Shutko and Agadzhanova

[Prof Steven P Hill]

Dear colleagues:

Does anyone out there know whether the Stalinist purges of 1936-41 
touched the life of Kirill Ivanovich Shutko (1884-1941)?  He was an 
Old Bolshevik who after 1917 became a Soviet arts administrator and 
editor ("Poetika kino," etc.) in the 1920s and probably early 1930s. 
Also a good friend of Kandinskii. Did Shutko die a natural death, 
perished early in WW2, or was he purged?

And what about Shutko's wife, Nina Ferdinandovna Agadzhanova
(1889-1974; credited as co-scenarist of Eisenstein's "Potemkiin" 
and of Pudovkin's "Deserter" in '33)?  Was she affected in any way 
by the purges? She seems to have fallen silent after the early 1930s...

Gratefully,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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