Andrei Berzin

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Andrei Gasparovich Berzin (Latvian: Andrejs Bērziņš, Russian: Андрей Гаспарович Берзин, January 23, 1893, Majorenhof, Governorate of Livonia — 1951, Latvian SSR) was a Soviet politician.

He worked as deputy head of the administrative and financial department of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture.

In 1930, he was arrested by the case of the so-called  [ru], with the other economists Nikolai Kondratiev, Alexander Chayanov,  [ru]. In 1931, he was exiled to Kazakhstan. He worked as an economist-planner at Soyuzpromkorm.

In 1938, Berzin was arrested again. He stayed in exile until the end of World War II, and then he returned to Moscow.

First husband of an actress Lyubov Orlova (1926—1930). After the arrest, the actress did not know anything about his fate. According to the biographers, while already being a wife of Grigory Alexandrov, she had asked Stalin to find out about Berzin and help him.

He died in 1951 from cancer in Latvia, where he lived with relatives.^[1]

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