Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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31 August 1941: Marina Tsvetaeva, poet and playwright, hanged...
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31 August 1941
Marina Tsvetaeva
, poet and playwright, hanged herself in the small town of Elabuga, USSR, either during or just after she was visited by agents of the NKVD
or People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs...
23 December 1953: On orders from Nikita Krushchev, Lavrenty...
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23 December 1953
On orders from Nikita Krushchev
, Lavrenty Beria
(former head of Stalin
's NKVD
) was shot dead in secret by a firing squad. He was cremated and his ashes dispersed by a fan.
Strauss, Julian. “Stalin’s depraved executioner has grip on Moscow”. Daily Telegraph, 23 Dec. 2003, p. 11.
