Sokolovskaya Lelya

The memoirs cover the period from 1918 to 1934: from the author's entry into the Scout movement to the author's return from exile.
The memoirs begin with the author's entry into the Scouting movement in 1918. What follows is a description of the activities of the Scouts and the relationship between the Scouts.
Graduation from school, acquaintance with the Saltykovka scout community, moving to Saltykovka as a housekeeper.
Description of life in Saltykovka. How to keep warm in winter with an iron.
Guests of "Saltykovka": Muscovites, Nizhny Novgorod, parents of scouts. About the attitude of parents. About education.
Arrest April 23, 1926 in "Saltykovka". Re-arrest in two weeks. Lubyanka, Butyrka.
OSO's verdict: minus six. Return to Nizhny Novgorod. Expulsion from university training courses for refusing to be an informer.
About how scout paraphernalia was buried in Maryina Roshcha (Nizhny Novgorod) in 1927.
Searches and arrests on April 1, 1928. The names of the Nizhny Novgorod scouts arrested on this day (13 people). About the arrests made on the same day in Moscow, Leningrad and other cities, in the Sokol sports society.
The release of two scouts, the transfer of the rest to Moscow.
Decision on exile for three years. Referral directions to other Nizhny Novgorod scouts.
Author's link to the Urals. During the stage - the announcement of the author's marriage to Yuri Sokolov. Sending a couple to the village of Shishnovo, Ural region. Birth of daughter Tatyana in exile.
End of exile in 1931. Residence in Vladimir until 1934, since 1934 - return to Gorky.

* Tatiana, Bashkirov Alexander Mikhailovich, Gurvich Sholom (Mulya) Leibovich, Gurevich Wulf Moiseevich (Vladimir Markovich), Gurenok Maria Vasilievna, Zelenov Boris Ivanovich (Burum), Ignatiev Yury Sergeevich, Konevsky Vladimir Vyacheslavovich, Priklonsky Georgy (Yuri) Nikolaevich, Sizov Gabriel (Gabriel, Gabka) Mikhailovich, Sokolov Yuri Nikolaevich, Sokolovskaya Zoya Alexandrovna, Sokolovskaya Lelya, Sokolovsky Boris Alexandrovich, Tikhomirova Ekaterina Alexandrovna (nicknamed Shimoza), Shulgina Vera Ivanovna

The author, Agafonova A.L., was born in 1907 in Nizhny Novgorod. Scout of the Nizhny Novgorod organization "Argo". At the beginning of the memories - a student of the agronomic faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod State University.
The memoirs begin with a description of the searches on 03/31/1927 in the apartment of G.N. Priklonsky, then - in the author's apartment. Confiscation of a board game as evidence.
Placement in the cell of the OGPU prison on Malaya Pokrovka. Two interrogations by the investigator. Release after 5 days.
Link scouts to Siberia. A poem by G.N. Priklonsky sent to the author from exile in Kirensk (Irkutsk region).
Graduation at the Nizhny Novgorod University (1929). A telegram to the Kirensky District Land Administration with a request to send an application to the university for the distribution of the author to work as an agronomist in the city of Kirensk.
Departure for Kirensk (July 1929). Description of the road Lena and the city of Kirensk, located on the island. Description of the location of the GPU building and the prison. Description of the church built in the 17th century.
Description of the arrival in Kirensk of a party of exiles (autumn 1930), including Nizhny Novgorod scouts. Placing political and criminal exiles together, then distributing them to the surrounding villages.
Description of the house, exiled neighbors. An incident on the Lena before the opening of the river. High water in the spring of 1930. Description of the author's working trips to the surrounding villages.
Arrest and hunger strike of the exiled poet B. Evreinov.
Description of meetings in Kirensk with exiled Moscow scouts.
Refusal of Sh.L. Gurvich from meeting with the author in connection with the threat of his impending arrest. Arrest of three scouts.
Description of the receipt of news of the shooting of scouts in the winter of 1930-1931. Description of the details of the case of "sabotage" among the exiles.
The arrest of G.N. Priklonsky. Moving to Irkutsk. Release of G.N. Priklonsky. Wedding. Moving to the city of Molotov at "minus six".
Life and work in Molotov for two years. The birth of a son. Moving to Gorky.

Agafonov Svyatoslav Leonidovich, Agafonova (Priklonskaya) Angelina Leonidovna, Anichkova Elizaveta Evgenievna, Arkhangelskaya (?) Lyudmila Ivanovna, Arkhangelsky Mikhail Petrovich, Bashkirov Alexander Mikhailovich, Belokrinkin (Belokrynkin) Konstantin Nikolaevich, Dolgov, Evreinov (Evreinov-Pavlov) Boris Sergeevich, Kazakov Petr Konstantinovich, Morando Konstantin Dmitrievich, Priklonskaya (?) Maria Andreevna, Priklonsky Georgy (Yuri) Nikolaevich, Priklonsky Svyatoslav Georgievich, Sokolovskaya Lelya, Sokolovsky Boris Alexandrovich, Shorygin Sergei Alexandrovich (Vladimirovich), Yurkansky Vyacheslav Nikolaevich