1. Anna Mikhailovna Larina was the third wife of the Bolshevik leader Nikolai Bukharin and spent many years trying to rehabilitate her husband after he was executed in 1938.
12 Facts About Anna Larina
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Anna Larina was the author of a memoir entitled This I Cannot Forget.
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Anna Larina was adopted by Mikhail Larin, a Soviet economist and politician, therefore she grew up among professional revolutionaries who were very high up in the Soviet Union.
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Anna Larina married Bukharin in 1934 and they had a son, Yuri, in 1936.
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Anna Larina was first sent into exile and then arrested on 5 September 1937 in Astrakhan.
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Anna Larina at first thought he was a fellow prisoner, but discovered that he was her interrogator.
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Since Anna Larina was the wife of Bukharin, she was constantly under close surveillance and was not allowed out to perform labor.
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Anna Larina had two children with Fyodor: Mikhail and Nadia.
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Anna Larina was finally released from the Gulag system in 1953 after Stalin died, while sick with tuberculosis, after having spent almost twenty years of her life there.
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Anna Larina's exile ended in 1959 and she returned to Moscow.
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Anna Larina devoted the rest of her life to clearing her husband's name, writing long, detailed letters to Nikita Khrushchev and his successors demanding Bukharin's reinstatement in the pantheon of revolutionary heroes.
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Anna Larina died in Moscow and is buried in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.