In 1930, Snesarev was arrested and charged with participating in counter-revolutionary activities. He was imprisoned in
Butyrka Prison then
Lubyanka Prison. He was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death. However,
Stalin intervened and had his sentenced reduced to ten years imprisonment in the
Gulag camp system, first at
Svir, then at
Solovki prison camp. He suffered a severe
stroke in 1933 which left him partially paralyzed. He was later taken to
Leningrad by his family to receive better medical care and released on parole in September, 1934. He suffered two more strokes and died at a
Moscow hospital in December 1937. He was re-habilitated in 1958. ==References==