Magazine editor and salon hostess, Yezhov’s wife
In November 1938 her husband sent luminal to her sanatorium bed. Days later she was dead of an overdose.
Born Yevgenia Feigenberg to a merchant family in Gomel, she married Yezhov in 1931 after earlier marriages to Khayutin and the diplomat Gladun. In the 1930s she ran the illustrated magazine USSR in Construction as deputy editor in all but name, and kept a Moscow salon frequented by Babel, Sholokhov, Eisenstein and other figures of the cultural world; in 1933 she and Yezhov adopted a daughter, Natalia. As her husband's fall approached in 1938 her close friends were arrested one after another and denunciations of her own past reached the leadership. Admitted to a sanatorium in severe depression, she died on 21 November 1938 of an overdose of the sleeping drug luminal her husband had sent her. She was buried at the Donskoye cemetery.
Career Timeline
- 1920년대Publishing and journalism work
- 1930년대Deputy editor of USSR in Construction, editor in all but name