Biography of Yakovleva Barbara

Arrests Date of arrest: September 12, condemnation: May 14, the charge:, h. After the murder of M. Uritsky, in August was sent to the Petrograd Cheka, acted as deputy chairman of the Extraordinary Commission, from the second half of November to the end she headed it. According to the Dutch diplomat, Willem, the Audodek Willem Oudendijk, Yakovlev-Chekist was distinguished by inhuman cruelty.

From the years, she worked in the People's Commissariat of Directorate, first the head of the Glavprofobr, then the deputy wireworth. The composition of the counter -revolutionary organization, which actually never existed, included, in addition to Kamensky, the People's Commissar of the Enlightenment of the RSFSR A. Mantsev and others. The case was built mainly on the false readings of the People's Commissar of Finance Barbara Yakovleva, which, according to the investigation, headed the underground Trotskyist anti -Soviet center.

At the confrontation of Yakovlev, as follows from the case file, she said that she had involved Kamensky into the activities of the illegal Trotskyist group in December. Under the pressure of the investigation, Abram Zakharovich ultimately admitted that he received from Yakovlev “Directive to deploy wrecking work in the field of financing cultural events.

However, due to the fact that after that he worked for about three months, and the rest of the time was sick and lay in the hospital and at home, during this period of wide wrecking work in this area I could not deploy in the Polyakova’s investigation, there is her letter to the Prosecutor General of the USSR of July 20, in which she writes: “The accusation was based on the testimony of Yakovleva.

When I asked her: whether there are still indications of anyone except her about the counter-revolutionary activity of Kamensky, she answered negatively. All Kamensky accusation was based on her testimony. When I asked on what basis she pointed to my husband, because it was not true, she replied that it was really not true, but she was ordered to show him, and she did it, since her interrogation lasted 15 days, she was not allowed to sleep, and she, having lost her temper, signed these testimonies.

” Varvara Yakovleva, sentenced to 20 years of forced labor camps in the year, was sentenced to high punishment in September in September and shot on September 11 in the central prison of the eagle. Photo of the year. Petrograd Chek. Source - a book of years of security for the city on the Neva. SPb,