Guards' Case

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GUARDS' CASE (Spring case), one from the series of cases fabricated by the Joint State Political Administration Board against former officers of Imperial and White Armies. In 1930-31 in the Guards' Case professors and lecturers of Tolmachev Military Political Academy were arrested in Leningrad: former General N.A. Morozov, Colonel A.A. Gerardi, General L.F. Tarasov and many others; lecturers of Artillery Technical School: G.N. Kostylev, G.P. Slyusarenko, et al.; military topographers: former General I.I. Seliverstov, S.N. Silin et al.; officers of Artillery Department: former General N.N. Kryzhanovsky, V.V. Gun, I.I. Almazov, et al., military engineers of Military Technical Academy of Workers' and Peasants' Red Army: former General F.I. Zubarev et al., former lecturers of Mikhailovsky and Konstantinovsky Artillery Schools: former General A.V. Sapozhnikov, I.P. Mikhailovsky, G.A. Svidersky, B.L. Rozing, B.V. Lyuba et al., former officers of various Life Guard Regiments: Moscovsky (former Colonel P.M. Yakovlev, Colonel N.A. Melgunov, et al.), Semenovsky (former General Y.Y. Sivers, N.A. Kavtaradze, D.A. Shelekhov, et al.), Preobrazhensky (former General E.M. Kazakevich, Captain N.A. Gudim, et al.), Pavlovsky (former General N.G. Dedintsev, et al.), Izmailovsky, Chasseur, Grenadier and other regiments. Besides, over 300 naval officers were arrested on various charges (Chairman of the Research Committee of the Baltic Fleet N.I. Ignatyev, Director of Naval Forces of Workers' and Peasants' Red Army M.A. Petrov, Chief of Staff of the Baltic Sea Naval Forces A.A. Toshakov, et al.). In total over a thousand people charged in the Guards' Case were executed by shooting in Leningrad, in May 1931.

Reference: Тинченко Я. Ю. Голгофа русского офицерства в СССР, 1930-1931 годы. М., 2000.

T. V. Morgacheva, I.A.Flige. Almazov Ivan Ivanovich
Gerardi Andrey Andreevich
Gerve Viktor Viktorovich de
Gudim Ivan Pavlovich
Gun Vasily Vasilievich
Ignatyev Nikolay Ivanovich
Kavtaradze Nikolay Alexeevich
Kazakevich Evgeny Mikhailovich
Kostylev Georgy Nikolaevich
Kryzhanovsky Nikolay Nikolaevich
Lyuba Boris Vladimirovich
Melgunov Nikolay Antonovich
Mikhaylovsky I.P.
Morozov Nikolay Apollonovich
Petrov Mikhail Alexandrovich
Rosing Boris Lvovich
Sapozhnikov Alexsey Vasilievich
Seliverstov Ivan Ivanovich
Shelekhov Dmitry Alexandrovich
Silin S.N.
Sivers Yakov Yakovlevich
Slyusarenko Georgy Petrovich
Svidersky Georgy Alexeevich
Tarasov L.F.
Toshakov Arkady Alexandrovich
Yakovlev Peter Mikhailovich
Zubarev Fedor Ivanovich
Zubarev Fedor Ivanovich
Тинченко Я. Ю. Голгофа русского офицерства в СССР, 1930-1931 годы. М., 2000 Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy
Moscow Life Guards Regiment
Semenovsky Life Guards Regiment
Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment
Pavlovsky Life Guards Regiment
Izmaylovsky Life Guards Regiment
Chasseur Life Guards Regiment
Grenadiers Life Guards Regiment
Baltic Fleet
Finlyandsky Life Guards Regiment
Guards' Case
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