Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the USSR from 1953-1964 Photo: akg-images / akg-images / Profimedia
The American pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in detention in 2019 after years of sexually trafficking girls for members of the political and business elites, had a Soviet predecessor, named Konstantin Krivoşin, the Russian press reported by the EFE agency recalls on Thursday.
The case of Krivoşin, writer and playwright, did not have the same resonance that the Epstein files have now, but it caused a great scandal in Soviet society in the 50s, writes the online publication Lenta.ru, according to Agerpres.
In the mid-1950s, rumors began to circulate about a clandestine brothel frequented by high-ranking officials of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). The Soviet leader at the time, Nikita Khrushchev, received an anonymous letter whose author asked him to pay attention to the “moral character” of several Party members, including the Minister of Culture, Georgi Aleksandrov.
The anonymous letter received by Khrushchev
The author of the letter mentioned that she was the mother of an 18-year-old girl who had gotten into trouble because of “a man aged about 60, who introduced himself as Konstantin Krivoşin”. According to the woman, her daughter dropped out of school and started going to cinemas and restaurants with this man, and at one point “he convinced her to go to his house, where he promised to read her a play.”
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The mother questioned her daughter, who confessed that she had a relationship with Krivoşin. The woman was then in the playwright's apartment, where the minister of culture sometimes came. In her letter to Khrushchev, she describes that apartment as “a veritable den” and a place of “debauchery” and “seduction of women”.
“I immediately asked my daughter to end the relationship, and she complied. We don't need anything from him, but I consider it a moral duty for me to tell you the facts so that this shame can be stopped,” she also mentioned in the letter that led to the launch of a major investigation.
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Later it came out that other mothers also denounced the behavior of that playwright, who managed to attract philosophy students and girls from theater and ballet schools to the parties organized in his apartment or in the house he had in the country.
Konstantin Krivoşin eventually ended up in prison, and those who frequented his parties lost their public positions, many of them being marginalized for the rest of their lives. However, there were people who got away with this scandal. This is the case of Professor Serghei Petrov, mentioned in the “Krivoşin documents”, who continued his academic activities and obtained his doctorate in 1957.
