The family fortunes unroll under the heavy blows of history. Sasha is repeatedly imprisoned, every sojourn in the Gulag producing a dangerous novel. Soviet anti-semitism appears when his and Anna's son Dmitri divorces his Jewish...
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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.
