Filipp Goloshchyokin
Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin (Russian: Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин, birth name Isay Isaakovich Goloshchyokin) was a Russian revolutionary, Old Bolshevik, and Soviet party functionary, member of the Bolshevk Central Committee (1927-1934). He is known for taking part in the murder of the Romanov family and for the devastating role in Sovietization of Kazakhstan (Small October, Russian: Малый Октябрь, a hint to the Great October) which resulted in a deadly famine in Kazakhstan of 1932–33, which took between 1 and 2 million lives and is known in Kazakhstan as "the Goloshchekin genocide" (Kazakh: Голощёкинский геноцид).[1]
At a telegraph office in Ekaterinburg on 18 July 1918, he caught Sir Thomas Preston, a diplomat at the British consulate, attempting to cable Arthur Balfour in London with the message, "The Tsar Nicholas the Second was shot last night."[2] Goloshchyokin snatched it and struck out the words of Preston's text with a red pencil, rewriting on the paper, "The hangman Tsar Nicholas was shot today - a fate he richly deserved."[2] Ironically, Goloshchyokin was himself arrested in June 1941 and shot that October in an NKVD prison in Kuybyshev (now Samara, Russia), and was consigned to an unmarked grave.[3]
Name
The surname is often written as Goloshchekin, a transliteration of the surname written without diacritics: Голощeкин.
He is also often referred to as Shaya Goloshchekin (Шая) by the diminutive from the name Isay in Yidish. "Filipp" is his party cryptonym.
References
- ↑ Қазақстан тарихы: Аса маңызды кезеңдері мен ғылыми мәселелері. Жалпы білім беретін мектептің қоғамдык- гуманитарлық бағытындағы 11-сыныбына арналған оқулық / М.Қойгелдиев, Ә.Төлеубаев, Ж.Қасымбаев, т.б. — Алматы: «Мектеп» баспасы, 2007. — 304 бет,суретті. ISBN 9965-36-106-1
- 1 2 Rappaport, p. 200"
- ↑ Helen Rappaport, p. 215"
- Helen Rappaport. The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg. St. Martin's Griffin, 2010. ISBN 978-0312603472
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