Lev Karakhan
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Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan (Karakhanian) Armenian
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Կարախանյան Լեւոն Միքայելի, Russian
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Лев Михайлович Карахан (20 January 1889, Tiflis – 20 September 1937, Moscow
Moscow
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) was an ethnic Armenian
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-born Russia
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n revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. A member of the RSDLP(b) from 1917.
In October 1917, he was member of the Revolutionary Military Council
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; then served as secretary of the Soviet delegation at the Brest-Litovsk peace talks
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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together with Lev Trotsky and Adolph Joffe
Adolph Joffe
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. In 1918-1920 and 1927–1934, he was the Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs. In 1921, he was the Soviet Ambassador to Poland
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; in 1923-1926, the Ambassador to China
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; after 1934, the Ambassador to Turkey
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Karakhan was arrested and executed in 1937 during the Great Purge
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. His wife, Marina Semyonova, died in 2010.