A squared notebook: “Our genealogy: the Samsonovs.”
Written by Tatyana Timofeevna — in the first person.

From the handwritten notebook “Our genealogy: the Samsonovs.”

The text is prepared from family scans. Unclear places are marked in square brackets; the reading is refined over time.

How to read: start with “My mother” . On a phone open “Notebook chapters” in a chapter; on a computer use the list on the left. The site remembers your last chapter on the home page .

Introduction

Chapters

  1. Cover and genealogy charts — title and Samsonov and Krivoshein charts
  2. My mother — Eva Konstantinovna: childhood, school, work, meeting Father
  3. Father, marriage, and children — Metropol, Lelya, births, home, mother’s Party work
  4. Childhood in Moscow — home, walks, daily life, cats, trips
  5. War, 1941 — 16 October, evacuation; mother’s later years (pp. 15–24)
  6. Father, the Cheka, and verse — service, T.S. verse, bust, favorite photo of Papa
  7. Documents and congresses — delegate lists, certificates, newspaper clippings
  8. Dacha, rest, anniversaries — Serebryany Bor, flowers, verse for Tanya and Sasha
  9. Father’s character — principles, gifts, garden, students, 1951
  10. Documents in the notebook — portraits, Dzerzhinsky certificate, awards
  11. Timofey Petrovich’s story continued; sister Genya — Father; beginning of sister Genya
  12. Sister Genya and brother Tyoma — Genya’s fate; brother Tyoma
  13. Uncle Tyoma: documents and Stalingrad — exam photo, front letters, Stalingrad medal
  14. Tanya: childhood and school — birth, yard, school, friends
  15. School and war — 1941, Kuibyshev, return, classmates
  16. Wartime comrades’ letters — Friolenko, Gennady, New Year postcard
  17. Youth and meeting Sasha — sixteenth birthday, love for life
  18. Crimea, Sevastopol and the beginning of the family — Crimea, marriage, Mitya
  19. Study, work, and class reunions — diploma, arrest of 1949, teaching
  20. Family and children — Sasha’s return, sons, later years

Documents and photos

See also: Places on the map · Timofey P. Samsonov · Eva Konstantinovna · D. A. Krivoshein