What is Nikolai Yezhov?
{{Infobox Officeholder |name=Nikolai Yezhov |native_name = Николай Иванович Ежов |native_name_lang = ru |image= |imagesize=199px |caption= Yezhov in uniform |nickname={{lang-ru|Ежевика}} (Blackberry)<ref>Sebag-Montefiore, Simon ''Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar'', chapter 21.</ref><br/>Iron Hedgehog<ref>Service (2009), chapter 11.</ref> |order2 = People's Commissar for State Security{{cn|date=July 2017}} | term_start2 = 27 January 1937 | term_end2 = 25 November 1938 | predecessor2 = | successor2 = |order1 = [[NKVD|People's Commissar for Internal Affairs]] | term_start1 = 26 September 1936 | term_end1 = 25 November 1938<ref>[https://мвд.рф/history/Ministri_vnutrennih_del Ministers of Internal Affairs]. Ministry of the Russian Federation. accessed 17 July 2017</ref> | predecessor1 = [[Genrikh Yagoda]] | successor1 = [[Lavrentiy Beria]] |order = [[People's Commissariat of Water Transport|People's Commissar for Water Transport]] | term_start = 8 April 1938 | term_end = 9 April 1939 | predecessor = [[Nikolay Pakhomov]] | successor = None (position abolished) | office3 = Candidate member of the [[17th Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|17th]] [[Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Politburo]] | term_start3 = 12 October 1937 | term_end3 = 3 March 1939 |birth_name=Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov | office4= Member of the [[17th Politburo and the 17th Secretariat of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|17th]] [[Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Secretariat]] | term_start4 = 1 February 1935 | term_end4 = 3 March 1939 | birth_date = {{birth date|1895|5|1}} | birth_place = [[St. Petersburg]], [[Russian Empire]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1940|2|4|1895|5|1}} | death_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] | citizenship = [[Soviet people|Soviet]] | party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] | spouse = Antonia Titova (1919-1930)<br/>Yevgenia Feigenberg (1930-1938; her death; 1 child) | children = Natalia Nikolaevna Ye