Yevgenia Ezhova

Yevgenia Feigenberg , also known as Yevgenia Solomonovna Khayutina (; 1904, Gomel – November 21, 1938, Moscow) was a Soviet editor, host of a literary salon, and the last wife of Nikolai Yezhov.

Biography Born in Gomel in 1904, she was the youngest child in a large Jewish merchant family of Solomon (Zalman) Leibovich Feigenberg and Esfiri Mikhailovna (Meilakhovna), née Krymskaya. She married for the first time at the age of 17 to Lazar Khayutin (1898-1948), with whom she moved in 1921 to Odessa, where she worked in the editorial office of the local magazine. During this period, she met Odessa writers Valentin Kataev, Yury Olesha, and Isaac Babel.

She married a second time to the former Red commander, Alexander Fedorovich Gladun, whom she met during one of his business trips to Odessa while serving as director of the Moscow publishing house “Economic Life”. She moved to Moscow with him in 1924. During this time she became intimately involved with the writer Isaac Babel. By 1938 the editorial board members of the magazine were being arrested by the police and disappearing from the journal's masthead.

Personal life The Yezhovs did not have any children of their own, and in 1933 they adopted a five-month-old girl, Natalya, from an orphanage.