Lev Leonidovich (Aronovich) Shvartzman (Russian: Лев Леони́дович (Аронович) Шва́рцман; 25 July 1907 – 13 May 1955) was a Soviet MGB officer, notorious for his brutality, who was executed for using torture to extract false confessions from prisoners. His victims included Marshal Blyukher, the writer Isaac Babel and the theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold.
Lev Leonidovich (Aronovich) Shvartzman (Russian: Лев Леони́дович (Аронович) Шва́рцман; 25 July 1907 – 13 May 1955) was a Soviet MGB officer, notorious...
headquarters in Moscow, and placed in the hands of the notorious torturer, LevShvartzman, Meyerhold broke down and confessed to being a British and Japanese...
were arrested. Ryumin planned to build a case in which Abakumov and LevShvartzman were at the head of a Zionist plot. Shwartzman 'confessed' not only...
Koltsov. Some of the NKVD officers Beria promoted, such as Boris Rodos, LevShvartzman, and Bogdan Kobulov were brutal torturers who were executed in the 1950s...
in Izvestia The officer who beat Blyukher to death has been named as LevShvartzman. Blyukher was rehabilitated in 1956. He continues to be a popular figure...
purge of the Red Army. After being struck by the notorious torturer LevShvartzman with an electric cable with such force that it severed his right eye...
specialists in torture, LevShvartzman and Boris Rodos were dismissed, and Ryumin reputedly planned a trial with Abakumov and Shvartzman as principle defendants...
that began with the arrests of every known Jew employed by the MGB - LevShvartzman, Leonid Eitingon, Leonid Raikhman, Andrei Sverdlov, son of Yakov Sverdlov...
Ivanov 9 Vasily Blyukher (beaten to death by the NKVD interrogator, LevShvartzman) 15 Karim Tinchurin 16 Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh 19 Pavel Voyloshnikov...
he attended a then new art school with his friend and future colleague Lev Milchin. After graduating, they both moved to Leningrad in hopes to pursue...
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