![]() ![]() Metalikov’s sister was Bronislava, dark and lithe, full of the energy and playfulness that was so often missing from Old Bolshevik women. Metalikov’s real name was Masenkis, a family of Jewish Lithuanian sugar barons, a dangerous combination. ![]() In 1934, this unlikely romantic hero went to a party at the house of the Kremlin doctor Mikhail Metalikov, whose wife Asya was indirectly related to Trotsky, her sister being married to his son, Sedov. Poskrebyshev had recently married a sparky girl who had joined Stalin’s circle. Stalin still visited his comrades’ houses, often calling at Poskrebyshev’s for dinner where there was dancing and he played charades. ![]() Yet the children played around Stalin and his killers as obliviously as birds fluttering in and out of a crocodile’s open mouth. When she refused to eat something Stalin offered her, Pavel kicked her under the table. Kira, now a teenager, was irrepressible and, having grown up around Stalin, could not understand the danger. Pavel, who had a hysterical temper like his sister Nadya, slapped his daughter Kira for not keeping him quiet. Once, when Stalin was resting at Zubalovo, Pavel and Zhenya Alliluyev’s middle child Sergei kept crying and the parents worried that he would be disturbed. PART FIVE Slaughter: Beria Arrives 1938–1939Ģ4 Stalin’s Jewesses and the Family in Danger ![]()
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