019. “Siberian Bach” / V. A. Khanevich // “People's Tribune”. - 1992. - December 2

Vasily Khanevich's essay tells the tragic story of the Siberian Pole Stanislav Mikhailovich Bach, an organist born in the Polish village of Bialystok in Siberia. Through eyewitness accounts, archival documents, and criminal case materials, the author reconstructs the life of Bach, who became a victim of political repression. Arrested twice, he went through camps, was subjected to new charges of espionage and sabotage, did not confess, and was shot in 1938. The essay also highlights the fate of his brother Pavel and presents a broad context of the repressions against the Polish minority in Siberia.

List of persons:

• Bakh Pavel Mikhailovich - brother of Stanislav Bakh, worked as an accountant at Soyuzzagotskot in Tomsk, shot in 1938.
• Bach Stanislav Mikhailovich - organist, native of the village of Belostok, repressed twice, shot in 1938.
• Felemena (no surname) is the author's great-aunt, who recalled Stanislav Bach.
• Filimonenko Alexander - a member of the party organization, gave incriminating evidence against Bakh.
• Gronsky Julian - priest, administrator of the Catholic Church in Siberia, arrested in 1931.
• Zhukovsky Antony Iosifovich - a priest, previously convicted of espionage.
• Makarov (no name) - director of the home for the disabled, prosecution witness in the Bakh case.
• Mikhasenok Nikolai Ivanovich is a priest previously convicted of espionage.
• Ovchinnikov Ivan Vasilyevich - head of the Tomsk city department of the NKVD, who approved the indictment against Bakh.
• Pesotsky (no name) - employee of the Shegarsky RONKVD, participated in the arrest and interrogations.
• Rybintsov (no name) - named as the son of a landowner who allegedly recruited Bakh into a counter-revolutionary organization.
• Vasily Khanevich is the author of the article and a member of the Council of the Union of Poles in Russia.
• Zoskov (no name) - an employee of the Shegarsky RONKVD, participated in the arrest of Bakh.