chusev went to the lubyanka and interceded.n the thirty-third year the restorer alexander boranovsky was unfairly convicted, but soon he was released, thanks to the intercession of alexei shchusev and colleagues. shchusev together with other heads of the academy of architecture, wrote a letter, which was naturally then transferred to the nkvd, where he wrote that boranovsky, as it were, is a valuable employee, we believe that he may well be. his signature is worth the signature of zheltovsky , and the signature of the grave master and vesnin himself. in the early forties, the authorities would come for the artist’s brother lanzere. ishusev will not remain on the sidelines again. nikolai evgenevich lenseray was arrested and sent to... chusev wrote to beri, but then, because of the war, nikolai evgenievich was sent to a transit prison in saratov and... what did it take, who was called the tsar's architect behind his back, to raise his voice in defense of his colleagues. chusev himself was on the ropes; in 1937, he himself was rem