page_title: Nikolai Yezhov
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Nikolai Yezhov / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Yevgenia Ezhova (nee Feigenberg, Hayutina by her first husband, Gladun by second; 1904-1938) pictured with adopted daughter Natasha Hayutina. Second wife of soviet NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov (1895-1940).
context_page_description: Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the height of the Great Purge.
  He presided over mass arrests and executions during the Great Purge. Yezhov eventually fell from Stalin's favor and power and was arrested and confessed to a range of anti-Soviet activity, later claiming he was tortured into confessing, and eventually executed in 1940 along with most others responsible for the Purge.
context_section_description: Yezhov married Marxist Antonia Titova in 1919, but he later divorced her and married Yevgenia Feigenburg (Khayutina-Yezhova), a Soviet publishing worker and Chief Editor of USSR in Construction magazine who was known for her friendship with many Soviet writers and actors. Yezhov and Feigenburg had an adopted daughter, Natalia, an orphan from a children's home. After Yevgenia's and Yezhov's deaths in late 1938, Natalia was sent back to a local orphanage and was forced to relinquish the Yezhov surname. Subsequently, she was known by the name Natalia Khayutina.
caption: Yezhov's wife Yevgenia with their adopted daughter
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