Berry Peoples Commissar Biography

Soviet state and party leader. Born in Nizhny Novgorod. Father is a small artisan of a watchmaker, according to other sources - pharmacist Grigory Girsch Filippovich Yagud Jehuda, Yaguda - cousin of father Y. Mother - Household Maria Gavrilovna. The family had eight children - three brothers and five sisters. Henry, after receiving secondary education, worked as a pharmacist 1 according to other sources - statistics.

In the revolutionary movement with G. G. in Nizhny Novgorod, he met M. Gorky, with whom they were subsequently associated with friendly relations, as well as with Y. in the GG. In the city of an active participant in three revolutions. One of Stalin's main assistants in terms of mass repressions. The berry became one of the main accused in the indicative process of the right -trantic bloc, held in Moscow in March, Nekrasov, how it is repented in all conceivable and unthinkable sins: that he was one of the leaders of the right -to -rust underground block in order to overthrow Soviet power and restore capitalism; in complicity in cases of the murder of S.

Kirov and other statesmen; in the attempt on the life of Yezhov and in helping foreign spies, etc. Henry Berry. At the request of the berry, several closed court sessions took place. Most likely, because they spoke about the personal relationships of the berry with the Gorky family. By the way, in the trial, before the verdict, the berry rejected the charge of organizing the murder of S.

Kirov and spying in favor of foreign states. The text of the Yagoda’s speech before the verdict was fully published in the court report in the case of the Correctional Bloc in the city of Yagoda was shot in the Lubyansk prison. The berry was married to the niece of Y. Sverdlova ide in Leonidovna Averbach. They had a son Garik r. They were shot, repressed and died in prisons, camps and links of fifteen closest relatives of the People’s Commissar: his wife, old-prisoners, five sisters with husbands.

The mother -in -law of the berries, the sister of Yakov Sverdlova, finished her days behind the barbed wire on Kolyma. And only the only son of the berry miraculously managed to escape. He lives under a different surname. The giant statue of the berry, erected by prisoners, decorated the entrance to the Belomore-Baltic Canal for several years. After his arrest, she was blown up with the rock on which she stood.

Notes 1 Probably, for this reason, during the investigation among the charges brought by the berry, there was also the poisoning of V. Menzhinsky, V. Kuibyshev, M. Gorky and M. Peshkov’s son Gorky. He supposedly poisoned the latter in order to get closer to his beauty. It was argued that the berry created a secret laboratory where he experimented with poisons in Bazhanov claims that “the berry was not a pharmacist at all, as the rumors that he distributed about himself, but an apprentice in the engraver workshop of old Sverdlov”, the father of Yakov Sverdlov, whom he later robbed B.

B.'s memoirs of the former secretary of Stalin. Note that the berry actually headed the "organs" with the city of Menzhinsky was seriously ill.

Without the stamp "Secret." Notes of a military prosecutor. Materials of Prince. Around Stalin. Historical and biographical reference book. St. Petersburg, Tags.