Medvedev Forest massacre
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The Medvedev Forest massacre or Orel massacre was a mass execution in the Soviet Union carried out by the Soviet secret police NKVD on 11 September 1941. Less than three months after the German invasi
Monument to victims of political repressions in Oryol 1
Monument to victims of political repressions in Oryol 3
Maria Spiridonova
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Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. In 1906, as a novice member of a local combat group of the Tambov Socialists-Revolutionaries, she assassinated Gavriil Luz
Medvedev Forest massacre
…mathematician Fritz Noether, whose liberation Albert Einstein had demanded. Other detainees executed that day include Christian Rakovsky, Varvara Yakovleva, Maria Spiridonova, Olga Kameneva, Garegin Apresov, Dmitry Pletnyov and Sergei Efron. The Medvedev Forest massacre came less than three months after Operation Barbarossa…
Maria Spiridonova Portrait
Spiridonova before 1906
Spiridonova and Grigory Gershuni, founder of the SR Combat Organization, in Akatuy, 1906
The Shesterka ("Six") photographed at the Omsk station during their triumphal transfer to Siberia (Spiridonova is the first on the left in the foreground)