[{"content":" Pravda clipping, 20 June 1929.\nBibliographic note Paper: Pravda Date (album margin): 20 June 1929 Title: “On Dzerzhinsky” Closing signature: SAMSONOV The piece reads as a personal-public recollection by someone who worked with Dzerzhinsky — and the family filed it as the father’s text.\nA full transcription can be a later task.\n→ Biography\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/documents/pravda-on-dzerzhinsky-1929/","summary":"A public text the family keeps as the father’s article.","title":"*Pravda*, 20 June 1929 — “On Dzerzhinsky”"},{"content":"The heart of the archive This site is dedicated to Tatyana Timofeevna Krivosheina — her life, character, path, and the memory she left for her family.\nShe lived to 95. In the last year of her life she was still at home among her own things — hair neatly done, in a familiar room.\nTatyana Timofeevna at home, 15 April 2019. Last year of her life. On the desk: a magnifying glass, notebooks and books — in later years she kept a clear mind and enjoyed crosswords. (Bandaged legs after treatment; they do not define the portrait.)\nFamily Father — Timofey Petrovich Samsonov (1888–1955).\nMother — Eva Konstantinovna (1900–1981).\nBorn, according to her notebook, in April 1924.\nShe left a manuscript notebook — the diary / genealogy — in the first person.\nWork T. T. Krivosheina — senior lecturer, Institute of Steel and Alloys. Family archive.\nLater years The family remembers: into deep old age she kept a clear mind, loved crosswords, and stayed engaged.\nThe 2019 photograph is a living home portrait — not hospital documentation.\nHow the archive works Here we collect:\nher recollections and retellings; relatives’ stories; parents and historical context; photographs and documents. Where possible each piece notes when, where, source, and links to people and time.\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/memoirs/about-tatyana-timofeevna/","summary":"Tatyana Timofeevna Krivosheina: family, work, a clear mind into old age — she lived to 95.","title":"About Tatyana Timofeevna"},{"content":" Cover: “Our genealogy: the Samsonovs.”\nWhat it is A family notebook kept by Tatyana Timofeevna Krivosheina.\nShe writes in the first person: “my mother,” “my father,” “we were taken for walks.”\nInside:\nGenealogical charts with pasted photographs. Continuous narrative — her mother’s life, childhood, Moscow, wartime inserts. How we publish Scans were deskewed / rotated (many pages were upside-down). The site gets carefully read chapters, not invention. Unclear handwriting is marked or held for later. Selected pages appear as document photos. Chapters so far My mother Childhood in Moscow Genealogy (summary) ","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/memoirs/diary/about-the-notebook/","summary":"79 pages of first-person family chronicle.","title":"About the notebook"},{"content":"From Tatyana Timofeevna’s manuscript.\nPage about the Vozdvizhenka home and winter evenings.\nHome First on Maly Vlasievsky Lane (Arbat), then on Vozdvizhenka.\nLater the building was called the 4th House of Soviets (also home to M. I. Kalinin’s reception office).\nFlat on the 4th floor, windows onto Vozdvizhenka. Five rooms: nursery, grandmother’s room, bedroom, study, dining room; a large kitchen with a tiled wood stove — no gas.\nWalks Walks in the Alexandrovsky Garden.\nSometimes father took them into the Kremlin — “he had access.”\nWinter evenings after work mother pulled the children on sleds in the lane behind the Pushkin Museum — they called it the “little dead end.” No car; “we were all so happy together.”\nTea Home for tea. Mother: “Call the children for tea.”\nI ran down the corridor: “Children, tea!”\nPiano Mother wanted the girls to learn music and bought a piano on installment.\nAt father’s workplace they organized a club…\nMy mother · About the notebook\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/memoirs/diary/childhood-in-moscow/","summary":"4th House of Soviets, five rooms, sleds behind the Pushkin Museum, “Children, tea!”","title":"Childhood in Moscow"},{"content":" Certificate of 16 January 1919.\nText (from the photo) On 16 January 1919, comrade T. P. Samsonov is certified to have received for wear the personal Colt revolver No. 75350 of the chairman of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission.\nSigned: Cheka chairman F. Dzerzhinsky.\nWhy it matters A named paper tying Timofey Petrovich to Dzerzhinsky at a personal level — alongside the group photo “Dzerzhinsky — Belenky — papa.”\n→ Biography\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/documents/colt-certificate-1919/","summary":"A personal link between Samsonov and Dzerzhinsky — key Cheka-era paper.","title":"Colt revolver certificate, 16 Jan 1919"},{"content":"Samsonova (née Morozova) Eva / Evdokia Konstantinovna (1900–1981) is the mother of Tatyana Timofeevna.\nMain facts come from her daughter’s first-person notebook (“Our genealogy: the Samsonovs”).\n→ Full narrative: My mother\nIn brief:\nb. 14 Mar 1900, Moscow; father K. M. Morozov (Griboevo, Klin district); mother V. O. Solovyova; typist: Centropechat → Cheka secret department; wife of T. P. Samsonov; buried at Novodevichy. “My mother” — page from Tatyana Timofeevna’s notebook.\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/parents/eva-konstantinovna/","summary":"1900–1981. Moscow, Cheka typist, wife of T. P. Samsonov. From her daughter’s notebook.","title":"Eva Konstantinovna Samsonova"},{"content":" Expulsion Order. Family archive.\nDocument summary Field On the form Court Liverpool Police Court, 7 April 1917 Order Whitehall, 28 September 1917 Name Tomofi Sainsanov, or Samsonov Also Michael Nemchinoff Deadline Leave the UK within 28 days Signed Geo. Cave Stamp Aliens Officer, Newcastle, 6 Oct 1917 Marks a foreign chapter in Timofey Petrovich’s life in the year of the Russian Revolution.\nName spellings need cross-checking with other papers.\n→ Biography\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/documents/expulsion-uk-1917/","summary":"Liverpool, April 1917; Whitehall, 28 September 1917. Family archive.","title":"Expulsion from the United Kingdom, 1917"},{"content":"Father — Timofey Petrovich Samsonov (1888–1955) Full biography with photos and timeline:\n→ Timofey Petrovich Samsonov\n→ Captioned photo album\n→ Documents\nIn short: a revolutionary-era life (Siberia 1910, Britain 1917, Cheka and Dzerzhinsky, Order of the Red Banner, Pravda 1929, Bashkir ASSR) — and still “papa” in his daughter’s album notes and verses.\n“F. E. Dzerzhinsky, Belenky, Papa” — papa on the right.\nMother — Eva Konstantinovna Eva (Evdokia) Konstantinovna Samsonova (née Morozova) (1900–1981).\nFrom her daughter’s diary: Moscow, 2nd Brestskaya, Cheka typist, meeting T. P. Samsonov.\n→ My mother\nDaughter in the same set T. T. Krivosheina, senior lecturer, Institute of Steel and Alloys.\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/parents/father-and-mother/","summary":"Father — full album biography; mother Eva Konstantinovna — materials still being gathered.","title":"Father and mother"},{"content":" Samsonov family chart page.\nFrom the notebook charts. Unclear figures will be checked against documents.\nParents’ generation Father Timofey Petrovich Samsonov (1888–1955). Born Bessarabia, village Mikhailyany. Died 28 Oct 1955. Novodevichy. Mother Eva / Evdokia Konstantinovna Samsonova (née Morozova) (1900–1981). Born 14 Mar 1900, Moscow. Novodevichy. Their children Son Timofey Timofeevich Samsonov, b. Moscow, 1923 Daughter Tatyana Timofeevna Samsonova (Krivosheina), b. April 1924 (notebook: 2/IV or 21/IV — to confirm) Daughter Evgeniya Timofeevna Samsonova, b. 1941 Mother’s parents Konstantin Mikhailovich Morozov Vera Osipovna Solovyova (d. 1942) Krivoshein line Separate charts cover the Krivosheins (Tatyana Timofeevna’s husband’s family). Fine print to be fully transcribed later.\nCover: “Our genealogy: the Samsonovs.”\nMy mother · Father\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/memoirs/diary/genealogy/","summary":"Names and dates in her own charts.","title":"Genealogy (from the notebook)"},{"content":" GPU collegium form.\nContents Slogan: “Workers of all countries, unite!” Text that the honorary title of Chekist demands vigilance, resolve, and courage. Address: Comrade Timofey Petrovich Samsonov Grounds (per form): outstanding struggle against counter-revolution Breast badge; office seal; GPU chairman signature Exact dates and badge number — confirm on a sharper original.\n→ Biography\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/documents/gpu-badge-samsonov/","summary":"Honorific Chekist wording and a named commendation.","title":"GPU badge form — T. P. Samsonov"},{"content":"Why a History section Memoirs and family stories sit next to historical facts: dates, places, and events of the country and region. This section helps us:\nclarify chronology; understand the world in which personal stories unfolded; separate family tradition from verifiable information; connect the lives of Tatyana Timofeevna and her parents to their era. How materials will be written Fact — short and clear. Date / period — as far as known. Source — document, reference work, family account, or “needs verification”. Family link — why it matters for the archive. Topic stubs places where the family lived; key years and events; daily life and customs of the time; family chronology (as details become clear). ","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/history/how-we-collect-history/","summary":"About the historical facts section of the family archive.","title":"How we collect historical context"},{"content":"From Tatyana Timofeevna’s manuscript. Her voice; minor uncertainties in brackets.\n“My mother” — photo and label: Samsonova (Morozova) Eva Konstantinovna.\nStart of the mother’s story in the notebook.\nWho she was My mother — Samsonova Evdokia (Eva — as her father and husband called her), née Morozova, Konstantinovna.\nShe was born on 14 March (1 March Old Style) 1900 in Moscow.\nYears in the notebook chart: 1900–1981; buried at Novodevichy.\nHer parents Father — Konstantin Mikhailovich Morozov, from the village of Griboevo, Klin district, Moscow province. A worker: electrician, plumber, caretaker of a general’s house.\nThey lived in two rooms on the ground floor on 2nd Brestskaya Street, near the Belorussky railway station. The five-storey house, she writes, still stands.\nMother — Vera Osipovna Solovyova. Brought to Moscow at thirteen as a nanny in a German family; trained in neatness and order.\nSchool and 1917–1918 Strict school routine: cold-water washing, inspection, prayer, breakfast, park walks.\n1917. Finished school; pinned a red bow to her coat.\nAs a child she dreamed of becoming a typist — watched the pharmacy window where prescriptions were typed. Took typing courses.\n1918. Her father died of the Spanish flu after a trip for food. Buried at the Strastnoy Monastery cemetery — “where the Rossiya cinema stands now.” The grandmother did not work. Moscow was hungry and cold.\nWork: Centropechat → Cheka First Centropechat, then the Cheka as a typist in the secret department.\nHard years: little bread; cutlets from potato peels; cold winters, no trams. Mother ran to work from Belorussky station to the Lubyanka; sometimes hauled frozen potatoes home on a sled.\nPage on hunger, the Lubyanka, and meeting father.\nMeeting father At the Cheka she met her fate — Timofey Petrovich Samsonov, head of the secret department.\nThey married soon. Father was older.\nOld Moscow (as mother told it) Horse tram on the Garden Ring; the conductor’s cry at Triumphal Gates.\n“At 6 p.m. Moscow is quieter than water, lower than grass.”\nSamovar, kerosene lamp, grandfather reading Moskovskie Novosti aloud.\n16 October 1941 Insert: mother’s memory of the Moscow panic, 16 October 1941.\nA pasted insert recalls the panic of 16 October 1941: crowds eastward, looting, political books thrown from windows; party staff collected for evacuation; Three Stations square packed with people. “If the Germans had bombed the square it would have been a bloodbath. Thank God it did not happen.”\nSee also: Childhood in Moscow · Father\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/memoirs/diary/my-mother/","summary":"Eva Konstantinovna: Moscow 1900, school, Centropechat, Cheka, meeting father.","title":"My mother"},{"content":" Order of the Red Banner diploma. Family archive.\nWhat it is A diploma of the Russian SFSR All-Russian Central Executive Committee awarding citizen Timofey Petrovich Samsonov the badge of the Order of the Red Banner, in the revolutionary-era formula of service to the socialist homeland (full wording on the blank).\nSignatures Chairman of VTsIK: M. Kalinin Year on the form partly cut off: “19__” — check against original Family context A central honor document for Tatyana Timofeevna’s father.\nBiography: T. P. Samsonov.\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/documents/order-of-the-red-banner-samsonov/","summary":"VTsIK document signed by M. Kalinin. Family archive photo.","title":"Order of the Red Banner — T. P. Samsonov"},{"content":"Full biography: Timofey Petrovich Samsonov.\nNear-duplicate frames from Google Photos were merged; files live in static/photos/samsonov-tp/.\n1. Portraits File: 01-cabinet-desk.jpg. At a writing desk, pen in hand — mid-life cabinet portrait.\nFile: 02-young-cap.jpg. Early years: cap, dark tunic, chest badge.\nFile: 03-late-years.jpg. Later life, three-quarter view.\nFile: 04-official-bashkir.jpg. Official suit portrait; Bashkir ASSR Supreme Soviet Presidium stamp.\nFile: 05-studio-moscow-oval.jpg. Oval studio print, Moscow. Notes: “my dad,” full name.\n2. Memory File: 07-bust-1888-1955.jpg. Bust 1888–1955; daughter’s verses in the notebook below.\n3. Historical circle File: 06-dzerzhinsky-and-wife.jpg. Dzerzhinsky with his wife (labels on print). Not Tatyana’s parents.\nFile: 08-dzerzhinsky-belenky-papa.jpg. “F. E. Dzerzhinsky, Belenky, Papa” — papa on the right.\nFile: 09-alexandrovsky-central-1910.jpg. Alexandrovsky Central, Siberia — “Father imprisoned here, summer 1910.”\n4. Document photographs File: 10-order-red-banner.jpg. Order of the Red Banner diploma. → document page.\nFile: 11-expulsion-uk-1917.jpg. British Expulsion Order, 1917. → document page.\nFile: 13-colt-from-dzerzhinsky-1919.jpg. Colt certificate, 16 Jan 1919. → document page.\nFile: 14-gpu-badge.jpg. GPU badge form. → document page.\nFile: 15-pravda-dzerzhinsky-1929.jpg. Pravda, 20 Jun 1929. → document page.\n5. Daughter File: 12-krivoshina-tt-lecturer.jpg. Senior lecturer T. T. Krivosheina, Institute of Steel and Alloys.\nSource album: Google Photos. Working scans: inbox/scans/photos/parents-samsonovy/.\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/photos/samsonov-timofey-petrovich/","summary":"15 key frames with descriptions: portraits, Dzerzhinsky, Siberia, documents, daughter.","title":"Photo album: T. P. Samsonov"},{"content":"This page bridges the family archive and broader history.\nFacts below start from the biography and documents; academic cross-checks are the next layer.\nCheckpoints 1910, Siberia — Alexandrovsky Central: pre-revolutionary political imprisonment. 1917, Britain — expulsion of an alien in the year of the Russian Revolution. 1919, Cheka — a named link to F. E. Dzerzhinsky. Order of the Red Banner — early Soviet state decoration. GPU — continued security-service career. 1929, Pravda — a public text on Dzerzhinsky. Bashkir ASSR — official stamp on a portrait (role and years TBD). 1888–1955 — life span on the bust plaque. Next research Open lists of decorations and Cheka/GPU personnel. The Nemchinoff alias and the 1917 route. Bust location and Bashkir context. Full transcription of the Pravda article. Family tone does not replace source criticism — both layers matter.\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/history/samsonov-and-his-era/","summary":"Siberia, 1917 abroad, the Cheka, decorations, Pravda — checkpoints for wider historical comparison.","title":"T. P. Samsonov and his era"},{"content":"Timofey Petrovich Samsonov (1888–1955) is the father of Tatyana Timofeevna Krivosheina.\nThis page is built from a family album of photographs and documents (margin notes, certificates, a newspaper clipping).\nUncertain or incomplete readings are marked as such.\nYoung Timofey Petrovich. Studio Kapustinsky / Sheremetev, Moscow. Daughter’s note: “my dad,” “Samsonov Timofey Petrovich.”\nTimeline (from the archive) Period What the family papers show 1888 Year of birth (bust plaque) summer 1910 Imprisonment: Alexandrovsky Central, Siberia Apr–Sep 1917 Britain: Liverpool court; Expulsion Order (Whitehall, 28 Sep 1917) 16 Jan 1919 Certificate from Cheka chairman F. E. Dzerzhinsky (personal Colt revolver) post-1917 / 1920s Order of the Red Banner (VTsIK, M. Kalinin); security service work; photo with Dzerzhinsky 20 Jun 1929 Pravda article “On Dzerzhinsky,” signed SAMSONOV service / later life Official portrait with Bashkir ASSR Supreme Soviet Presidium stamp 1955 Year of death (bust plaque) Portraits Youth Early portrait: dark cap, tunic, badge. Family album.\nMaturity At a writing desk: jacket, pen, papers. Mid-life cabinet portrait.\nOfficial suit portrait; stamp of the Bashkir ASSR Supreme Soviet Presidium on the sheet.\nLater years and memory Late portrait: bald, dark coat or jacket, three-quarter view.\nBust: “Timofey Petrovich Samsonov, 1888–1955.” Below — his daughter’s handwritten verses about papa.\nPartial reading of the verses (to be completed from a sharper scan):\nVerses about papa, written…\nDo you remember, papa, a quiet evening…\n…stars and the moon…\n…we sat together…\n1910. Alexandrovsky Central Alexandrovsky Central (Siberia). Album note: “Father was imprisoned here in the summer of 1910.”\n1917. Britain and expulsion Expulsion Order (Aliens Act 1905). Liverpool Police Court — 7 April 1917; Whitehall — 28 September 1917. Name forms: Tomofi Sainsanov / Samsonov; also Michael Nemchinoff.\n1919 and Dzerzhinsky 16 January 1919: Cheka chairman F. E. Dzerzhinsky presents comrade T. P. Samsonov with his personal Colt revolver No. 75350.\nThree men in winter coats. Family note: “F. E. Dzerzhinsky, Belenky, Papa” (papa on the right).\nSame album: F. E. Dzerzhinsky with his wife on a bench (labels on the print). Not Tatyana’s parents — a historical image from her father’s circle/collection.\nDecorations and service papers Order of the Red Banner diploma (VTsIK) for Timofey Petrovich Samsonov. Signed by M. Kalinin.\nGPU collegium form: badge for Timofey Petrovich Samsonov for struggle against counter-revolution (per document text).\n1929. Pravda Pravda, 20 June 1929. Article “On Dzerzhinsky,” signed SAMSONOV — kept in the family as the father’s text.\nDaughter — the next generation T. T. Krivosheina — senior lecturer, Institute of Steel and Alloys. From the same family set.\nThe patronymic Timofeevna ties her life to his. Her teaching career is a separate chapter of the archive; this portrait already records her professional standing.\nHow to read this biography These are family materials: document photos, margin notes by his daughter, and commemorative images.\nThey show a man of heavy historical weight — and a father remembered as papa in an album of verse and portraits.\nNext: Bashkir service and bust location; full poem text; mother Eva Konstantinovna; cross-checks of the British order and name variants.\nSee also: Father and mother · Photo album · Documents.\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/parents/timofey-petrovich-samsonov/","summary":"1888–1955. Revolution, Siberia, Britain, the Cheka, decorations, Bashkiria — as preserved in the family album.","title":"Timofey Petrovich Samsonov"},{"content":" Tatyana Timofeevna Krivosheina. At home, 15 April 2019. Last year of her life; she lived to 95.\nCaption Who Tatyana Timofeevna Krivosheina When 15 April 2019 Where Home (room with bookcase and writing desk) Context Last year of life; lived to 95 Details Hair neatly done; desk with magnifying glass, books, a framed portrait; legs in medical bandages The family notes that in later years she kept a clear mind and enjoyed crosswords.\nSee About Tatyana Timofeevna.\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/photos/tatyana-timofeevna-2019/","summary":"15 April 2019 — at home, last year of her life.","title":"Tatyana Timofeevna at home, 2019"},{"content":"What this site is about Word of a Living Fate is a family archive dedicated to the life of Tatyana Timofeevna Krivosheina, the story of her parents, family memory, photographs, documents, and the historical context of her time.\nThe site exists so living stories are preserved and can be passed on.\nWhat you will find Section Contents Memoirs Memoirs and stories about Tatyana Timofeevna’s life Parents Her father and mother, family roots History Historical facts, dates, events, and period context Photos Family photo archive Documents Letters, certificates, official papers, and other sources Languages Materials are published in Russian and English. Use the language switcher in the site header.\nSearch Full-text search across published materials: Search.\nRights All materials are intended to preserve family memory.\n© The Krivoshein Family. All rights reserved.\n","permalink":"https://xn--f1avb.xn--p1ai/en/about/","summary":"About the family archive of Tatyana Timofeevna Krivosheina","title":"About"}]