Embossed portrait of the People's Commissar of the NKVD N.I. Yezhov, 1937

An extremely rare find of our store is a minted (?) portrait of one of the most notorious NKVD People's Commissars Nikolai Yezhov, made by artist P. Spiridonov and sculptor I.P. Pekan, judging by the signature, in 1937. The size is 135*185 mm. Brass, silver plating. Portraits and photographs of Yezhov are practically not found on sale today, because in Soviet times, for storing such images, one could end up in the NKVD himself. Guarantee of authenticity. A museum-level rarity!

Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (April 8 (20), 1895, Kovno (or Veyvaryai), Russian Empire — February 4, 1940 [according to the 7th Central Intelligence Fund of the FSB of the Russian Federation, voiced by A. Pavlyukov, K. Skorkin, N. Petrov and M. Jansen, - February 6, 1940], basement of the Supreme Court of the USSR, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) — Soviet party and statesman, General Commissar of State Security (since January 28, 1937, January 24, 1941, stripped of his title). Chairman of the Party Control Commission of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) (1935-1939), member of the Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) (1934-1939), Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) (1935-1939), candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) (1937-1939). People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR (1936-1938), People's Commissar of Water Transport of the USSR (1938-1939). Bisexual. As People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, acting under Stalin's leadership, Yezhov became one of the main organizers of the mass repressions of 1937-1938, known as the Great Terror. 1937, during which Yezhov headed the NKVD, became a symbolic designation of repression, and the period itself, which was the peak of Soviet-era repression, was called "Yezhovism". In 1939, he was secretly arrested, and a year later he was also secretly shot on a number of charges, in particular espionage, preparation of an anti-Soviet coup, terrorism (Articles 58-1 "a", Articles 58-5, paragraphs 2 and 8 of Articles 19-58, Articles 58-7, Article 136 "d", part 2 of Article 154 "a" Criminal Code OF the RSFSR). Recognized as not subject to rehabilitation.