Tag #113880 - Interview #102857 (Boris Lesman)

After the revolution of 1917, in 1920s my father worked in GPU (State Political Department) [3] as an investigator (he was a lawyer); and my Mum worked as a typist and a secretary in our soviet revolutionary bodies. And when White Army soldiers [4] came to Kherson (where she lived and worked at that time), she was arrested. She was kept in prison and was sentenced to death. Later the White Guard [5] members were dislodged, she was released from the prison, and my father got acquainted with her holding an investigation. They got married in 1921 or 1922.