Fall From Power and Execution (1928-1941)
Kameneva quickly lost her influence after Kamenev and Trotsky's fall from power in 1927. On 27 July 1935 the NKVD (Soviet secret police) Special Board banned her from Moscow and Leningrad for 5 years in connection with the Kremlin Case. After Lev Kamenev's show trial and execution on 25 August 1936, she was arrested and imprisoned. Her younger son, Yuri Lvovich Kamenev, was executed on 30 January 1938 at the age of 17. Her older son, Air Force officer Alexander Lvovich Kamenev, was executed on 15 July 1939 at the age of 33.
In 1941, she was in Oryol Prison. Olga Kameneva was shot on 11 September 1941 on Joseph Stalin's orders in the Medvedev forest outside Orel together with Christian Rakovsky, Maria Spiridonova and 160 other prominent political prisoners in the Medvedev Forest massacre. This execution was one of the many NKVD massacres of prisoners committed in 1941.
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