Archangel Flashcards
“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem”
Stalin
Beria’s bodyguard
Papu Gerasimovich Rapava
Where is Rapava from?
Mingrelia - NE shore of the Black Sea
Where is Beria’s house
Vspolnyi Street
Minister for Internal Affairs
Levrenty Pavlovich Beria
What word is used to refer to Stalin’s dacha
Blizhny - Near
Hotel where Kelso interviews Rapava
Ukrainia
Where is Stalin’s dacha
Kuntsevo
Kelso’s full name
Dr Christopher Richard Andrew Kelso - Fluke
Stalin’s full name
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
Rapava’s matches
Robotnik club - near the Dinamo stadium
What does Beria ask Rapava to look for on Stalin?
A key
Note left behind by Beria
ALARM
Rapava’s sentence
Fifteen years hard labour, Kolyma territory
When did Rapava return to Moscow
1969 - day of the moon landing
Where did Rapava work after prison?
Engine sheds, Leningrad station
Where did Rapava’s son die
Afghanistan - night ambush Mazr-i-Sharif
“To choose one’s victims, to prepare …”
Stalin, in conversation with Kamenev and Dzerzhinsky
Chaperone for the conference
Olga Komarova, Russian Archive Service (Rosarchiv)
What has Kelso been described as in a Sunday newspaper
A battered Byron
Free newspaper being handed out outside symposium
Aurora
Who wanted to buy the Party archive for $5m
Hoover Institute
Who runs Aurora
Vladimir Pavlovich Mamantov - eg KGB
How many delegates at the symposium
91
What does Robotnik mean?
Worker
What great forgery scandal does Adelmen compare Stalin’s notebook to
Hitler Diaries
Quod volimus credimus libenter
We always believe what we want to believe
Journalist
RJ O’Brian - Moscow correspondent, Satellite News System
The foundations of empire are often occasions of woe. Their dismemberment, always
Evelyn Waugh
What’s the symbol for a book that was secret until 1991
c - slash
Kelso’s girlfriend when he was in Moscow
Irina
Where is Irina now?
Dental assistant in South Wales
Who writes about the rumours of Stalin’s notebook
AA Yepishev
“medium machine”
Cover name for Soviet atom bomb programme - Beria’s pet project
Who has written Yephishev’s entry in the Directory of Heroes of the Soviet Union
Mamantov
Russian Intelligence Service
SVR
Name of symposium
Confronting the past
Movies Stalin liked to watch
Tarzan
Lousy dancer - like a cow on ice
Khrushchev
Stalin’s daughter
Svetlana
Why did Stalin hold Anna in solitary confinement
Because she talks too much
Movie watched by Stalin, 8th December 1938, after signing death lists
Comedy - Happy Days
Nothing is more important to a nation than it’s …
… history
Painting of Stalin on the ramparts of the Kremlin
Gerasimov
Bust of Stalin
Vuchtich
Second version of Gerasimov painting misses out …
Voroshilov
Suvourin’s after shave
Eau Sauvage
Beria’s old house became embassy of …
Tunisia
Kelso’s alma mater
St John’s
Scholarship to …
Harvard
Programme Keslo went to Moscow under
Students for Peace, 1980
Kelso’s PhD thesis
Power in the Land: The Peasantry of the Volga region 1917-22
Boris Nikolaeovich …
Yeltsin
Rapava’s daughter’s car
Lada
Rapava’s daughter is studying …
Law
Soviet anthem being played in Rapava’s apartment
Party of Lenin
Rapava’s apartment complex
Victory of the Revolution
Uzbeki bandit machine gunned in the Bablyon
Tsexer
Battle-cruiser shelling Winter Palace in 1917
Aurora
Kelso’s plane leaves …
Sheremetevo
Who tells O’Brian that Kelso is looking for Stalin’s notebook
Adelman
Moscow newspaper for young Westerners
The eXile
Who has bought an icon and is worried about smuggling it out
Duberstein
What magazine does Kelso buy to read on the plane
Der Spiegel
Rapava’s daughter’s name
Zinaida
Airline flying Kelso to NYC
Delta
Where has Rapava hidden the Stalin papers
In a toolbox
Rapava’s son’s name
Sergo
Where does Zinaida work during the daytime
GUM - Switchboard
What else does Kelso find with the Stalin papers in Rapava’s garage
Gun - Makarov
O’Brian’s car
Toyota Land Cruiser
Name of girl who writes the entries in the Stalin notebook
Anna Mikhailovna Safanova
Magazine Anna Safanova’s photo appears in
Ogonyok
River in Archangle
Dvina
Man who comes looking for Safanova on Stalin’s behalf
Mekhlis
Stalin’s favourite brandy
Ararat
Archangel founded by …
Peter the Great
Archangel’s port
Severodvinsk - centre of nuclear sub construction
Archangel named after
Archangel Michael, the Warrior Angel
What is there to be consulted at Archangel Railway Statiion
Radiation meter - 15 microrads or below is safe
Road to Archangel from Moscow
M8
“If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods”
Stalin
Satellite phone
Inmarsat
Russia is owned by whoever has the biggest …
… fists
Rapava’s Rule No 1
Never show them you’re afraid
Rapava’s Rule No 2
You’ve only got one friend in this world - Yourself
Barman at the Robotnik
Aleksey
Inmarsat is over the …
…Indian Ocean
Stolovaya
Old-style workers cafe
Safanova’s old school
Maxim Gorky Academy - 1950
Safanova was in the …
Komsomol
Party’s candidate in last election
Gennady Zyuganov - current Communist Party leader
Headling on Aurora
VIOLENCE IS INEVITABLE
Title of Mamantov’s memoirs
I Still Believe
Anna Safanova’s parents
Mikhail and Vavara
Name of company (Mamantov’s) that has acquired Beria’s old house
Moskprop
Anna’s son adopted by …
The Chizhikovs
Chizikhov
Stalin’s pre-revolution alias - PA Chizikhov, 1911
Passports found in Stalin Jrs hut
Norwegian (Bergen)
Word at the top of documents in Stalin’s hut
Confession
What did Lenin call the Tsarovich
The Living Banner
How do Surovin and the soldiers get to Stalin’s hut
Snow plough
Moscow station where Stalin gets off the train
Yaroslavl
Who shoots Stalin
Zinaida
