Prokhorov

Memoirs cover the life of the author until 1977. The exact date of birth is not given; apparently, this is the end of the 1890s. Memories do not have a strict chronological sequence. It was written at the request of the children.
The beginning of the memories is a story about the husband's mother. Further, using the example of his own family, a lively and detailed description of "the life of an average intelligent family in the pre-revolutionary years" in St. Petersburg, on the Petrograd side. The author's mother is a teacher at the Vyborg School, before that she was a chorus girl at the Mariinsky Theatre. Father graduated from the Mining Institute. Died (died?) when the author and her brothers were children.
Memories of childhood and adolescence (description of games, walks, visits to the Opera House, music lessons, etc.). The author's studies at the gymnasium of Princess Obolenskaya, which her mother, brother Dmitry, later a prominent geologist, graduated from, at the Tenishevsky School, brother Boris - at the Vyborg School. Link of the stepfather, Sverchevsky A.V. to the Vyatka province (according to the author, for the book of his poems published by him), a summer trip of the whole family after his stepfather. A few words about the short stay of the mother with her infant son in the House of Preliminary Detention while studying at the Medical Institute, where student riots arose. Recruitment (to no avail) as provocateurs. Later, secret meetings of members of the Social Democratic organization of the Mining Institute, where brother Dmitry studied, were held in their apartment.
After graduating from the gymnasium, the author studied at the Stebutov agricultural courses, which she completed in 1917, receiving an agronomist diploma. First marriage. A romantic acquaintance during an expedition in the Southern Urals with a geologist Cherkesov. Divorce and remarriage. The work of the author as a teacher at the Forestry Institute. Birth of children. The first arrest of her husband in 1923. Release after a short imprisonment in connection with the guarantee of his comrades. A story about a friendly family life. Description of 3-year trips with the whole family to Siberia (late 1920s), where her husband worked on the expedition. Parenting.
The onset of an alarming time - 1937. Arrests of acquaintances. Husband's heavy forebodings. His arrest, about which there are only a few words, because. this is a very difficult memory for the author. The arrest of the author as the wife of an enemy of the people. Sentence - 8 years. The term of imprisonment for the wives of the repressed was given depending on the number of years lived with her husband. Description of the cell in "crosses" (?) (stuffiness, tightness, crying, screaming, etc.).
Stage in the Mordovian ASSR, in the camp "Temniki". Closer work. Description of life in the camp. On the positive side, there were only “wives of enemies of the people” in the artel, they were not mixed with criminals. Further stage in Nikolaevsk, on the Amur. Stop in Kharkov. Work at the shipyard before the opening of navigation. "Journey" to Nikolaevsk on a barge - the best time in the years of exile. An episode with a tunnel made by criminals in the prison building during the transfer. Description of life in the camp. Work in a greenhouse, later as a foreman in agricultural work.
In the autumn of 1944, liberation. Fear of going to an unfamiliar place in a settlement. Please leave it near Nikolaevsk. Work in the suburban economy. General rejoicing in the city about the victory. Departure from Nikolaevsk to the Urals, to the city of Krasnoufimsk, where VD Nalivkin, a geologist, her nephew, worked on the expedition. Meeting with his son Oleg in Krasnoufimsk on the platform (he was on his way to Leningrad). The return of the author to Leningrad. Story about the life of children. And again memories of a happy student life, of expeditions.

The annotation was compiled by Zhidkova T.G.

Benois Alexander Nikolaevich, Benois Anna Alexandrovna, Bondarev Grigory, Gardenina Vera, Genost Amalia, Golubyatnikov Vladimir, Golubyatnikov Fedor, Elena Christianovna Zeits, Znamensky Arkady Stepanovich, Ivanova Ekaterina Vasilievna, Isachenko B., Knyazev, Liskun, Nalivkin Boris Vasilievich, Nalivkin Vasily Alexandrovich, Nalivkin Grigory Alexandrovich, Nalivkin Dmitry Vasilievich, Nalivkina Olga Venediktovna, Ovsyannikov (?), By, Popov, Prokhorov, Savenkova, Saradskikh Nina, Sverchevskaya Varvara, Sverchevsky Alexander Frolovich, Semenova Anna Alexandrovna, Smurov, Stella, Sukachev Vladimir Nikolaevich, Tesler Alexander, Kharlamova Stanislava Iosifovna, Khodova Alma Andreevna, Cherkesov Vsevolod Yurievich, Cherkesov Yuri Al., Cherkesov Yury Yuryevich, Cherkesova (?) Lidia Konstantinovna, Cherkesova Svetlana Vsevolodovna, Cherkesova Tatyana Vsevolodovna, Cherkesova (nee Nalivkina) Elena Vasilievna, Yakovlev Nikolay Nikolaevich