 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.The other is that he was holding a supper party after a visit to the theatre, when the NKVD arrived and arrested everyone present.Yevgenia Ginzburg, wife of a senior Bolshevik who survived the gulag wrote about being forced to share a cell in Butyrki prison with 37 other women, four of whom were dressed in "absurd low-cut evening dresses, crumpled and bedraggled with high heeled shoes."