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Grigorii Yakovlevitch SOKOLNIKOFF, alias BRILLIANT: Russian. Commander of the Red...

Catalogue reference: KV 2/2577

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This record is about the Grigorii Yakovlevitch SOKOLNIKOFF, alias BRILLIANT: Russian. Commander of the Red... dating from 1922 Jan 01 - 1937 Dec 31 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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KV 2/2577
Date
1922 Jan 01 - 1937 Dec 31
Description

Grigorii Yakovlevitch SOKOLNIKOFF, alias BRILLIANT: Russian. Commander of the Red Army on the Turkestan front in 1920, by 1922 SOKOLNIKOFF was Commissar for Finance and in 1929 was appointed Ambassador in London. Galina SEREBRYAKOVA, who accompanied him as his wife was said not in fact to be so but to be a GPU officer tasked to ensure that he returned to Moscow when required. In 1933 he was tried in the USSR but appears to have survived

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
PF 4194
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Access conditions
Retained Until 2007
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11341897/

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