The search of Yagoda’s residences – he had two apartments in central Moscow and the luxurious dacha – revealed the debauchery of NKVD élite in the list of his possessions. His pornographic collection contained 3,904 photographs plus eleven early pornographic movies. His career as a womanizer was amply illustrated by the female clothing he kept in his apartment which sounds as if he was running a lingerie store not a police force, but then the NKVD bosses could never resist exploiting their power.
