About the notebook
First portion (~79 pp.) of a first-person family chronicle — transcription by chapter.
Diary
Cover and family charts
Notebook title page and genealogical charts of the Samsonovs and Krivosheins.
My mother
Eva Konstantinovna: childhood, school, work, meeting father.
Father, marriage and children
The Metropol, Lelya, the children’s births, the home, Mama’s Party work.
Childhood in Moscow
Home, walks, episodes with the children, everyday life, cats, journeys.
War, 1941
War 1941; then Eva Konstantinovna’s later years and death (manuscript, pp. 15–24).
Father, the Cheka, and verses
Memories of work in the organs, T.S. verses, the bust, and a favorite photo of Papa.
Documents and congresses
Inserts: lists of delegates, certificates, newspaper clippings.
Dacha, rest, anniversaries
Serebryany Bor, flowers, verses for Tanya and Sasha’s anniversary.
Father’s character
Stories of principle, gifts, the garden, students, the year 1951.
Documents in the notebook
Portraits, Dzerzhinsky’s certificate, citations, the Alexandrovsk central.
Timofey Petrovich’s story continued; sister Genya (pp. 080–089)
Pp. 080–089 — Timofey Petrovich; beginning of sister Genya.