Shakhovskaya Maria Borisovna

Born in 1906 in Burgas, Bulgaria. Lived in Moscow and worked as a classified typist in the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. On May 22, 1934, she was arrested and accused of "transmitting classified information to a German intelligence resident." By the decision of the OGPU Judicial Collegium of June 22, 1934, she was sentenced to 5 years in a labor camp under Article 58-6 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, but due to illness, the prison term was replaced by exile through the OGPU Legislative Assembly of the Krai Krai for a period of 5 years. She was sent to serve her exile in Kolpashevo, Narym Territory, where she worked as a typist in the road department of the Narym Okrug Executive Committee. She was arrested a second time on August 14, 1937, charged with being a counterrevolutionary cadre-monarchist and Socialist-Revolutionary organization, and sentenced to capital punishment on August 31. She was shot in the Kolpashevo prison of the NKVD on September 16, 1937. She was rehabilitated on August 5, 1960.

Source: Museum archive; Archive of the Information Center of the Tomsk Region Department of Internal Affairs. Archival file No. 4108 of M.B. Shakhovskaya. Source: Book of Memory of the Tomsk Region.