 Rudzutaks was suddenly expelled from the Politburo and Central Committee on 24 May 1937, on the same day as the Red Army Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky.There are two conflicting stories about the circumstances of his arrest.One, published in the soviet press in 1963, is that he was a lively conversation in his dacha with Aleksandr Gerasimov and two other painters when he seized.