Glasson Vasily Alexandrovich

The memoirs cover the period from the early 1900s to 1938. The author was born in 1905 in Nizhny Novgorod. Parents - a student of the Institute of Railway Engineers and a student of the Bestuzhev courses, expelled from St. Petersburg for participating in student demonstrations of 1904-1905.
Childhood memories. Studying at a commercial Kazan school. revolutionary events. Attending rallies and meetings with parents. Participation of boys, including the author, in campaigning during the preparation of elections to the Constituent Assembly. School reform in 1918 (co-education of boys and girls). School life. The appearance of the Czechs in Kazan in the summer of 1918, the hasty retreat of the Reds, the return of the Reds and the departure of the Czechs.
A search in the absence of his father, who was not in Kazan at that time. Arrest warrant for parents as former Social Democrats, Plekhanovites. Escorting a mother and five children to the Cheka. Release on the same day. Work in the survey party on the Volga workers. In the summer of 1919, one younger brother died of dysentery and, a little later, of meningitis, of another.
Moving to Spassk. The organization of a scout detachment in the school, in which the author took an active part. Scout Anthem text. Scout troop training. Commandments and Laws of the Scouts. Moving to the county, located 50 km from Spassk, where the mother received a teacher's position in the Novy Mir commune school. School life, organizing a Boy Scout troop. The main guide is Seton-Thompson's book "Two Little Savages". Games, boy scout competitions. Their assistance in the restoration of the dam. Moving to Nizhny Novgorod. Classes in the scout patrol. The emergence of pioneer groups. Their difference from scouts.
Father's death from throat cancer. Work after leaving school in a survey party on the Kama. Admission together with fellow scouts to the University of Nizhny Novgorod. Studying at the university and playing sports at the same time. Combining studies with work in the survey party.
Further, the story of life is conducted from the 3rd person.
April 27, 1926 search and arrest. Arrests of boys and girls from sections of the Sokol sports society, religious and other non-state youth organizations, including eleven former scouts. Withdrawal of literature on Scout topics.
Release after May 2. Re-arrest. Description of the internal prison of the GPU. Interrogations. Demands to testify against the person who gave the author the poem "Sleep, Free Russia". The text of the poem. Refusal of the author to extradite a comrade. Hunger strike. Encrypted note to relatives about the hunger strike. With the help of Moscow friends of the parents, the way out. A year later, re-arrest. Moscow, Lubyanka. Description of the camera. Interrogation about participation in the Scout organization. Transfer to Butyrka prison. Life in prison. Mother's offer during the visit to try to get free. The author's condition is the release of all his scout friends. Resolution on the exile of the author for 3 years to the Urals. Detention wagon. Sverdlovsk prison. Another stage to the village of Tobary near Turin. Unofficial marriage with Vera Shulgina, also an exile. Life in exile. Birth of a daughter. Description of the life of the dispossessed. Chaldons and "self-propelled". Transfer to Turinsk. Work as a technician of Gorkomkhoz. End of link. Moving to Vladimir. Work as one of the construction managers. Foreman at the state farm of Dneprostroy. Family breakdown. Moving to Moscow. Work and study at the Correspondence Industrial Institute. Work in "Spartacus". Marriage. Designing a track for the 1936 sports parade. Transfer to Moststroykanalizatsiya due to unwillingness to participate in dishonest processing of Spartak's expenses. Transfer to Torfozavodstroy.
The end of memories is a warning about the drastic changes in life that will come at the beginning of 1938. (Description of further events in the continuation of the memoirs).
The memoirs are accompanied by information about the author's ancestors, a brief biography of his father and mother.

The annotation was compiled by Zhidkova T.G.

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