Documents and congresses

Text from Tatyana Timofeevna’s handwritten notebook “Our genealogy: the Samsonovs”. First person. [?] — illegible places. Page numbers (p. N) are given in the comments.

Manuscript, squared notebook; the page continues the account of the family / dacha.

to the right, next to Mama — brother, to the left of
Papa sat I, and next to me — sister.

The parents worked a great deal, especially
Papa. At five in the evening Papa came
home, rested an hour or so, and then again
work. He would come then when we were already
asleep.

And then there was the dacha. We lived in
Serebryany Bor from 1927. They brought me
there in the nanny’s pram. Mama says that
at that time there were many crows there;
they woke me if the pram was put out
in the garden. The dacha was on the 1st ride
(line), house No. 2, not far from the circle where
bus No. 4 stopped. Then it became
a school. The school was still of pre-revolutionary
times, large, single-storey, built
of age-old pines. In summer a camp
was in the school.

Our dacha too was not new, but
good, of logs, two-storeyed.
Our family occupied the first floor.
There was a large balcony where we dined.
There stood a huge sofa (of deal boards),
and also a small (children’s) billiard table,
on which Papa loved to play; he
played billiards very well.
From the balcony one could go into
the parents’ room, and from it — into
a large but rather dark one. Here slept
brother. And from his room there was a door
into our room with sister. And also from
this room there was a door that
led into a small corridor and Grandmother’s
room. And there was also a small
cabin for a domestic worker. In the dacha there were
2 entrances: one — the front, onto the balcony, and
the other — the back.

On the second floor (the premises there
were smaller) Papa’s comrades with their families
always crowded. For a time the
Lavrukhins[?] crowded there, then the Pavlunovskys, who
had as nanny the cook Venka, then someone
else. One summer the family of
Papa’s driver Novikov crowded with us.

(in the left margin, opposite the paragraph about the second-floor tenants:) the Lilyakins[?]

We had a large plot, but it was
not all cultivated.

The flower bed and kitchen garden — Papa’s pride,
the work of his hands.
He laid out a large flower bed where grew
various flowers: mignonette, daisies,
carnations, marigolds, snapdragons, spitsy[?],
fragrant tobacco, sweet peas,

The sentence breaks off at the end of the page; the rest of the flower-bed list was not recovered.

Handwritten extracts (blue ink) on blank / yellowed paper — on T. P. Samsonov’s participation in congresses and conferences of the VKP(b).

16th Congress of the VKP(b), 1930.  VKP(b)
Samsonov T. P., head of a department of the CC, 1919 — delegate
with consultative vote. No. 685.

16th Conference of the VKP(b), 1929. No. 519.

17th Congress of the VKP(b), 1934
Samsonov T. P., head of a department of the CC of the VKP(b), 1919 — delegate
with consult. vote, No. 570.

17th Conf. of the VKP(b), 1932
Samsonov T. P.
No. 398.

(below — empty field of the paper)

Printed page of a book/stenogram; heading and table.

LIST OF DELEGATES WITH CONSULTATIVE VOTE  777

Note: fine print; some endings and dates worn; marked [?] — doubtful readings. Samsonov T. P. does not appear on this page (Nos. 600–665; by the extract on p. 042 his No. 685 is further down the list).

Printed page; handwritten note in ink at the top.

(manuscript at the top:) Father’s participation in the work of the congress

LIST OF DELEGATES TO THE 15TH CONGRESS OF THE VKP(b)  1411

(bottom right:) 89*

Note: Samsonov T. P. does not appear on this page (Nos. 502–553); continued on p. 045.

Printed continuation of the list of delegates to the 15th Congress (appendix).

1412  APPENDICES

(line 601 Samsonov T. P. — underlined / highlighted on the scan)

Printed page; handwritten note at the top.

(manuscript at the top:) Father’s participation in the work of the 17th Congress

LIST OF DELEGATES WITH CONSULTATIVE VOTE  711

(to the left of line 570 Samsonov T. P. — mark “V” / check; matches No. 570 on p. 042)

Note: lines 568–570: on the scan two Samsonov I. Ya. and Samsonov T. P.; possible column slips in dates for neighboring lines — check against the original.

Printed continuation of the list (Appendix III).

712  APPENDIX III

Note: fine print; some surnames/abbreviations doubtful ([?]). By the extract on p. 042 No. 685 at the 16th Congress is Samsonov; here in another list under No. 685 is Tskhakaya M. G.

← Father, the Cheka, and verses · Notebook contents · Dacha, rest, anniversaries →