1. S. Kavtaradze, Iz vospominanii o tov. Staline, pp. 3–17. Slavatinskaya: RGASPI 124.1.1782; Stalin letters to Slavatinskaya: RGASPI 558.1.5392. Yury Trifonov, Otblesk kostra, pp. 33–40. Relationship known: Ludmilla Stal/Tatiana Slavatinskaya: Chuev, Kaganovich, pp. 160–62. Sledding: Alliluyev Memoirs, pp. 138–41. RGASPI 161.1.20 V. L. Shveitzer.
2. Tiflis: RGASPI 558.4.534, M. Agayan. GF IML 8.2.1.34.317–54, Mikheil Monoselidze. GDMS 87.1955–368.1–16, Alexandra “Sashiko” Svanidze-Monoselidze. RGASPI 161.1.20, V. Shveitzer. GARF 102.00.1912.5–7-b. GARF 102.265.540. V S. Emuksuzian, Suren Spandarian, pp. 26–29. Istorichesky Zapisky, no. 30, p.80. Ostrovsky, p. 349. Visits to Tiflis and Baku: RGASPI 558.4.665; GFI ML 8.2.1.42. G. Haupt, Les Bolsheviks par eux-même (Makers of the Russian Revolution), pp. 268–73.
3. Baku: Nikolaevsky, box 207, folder 207–15, B. N. letter to T. Vulikh, 8 Aug. 1949. Rostov: RGASPI 161.1.20, Vera Shveitzer. Krasnyi Arkhiv, no. 2 (105), 1941, p. 26. Moscow leap out of train: Ostrovsky, pp. 350–51.
4. Zvezda and Pravda: Nikonov, Molotov Molodost, pp. 50–56; Molotov meetings with Stalin, pp. 113–15. RGASPI 161.1.20. Stalin, Works, 2:225–47, and 5:130. Alliluyev Memoirs, pp. 148–49. Enziklopedichesky slovar Russkogo biographicheskogo instituta granat, vol. 41, 2.62–63. Arrest: RGASPI 4.186. Stasova: RGASPI 71.10.407. May Day: Stalin, Works, 2:219. Daly, Watchful State, pp. 130–32. Trotsky, Stalin, p. 126; quoting Stalin and Lenin, p. 137. Service, Stalin, pp. 86–87. Malinovsky: Service, Lenin, p. 206. Slapping boy’s face: Medvedev, Let History Judge, p. 337. RGASPI 161.1.20, V. Shveitzer.
29 · THE ESCAPIST: KAMO’S LEAP AND THE LAST BANK ROBBERY
1. Narym: RGASPI 4.186. RGASPI 558.4.647. GARF 102.00.1912.5–57-b. Krasnyi Arkhiv, no. 2 (105), 1941, pp. 26–27. RGASPI 161.1.20, Vera Shveitzer. Stalin and Sverdlov in Kolpashevo: Simon Vereshchak, Dni, 24 Jan. 1928. E. Pesikina, Pravda, 26 Dec. 1939: “V. Naryme”—including quote from Y. Alexeyev. RGASPI 4.647 and 558.4.190. Nikolaevsky’s teacup: Kun, pp. 132–37. Kettle: Smith, p. 256. Memoirs: Chernenko, Stalin, pp. 74–79. Service, Stalin, pp. 88–89. A. S. Alliluyeva, Vospominaniya, p. 115. Sverdlov—hair, eyes, kind, gentle, Stalin and Sverdlov compare notes about exile: Alliluyev Memoirs, p. 141. Escape, thunderous voice: Molotov Remembers, pp. 141–44. Haupt, Les Bolsheviks, pp. 76–82. Escape: Komsomolsky Pravda, 10 Jan. 2007, Yuri Zhdanov memoirs.
2. Petersburg, Pravda, funds, election: Kavtaradze, Iz vospominanii o tov. Staline, pp. 3–17. Oktyabre, no. 11, 1942, pp. 100–103. Collects funds from Stasova: Stasova, Stranitsy zhizhni i borby, p. 101. A. E. Badaev, “O Staline,” Pravda, 19 Dec. 1939. Visits to Tiflis and Baku: RGASPI 558.4.665. GF IML 8.2.1.42. RGASPI 558.4.647, Tatiana Sukhova. Slavatinskaya: RGASPI 124.1.1782. RGASPI 558.1.5392. Trifonov, Otblesk kostra, pp. 33–40. A. S. Alliluyeva, Vospominaniya, pp. 113–61. Doctor of escapology: Levon Shaumian quoted in Kun, p. 109. RGASPI 161.1.20, V. L. Shveitzer.
3. GF IML 8.2.1.624.1–26, Bachua Kupriashvili. Kamo and robbery: David Shub, “Kamo: The Legendary Old Bolshevik of the Caucasus,” Russian Review, vol. 19, no. 3, July 1960, pp. 227–47. Imnaishvili, Kamo, section 1, pp. 74–88. Medvedeva-Ter-Petrossian, “Tovarish Kamo.” Jacques Baynac, Kamo: L’homme de main de Lénine, pp. 90–100. Kamo’s mental illness: Geifman, Thou Shalt Kill, pp. 167–70 and 323; Geifman, Russia under the Last Tsar, pp. 1–14. Kun, p. 75. Escape with help of Kote Tsintsadze and shootout on Kadzhorskoe Highway: Souvarine, Staline, pp. 101–3. Visits to Tiflis and Baku: RGASPI 558.4.665. GF IML 8.2.1.42.
30 · TRAVELS WITH THE MYSTERIOUS VALENTINA
1. RGASPI 124.1.1782; RGASPI 558.1.5392. Trifonov, Otblesk kostra, pp. 33–40. A.E. Badaev, Bolsheviki v gosudarstvennoi Dume, pp. 35–40. “Delo Malinovskogo,” Rech 17 June 1917. GARF 102.00.1912.5–58b. RGASPI 558.4.157/193. Lenin, Biograficheskaya khronika 3:55. Elections: Service, Stalin, p. 90. A. S. Alliluyeva, Vospominaniya, pp. 113–16. Stalin’s election articles including Trotsky as fake champion with fake muscles: Stalin, Works, 2:257–59 and 262–94. RGASPI 161.1.20, V. L. Shveitzer.
2. Route to Cracow, first trip: Alexander Shotman, “Kak iz iskry vosgorelos plamya,” pp. 166–76. Smith, pp. 263–66, 270–76 and 300–303. Valentina Lobova: Kun, pp. 145–50. On meeting with Kalinin, Shotman, etc., and different theory of the journeys to Cracow: Ostrovsky, pp. 364–66 and 369–70. Slavatinskaya: RGASPI 124.1.1782; RGASPI 558.1.5392; Trifonov, Otblesk kostra, pp. 35–40. Molotov Remembers, p. 297. Badaev, Bolsheviki v gosudarstvennoi Dume, pp. 35–40. GARF 102.00.1912.5–58b RGASPI 558.4.157 and 193. A. S. Alliluyeva, “Vospominaniya,” Roman-gazeta, no. 1 (13), 1947, p. 38. Election of SD Duma leadership: G. I. Petrovsky, “Vospominaniya o Pravde,” Pravda, 5 May 1922.
3. With Lenin in Cracow, first trip: RGASPI 558.1.5170. Lenin, Biograficheskaya khronika 3:50–55. GARF 102.265.531. Cracow, Lenin background: Krupskaya, pp. 204–5, including Stalin crossing border on transit pass. Service, Lenin, pp. 209–15. Lenin as Stalin’s host, and beer: Charkviani “Memoirs.” Food: Komsomolsky Pravda, 10 Jan. 2007, Yuri Zhdanov memoirs.
4. Back to Petersburg, Lenin summons Stalin back and election: Petrovsky, Pravda, 5 May 1922. Badaev, Bolsheviki v gosudarstvennoi Dume, pp. 35–40. Todria meeting with Jordania: RGASPI 558.4.647. Letters from Cracow: GARF 102.265.532 (including 9/22 Dec. 1912 letter from Krupskaya to K.St.). RGASPI 558.4.560. GARF 102.00.1912.5–58b. Krupskaya letters Nov.–Dec. 1912 and Stalin letters from Cracow to Petersburg Dec. 1912-Jan. 1913: “Iz perepiski TSK RSDRP s mestnymi partinymi orgnizatsiyam,” Istorichesky Arkhiv, no. 2, 1960, pp. 17–25. Lenin, PSS, 48:162–69.
31 · VIENNA, 1913: THE WONDERFUL GEORGIAN, THE AUSTRIAN ARTIST AND THE OLD EMPEROR
1. Second trip to Cracow: A. S. Alliluyeva, “Vospominaniya,” Roman-gazeta, no. 1 (13), 1947, p. 38. Shotman, “Kak iz iskry vozgorelos plamya,” pp. 166–76. Smith, pp. 263–66, 270–76 and 300–303. Kun, pp. 145–50. On meeting with Kalinin, Shotman, etc. and different theory of trips to Cracow, see Ostrovsky, pp. 364–66 and 369–70. Crossing and no food, fool Stalin: A. S. Alliluyeva, Vospominaniya, pp. 19–20. Stanislas Kot quoted in Smith, p. 405. RGASPI 124.1.233, Olga Veiland. Krupskaya letters: “Iz perepiski TSK RSDRP s mestnymi partinymi organizatsiyam,” Istorichesky Arkhiv, no. 2, 1960, pp. 17–25. RGASPI 4.3.42. GARF 102.00.1913.5–46b. Kalinin suspected: Ostrovsky, p. 371. Kamenev Eskimo letter: RGASPI 71.10.189. Kun, including interview with Olga Veiland, pp. 150–55. Service, Stalin, pp. 91–92. Krupskaya, pp. 204–5. Lenin as Stalin’s host and beer: Charkviani, “Memoirs.” Lenin, PSS, 48: 162–69. Border crossing/food: Komosomolsky Pravda, 10 Jan. 2007, Yuri Zhdanov memoirs.
2. Second stay in Cracow Dec. 1912-Jan. 1913: RGASPI 71.10.189 and 558.1.4899. Malinovsky report on meetings: Stanford, Paris Okhrana, box 195, folder XVIc, 1 Mar. 1913. Illich nervous: Trotsky, Stalin, p. 149. Kun, p. 149. RGASPI 558.1.47 Stalin to Malinovsky, 2 Feb. 1913. Molotov Remembers, p. 101.
3. Vienna: RGASPI 558.4.647.418–20 and 431–4, Stalin in Vienna including Olga Veiland. RGASPI 124.1.233, Olga Veiland. RGASPI 558.1.47, Stalin to Malinovsky. RGASPI 558.1.47. RGASPI 30.1.3. Brigitte Hamann and Thomas Thornton, Hitler’s Vienna: A Dictator’s Apprenticeship, pp. 92 and 183. J. Sydney James, Hitler in Vienna, pp. 7–10, 107–10; Trotsky, Hitler, p. 143; Trotsky, p. 165. A. Kubizek, The Young Hitler I Knew, p. 83. Bruce Thompson, Schnitzler’s Vienna, pp. 2, 7, 25. Bruce Thompson, Hitler’s Vienna, pp. 246–61, on balls, winter, Tito, Trotsky, Hitler. Carl E. Schorske, Fin de Siècle Vienna, p. 119. Service, Stalin, pp. 92–93. Author’s interview with Oleg Troyanovsky in Moscow. Troyanovsky, Cherez gody, pp. 24–25 and 161–62. Kun, including background of Troyanovsky, p. 153. Krylenko, Elena Rozmirovich: Vaksberg, Stalin’s Prosecutor, pp. 33 and 328. Trotsky, Stalin, pp. 159–60 and 243. Smith, pp. 276–79. Stalin, Works, 2:257–59 and 262–94. Stalin asks for Bukharin’s address from exile: RGASPI 558.1.5169. Wonderful Georgian: Lenin, PSS, 48:162–9. GARF 102.265.882.
32 · THE SECRET POLICEMAN’S BALL: BETRAYAL IN DRAG
1. Return from Vienna via meeting with Lenin, Cracow, Feb. 1913, and
new name; Lenin approves: Charkviani, “Memoirs.” Stalin, Works, 2:300–381. Marxism and the National Question. Stalin and Lenin’s view of nation: Service, Stalin, pp. 87 and 99–105. Van Ree, “Stalin and the National Question.” GARF 102.265.532 (including 9/22 Dec. 1912 letter from Krupskaya to K.St.). Stalin name: Stalin, Works, 2:192, 254,294 (12 Jan. 1913, first Stalin byline). Duranty quoted in Kun, pp. 158–59. Name: RGASPI 17.4.647, V. Shveitzer. Molotov Remembers, p. 164. Ludmilla Stal/Tatiana Slavatinskaya: Chuev, Kaganovich, pp. 160–62. Daushvili, Story of Soso Djugashvili, pp. 239 and 252. Stal and Krupskaya in Paris, 1911: Krupskaya, p. 196. Maisky, p. 45; Marcou, p. 66. Ludmilla Stal biography: “Istoki podviga,” Ural, no. 3, 1979.
2. Arrest: police interrogation: RGASPI 558.4.214. Service, Lenin, p. 214. Makeup, drag, big shoes: Nikonov, Molotov Molodost, pp. 128–33. Slavatinskaya: RGASPI 124.1.1782; RGASPI 558.1.5392; Trifonov, Otblesk kostra, pp. 33–40. Luch, 26 Feb. 1913. Shotman, “Kak iz iskry vozgorelos plamya,” pp. 175, 166. Badaev, Bolsheviki, pp. 155–66. Woman’s mantle: Trotsky, Stalin, pp. 157–61. A. S. Alliluyeva, Vospominaniya, pp. 44–45. Stalin letters on Dan/Malinovsky, shortage of people, chocolate for Galochka, Malinovsky planting suspicions about others are recent discoveries by Ostrovsky, and also details of sentencing including informing of Minister of Interior: Ostrovsky, pp. 374–80. Georgian boy: GARF 102.265.882. GARF 102.00.1913.307. Vissarionov: GARF 102.00.1913.5–57V. Iz arkhiva L. O. Dan, p. 101. RGASPI 558.4.659 F. N. Samoilov. Delo provokatora Malinovskogo, p. 216—Malinovsky meets S. P. Beletsky. Ellman, Roman Malinovsky, pp. 15–26, 31–33, 40–41, 58–66. Krupskaya, pp. 211 and 225. Radzinsky, Stalin, pp. 82–86, including Lenin and Malinovsky quotes. RGASPI 558.1.47, Stalin to Malinovsky. RGASPI 558.1.48. Lenin’s worries: Smith, pp. 300–303. Urals mission: Kun, p. 163.
33 · “DARLING, I’M IN DESPERATE STRAITS”
1. Yenisei: Service, Stalin, pp. 107–9. Istoricheski Arkhiv, no. 5, 1956, p. 116. GARF 5449.1.63: B. Ivanov, Stalin i Sverdlov v Turukhanskoi ssylke. V. Zavialov, “Tov. Stalin v Turuskanske,” Krasnoiarsky Rabochyi, 21 Dec. 1939. Trotsky, Stalin, p. 170. Lenin, Biograficheskaya khronika, 3:125–50. Ostrovsky, pp. 387–88. Dubrovinsky’s library: Trifonov, Otblesk kostra, pp. 35–37. A. V. Antonov-Ovseenko, Stalin bez maski, p. 383.F. Zakharov story quoted in Kun, p. 164.
2. RGASPI 558.4.220. Slavatinskaya: RGASPI 124.1.1782 Lenin, Biograficheskaya khronika, 3:125–50. RGASPI 558.1.52. RGASPI 55.1.49. RGASPI 558.1.89. RGASPI 558.1.659. GARF 102.00.1914.5–25b. RGASPI 558.1.4234. Also: Trifonov, Otblesk kostra, pp. 559–65. RGASPI 5581.1.5168. Bathhouse with Sverdlov: Kun, pp. 163–65. Escape suspicions: Zavialov, “Tov. Stalin.” RGASPI 558.1.4235. Money received, 135 roubles: Ostrovsky, p. 395. Move to north: RGASPI 558.1.51. RGASPI 558.4.234. K. T. Sverdlova, Y. M. Sverdlov, pp. 175–77. Sverdlov and Stalin, week together, escape plans: E. Gorodetsky and Y. Sharapov, Sverdlov, pp. 95–100.
34 · 1914: ARCTIC SEX COMEDY
1. Kureika: Chernenko, I. V. Stalin v sibirskoi ssylke, pp. 140–42. I. M. and A. S. Taraseev and other memoirs: RGASPI 4.662 and 581. Money orders: Ostrovsky, p. 397. Mali novsky Case: RGASPI 558.1.52. Yakov Sverdlov, Izbrannye, pp. 267–80. Gorodetsky and Sharapov, Sverdlov, pp. 99–101. Vera Shveitzer, Stalin v turukhanskoi ssylke, including visit to Stalin in Kureika and his room, singing, Kamenev, pp. 30–32 and 47–50.
2. Ostrovsky, p. 397. Malinovsky: RGASPI 558.1.52. Sverdlov, Izbrannye, pp. 266–80, letters to Sara Sverdlova, L. I. Besser, D. F. Petrovskaya, wife Klavidia Novogorodzeva (depression, June 1914), p. 321, L. Dilevskaya (no trace of comradeship or community). Gorodetsky and Sharapov, Sverdlov, pp. 99–103. Shveitzer, Stalin v turukhanskoi ssylke, pp. 30–32 and 47–50. Ilizarov, pp. 291–93.
3. Malinovsky case: Ellman, Roman Malinovsky, pp. 31–66. Radzinsky, Stalin, quotes Lenin, p. 86. Molotov Remembers, p. 101. Smith, p. 249. Daly, Watchful State, pp. 150–53. Krylenko, Elena Rozmirovich: Vaksberg, Stalin’s Prosecutor, pp. 33 and 328.
4. Sverdlov feud: Sverdlov, Izbrannye, pp. 266–80, 321. Gorodetsky and Sharapov, Sverdlov, pp. 99–103. GARF 5449.1.63 and 75, B. I. Ivanov. A. M., A. S. and F. A. Taraseev memoirs: RGASPI 558.4.581,667 and 662. On movements from house to house in Kureika: Ostrovsky, pp. 397–99. Antonov-Ovseenko, Stalin bez maski, pp. 380–90. Ostrovsky believes there may have been an escape attempt: Ostrovsky, pp. 402–3. Kun, pp. 169–75.
5. Lidia and Laletin: RGASPI 558.4.662, L. P. Pereprygina-Davydova and F. A. Taraseev. RGASPI 558.4.667, M. A. Merzliakov. RGASPI 558.1.5169. A. Kolesnik, Khronika zhizni semia Stalina, pp. 58–62. Sukhotin, “Bastardy krasnogo vozhdia.” A. Rokhlin, “Gde pryatali nezakonnnorojdennogo syna Stalina?,” Moskovsky Komsomolets, 22 June 1996. Ivan Serov memo to Politburo: RGASPI 558.11.1288. Izvestiya, 8 Dec. 2000. Antonov-Ovseenko, Stalin bez maski, pp. 380–90. Pereprygin household, first Laletin sabre incident: Chernenko, I.V. Stalin v sibirskoy ssylke, pp. 140–49. Vstrechi s vozhdem: Rasskazy krestyan s Kureiki o tov. Staline, pp. 21–23 Anfisa Taraseeva—Stalin arrives; daughter Dasha on his back; songs; taught dancing; rubbed ointment versus rheumatism; Tishka dog; pp. 23–25 Ivan Saltykov on children, reading; writing more; making hut on Polovinsky Island, living there for weeks; hiding the rifles for Stalin; games out hunting; Pereprygins very poor. Elizaveta Taraseeva quoted in Ilizarov, pp. 308–9; Ilizarov quotes Merzliakov, pp. 300–305, and Lidia Pereprygina, pp. 310–11. Lidia in love: http://memorial.krsk.ru/Work/Konkurs/4/Panteon_stalina/00.htm. Kun, pp. 169–75. Svetlana Alliluyeva, Only One Year, pp. 381–82. Woman and child in exile: I. D. Perfilev in Volkogonov, Stalin, p. 8. Siberian girl steals into bed at night: Essad Bey, p. 191. Mark Franchetti, “Stalin’s Secret Son by Girl 14,” Sunday Times,2001.
6. Spandarian arrives: Suren Spandarian, Statii, pisma dokumenty, pp. 340–41. RGASPI 161.1.10, V. L. Shveitzer. Shveitzer, Stalin v Turukhanskoi ssylke, pp. 18–31. Kun, p. 129. Dr. Dan Healy advised on the Tsarist age of consent and concept of statutory rape. Stalin on the First World War: Stalin, Works, 3:39–40.
35 · THE HUNTER
1. Winter, 1914–15. Turukhansk money receipts, 1913–15 collected by NKVD boss N. I. Yezhov and found in his safe: thanks to Professor J. Arch Getty for sharing this: RGASPI 671.1.287. Postal orders, letters to Alliluyevs, etc.: RGASPI 558.1.55 and 558.1.53. Visit to Stalin in Kureika and his room, singing, Kamenev: Shveitzer, Stalin v turukhanskoi ssylke, pp. 30–32 and 47–50. Memoirs of Stalin in Kureika by Lidia Pereprygina, Daria Ponamareva and others: RGASPI 558.4.662. Stalin on Merzliakov: RGASPI 558.11.773. Extracts from Merzliakov and Lidia Pereprygina: Ilizarov, pp. 300–305 and 310–11. Kun, pp. 169–75. Vstrechi s vozhdem: Rasskazy krestyan s Kureiki o tov. Staline, pp. 21–23 and 23–25. Sverdlov gets fifty roubles per month salary in exile: Sverdlov, Izbrannye. Eating frozen fish flakes: Charkviani, “Memoirs.” Lost in the blizzard, fishing, wood goblin and Tishka my companion, unfit for military service: A. S. Alliluyeva, Vospominaniya, pp. 55 and 62–63. Dog and hunting story: Komsomolsky Pravda, 10 Jan. 2007, Yuri Zhdanov memoirs. Stalin and Spandarian to Lenin, quoted in Service, Lenin, p. 112. Lenin to Zinoviev, do you remember last name of Koba, to V. A. Karpinsky, Koba sends regards, big request: Lenin, PSS, 48:101, 131, 161. Radzinsky, Stalin, p. 84. Pockmarked Joe: Molotov Remembers, p. 165. Shooting twelve partridges, skiing 48 versts and First World War: Khrushchev Remembers 1:302 and 385. Ulcers of war: Stalin, Works, 3:61.
36 · THE ROBINSON CRUSOE OF SIBERIA
1. Summer–Winter 1915. Visits to Monastyrskoe, Party trial, Spandarian. F. Samoilov, “Bolshevistskaya fraktsiya IV Gosudarstvennoy Dumy v yeniseiskoi ssylke pered fevralskoie revolyutsiey.” Spandarian to Lenin, 20 Aug.: Josef sends you all his warmest regards; 28 Sept.: Josef 150 versts away but . . . we’ll see each other: Spandarian, Statii, pisma, dokumenty, p. 284. Last meeting: RGASPI 558.4.582 and 558.4.662 V. Shveitzer. Stalin and Spandarian: RGASPI 558.4.662, B. Ivanov. G. Petrovsky—Bolshevik meeting: RGASPI 558.4.662. Also GARF 5449.1.75. Money, I thought forgotten, Kamenev wet hens: RGASPI 558.4.54. Writing big articles—Stalin to Kamene
v, send this to Lenin: RGASPI 558.1.56. I’ve found out nothing: RGASPI 558.4.662. Robbery and trial, Sverdlov accused: GARF 5449.1.75. RGASPI 558.4.662. A. E. Badaev, “O Staline,” Pravda, 19 Dec. 1939. Sverdlov, Izbrannye, pp. 266–80, 321. Gorodetsky and Sharapov, Sverdlov, pp. 84–86 and 99–103. Ostrovsky, p. 408. RGASPI 558.11.1288. Spandarian ill: Ostrovsky, p. 409. Stalin inquires after Spandarian: S. Alliluyev, Pravda, 22 Dec. 1939. Vera Shveitzer: RGASPI 558.4.662. Condemnation of Kamenev: Merridale, “The Making of a Moderate Bolshevik,” pp. 31–33, including Trotsky quote. Service, Stalin, pp. 109–10. Stalin noncommittal at Kamenev trial: Robert M. Slusser, Stalin in October: The Man Who Missed the Revolution (henceforth Slusser), pp. 13–14. Merzliakov and Lidia Pereprygina: Ilizarov, pp. 300–305 and 310-11. Revolution inevitable: Stalin, Works, 1:79. Kamenev and Stalin friends: Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 352. Kamenev gives Stalin Machiavelli: Rayfield, Stalin and the Hangmen, p. 22. Sweet revenge: Robert Conquest, Stalin: Breaker of Nations, p. 107.
2. A. Lazebnikov, “Linii sudby,” Sovetskaya Kultura, 16 July 1988. Merzliakov/ Badaev, etc.: RGASPI 558.4.662. Moving house again, boat borrowed: RGASPI 86.1.112. RGASPI 558.4.54. Writing big articles—Stalin to Kamenev, send this to Lenin: RGASPI 558.1.56. I’ve found out nothing: RGASPI 558.4.662. Ostrovsky believes this was a full escape: pp. 409–13. F. Samoilov, Po sledam minuvshego, pp. 523–35. Pregnancy confirmed by General I. Serov: RGASPI 558.11.1288. Stalin drops in on Rukhadze: RGASPI 558.4.662, Kuzma Gavrilenko—Stalin on way from Kostino to Kureika via Miroedikha. Letter to author from Eva Purins, 9 Nov. 2000. Note in suit pocket: A. S. Alliluyeva, Vospominaniya, pp. 44–45. Spandarian: “Suren Spandarian in Siberian Exile.”
37 · STALIN’S REINDEER-PROPELLED SLEIGH AND A SIBERIAN SON
1. Conscripted. Stalin volunteered: Ilizarov, pp. 311–12. Sleighs used first dogs, then reindeer, then horses; Stalin on go-slow: Shveitzer, Stalin v Turukhanskoi ssylke, pp. 43–51. Reindeer: Alliluyev Memoirs, pp. 189–90. RGASPI 558.4.218. Merzliakov, I. M. Taraseev, Arsenii Ivanov—present to mother: RGASPI 558.4.662. Sverdlov, Izbrannye, p. 99. Boris Ivanov: RGASPI 558.4.662 and GARF 5449.1.74. Kureika, memoirs of locals and history, conscription and hero’s departure: http://memorial.krsk.ru/Work/Konkurs/4/Panteon_stalina/00.htm. I. D. Perfilev in Volkogonov, Stalin, p. 8. Svetlana Alliluyeva, Only One Year, pp. 381–82.