Legacy
The NKVD officer who had taken Krylenko's testimony, one Kogan (probably, Captain Lazar V. Kogan, who also interrogated Nicolai Bukharin and Genrikh Yagoda), was, in turn, shot in 1939 (probably, on March 2) for "anti-Soviet activity". Krylenko's conviction was one of the first annulled by the Soviet State in 1955, during the Khrushchev thaw.
Krylenko's ex-wife and fellow Old Bolshevik Elena Rozmirovich survived the purges by keeping a low profile and working in the Party archives. His sister Elena Krylenko married American writer Max Eastman and moved to America, thus escaping the purges.
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