558.4.218. Merzliakov, I. M. Taraseev, Arsenii Ivanov—present to mother: RGASPI 558.4.662. Sverdlov,
Izbrannye
, p. 99. Boris Ivanov: RGASPI 558.4.662 and GARF 5449.1.74. Kureika, memoirs of locals and history, conscription and hero’s departure:
http://memorial.krsk.ru/Work/Konkurs/4/Panteon_stalina/00.htm
. I. D. Perfilev in Volkogonov,
Stalin
, p. 8. Svetlana Alliluyeva,
Only One Year
, pp. 381–82.

V. G. Solomin to Stalin and Stalin reply, 5 Mar. 1947: RGASPI 559.11.804. The journey: Ilizarov, p. 313. Newspaper
Yeniseisk Krai
quoted by Ostrovsky, p. 416. Unfit for military service and trip to Petersburg with orators, etc.: A. S. Alliluyeva,
Vospominaniya
, pp. 55–55, 62–63, 165–69. Piece of Siberia:
Molotov Remembers
, p. 256. Achinsk: V. Shveitzer, “V Achinskoi ssilke,”
Izvestiya
, 12 Mar. 1937. Stalin stays in Achinsk: RGASPI 558.4.218, 124.2.1549, 558.4.662,649 and 667 (V. Shveitzer, V. P. Filipova, A. Pomerantseva) and RGASPI 4.649 (M. Muranov). Baikaloff,
I Knew Stalin
, pp. 27–30. Whispers:
Yeniseisk Krai
in Ostrovsky, p. 420. Trains and Stalin’s movements: Ostrovsky, pp. 422–23. Petersburg: RGASPI 161.1.16. A. Shlyapnikov,
Semnadtsatyi god
, 2:443–47. Stalin stays with Baroness Maria Shtakelberg: Ostrovsky, p. 423. Grand Duke Michael telegram: Volkogonov,
Stalin
, p. 14.

38 · 1917 SPRING: FLOUNDERING LEADER

1.
The account of 1917 from February to October is based on the following: Orlando Figes,
A People’s Tragedy;
Richard Pipes,
The Russian Revolution;
Alexander Rabinowitch,
The Bolsheviks Come to Power;
Robert Service,
Stalin
and
Lenin;
Adam Ulam,
Lenin and the Bolsheviks;
W. Bruce Lincoln,
Passage through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution
(henceforth Lincoln), Bernard Pares,
The Fall of the Russian Monarchy;
plus Leon Trotsky,
Stalin
and
My Life;
Nikolai Sukhanov,
The Russian Revolution;
and John Reed,
Ten Days That Shook the World
(henceforth Reed). Unless otherwise stated, Central Committee protocols are quoted from
Protokoly Tsentralnogo Komiteta RSDRP(b)
. On Petersburg, Feb.–Mar. 1917:
Molotov Remembers, p
. 133. Service,
Stalin
, p. 122. Lincoln, pp. 346–73. Figes, pp. 307–52.