V. S. Izmozik, Ya. V. Leontyev. E. N. Malm. In the Millstones of Time. New Documents //
Petersburg Historical Journal, no. 1, 2026, pp. 57–70.

DOI: 10.51255/2311–603X_2026_1_57

Abstract:

The article is dedicated to the fate of E. N. Malm. With his inseparable friend M. A. Bogdanov after the split of the Socialist Revolutionary Party they became members of her left wing and employees of the Cheka in 1918 year, sent to Petrograd to infiltrate the German consulate. After the events of July 6–7, 1918 they become resolute opponents of the Bolsheviks. They conducted underground work in the Smolensk, Vitebsk, and Kazan provinces. When they were arrested in Kazan in October 1919 they shot the former Left Socialist Revolutionary, the Cheka agent Zhuravlev (Petrov), and fled. They were detained on April 19, 1920, after a shootout. On September 29, 1920, the Moscow Revolutionary Tribunal issued a decision on their release. But then they were again arrested by the Chekists. In August 1921, made the armed escape from
Tagansky prison, passed to illegal status, tried to recreate in 1922 the illegal organization of the left Social Revolutionaries internationalists in Petrograd. Being once again arrested, they were in exile in Siberia. After the death of M. A. Bogdanov in 1924 E. N. Malm continued for some time political activity. At the end of the term of exile in 1926, having moved to the Crimea, he became a specialist in Black Sea dolphins and algae. He was subjected to new arrests, and in 1938 he was invited as a senior researcher to the Neurochirurgical Institute in Leningrad. He was once again arrested in September 1941 and tragically died in October 1941 during a stage in Lake Ladoga.

Key words: E. N. Malm, M. A. Bogdanov, F. E. Dzerzhinsky, V. A. Zbruev, S. A. Messing, N. V. Petrovskaya, N. A. Petrovskaya, I. A. Shabalin, M. A. Spiridonova, A. L. Polenov, S. A. Bolshakova, P. V. Melentyev.

Author:

Izmozik, Vladlen Semenovich — Dr. of Sci. in History, professor, Bonch-Bruevich St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (St. Petersburg, Russia).
E-mail: izmozik@mail.ru
ORCID: 0000-0001-7879-251X

Author:

Leontyev, Yaroslav Viktorovich — Dr. of Sci. in History, professor, Moscow State University at the Lomonosov (Moscow, Russia).
E-mail: leoyar@mail.ru
ORCID: 0009-0003-3709-0070

References:

Izmozik, V. S., Gekht, A. B. Britanskii razvedchik Pol Dyuks i petrogradskie chekisty [British intelligence officer Paul Dukes and the Petrograd Chekists. In Russ.]. St. Petersburg, Kriga publ., 2022. 624 p.

Leont’ev, Ya. V. Brat’ya Ayaksy [The Ajax Brothers. In Russ.]. In Mokshin, G. N. (ed.). Narodniki v istorii Rossii: Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Iss. 2. Voronezh, Voronezh State University press, 2016, pp. 244–269.

Leont’ev, Ya. V. Istoriya odnogo protsessa, ili Proval dela “Svinets” [The Story of a Process, or the Failure of the “Lead” Case. In Russ.]. In Leont’ev, Ya. V. (ed.). Na vnutrennem fronte Grazhdanskoi voiny. Sbornik dokumentov i vospominanii. Moscow, Russkaya kniga publ., 2020, pp. 94–111.

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