Shapkina Elizaveta Ivanovna

Born in 1904 in St. Petersburg, in the family of an icon painter, graduated from the parish school in St. Petersburg. She served in a teahouse. After 1917 she worked at the "Red Triangle", then at the "Goznak" factory as a worker. Before her exile, she worked as a seamstress at the V. Münzenberg Sewing Factory. In 1937, after her husband was arrested, she was exiled with her two children to the Omsk Region, the village of Muromtsevo. She worked as a seamstress in a sewing workshop. She was released from exile in 1956 for rehabilitation. She came to Leningrad to be with her daughter in 1957. She worked in the registry of the Pasteur Hospital. Retired in 1959. She died in 1984 in Leningrad.