Lev Karakhan
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Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan (Karakhanian) (1889-1937) was a Russian revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. A member of the RSDLP(b) from 1917.
In October 1917, he was member of the Revolutionary Military Council; then served as secretary of the Soviet delegation at the Brest-Litovsk peace talks together with Lev Trotsky and Adolph Joffe. In 1918-1920 and 1927-1934, he was the Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs. In 1921, he was the Soviet Ambassador to Poland; in 1923-1926, the Ambassador to China; after 1934, the Ambassador to Turkey.
He was arrested and executed in 1937 during the Great Purge.
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