An autographed document by Marshal Vasily Blucher

The autograph of Marshal V.K. Blucher under a power of attorney to receive orders. Dates. January 13, 1937. 28×20.5 cm. Typewriting with autoharp. On the upper field there is a stamp: "Commander of the troops of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army, Marshal of the Soviet Union V.K. Blucher."

"A power of attorney. I hereby entrust Commander Kolchigin Bogdan Konstantinovich, who is on special assignments with me, to receive the badges of the Red Banner Orders No. 114 and No. 4208 in the award department of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. The orders made for me for No. 1 and No. 2, the latter with the sign "three". Commander of the OKDVA, Marshal of the Soviet Union V.K. Blucher [signed]."

Vasily Konstantinovich Blucher (1890-1938) was a Soviet military, statesman and party leader. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1935), first Knight of the Order of the Red Banner (1918) and the Order of the Red Star (1930). The Minister of War of the Far Eastern Republic (Far East) and the third commander-in-Chief of the People's Revolutionary Army of the Far East. Blucher was a participant in the repressions in the Red Army: on June 11, 1937, he, among other military leaders included in the court, pronounced the death sentence in the Tukhachevsky case as part of the Special Judicial Presence of the Supreme Court of the USSR. In early 1938, Blucher posed the question of self-confidence to Stalin. Stalin assured Blucher that he trusted him completely. On the morning of October 22, 1938, Blucher was arrested at Voroshilov's dacha. On November 9, 1938, at 22:50, Blucher died suddenly in the doctor's office of the inner prison. On March 10, 1939, he was retroactively stripped of the rank of marshal and sentenced to death for "espionage in favor of Japan."

Bogdan Konstantinovich Kolchigin (November 26, 1895 — October 25, 1976) was a military commander, lieutenant General (1943).