About Andrejs Bērziņš
Lived 1893 – 1951 (aged 57–58). Andrejs Bērziņš was a Russian and Latvian politician.
Andrei Gasparovich Berzin (, ; January 23, 1893, Majorenhof, Governorate of Livonia — 1951, Latvian SSR) was a Soviet politician.
After the Russian Civil War Berzin remained in Soviet Russia, where he worked as deputy head of the administrative and financial department of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture.
In 1930, along with other economists Nikolai Kondratiev, Alexander Chayanov and he was arrested by Cheka in the case of the so-called . In 1931, Berzin was exiled to Kazakhstan, where he worked as an economist-planner at Soyuzpromkorm.
In 1938, during the Latvian Operation of the NKVD Berzin was arrested again and imprisoned in a Gulag correctional labour camp until the end of World War II, after which he was released and allowed to return to Moscow.
First husband of actress Lyubov Orlova (1926—1930). After the arrest, the actress did not know anything about his fate. According to the biographers, while already being a wife of Grigory Alexandrov, she had asked Stalin to find out about Berzin and help him.
Berzin died in 1951 from cancer in Latvia, where he was living with his relatives.
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Who was Andrejs Bērziņš?
Soviet politician (1893–1951)
When was Andrejs Bērziņš born?
Andrejs Bērziņš was born on 23 January 1893 in Majori.
When did Andrejs Bērziņš die?
Andrejs Bērziņš died in 1951 in Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic.
What was Andrejs Bērziņš's occupation?
Andrejs Bērziņš was a politician.
What nationality was Andrejs Bērziņš?
Andrejs Bērziņš was Russian and Latvian.
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