Antonina Pirozhkova, Engineer and Widow of Isaac Babel, Dies at 101
Antonina Pirozhkova, who as the widow of the renowned short-story writer Isaac Babel campaigned for more than half a century to keep his literary legacy alive after his execution by Stalin’s N.K.V.D., and who wrote a memoir about the last seven years of his life, died on Sept. 12 at her home in Sarasota, Fla. She was 101.
The death was confirmed by her grandson, Andrei Malaev Babel.
Ms. Pirozhkova, a rising young engineer, met her future husband shortly after she began working at the State Institute for Metallurgical Design in Moscow in 1932. She was 23. He was 38 and separated from his first wife, Yevgenia Gronfein.
Correction:
An obituary on Thursday about Antonina Pirozhova, the widow of the writer Isaac Babel and the author of a memoir about the last years of his life, misstated the name of the Soviet secret police, who arrested and later executed him. It was the N.K.V.D., not the K.G.B. (The K.G.B. was created in 1954, 14 years after Babel’s execution.)
A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 23, 2010, Section B, Page 21 of the New York edition with the headline: Antonina Pirozhkova, Engineer and Widow Of Isaac Babel, Dies at 101.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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