CHERNOVA-KOLBASINA O.E. (1886-1964) Recollections about Soviet prisons.
Lot 447
400
600
[Paris]:
edition of the Paris group
of assistance of the Party
of the Socialist Revolutionaries,
[1922]. - 34,
[2] p.; 21x14 cm. In a
typeface publishing cover.
Spine fixed with glue
(tape), split block, frayed edges of the pages. With
a stamp «The American Committee for Liberation
from Bolshevism» on the cover and title page,
owner’s stamp of V. M. Dutikov.
«The whole profit from the brochure’s sale will go
to support political prisoners in the Soviet prisons.»
Content: Tyranny and hunger. V.Ch.K. prison (Lubyanka
2). Yaroslavl prison. Internal prison of the
V.Ch.K (Lubyanka 2). Novinskaya prison.
Kolbasina-Chernova Olga Eliseyevna (1885-
1964), a writer, daughter of a historian of literature
Kolbasin E. Ya. Her second husband was Viktor
Mikhailovich Chernov (1873-1952), the founder of
the socialist-revolutionaries’ party. She spent more
than three years in the V.Ch.K prisons. In exile, she
lived in Berlin and Prague. In 1924, she moved to
Paris, where she sheltered the Efron-Tsvetaev family
in the first months of their staying in Paris, and
was the godmother of M. I. Tsvetaeva’s son, George
Efron.
Provenance: Vsevolod Mikhailovich Dutikov
(1929-2015) - archpriest, rector of the Holy Trinity
Church in Astoria (New York, USA).