"The handkerchief was embroidered in prison with the help of fish bones instead of needles, by threads of the shirts of imprisoned women," Yevgeny Isanchurin tells.Yevgeny Rustemovich - a grandson of a repressed Ahmet Rysmukhametovich Isanchurin, the 2nd secretary of the Bashkir Regional Committee of the All-Riussian Communist Party, a commissar of the republic education of the BASSR. His father, Rustem Akhmetovich Isanchurin, the author of the textbook on, as it could be called now, the "management" of the agricultural production, which the Soviet and then the Russian universities had used for a long time. The second secretary of Bashkir Regional Committee was shot in 1938, and his son died in 2016: he could not stand the second heart attack. The Isanchurins family lived a hard but amazing life. This story can be told by the old yellowed handkerchief.
1937.
The last remembrance of her husband is the holding away "black voronok"– a black car to take the blamed. It looked as a melting cloud of dust, shimmering in the morning rays.
Ahmet Isanchurin, the second secretary of the Regional Committee of the Bashkir Soviet Socialist Republic, was sentenced to shooting and waited for the execution of the order, his wife Lutfiya was sentenced to katorga, her son and daughter were sent to an orphanage.
Lutfiya was put in a cell with the rest of the wives of the "first persons". One of them somehow learned the address of her children's orphanage. On the "bath day" on the corner of the house she left a note with the address.
The last remembrance of her husband is the holding away "black voronok"– a black car to take the blamed. It looked as a melting cloud of dust, shimmering in the morning rays.
Ahmet Isanchurin, the second secretary of the Regional Committee of the Bashkir Soviet Socialist Republic, was sentenced to shooting and waited for the execution of the order, his wife Lutfiya was sentenced to katorga, her son and daughter were sent to an orphanage.
Lutfiya was put in a cell with the rest of the wives of the "first persons". One of them somehow learned the address of her children's orphanage. On the "bath day" on the corner of the house she left a note with the address.
1937.
The last remembrance of her husband is the holding away "black voronok"– a black car to take the blamed. It looked as a melting cloud of dust, shimmering in the morning rays.
Ahmet Isanchurin, the second secretary of the Regional Committee of the Bashkir Soviet Socialist Republic, was sentenced to shooting and waited for the execution of the order, his wife Lutfiya was sentenced to katorga, her son and daughter were sent to an orphanage.
The last remembrance of her husband is the holding away "black voronok"– a black car to take the blamed. It looked as a melting cloud of dust, shimmering in the morning rays.
Ahmet Isanchurin, the second secretary of the Regional Committee of the Bashkir Soviet Socialist Republic, was sentenced to shooting and waited for the execution of the order, his wife Lutfiya was sentenced to katorga, her son and daughter were sent to an orphanage.
Lutfiya was put in a cell with the rest of the wives of the "first persons". One of them somehow learned the address of her children's orphanage. On the "bath day" on the corner of the house she left a note with the address.
At night Lutfiya wrote a letter to her children. She planned to throw it out the train window on her way to Kazakhstan, where she was to be sent along with the rest of the prisoners. Waiting for the day of departure, she began to embroider a handkerchief - the only thing left from her husband and from her past life.
Lutfiya, a teacher of theRussian language and literature, embroidered a picture from the engravings on Alexander Pushkin's poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila".
The long-awaited day came. Lutfiya threw the letter out of the train window. She could only hope for a miracle. After some time, the letters began to arrive. Thew were from her children, her son Rustem and her daughter Grenada.
They corresponded for more than ten years. Grenada and Rustem finished school and entered a university. Later Rustem transferred his mother to Moscow. He successfully defended his thesis. Evgeny Rustemovich, one of Rustem's three children, collects and studies all the documents concerning his grandfather. His hobby is collection.
Evgeny Rustemovich and his father made a significant contribution to the numismatics, in particular to the study of Sindan coins.
Of course, the greatest value in the entire collection of Evgeny is the handkerchief embroidered in prison, and the first letters of Rustem and Grenada, and the great history that they carefully ptotect.
