Samoilovich Alexander Nikolaevich
1. Photograph of Samoylovich A.N. (left) with a colleague, 1935 (1 p., electronic copy)
2. Photograph of Samoylovich A.N. at home at work. (1 p., electronic copy)
3. Letter from the Secretariat of the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 5-22-907 dated 10/26/1937 to R.G. Samoylovich stating that her statement, on Molotov's instructions, was sent to Yezhov in the NKVD. (1 page, electronic copy)
4. Notification of delivery of registered letter No. 98, addressed to the Supreme Prosecutor's Office of the USSR, Deputy Supreme Prosecutor Roginsky; p/w 05/09/1938. (1 p., electronic copy)
5. Letter from the Secretariat of the NKVD of the USSR No. 161/44 dated 08.06.1939 to Samoylovich R.G. on receiving her letter addressed to the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Beria and with a request to present the available materials in writing and submit them to the local NKVD body for forwarding to the People's Commissar. (1 page, electronic copy)
6. Notification of delivery of registered letter No. 850, addressed to People's Commissar Beria; p/w 29.06.1939/01.07.1939. (1 p., electronic copy)
7. Letter of the 5th section of the special sector of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) dated March 22, 1940, stating that the statement addressed to Stalin was sent on February 7, 1940 to the USSR Prosecutor’s Office; p/sh March 24, 1940. (1 p., electronic copy)
8. Letter from the Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR Ulrikh V. No. 15 dated 05/28/1940 to Samoylovich P.A. on leaving his application for a review of the case of the convicted Samoylovich A.N. unsatisfied (1 page, electronic copy)
9. Certificate of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court No. 4n-07125/56 dated September 24, 1956 on the rehabilitation of Samoylovich A.N. August 25, 1956. (1 page, electronic copy)
10. Resolution of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences No. 687 of 14.12.1956 on the posthumous restoration of A.N. Samoylovich to the rights of an academician, issued to P.A. Samoylovich (1 page, electronic copy)
11. Resolution of the general meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences dated 05.03.1957 on the posthumous reinstatement of A.N. Samoylovich in the title of academician, issued to P.A. Samoylovich (1 page, electronic copy)
12. Article by the initiative group “The Last Address” in St. Petersburg about A.N. Samoylovich, who was shot in 1938, and about the installation of a memorial plaque on the house where he lived as part of the “Last Address” project, 11/26/2017. (2 pages, text file)
Names (1)
Samoilovich Alexander Nikolaevich
Linguist-orientalist, professor, full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Born in 1880 in Nizhny Novgorod; higher education, linguist and orientalist. From 1934 to 1937 - Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Lived in Leningrad, Ropshinskaya St., Bldg. 23, Apt. 17. Arrested on October 2, 1937 by the NKVD of the USSR on charges of having been an agent of Japanese intelligence since 1907, and of having created a counter-revolutionary organization in 1935-1936. Sentenced on February 13, 1938 under Article 58-1 "a", 58-8, 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to capital punishment. Shot on February 13, 1938. Rehabilitated by the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court on 25.08.1956.
On November 26, 2017, a personal memorial sign was installed on house No. 23 on Ropshinskaya Street in St. Petersburg in memory of A.N. Samoylovich as part of the Last Address project.
Documents (10)
1. Photograph of Samoylovich A.N. (left) with a colleague, 1935.
3. Letter from the Secretariat of the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 5-22-907 dated 10/26/1937 to R.G. Samoylovich stating that her statement, on the instructions of Molotov, was sent to Yezhov in the NKVD.
4. Notification of delivery of registered letter No. 98, addressed to the Supreme Prosecutor's Office of the USSR, Deputy Supreme Prosecutor Roginsky; dated 05/09/1938.
5. Letter from the Secretariat of the NKVD of the USSR No. 161/44 dated 06/08/1939 to Samoylovich R.G. on receiving her letter addressed to the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Beria and with a request to present the available materials in writing and submit them to the local NKVD body for forwarding to the People's Commissar.
6. Notification of delivery of registered letter No. 850 addressed to People's Commissar Beria; p/w 29.06.1939/01.07.1939.
7. Letter from the 5th section of the special sector of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) dated 22.03.1940 stating that a statement addressed to Stalin was sent to the USSR Prosecutor’s Office on 07.02.1940; p/sh 24.03.1940.
8. Letter from the Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR Ulrich V. No. 15 dated 05/28/1940 to Samoylovich P.A. on leaving his application for a review of the case of the convicted Samoylovich A.N. unsatisfied.
9. Certificate of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court No. 4n-07125/56 dated September 24, 1956 on the rehabilitation of Samoylovich A.N. August 25, 1956.
