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and on July 9 was sentenced to ten years in the camps. Nothing more is
known about him.
Abram Dmitrievich Galkin was born in 1882 in Chistopol into a peasant
family. Before the revolution he was a trader. He was disenfranchised. On
March 8, 1931 he was arrested for being “a member of a counterrevolutionary
monarchist organization”, and on July 9 was sentenced to ten
years in the camps. Nothing more is known about him.
Ivan Nikitich Kapitonov was born in 1895 in the village of Galactionovo,
Chistopol uyezd into a peasant family. He worked in the fields. On March 8,
1931 he was arrested for being “a member of a counter-revolutionary
monarchist organization”, and on July 9 was sentenced to five years in the
camps. Nothing more is known about him.
Michael Yefimovich Saparin was born in 1894 in the village of
Ostolopovo, Alexeyevsky uyezd into a peasant family. He owned a dressmaking
workshop, and was president of the church council. On March 8, 1931
he was arrested for being “a member of a counter-revolutionary monarchist
organization”, and on July 9 was sentenced to five years in the camps.
Nothing more is known about him.
Nicephorus Vasilyevich Fadeyev was born in 1881 in the village of
Ostolopovo, Alexeyevsky uyezd into a peasant family. He went to the village
school and was a church reader. A free peasant, in 1930 he was subjected to
arrest for refusing to fulfil bread deliveries. On March 7, 1931 he was arrested
for being “a member of a counter-revolutionary monarchist organization”,
and on July 9 was sentenced to five years in the camps. Nothing more is
known about him.
Ivan Ivanovich Dobryakov was born in 1876 in the village of Ostolopovo,
Alexeyevsky uyezd into a peasant family. He was a member of the church
council. In 1929 he was arrested and sentenced to six months’ hard labour. On
March 10, 1931 he was arrested for being “a member of a counterrevolutionary
monarchist organization”, and on July 9 was sentenced to
death. On July 10 he was shot.
Michael Trofimovich Merkulov was born in 1898 in the village of
Ostolopovo, Alexeyevsky uyezd into the family of a forestry industrialist.
From 1914 to 1920 he served in the tsarist, and then in the Red armies. Then
he served in the command unit of the Kazan Kremlin. From 1920 he worked
as a free peasant. On March 8, 1931 he was arrested for being “a member of a
counter-revolutionary monarchist organization”, and on July 9 was sentenced
to ten years in the camps. His family was exiled to the north. Nothing more is
known about him.
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