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Lavrenti Beria

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Lavrenti Beria

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Auction Date:2010 Sep 15 @ 22:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Notorious Soviet politician and police chief, who became head of the entire Soviet secret police, and was known for his harsh methods as Stalin’s deputy. He was introduced by Stalin to FDR at the Yalta conference in 1946 as ‘our Himmler.’ Beria is believed by most researchers to have been Stalin’s assassin in 1953. Pencil endorsement, in Russian, at the top of a two-page TLS, also in Russian, to the Central Committee in Georgia, from Anna Yakovidi, the pregnant wife of a man, imprisoned for employment negligence and giving away products, pleading for his release. Beria signs and endorses in the upper left, noting that he will attend to the matter personally. In very good condition, with several other endorsements and official stamps, intersecting mailing folds, a trimmed right edge, and several holes and tears along spine. An interesting item relating directly to Russia’s Great Purge, a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Stalin.