October 27, 1937. #OTD Rosa Yakovlevna Mitelman and Dmitry Mikhailovich Pines, a married Jewish couple, were executed in Arkhangelsk. The couple had been tried together on October 23, 1937, convicted of belonging to a fictitious Socialist Revolutionary terrorist organization, and condemned to death. Rosa was a doctor at the Institute for the Protection of Mothers and Children in Leningrad. She was 45. Dmitry was a literary critic who specialized in the works of Alexander Blok and Andrei Bely. He was 47. Dmitry had been previously arrested on Article 58 charges and exiled to Arkhangelsk; Rosa, who remained in Leningrad, would visit him when she could, and on that basis was accused of being a liaison between an SR cell in Leningrad and the invented SR cell in Arkhangelsk. In 1956 the couple were retried (in absentia, it goes without saying) and it was proven that there had been no such SR cell operating in Arkhangelsk in 1937, and it had been a fiction created by one Junior Lieutenant Semyonov. Both Rosa and Dmitry were immediately rehabilitated.