Some notes from the KGB on the fate of Pavel Florenskij (Q2783430)

The author ``merely summarizes'' chapter 5 of \textit{V. Shentalinsky}, Arrested Voices: Resurrecting the disappeared writers of the Soviet regime, New York: Free Press, 101-123 (1996)]. This chapter is based on information which the Russian writer Vitalii Shentalinskij found 1991 in the archives of the Soviet secret police KGB in Moscow. The chapter deals with the fate, in particular the execution of the theologian, philosopher, philologist, engineer, art historian and mathematician Pavel Florenskij (1882-1937). Florenskij, who was best known among mathematicians for his studies on Cantor's set theory, was considered by the KGB as a religious reactionary and later as the leader of a nationalist-fascist ring, and was shot in December 1937. The article, which contains some inaccuracies (allusion to the atomic bomb as of 1928, Chapylgin instead Chaplygin), refers to another work by the same author in volume 4, No. 2, 157-161 (1994; Zbl 0790.01023) of the same journal.