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Michael Vasilyevich Yermakov. He was born in 1879 in the village of
Goryushka, Syzran uyezd, Simbirsk province, into a peasant family. He went
to the village school. From June, 1904 to 1917 he served as a policeman in
Kaluga, Protopopovo, Temkino. During the Civil War he retreated with the
Whites to Irkutsk, but returned in 1920. In 1920 he was in prison for two weeks
for “travelling without a ticket”, then until March, 1921 he worked in a
concentration camp in Syzran. Then he was a trader and a carpenter. He was
married to Anna, and had a son. On April 2, 1931 he was arrested in Syzran,
and cast into the GPU prison. One October 28 he was convicted of being “an
active member and in the ruling core of the counter-revolutionary churchmercantile-monarchist
organization, ‘The Trues’”, of “having close links with
the trading element in Syzran” and of “conducting conversations on the
speedy fall of Soviet power. “He was well acquainted with Nilus’ book, The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and on the basis of it conducted agitation”. In
accordance with articles 58-10 and 58-11 he was sentenced to three years in the
camps. Nothing more is known about him.
Andrew Andreyevich Lyabin. He was born in August, 1893 in the second
Saratovsky poselok, Sharlyksky region, Middle Volga region into a peasant
family. When the region was occupied by the Whites in 1918-19 he helped
them with animals, bread, etc. He lived in the village of Pletnevka, Sharlyksky
region, and had a wife, Stepanida, two sons and three daughters. On
November 3, 1930 he was arrested and accused of “participation in the
counter-revolutionary organization ‘the Trues [True Orthodox Christians?]’, of
having links with the kulaks and of breaking up a meeting on the sowing
campaign. He was sentenced to five years in the camps in accordance with
articles 58-10 and 58-11. Nothing more is known about him.
Basil Terentyevich Golovkin. He was born in 1883 in the village of
Vladimirovka, Ivanovsky region, and went to a church-parish school. He was
married to Tatyana Georgievna and lived in Samara. On January 1, 1931 he
was arrested in Pakurlevsky khutor, Petrovsky region, and was cast into
Samara Domzak. On January 1, 1931 he was arrested and cast into Samara
Domzak. On March 26, 1931 he was convicted of “being the organizer and one
of the leaders of the Samaran city cell of the counter-revolutionary
organization, ‘The Trues’, maintaining links with the centre”. In accordance
with articles 58-10, 58-11 and 59-7, he was sentenced to death. On March 31 at
22.20 he was shot.
Gregory Victorovich Petrov was born in January, 1883 in the village of
Ushakovka, Syzran uyezd, Simbirsk province into a peasant family. He went
to a village school. Until the revolution he worked as a stoker. In 1930 he was
working as a soap-maker. He had a wife, Natalya Petrovna (born 1878), three
sons and a daughter. On February 21, 1931 he was arrested in Syzran and cast
into the Domzak in Syzran. On October 28 he was convicted by the OGPU in
accordance with articles 58-10 and 58-11 of “being a participant in a counter-
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