Vera Gots

Vera Gassokh was born between 1860 and 1864 [1] in the city of Odessa, Odessa district, Kherson province in a Jewish bourgeois family, where she graduated from high school .

Since 1877 she was a member of the Odessa revolutionary circle. In 1881 she joined the People's Will party, and belonged to the city and station circles in Odessa.

In 1881 she moved to St. Petersburg , where she entered the women's medical assistant courses at the St. George community. She was arrested in St. Petersburg on November 24 (December 6), 1881 and transported to Odessa.

Involved in the inquiry by the Odessa gendarme department together with A. N. Shekhter , M. I. Drey , S. V. Mayer and others on charges of belonging to the terrorist community ( Strelnikov trial of the 23rd in Odessa ). She was kept in custody until March 15 (27), 1882, after which she was subject to special police supervision. By the Imperial order of October 6 (18), 1882, pre-trial detention was imposed as a punishment under public supervision outside the areas declared in a state of enhanced security for two years.

In October 1882 she was exiled from Odessa to Yekaterinoslav . In December 1883 she was transferred to Aleksandrovsk ( Ekaterinoslavskaya province ). At the end of the period of public supervision on October 6 (18), 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 Will M.M.Polyakov and met with B.D.Orzhikh . On February 28 (March 12), 1886, she was arrested in Yekaterinoslav and brought to an inquiry in the case of organizing the Taganrog secret printing house and on charges of harboring B. D. Orzhikh.

By the Imperial order of October 6 (18), 1887, she was exiled under the public supervision of the police for five years to Eastern Siberia. In mid-May 1888 she was sent from Butyrka prison to Siberia. The place of exile is the Kolyma District ( Yakutsk Oblast ). At the end of 1888, she arrived in Yakutsk , where she worked as a medical assistant and soon married Mikhail Rafailovich Gots [2] .

On March 22 (April 3), 1889, she and her comrades participated in the armed resistance in Yakutsk ( Yakutsk tragedy ) [3] . July 7 (19), 1889 - July 13 (25), 1889 she was tried in Yakutsk, the military court commission found her guilty of armed resistance to the execution of orders from her superiors and sentenced to deprivation of all rights of state and to hard labor without a term. According to the confirmation of the verdict by the commander of the troops of the Irkutsk Military District of July 20 (August 1), 1889, indefinite hard labor was replaced by hard labor for 15 years.

From the beginning of 1890 she was held in the Vilyui prison and served hard labor. In March 1892, she was sent from Vilyuisk to Yakutsk and on June 1 (13), 1892, was installed in Akatui ( Trans-Baikal region ). In the winter of 1893-1894, she was in the Carian women's prison . In 1894 she was transferred to Gorny Zerentui . In 1894 she went to the settlement, settled in Kurgan ( Tobolsk province ) in the category of those exiled to live. According to the 1896 manifesto, the term of exile was shortened by a year. According to the census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897, she and her husband lived in the city of Kurgan in the house of K.I. Ivanova on the streetTroitskaya, now Kuibyshev street . Together with them lived her sister Tatyana Potapova with her son Nikolai and a servant: Praskovya Vasilievna Filippova (nanny) and Tatyana Ivanovna Rusakova (cook).

Upon returning to European Russia, she emigrated to France . She lived in Paris . She joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party . In 1909 she married a Shlisselburg resident of the People's Will, 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 Aid to Russian Volunteers. Member of the Bureau of the Committee for Assistance to Writers and Scientists in France (she was a member of its revision committee), member of the board of the public library named after I.S.Turgenev . I met the Great October Socialist Revolution with hostility [4] .

Vera Ivanova (gots Gassoh) died 7 January 1938 the year in the city of Paris District Paris department of Seine French Republic , now the city and the district are part of the Department of Paris Region Ile-de-France French Republic [5] . She was buried on January 9, 1938 at the Bagneux cemetery in the city ​​of Bagno in the Anthony district , now a department of Haut-de-Seine in the Ile-de-France region of the French Republic .