Garaseva Anna Mikhailovna
Born December 7, 1902. Native of the village of Volyn, Ryazan district, Ryazan province. Father, zemstvo teacher Mikhail Zosimovich Garasev. Mother Akilina Dmitrievna Garaseva. Sisters Lyubov Mikhailovna Georgievich, Tatyana Mikhailovna Garaseva; brother Sergei Mikhailovich Garasev. 1910s - Childhood in Volyn. The family moves to Ryazan. Classes at the Ryazan private girls' gymnasium of V.P. Ekimetskaya. Events of the February and October revolutions and the Civil War in Ryazan. Arrests of priests. The establishment of concentration camps. Taking of hostages from among the residents of Ryazan. Death of mother's brother Vasily Dmitrievich Gavrikov in a concentration camp (1918). The fates of Ryazan nobles, clergy, officers, peasants. 1920 — Completion of the 2nd stage of the unified labor school of the city of Ryazan.
1925, March–May. Sister Tatyana leaves for Leningrad. Sister is arrested in Leningrad (22 May). Release. She is placed under open surveillance. 1925, May 1. A search of a house in Ryazan. Arrest of A. Garasyova, sister Lyubov, her husband Mikhail Fyodorovich Georgievich, and brother Sergei. Internal prison of the GPU. The sister and her husband are released a day later, and the brother two days later. Conditions of detention in prison. Interrogation. Release without charge. 1925, July. Graduation from the Ryazan paramedic and obstetric school. Departure to join her sister in Leningrad due to an exacerbation of her tuberculosis. Move to a new apartment. 1925, August 17. Arrested together with her sister Tatyana (anarchist, member of Moscow anarchist underground groups in the 1920s. Arrested by the OGPU in 1926 and held in the OGPU internal prison on Lubyanka). Leningrad House of Pre-Trial Detention. Charged with involvement in a terrorist organization and preparing a terrorist act against G.E. Zinoviev. Investigation. Arrest of brother S.M. Garasev. Exile to Vladimir. His subsequent release under amnesty (1927). 1926, January – 1928, August. Completion of the case. Transfer to Moscow for further investigation. Lubyanka Prison. Torture. Hunger strikes. Stay in solitary confinement. Help from the Red Cross. The fates of Berta Gandel and Irma Mendel. Sentenced to 3 years in a political prison, 3 years of exile, and a ban on living in the three largest cities in the country. Transfer to Verkhneuralsk. Perm and Sverdlovsk transit prisons. Verkhneuralsk political isolator. Conditions of detention. Relationships between prisoners. Reunification with a sister in need of help. Meeting B. Voronov. Falling in love. Exposure of Voronov as a provocateur. Transfer to Moscow. Placement in Lubyanka prison. Hunger strike. News of Sister Tatyana's early transfer into exile to Kyzyl-Orda. Sister Tatyana's marriage to Nikolai Doskal. Unexpected meeting with sister in Chelyabinsk. 1928, August 17. Release from political isolator after serving her term. Chelyabinsk and Samara transit prisons. Transfer into exile to Chimkent. Occasional earnings. Work in a Chimkent hospital. Famine in Kazakhstan. Basmachi. Letter to A.M. Garaseva in The Truth about the Break with the Anarchists. 1930, April. Early release. 1931, summer. Return to Ryazan. Arrest and release of son-in-law M.F. Georgievich. Studies in Moscow at the correspondence department of the Geological Prospecting Institute. Work in the Ryazan Engineering and Geological Party. Enrollment in the Courses of the Great Soviet Atlas of the World. Completion of the courses with the qualification of the 8th category. 1936 - 1941, November. News of the arrest of sister Tatyana and her husband in Maikop. Sentence of 10 years (Kazan and Suzdal prisons, then Kolyma). Death of sister's husband N. Doskal in prison. Life and everyday life in Moscow in the 1930s. Shops and stalls selling the property of arrested people. Work as an engraver at the V.M. Molotov. Beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Dismissal of the plant employees (October 16). Wartime Moscow. Reinstatement at work (October 19). 1941, November – 1942, April. Work as a civilian nurse in military hospital #4034. Final return to Ryazan. 1942–1959, April 1. Work as a district nurse in the Ryazan regional tuberculosis dispensary. Return of sister Tatyana from Magadan (1947). Her stories about her stay in prisons and a camp. Tatyana’s re-arrest (1948). Exile to the north of Krasnoyarsk Krai, in 1949–1954 to the village of Troitskoye, Taseevsky District, then to Taseyevo (rehabilitated in 1958). 1962–1974. — Acquaintance with A.I. Solzhenitsyn. His family. Friendship with Solzhenitsyn's mother-in-law M.K. Reshetovskaya. The history of the creation of the book The Gulag Archipelago. Work as an "illegal secretary" of A.I. Solzhenitsyn. Collection of material for work. 1994, December 11. Garaseva Anna Mikhailovna died in Ryazan.
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