In a letter written in the summer of 1953, ​just weeks after Beria's arrest, Boris Klondrit, a political exile living in Petropavlovsk, wrote to Georgy Malenkov. He denounced Beria as "a hireling of foreign capital" and repeated a story he had heard in the Gulag that Beria had poisoned the Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba. Then, almost as an afterthought ("I will mention, by the way…"), the letter shifts into the voice of a victim. Klondrit writes that he was convicted "innocently and unlawfully" and beaten during interrogation, and that his seven appeals to Beria went unanswered. Denouncing the fallen "enemy of the Soviet people" becomes his way of telling the story of his own ordeal. Whether he was ever rehabilitated remains unknown.