23 Facts About Filipp Goloshchyokin

Filipp Goloshchyokin was posthumously rehabilitated in 1961,20 years after his death, after de-Stalinization.

Filipp Goloshchyokin conducted revolutionary work in St Petersburg, Kronstadt, Sestroretsk, Moscow and other cities.

In 1912, he was a delegate to the Bolshevik Congress in Prague, at which Vladimir Lenin formalized the break with the Mensheviks and created a separate Bolshevik organization with its own Central Committee, of which Filipp Goloshchyokin was a founding member.

Filipp Goloshchyokin assumed the alias Filipp, transliterated Philipp or Philippe, as his party cryptonym.

Filipp Goloshchyokin served as a member of the Perm Committee of the All-Union Communist Party, then a member of the Regional Committee.

Filipp Goloshchyokin recalled that before his departure for the Urals, Lenin aimed at delaying the convocation and the subsequent dispersal of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly.

When one of the guards, Ivan Skorokhodov, who was smitten with the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, smuggled a birthday cake to the grand duchess for her 19th birthday and was caught fraternizing with the same, Filipp Goloshchyokin had him arrested and tightened security.

Filipp Goloshchyokin is said to have nervously paced back and forth along the perimeter palisade erected around the Ipatiev House in an attempt to determine whether anyone could hear what was going on from outside as one of the guardsmen revved the engines of the fiat truck waiting outside to mask the sounds of the gunfire and barking dogs.

Filipp Goloshchyokin subsequently oversaw the disposal of the remains along with Yurovsky, while Beloborodov and Nikulin oversaw the ransacking of the Romanov's quarters, with the most valuable items piled into Yurovsky's office and later transported to Moscow in sealed trunks under heavy guard by commissars on Goloshchyokin's instructions, while items deemed of little consequence were stuffed into the stoves and burned.

From October 1922 to 1925, Filipp Goloshchyokin served as Chairman of the Samara Provincial Council of Workers, Peasants and Red Army Deputies, Chairman of the Samara Gubernaya Executive Committee and a member of the Provincial Committee of the RCP.

Filipp Goloshchyokin was elected a Candidate Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1924, and a Full Member in 1927.

Filipp Goloshchyokin played a prominent part in the construction of the Turkestan-Siberia railway, which was constructed to open up Kazakhstan's mineral wealth.

Filipp Goloshchyokin did not count the Kazakhs as people at all.

Filipp Goloshchyokin defended himself by claiming that the poor and middle income Kazakhs had "Voluntarily, in powerful waves, turned towards socialism".

Homosexuality was not a criminal offense in the USSR in 1925, though it was criminalized in 1934, but Filipp Goloshchyokin, who was almost 20 years older than Yezhov, was arrested nonetheless on 15 October 1939.

Filipp Goloshchyokin was accused of sympathy for Trotskyism, the preparation of a terrorist act, excesses in the matter of collectivization, and of spying for Nazi Germany.

Filipp Goloshchyokin spent 12 months under heavy interrogation in the Sukhanovo Prison, after which he was returned to Butyrka prison by August 1941 at the time of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, and was then transferred a final time to Kuybyshev by 17 October, when the headquarters of the NKVD were evacuated there in connection with the approach of the Wehrmacht towards Moscow.

Filipp Goloshchyokin was one of 20 'especially dangerous' prisoners, who included 14 high-ranking military officers, who were executed by firing squad on 28 October 1941 on the direct orders of Lavrentiy Beria near the village of Barbysh and consigned to an unmarked grave.

Filipp Goloshchyokin was posthumously rehabilitated in 1961,20 years after his death.

Filipp Goloshchyokin is often referred to as Shaya Goloshchekin by the diminutive from the name Isay in Yiddish.

Filipp Goloshchyokin's first wife, Bertha Iosifovna Perelman, was born in 1876 to the family of an artisan.

Filipp Goloshchyokin was arrested and sent into exile in the Narym region.

Filipp Goloshchyokin was portrayed by Lithuanian actor Jokubas Bareikis in the 2019 American docudrama The Last Czars, and by Russian actor Sergei Nikonenko in the 2021 Kazakh film The Crying Steppe.