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Pyotr Kryuchkov

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From left to right: Kryuchkov, Maxim Gorky and Genrikh Yagoda

Pyotr Petrovich Kryuchkov (Template:Lang-ru; 12 November 1889, Perm - 15 March 1938) was a soviet lawyer and the secretary of Maxim Gorky. He was one of the defendants of the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" of 2-13 March 1938, alongside Genrikh Yagoda. He and Yagoda were sentenced to death and executed by the NKVD. On 12 March 1938 Kryuchkov's father, also named Pyotr Petrovich, was executed by the NKVD in Novosibirsk. Kryuchkov's wife, Elizabeta Zakharevna Kryuchkova, was arrested by the NKVD on 29 April 1937 and executed on 17 September 1938.[1][2][3]

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