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\n \n GUARDS' CASE (Spring case), one from the series of cases fabricated by the Joint State Political Administration Board against former officers of Imperial and White Armies. In 1930-31 in the Guards' Case professors and lecturers of Tolmachev Military Political Academy were arrested in Leningrad: former General N.A. Morozov, Colonel A.A. Gerardi, General L.F. Tarasov and many others; lecturers of Artillery Technical School: G.N. Kostylev, G.P. Slyusarenko, et al.; military topographers: former General I.I. Seliverstov, S.N. Silin et al.; officers of Artillery Department: former General N.N. Kryzhanovsky, V.V. Gun, I.I. Almazov, et al., military engineers of Military Technical Academy of Workers' and Peasants' Red Army: former General F.I. Zubarev et al., former lecturers of Mikhailovsky and Konstantinovsky Artillery Schools: former General A.V. Sapozhnikov, I.P. Mikhailovsky, G.A. Svidersky, B.L. Rozing, B.V. Lyuba et al., former officers of various Life Guard Regiments: Moscovsky (former Colonel P.M. Yakovlev, Colonel N.A. Melgunov, et al.), Semenovsky (former General Y.Y. Sivers, N.A. Kavtaradze, D.A. Shelekhov, et al.), Preobrazhensky (former General E.M. Kazakevich, Captain N.A. Gudim, et al.), Pavlovsky (former General N.G. Dedintsev, et al.), Izmailovsky, Chasseur, Grenadier and other regiments. Besides, over 300 naval officers were arrested on various charges (Chairman of the Research Committee of the Baltic Fleet N.I. Ignatyev, Director of Naval Forces of Workers' and Peasants' Red Army M.A. Petrov, Chief of Staff of the Baltic Sea Naval Forces A.A. Toshakov, et al.). In total over a thousand people charged in the Guards' Case were executed by shooting in Leningrad, in May 1931.

Reference: Тинченко Я. Ю. Голгофа русского офицерства в СССР, 1930-1931 годы. М., 2000.

T. V. Morgacheva, I.A.Flige.\n
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