Gronsky Yulian Mikhailovich
Catholic priest. Rector of the Tomsk Catholic community from 1921 to 1931. Apostolic administrator of the Catholic Church in Siberia from 1926 to 1931. Arrested in Tomsk in 1931 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In 1918 he was sent to serve in Siberia. Kurat Perm (1918), Irkutsk (1918-1919). From 1920 - in Tomsk. From November 1, 1926 - Apostolic Administrator of the Catholic Church of all Siberia. Lived in Tomsk at 17-13 Bakunina Street. On April 25, 1931, he was arrested in Tomsk in a group case of Catholics, and on March 7, 1932, he was sentenced to 10 years in a concentration camp (PP KOGPU) on charges of counter-revolutionary activity and espionage for the Vatican. Sentenced to the Mariinsky branch of Siblag, in August 1932 he was transferred to the Solovetsky special-purpose camp. In 1933, he was transported to Moscow and imprisoned in Butyrka Prison. On January 28, 1934, by decision of the OGPU Collegium, he was expelled from the USSR and sent to Lithuania as part of a prisoner exchange. After arriving in Lithuania, he was summoned to Rome to report on the situation of the Catholic Church in the USSR.
Sources and literature:
- GATO. Fund: R. 802 inventory: 1. File: 889;
- Book of Memory of Tomsk Region;
- Victims of political terror in the USSR. Electronic database;
- Archive of the Memorial Museum;
- V. Khanevich “Bialystok tragedy”. Tomsk - 1993
Дополнительные сведения
Томский мартиролог:
Гронский Юлиан Михайлович
Documents (2)
Fund 101 / Inventory 003 / Case 001:Бакунина
001. A list of repressed residents who lived on Bakunina Street in Tomsk, with house numbers and links to their biographies
Fund 002 / Inventory 003: Статьи / Case 019
001. “Siberian Bach” / V. A. Khanevich // “People's Tribune”. - 1992. - December 2
Vasily Khanevich's essay tells the tragic story of the Siberian Pole Stanislav Mikhailovich Bach, an organist born in the Polish village of Bialystok in Siberia. Through eyewitness accounts, archival documents, and criminal case materials, the author reconstructs the life of Bach, who became a victim of political repression. Arrested twice, he went through camps, was subjected to new charges of espionage and sabotage, did not confess, and was shot in 1938. The essay also highlights the fate of his brother Pavel and presents a broad context of the repressions against the Polish minority in Siberia.
List of persons:
- Bakh Pavel Mikhailovich - brother of Stanislav Bakh, worked as an accountant at Soyuzzagotskot in Tomsk, shot in 1938.
- Bach Stanislav Mikhailovich - organist, native of the village of Belostok, repressed twice, shot in 1938.
- Felemena (no surname) is the author's great-aunt, who recalled Stanislav Bach.
- Filimonenko Alexander - a member of the party organization, gave incriminating evidence against Bakh.
- Gronsky Julian - priest, administrator of the Catholic Church in Siberia, arrested in 1931.
- Zhukovsky Antony Iosifovich - a priest, previously convicted of espionage.
- Makarov (no name) - director of the home for the disabled, prosecution witness in the Bakh case.
- Mikhasenok Nikolai Ivanovich is a priest previously convicted of espionage.
- Ovchinnikov Ivan Vasilyevich - head of the Tomsk city department of the NKVD, who approved the indictment against Bakh.
- Pesotsky (no name) - employee of the Shegarsky RONKVD, participated in the arrest and interrogations.
- Rybintsov (no name) - named as the son of a landowner who allegedly recruited Bakh into a counter-revolutionary organization.
- Vasily Khanevich is the author of the article and a member of the Council of the Union of Poles in Russia.
- Zoskov (no name) - an employee of the Shegarsky RONKVD, participated in the arrest of Bakh.
