Levis Maria Mikhailovna
Genus. in 1890 in St. Petersburg; She received her secondary education at the St. Petersburg gymnasiums of M. D. Mogilyanskaya and M. N. Stoyunina. She graduated from higher women's (Bestuzhev) courses in the general history group in 1913. She taught history in private gymnasiums in St. Petersburg (Petrograd). Participated in the Hermitage circle. Since the founding of the Museum of the Revolution, she has worked there. In 1921 she left Petrograd for six months to Tashkent, where she lived with a friend, and in 1923 she left for treatment in Germany and Switzerland. I spent about a year in Basel with my friend. She returned in 1924 and continued working at the Museum of the Revolution. Together with her sister Raisa, she was arrested in 1930. The accusation is based on a high school acquaintance with the wife of a previously arrested naval officer and some “children’s poems.” She was exiled for three years to Yeniseisk, where she worked in the local history museum. At the end of her exile in 1933, she returned to Leningrad. It was not possible to recover at the Museum of the Revolution, since then she worked under contracts as a bibliographer, librarian, translator, etc. In 1942-1944 - in evacuation. In recent years before retirement, she served as editor-in-chief of the Printmaking Department of the State Public Library under the leadership of O. B. Vraska. In the 1970s, she wrote memoirs about “the life of an ordinary woman in an extraordinary era.”
