138. Document 63 in ibid., pp. 378–381.
139. Hodos, Show Trials, pp. 17–18.
140. Ibid., pp. 18–23.
141. Soyfer, Lysenko, p. 357.
142. Vavilov and Rokityansky, “Znaniya, broshennye v ogon’,” p. 635.
143. Soyfer, Lysenko, p. 357. Dr. Soyfer received notes about Karpechenko’s Investigation File No. 981251 from Dr. Daniil Lebedev (St. Petersburg), whom the FSB allowed to examine this file in 1993.
144. Levina, Ye. S., “Tragediya N. I. Vavilova” [The tragedy of N. I. Vavilov], in Yaroshevsky, Repressirovannaya Nauka, p. 235. The report is kept in the Archive of the VIR, D. 143a, pp. 79–82.
145. Popovsky, The Vavilov Affair, p. 147.
146. A secret letter addressed “To the Central Committee of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party. To C.[omrade] I. V. Stalin,” signed by Vice President Bondarenko and Party Secretary Klimov and dated March 27, 1935. The text is given (document no. 2) in the appendix to Vavilov and Rokityansky, “Znaniya broshennye v ogon’,” pp. 632–633. The original is kept at the Russian Federation Presidential Archive, F. 3, Op. 30, D. 63, pp. 142–146.
147. A “Strictly Secret” letter of the Head of the Special Sector of the Central Committee to the members of and candidates to the Central Committee, dated April 5, 1935. The copy has a note: “Should be returned to the Second Department of the Special Sector of the Central Committee.” The list of names included the following persons: Andreev, Chubar’, Eikhe, Kaganovch, Kalinin, Kossior, Mikoyan, Molotov, Ordzhonikidze, Petrovsky, Postyshev, Stalin, Voroshilov, and Zhdanov. Of all these persons, Vlas Chubar’, Robert Eikhe, Stanislav Kossior, and Pavel Postyshev were arrested and shot in 1937–1938; Sergei Ordzhonikidze committed suicide (Conquest, The Great Terror, pp. 167–173, 419–420). The text of the letter is given (document no. 3) in the appendix to Vavilov and Rokityansky, “Znaniya broshennye v ogon’,” p. 633. The original is kept at the Russian Federation Presidential Archive, F. 3, Op. 30, D. 63, p. 141.
148. Levitskaya and Lassan, “Materialy k biografii,” p. 119.
149. Document 71 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, pp. 394–397.
150. Levitskaya and Lassan, “Materialy k biografii,” p. 148.
151. Document 76 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, pp. 407–408.
152. Interrogations on March 11 and 20 (documents 75 and 77 in ibid., pp. 404–406 and 409–410).
153. Document 78 in ibid., pp. 410–411.
154. Document 85 in ibid., pp. 438–441.
155. Document 88 in ibid., pp. 444–445.
156. Document 89 in ibid., pp. 445–446.
157. Document 99 in ibid., pp. 475–480.
158. Soyfer, Vlast’ i nauka, pp. 148, 298.
159. Document 100 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, pp. 480–481.
160. Albats, The State, p. 77.
161. Popovsky, The Vavilov Affair, p. 151.
162. Appendix in Vavilov and Rokityansky, “Golgotha,” p. 845.
163. From the “Resolution of the Military Collegium of the USSR Highest Court” No. 4 n-011514/55 (dated August 20, 1955). The text is cited in Vavilov and Rokityansky, “Znaniya broshennye v ogon’.”
164. Documents 98, 101, 102, and 108 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, pp. 468–475 481–484, 495–500.
165. Document 101 in ibid., p. 483.
166. Document 102 in ibid., p. 485.
167. Document 108 in ibid., p. 499.
168. The recollection is given in Popovsky, The Vavilov Affair, p. 150.
169. Flaksberger was mentioned in the “Decision of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court No. 4 n-011514/55” dated August 20, 1955. The text is given (document no. 10) in the appendix in Vavilov and Rokityansky, “Golgotha,” p. 844.
170. Popovsky, The Vavilov Affair, p. 164; Soyfer, Lysenko, p. 357n.
171. Levitskaya and Lasson, “Materialy k biografii,” p. 114.
172. Document 105 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, pp. 491–492.
173. Document 109 in ibid., pp. 501–507.
174. Document 110 in ibid., pp. 507–510.
175. Document 111 in ibid., pp. 510–512.
176. Document 112 in ibid., p. 512.
177. Document 113 in ibid., pp. 513.
178. Minutes of the Closed Court Session of the Military Collegium on July 9, 1941 (document 115 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, pp. 514–515).
179. Document 116 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, pp. 515–516.
180. Popovsky, The Vavilov Affair, p. 156; document 117 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, pp. 516–517.
181. “An Excerpt No. 9/124cc from the Transcript of the Meeting of the Supreme Soviet on July 26, 1941.” Signed by Secretary of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court Mazur (document 117 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, p. 517).
182. Popovsky, The Vavilov Affair, p. 156.
183. Kokurin and Petrov, Lubyanka, pp. 28–30.
184. Document 119 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, p. 518.
185. Popovsky, The Vavilov Affair, p. 528.
186. Ibid., pp. 168–169.
187. Ibid., p. 170.
188. On Sergei Vavilov, see, for instance, Joravsky, D., “The Vavilov Brothers,” Slavic Review 24 (1965): 381–394; Kojevnikov, A., “President of Stalin’s Academy: The Mask and Responsibility of Sergei Vavilov,” Isis 87 (1996): 18–50; Solov’ev, Yu. I, “Akademik S. I. Vavlov: Drama russkogo intelligenta” [Academician S. I. Vavilov: The tragedy of a Russian intellectual], Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniya i Tekhniki 1 (1999b): 132–156 (in Russian).
189. Crankshaw, Khrushchev Remembers, p. 292.
190. Popovsky, The Vavilov Affair, p. 171.
191. Ibid., p. 171.
192. “A Report of Doctor P. Sychenko to the Head of the Hospital,” dated January 26, 1943. The text is given (document no. 7) in the appendix to Vavilov and Rokityansky, “Golgotha,” p. 842; document 130 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, p. 526.
193. “An Excerpt from the Medical Register No. 5 of Prisoners of Saratov Prison No. 1 Who Died.” The text is given (document no. 9) in the appendix to Vavilov and Rokityansky, “Golgotha,” p. 843; document 133 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, p. 528.
194. Vavilov’s letter to Beria from Saratov Prison No. 1, dated April 25, 1942 (document 120 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, pp. 519–521).
195. Vaksberg, Stalin’s Prosecutor, pp. 224–225.
196. Parrish, The Lesser Terror, pp. 69–71.
197. Popovsky, The Vavilov Affair, p. 176–177.
198. Document 120 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, pp. 520–521.
199. Document no. 5 in the appendix to Vavilov and Rokityansky, “Znaniya broshennye v ogon’,” p. 634; document 122 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, p. 522.
200. Vavilov and Rokityansky, “Znaniya broshennye v ogon’,” p. 629.
201. Document no. 4 in the appendix to Vavilov and Rokityansky, “Golgotha,” p. 841; document 124 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, p. 523.
202. Document 126 in Rokityansky et al., Sud palacha, pp. 524–525.