A woman’s view of the Stalinist terror era. Memoirs of the wife of an NKVD officer—from official dinners in the Kremlin to arrest and the Gulag.
Tales by Agnessa Mironova, recorded by Mира Яковенко: about youth during the Civil War, about her three marriages, about her love for the prominent Stalinist Chekist Sergey Mironov, about the luxurious life of the NKVD elite, about Kremlin receptions, government dachas, resorts, arrest, prisons, transfers, and camps.