Boris Stomonyakov

After an extensive period of incarceration and interrogation, Stomonyakov was found guilty of being a member of a "counterrevolutionary Trotskyite organization" and spying for Germany and Poland and was sentenced to death.

[1] After termination of hostilities in the World War, Stomonyakov returned to Germany, where he began to work for the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia.

[1] In 1924 Stomonyakov relocated to the Soviet Union, taking up a post in the legal department of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (Narkomindel).

[1] His work attracted the notice of Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov, and Stomonyakov was soon placed in charge of international relations between the USSR and Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

He was found guilty by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR of participating in a counterrevolutionary Trotskyite organization which spied on behalf of Germany and Poland and sentenced to death.