Pavlovskaya Francisca Kazimirovna

Born ca. 1860; Polish. In 1900, she was exiled from Warsaw to Siberia. She lived in the Chita region, at the Khokhotui station of the East Siberian Railway. In 1938, she picked up a letter from prisoner Alexander Petrovich Ivanov at the station, which he had thrown out of a train carrying prisoners to the Far East, and sent the letter to Leningrad, to his wife, accompanied by a note offering help and a return address. Tatyana Ilyinichna Ivanova responded, and a correspondence began between them. Nina Klishanets, a 7th-grade student, wrote letters under the dictation of Franziska Kazimirovna.