Garaseva Tatyana Mikhailovna

Born in 1901. Anarchist. Long-term political prisoner of the Soviet era. Sister of Anna Mikhailovna Garaseva , one of A.I. Solzhenitsyn's secret "secretaries" in Ryazan. In 1919, she graduated from high school in Ryazan. In 1919–1920, she worked in the Ryazan city library. In 1920–1921, she studied at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the 1st Moscow State University in Moscow. In 1921–1925, she studied at the feldsher-midwife school, after which she moved to Leningrad. First arrest — 22.05.1925, second arrest — 17.08.1925 on charges of "belonging to the anarcho-syndicalist underground and preparing an assassination attempt on G.E. Zinoviev." By the decree of the Special Security Committee of the OGPU of 26.03.1926, she was sentenced to 3 years in a political prison with subsequent exile and loss of rights. Due to contracting tuberculosis, she was released early from the Verkhneuralsk political prison by the decree of the Special Security Committee of the OGPU of 19.08.1927 and sent to Kazakhstan for exile.
Released early from exile in connection with the submitted application by the resolution of the OSO OGPU dated 26.06.1929. Since 1927 she has been married to N.S. Doskal (1897-1938). Her sister, political exile anarchist Anna Mikhailovna Garaseva, writes in her memoirs that Tatyana Garaseva suffered from a severe form of tuberculosis in exile in Chimkent, and doctors recommended an immediate change of climate. It was for this reason, according to A.M. Garaseva, that Nikolai Dostal and Tatyana Garaseva submitted an application to renounce their anarchist beliefs. Having received release at the price of publicly renouncing anarcho-syndicalist activity, she moved with her husband to Ryazan, then to the village of Tuma, and later to Moscow.
From 1929 to 1935, Tatyana Garaseva worked as an employee of the scientific hall of the All-Union Library named after V.I. Lenin in Moscow. Then she moved to her husband in the city of Maikop. She worked in the city library, where she led an English language club. She was arrested together with her husband by the NKVD on August 28, 1936 in Maikop on charges of Trotskyist and anti-Soviet agitation, and later - of espionage "in favor of England". On February 6, 1937, the Special Judicial Collegium of the Azov-Black Sea Regional Court sentenced her to imprisonment for 10 years. In the "Maikop case", considered on February 5-6, 1937 by the Special Judicial Collegium of the Azov-Black Sea Regional Court in the cities of Maikop and Armavir, N.S. Doskal and T.M. Garasyova were sentenced to 10 years each, I.P. Yakovenko to 7 years, A.M. Maiboroda, P.A. Shaprinsky, D.A. Verteletsky and A.I. Yelovenko to 5 years each, M.M. Danilchenko to 4 years and F.F. Martyanov to 3 years. She served her sentence in prisons in the cities of Temryuk, Kazan and Suzdal. N.S. Doskal's husband died in prison in 1938 (according to relatives, "he was beaten with sticks in prison"). From 1939 - Tatyana Garaseva, imprisoned in Kolyma in the village of Elgen. Released on July 28, 1946 with a 5-year disqualification. According to her sister, "in order to save money for a ticket to Ryazan, she had to work in Magadan as a civilian for another year." She returned to Ryazan in August 1947. For a long time, she could not find a job due to her conviction under political Article 58. She was arrested again by the NKVD on November 25, 1948, as having been previously convicted under Article 58 and for "belonging to a Trotskyist organization." By decision of the Special Security Service under the USSR MGB dated January 20, 1949, she was exiled to "permanent settlement" in Krasnoyarsk Krai. She was held in exile until October 1954. She was rehabilitated by the decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR on 18 March 1958. Together with her sister Anna and niece Irina, she was friends with the family of Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn in Ryazan. She helped her sister Anna Mikhailovna Garaseva hide fragments of A.I. Solzhenitsyn's manuscripts, including the chapter of "The Gulag Archipelago". (See the memoirs of A.M. Garaseva "I lived in the most inhuman country ..." : Memories of an anarchist / lit. entry, introduction, commentary, and index. A.L. Nikitin. - M.: Intergraf Service, 1997.). Until 1995, she lived in Ryazan, then moved to her brother's daughter in Moscow. She died around 1996.
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SEE a fragment of a video interview with Tatyana and Anna Garaseva, Ryazan, early 1990s: https://youtu.be/sX-dTcqOENQ