Biography 28/02/20 Ekaterina Maksimova: the fate of the wife’s spy Richard Sorge
About the spy Richard Sorge has written many articles and books, but about his wife Ekaterina Maximova, unfortunately, is known not too much. Even the grave can’t find so far. Meanwhile, the fate Maximova was tragic. She died in exile under strange circumstances.
the First marriage and moving to Moscow
Ekaterina Maximova was born in Petrozavodsk in 1904. She’s a childhood dream to be an actress and even attended classes in the theater Studio under the direction of Yuri Urine. It Urlin played in the period of Catherine’s life, one of the main roles. As he writes in his book “Richard Sorge spy No. 1?” E. Prudnikova, one day, when the girl has finished high school and studied at the faculty of stage art in Leningrad, she accidentally collided in the street with the teacher of the Studio. He was very ill and complained to his pupil that he needed to go for treatment in Italy, and to leave the child with anyone.
Maximov decided to help Urine. For the trip, they formalized the marriage and, together with the daughter of a teacher went abroad. Soon, however, Catherine proved to be one: Urlin died in Italy, and his daughter Maximov was taken to the relatives of her deceased father, who lived in Moscow. There she remained and there met with Sorge.
Catherine and Richard
it is Unclear why, but Maksimova, settling in the capital, has not made a single attempt to realize his dream of becoming an actress. Catherine went to work at the factory “Tochpribor”, where he of the ordinary AppartCity she pulls foremen. In addition, Maksimova gave Russian lessons to foreigners (she had an excellent command of French and German). What is the purpose for one of these lessons came Richard Sorge is unknown, but that’s how they first met.
Sorge and Maksimov registered relationship after 6 years. However, the scout soon left for Japan. If you count how much time for more than 10 years of marriage spent together, Catherine and Richard, is hardly more than 6 months. However, spouses have always had warm feelings. This can be judged from the surviving letters, which is given in almost the only book about the life of Maksimova under the authorship of Y. Slatina “Kate and Richard. Secrets wife Sorge”. Some of the letters it becomes clear that Catherine was pregnant, and Sorge were even advised, as to give the newborn or the newborn. But the pregnancy failed. Most likely, the health Maximova had a negative impact of harmful production. She continued to work at the “Tochpribor”, where she had contact with mercury.
the Strange death
In September 1942 for Maximova came. The reason for the arrest was the statement that he wrote to Catherine, her cousin, who later hanged himself. Wife Sorge was accused of espionage. That, after spending a few months in the Lubyanka, the end of the day signed all that was required. She was sent for 5 years in the Krasnoyarsk territory in the village of Bolshaya Murta.
At the end of June 1943 Maximov brought to a local hospital. She was very weak, and the diagnosis with which the patient was admitted, was described as a “chemical burn”. How the woman got that injury and where they were buried, still remains unclear. There is speculation that she was poisoned. But while these versions are not confirmed. About what happened with his wife, Sorge did not know. He was executed a year after the death of Catherine in Tokyo.
Yulia Popova
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