Marriage and Family
After moving to New York City, Eastman married Ida Rauh, a fellow radical; they divorced in 1922.
In 1924 he married the painter Elena Krylenko, a native of Moscow, whom he met during his nearly two-year stay in the Soviet Union. Elena was sister to Nikolai Krylenko, the Soviet Commissar of Justice and the organizer of many of Joseph Stalin's infamous "show trials" of the 1930s. Elena died in 1956.
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