Gassokh, Vera Samoilovna

Vera Gassokh was born between 1860 and 1864 ^[1] in the city of Odessa, Odessa county, Kherson province, in a Jewish middle class family, and she graduated from high school here .

Since 1877, she was a member of the Odessa revolutionary circle. In 1881 she joined the party "Narodnaya Volya", belonged to the city and station circles in Odessa.

In 1881 she moved to St. Petersburg , where she enrolled in female medical assistant courses at the St. George Community. Arrested in St. Petersburg on November 24, 1881 and transported to Odessa.

Attracted to inquiry by the gendarmerie administration of Odessa together with A.N. Shekhter , M.I. Drey , S.V. Mayer and others on charges of belonging to the terrorist community ( Strelnikovsky process of the 23rd in Odessa ). She was detained until March 15, 1882 , after which she was subordinated to special police supervision. According to the Highest Commandment of October 6, 1882, pre-trial detention was imposed as a punishment with submission to public supervision outside areas declared under enhanced security for two years.

In October 1882, she was expelled from Odessa to Yekaterinoslav . In December 1883, transferred to Alexandrovsk ( Yekaterinoslav province ). At the end of the period of public surveillance on October 6, 1884, she was subordinated to secret police supervision. In 1885 she continued to conduct revolutionary work in Yekaterinoslav, where she lived with her friend Anastasia Shekhter; visited the apartment of the people's activist M. M. Polyakov and met with B. D. Orzhikh . On February 28, 1886, she was arrested in Yekaterinoslav and brought to inquiry in the case of organizing the Taganrog secret printing house and on charges of harboring B. D. Orzhikh.

By the Highest Commandment of October 6, 1887, he was sent under eastern police surveillance for five years to Eastern Siberia. In mid-May 1888 she was sent from Butyrskaya prison to Siberia. The Kolyma District ( Yakutsk Region ) is the place of reference. At the end of 1888 she arrived in Yakutsk, where she worked as a medical assistant and soon married Mikhail Rafailovich Gots ^[2] .

March 22, 1889, along with comrades participated in armed resistance in Yakutsk ( Yakutsk tragedy ).
On July 7–13, 1889, the military-judicial commission in Yakutsk found guilty of armed resistance to the execution of orders of the authorities and was sentenced to deprivation of all rights of the state and to hard labor without time. Upon confirmation of the verdict by the commander of the troops of the Irkutsk Military District of July 20, 1889, indefinite hard labor was replaced by hard labor for 15 years.

From the beginning of 1890 she was held in Vilyui prison and was serving hard labor. In March 1892 she was sent from Vilyuysk to Yakutsk and on June 1, 1892 she was placed in Akatuya ( Trans-Baikal Region ). In the winter of 1893 - 1894 she was in the Carian Women's Prison . In 1894, transferred to Mountain Zerentui . In 1894 she entered the settlement, was settled in Kurgan ( Tobolsk province ) in the category of exiled to live. According to the manifest of 1896, the term of exile is reduced by a year.

Upon returning to European Russia, she emigrated to France . She lived in Paris . Joined the party of socialist revolutionaries . In 1909, she married the Shlisselburger of the People’s Volunteer Sergei Andreevich Ivanov . She was one of the founders and a member of the Paris Political Red Cross committee. During the First World War, she collaborated in the Society for Assisting Russian Volunteers. Member of the Bureau of the Committee for Assistance to Writers and Scholars in France (was a member of its revision committee), member of the board of the I. S. Turgenev Public Library .

January 7, 1938 she died in Paris ^[3] .

• Husbands - Mikhail Rafailovich Gots (1888-1906); Sergey Andreevich Ivanov (since 1909).
• Nephew - poet Semyon Abramovich Lutsky (1891-1977).
• Sister - Tatyana Samoilovna Gassokh (married and baptized Tatyana Vladimirovna Potapova, 1871-1932), was married to the Social Revolutionary and doctor A. I. Potapov (literary pseudonym - Rudin, 1869-1915); together with her husband, she was a member of the "Organizational Bureau" of the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries (1907).

• Gassokh Vera Samoilovna // Figures of the revolutionary movement in Russia : in 5 volumes / ed. F. Ya. Kona et al. - M .: All-Union Society of Political Prisoners and Exiled Settlers , 1927-1934.