Archangel - full deck Flashcards
“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem”
Stalin
Beria’s bodyguard
Papu Gerasimovich Rapava
How old is Rapava in 1953
25
Where is Rapava from?
Mingrelia - NE shore of the Black Sea
Where is Beria’s house
Vspolnyi Street
Night Beria summoned to Stalin
March 2nd 1953
Minister for Internal Affairs
Levrenty Pavlovich Beria
Who summons Beria to Stalin’s dacha
Malenkov
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
Beria’s car
Packard
Other Mingelian boy working for Beria
Beso Dumbadze
Gate out of the Kremlin
Borovitskiy Gate
Deputy Chairman of Council of Ministers
Georgiy Maksimilanovich Malenkov
Stalin’s full name
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
Beer drunk by Rapava
Baltika
Vodka drunk by Rapava
Zubrovka
Rapava’s matches
Robotnik club - near the Dinamo stadium
Rapava’s uncle
Avksenty Rapava - Beria’s crony in the Georgian NKVD
How tall was Stalin
5’4”
What does Beria ask Rapava to look for on Stalin?
A key
Beria’s nickname for Molotov
Stone-Arse
Note left behind by Beria
ALARM
Rapava’s sentence
Fifteen years hard labour, Kolyma territory
Who did Rapava kill in the camp
A Chechen who tried to sodomise him
When did Rapava return to Moscow
1969 - day of the moon landing
Where did Rapava work after prison?
Engine sheds, Leningrad station
Rapava’s children
Son and daughter
Where did Rapava’s son die
Afghanistan - night ambush Mazr-i-Sharif
Spying Rapava
Antipin - foreman at engine sheds. Senka - cripple in flat downstairs
“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
Symposium being held in
Institute of Marxism-Leninism
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
Institute of Marxism-Leninism now renamed
The Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Documents Relating to Modern History
How many delegates at the symposium
91
Adelman’s book thirty years ago
the Famine and the Terror
What does Robotnik mean?
Worker
What great forgery scandal does Adelmen compare Stalin’s notebook to
Hitler Diaries
Kelso’s ex-wife
Margaret - also, boys
Quod volimus credimus libenter
We always believe what we want to believe
Journalist
RJ O’Brian - Moscow correspondent, Satellite News System
Going rate for captures Nazi file
$1,000 and a bottle of scotch
The foundations of empire are often occasions of woe. Their dismemberment, always
Evelyn Waugh
Lenin Library now renamed
Central Library of the Russian Federation
Volumes Kelso takes out
Radzinsky, Volkogonov, Khrushchev, Alliluyeva, Chuyev’s interviews with Molotov
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
Young man behind counter at Library
Andrei Efanov
“medium machine”
Cover name for Soviet atom bomb programme - Beria’s pet project
Post eventually held by Yepishev
Head of Central Political Department of the Soviet armed Forces
Yepishev’s deputy
Dmitri Volkogonov - Stalin’s biographer
Who has written Yephishev’s entry in the Directory of Heroes of the Soviet Union
Mamantov
Mamantov’s sentence for role in coup against Gorbachev
Fourteen months in Lefortovo
Who is listening in to Mamantov’s calls?
Major Feliks Suvorin of the SVR
Russian Intelligence Service
SVR
Name of symposium
Confronting the past
Movies Stalin liked to watch
Tarzan
Stalin’s favourite record - howling dogs
Milovan Djilas
Lousy dancer - like a cow on ice
Khrushchev
Stalin’s daughter
Svetlana
Stalin’s eldest son
Capture by Germans
Stalin’s other son
Vasily - alcoholic, died 41
Stalin’s second wife
Nadezhda
Stalin’s wife Nadezhda’s siblings
Pavel, Fyodor, Anna - Anna imprisoned for so long she lost the power of speech
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
Mamantov’s apartment
The House on the Embankment, Serafimovich St
Surveillance car on Mamantov
Lada
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
Suvorin’s assistant
Lt Vissari Netto