Nikitin Leonid Alexandrovich

Nikitin Leonid Alexandrovich

Genus. 05/01/1896 in Ryazan. Since 1915 he has been closely associated with theater studios in Moscow. An artilleryman, a warrant officer in the 1st World War, was caught in a gas attack. In 1912-1916 he studied at the Law Faculty of Moscow State University, at Vkhutemes. In 1920-1921 he served in the Red Army, participated in the civil war. Arrested in Moscow in 1918 as a former officer, awaited execution without trial in the Lefortovo barracks, was soon released at the request of the institution in which he worked. Arrested in Armenia in 1930 along with his wife on charges of belonging to the Templar Order as a criminal organization. Sentenced to 5 years in concentration camps. He served time in a logging camp in Belbaltlag, then he was transferred as an artist to the USLON theater, where he worked as an artist in the camp theater, then at the Svirlag theater. Released in 1934 without the right to reside in Moscow. Arrested for the third time on the morning of June 22, 1941 in Zagorsk, Moscow region, he worked at a toy factory as the chief artist. Sentenced to 10 years in labor camp under Art. 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. He served his sentence in Kraslag. He died on October 20, 1942 in a camp hospital in Kansk.