Yevgenia Ginzburg (December 20, 1906 - May 25, 1977) (Russian language: Евгения Семёновна Гинзбург) was a Russian historian and writer. Events 69 - Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 1085 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo Spain back from the Moors. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Her latinized name Eugenia is frequently used in the West. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. The term Western world, the West or the Occident ( Latin: occidens -sunset -west as distinct from the Orient) can have multiple meanings
Soon after Yevgenia Ginzburg was born into the family of a Jewish pharmacist in Moscow, her family moved to Kazan. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Pharmacists are Health professionals who practice the art and science of Pharmacy. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Kazan (Каза́нь Казан tt Qazan) is the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, and one of Russia's largest cities In 1920 she entered the social sciences department of Kazan State University, later switching to pedagogy. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including Anthropology, Communication studies Kazan State University is located in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. Pedagogy (ˈpɛdəgɒdʒi or paedagogy is the Art or Science of being a Teacher.
She worked as a rabfak (рабфак, рабочий факультет, worker's faculty) teacher, then as an assistant at the University. Shortly thereafter, she married Pavel Aksyonov, the mayor (председатель горсовета) of Kazan and a member of the Central Executive Committee (ЦИК) of the USSR. After becoming a Communist Party member, Ginzburg continued her successful career as educator, journalist and administrator. Her oldest son, Alexei Fedorov, from her first marriage to Doctor Fedorov, was born in 1926 and died in the Great Patriotic War. The term Great Patriotic War (Великая Отечественная война Velikaya Otechestvennaya Vojna) is used in Russia and some other Her younger son Vasily Aksyonov, born in 1932, went on to become a famous writer. Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (Василий Павлович Аксёнов (b Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
In February 1937, she was expelled from the party ranks and soon arrested for her alleged connections to the Trotskyists. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. (See also Great Purge). Great Purge (Большая чистка transliterated Bolshaya chistka) was a series of campaigns of Political repression and Persecution Her parents were also arrested but released two months later. Her husband was arrested in July and sentenced to 15 years of "corrective labor" with the confiscation of his property. Unfree labour is a generic or collective term for those work relations especially in modern or early modern history in which people are employed against their will (Articles 58-7 and 11). In August, Yevgenia was also sentenced to ten years.
Yevgenia experienced first-hand the infamous Moscow Lefortovo and Butyrka prisons, the Yaroslavl "Korovniki", as well as the journey on a prison train across the country to Vladivostok, and finally to Kolyma in the cargo hold of the steamer Jurma (Джурма). Lefortovo prison is a Prison in Moscow, Russia, since 2005 in the command of the Ministry of Justice of Russia. Butyrka prison (Бутырка a colloquial term for the official ru Бутырская тюрьма Butyrskaya tyurma was the central transit Prison in pre- Revolutionary Yaroslavl (Яросла́вль is a city in Russia, the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, located north-east of Moscow. Vladivostok ( is Russia 's largest port city on the Pacific Ocean and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai. This is an article about the region commonly known as Kolyma For river it is named after see Kolyma River The Kolyma (pronounced koh-lee-MAH At Magadan, she worked at a camp hospital, but was soon sent into the cold depths of the Gulag and assigned to so-called common jobs, where she quickly became an emaciated dokhodyaga ("goner"). Magadan (Магада́н is a Port town on the Sea of Okhotsk and gateway to the Kolyma region The Gulag was the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union. A Crimean German doctor, Anton Walter, probably saved her life by recommending her for a nursing position. The Crimea Germans ( De: Krimdeutsche) were Ethnic German settlers who were invited to settle in the Crimea as part of the East Colonization Anton had been deported due to his German heritage, Yevgenia due to her allegedly critical attitude to the Soviet system. They married later. [1]
In February 1949, Ginzburg was formally released but had to stay in Magadan for five more years. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Magadan (Магада́н is a Port town on the Sea of Okhotsk and gateway to the Kolyma region She found a position at a kindergarten and secretly started to work on her memoirs. In October 1950 she was arrested again and exiled to Krasnoyarsk region, but before she left, her destination was changed to Kolyma. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Krasnoyarsk (Красноя́рск is the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, and the third largest city in Siberia. After Stalin's death in 1953, Ginzburg was able to visit Moscow and was fully rehabilitated in 1955, as were millions of wrongly convicted, many posthumously. Joseph Stalin ( ნამდვილი გვარი ჯუღაშვილი|Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; March 5 1953 was General Secretary of the Communist Party Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar)
She returned to Moscow, worked as a reporter and continued her work on her magnum opus memoir, Journey into the Whirlwind (English title). Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Magnum opus (sometimes Opus magnum, plural magna opera) from the Latin meaning great work, refers to the best the greatest Journey into the Whirlwind is the English title of the critically acclaimed memoir by Eugenia Ginzburg in 1967 After the book was completed (1967), all attempts to publish it in the USSR failed for political reasons and the manuscript was smuggled abroad, where it was widely published. Eventually, her book included 2 parts, in original Russian named "Krutoi marshrut I" and "Krutoi marshrut II" -- "Harsh Route" or "Steep Route. "
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Bibliography
- "Крутой маршрут" Journey into the Whirlwind
- Eyvgenia Ginzburg's works at Lib.ru (in original Russian)
- Evgenia Ginzburg background information
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