Career
She was the wife of Alexander Poskrebyshev, Joseph Stalin"s personal assistant for many years. There they met Leon Trotsky, to whom they were connected through marriage. This meeting with Trotsky was a reason for the arrest of Metallikov on July 8, 1937 and for his execution on March 31, 1939.
This time, she was arrested.
She was imprisoned, sentenced to death on September 22, 1941, shot on October 13, and buried in a mass grave near Moscow. She was posthumously rehabilitated on October 10, 1957.
She is commememorated at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
