in a Pravda editorial, "Balletic Falsehood", for his libretto, written in collaboration with Fyodor Lopukhov, of the ballet The Limpid Stream (with music by Shostakovich). He was arrested by the NKVD in July 1937, sentenced to death and shot on 21 November. Adrian Piotrovsky was rehabilitated in July 1957. Sources Clark, Katerina Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995) McBurney, Gerard “Shostakovich and the theatre”: from The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich ed. Pauline Fairclough and David Fanning. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Morrison, Simon The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) Notes Russian classical scholars 1898 births 1937 deaths Russian theatre directors Dramaturges Ballet librettists Great Purge victims from Russia 20th-century dramatists and playwrights Polish people executed by the Soviet Union Russian Latinists