Slavists case

[1] In September 1933, in parallel with the investigation in Moscow, the "Leningrad case of the Russian National Party" began, in which 37 ethnographers and art critics, as well as chemists and geologists were arrested.

Founder of the Soviet school of copyists of ancient paintings L.A. Durnovo, a prominent specialist in Byzantine and Russian art N.V. Malitsky and Caucasian studies expert A.A. Miller also worked in this museum.

Those arrested in the "Leningrad RNP case" were accused, in particular, of "leading a wide national-fascist propaganda of a pan-slavic character, widely using the legal possibilities of scientific and museum work for this purpose", created and preserved exhibitions in halls dedicated to Russian pre-revolutionary art, which "tendentiously emphasized the power and beauty of the old pre-revolutionary system and the greatest achievements of its art."

Prince Trubetskoy, as well as Roman Jakobson, Pyotr Bogatyryov and Max Vasmer were named the main "foreign inspirers".

“The program guidelines of the organization were based on the ideas put forward by the leader of the fascist movement abroad — Prince N.S.

and terror (accusation of an attempt to assassinate Molotov on the basis that at the beginning of 1933 he visited the electrical plant where one of the arrested persons, Rosenmeyer, had worked).

During the investigation Sergei Teploukhov and Nikolai Tunitsky committed suicide, Theodore Fielstrup died from an accident,[2] while Dolgolenko did not survive the torture.

In 1937–38 N. and A. Durnovo, as well as Sintsov, Rosenmeyer, Tyurk, Vladimir Trubetskoy, Varvara Trubetskaya, Kryzhanovsky, Ustinov, Ilyinsky, Drozdovsky, Schmitt, Kulla and Avtonomov were again brought to justice and sentenced to death.

It received special support during the Great Patriotic War in connection with Stalin's expansionist plans (since 1943, departments of Slavic philology began to open at major universities).