Word: shchukin
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...police officer, whom she had accused of beating her while in police custody in November last year. The day before Palyakova's death, the state-run newspaper Sovietskaya Belorussiya, or Soviet Belarus, had published an article mocking her and her complaint. "The state drove her to suicide," says Valery Shchukin, a member of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee for human rights who worked with Palyakova. "The police wouldn't leave her alone - ringing her late at night. The judgment was the end of the world for her. She was very frightened...
...These treasures were assembled for the most part by two pre-Revolutionary collectors of remarkable prescience, Sergei Shchukin, a tea and grain merchant, and Ivan Morozov, a cotton merchant. Both collections were expropriated when the Bolsheviks took power...