Historical FigureFemale
Varvara Nikolajevna Jakovlevová
died 1941
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Wikipedia SummaryVarvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva was a Russian revolutionary, prominent Bolshevik party member, Cheka officer, and Soviet government official, who supported Leon Trotsky's attempt to democratize the party in the mid 1920s. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1938 for membership in a "diversionary terrorist organization." She was later shot in the Medvedev Forest massacre in Oryol in 1941.
- Field and occupation
- ruská politička
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