Nikolai Yezhov was born on 1 May 1895 in St. Petersburg, then part of the Russian Empire. Yezhov started climbing the Soviet bureaucracy ranks and by 1930, he was attending Politburo meetings, the executive committee of the Communist Party. Between 1919 and 1930 Yezhov was married to a minor Communist Party clerk Antonia Titova. In late 1930 he married his second wife Yevgenia Feigenburg, who was Jewish and 9 years his junior. She was a glamorous woman and they had an adopted daughter, Natasha, an orphan from a children's home. By the early 1930s Yezhov was a rising star within the Communist Party, and Stalin welcomed him into his inner circle. In 1934, Yezhov was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and the following year he became a secretary of the Central Committee. Yezhov was known for his loyalty to Stalin and his administrative skills. Stalin admired Yezhov’s hard work, once writing to him in August 1935, “When you say something, you always do it!” As a sign of affection, Stalin gave Yezhov a nickname: "my little blackberry."

There were no tears shed for Nikolai Yezhov.



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