Interrogation record in NKVD of Petlyura Marina Vasilivna and Petlyura Feodosdia Vasilivna,
sisters of Petlyura Simon Vasilivich, which were executed on 19th of November 1937 in Poltava in honour of 20th anniversary of ”Great October Revolution”

 (But this materials are not documents in real sense because they were given by Oblast division of SBU not in Xerox copies from originals, but typed on a computer).

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 UkSSR
People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs
of State Security Management
Interrogation record
 

To case№_________
1937, November 16. I, authorized interrogator of 2nd division of NKVD
Smigelskiy_______ interrogated the accused
1. Surname - Petlyura________________________________________________
2. Name and patronymic - Feodosia Vasilivna___
3. Birth date - 1886___________________________________________________
4. Place of birth - Poltava________________________________________
5. Residence - Poltava_____________________________________________
6. Nationality and citizenship - Ukrainian, USSR_____________________
7. Passport -14/IV-37year. 2nd department of RKM in Poltava, XH №678841
8. Employment - unemployed_______________________
9. Social origin of parents, their position and property - petty bourgeois. Father was a cabman, had 8-10 horses, exploited by hiring 3 persons and had 2 private houses.
10. Social status (employment and property)
a) before revolution - lived with father________________________
b) after revolution -owner of 2 houses together with her sister.
11. Family members - single________________________
12. Education (general, special) - town primary school_____________
13. Party membership (former and present) - non-party_____________
14. What repressions suffered: convictions, arrest, etc. (when, by whom and for what)
a) before revolution - no
b) after revolution -In 1924 was arrested by GPU but soon released.
15. Awards ( orders, certificates, weapon, etc.) during soviet power. –No.
16. Attitude to military service - No
17. Service in Red Army (Red Guard, partisan) when - No.
18. Service in White Guards and other armies - No
19. Participation in bands and other counter-revolutionary organization and revolts - No
20. Information about social and political activities _______
Evidence of the defendant (witness)

Question: Who are your parents and what were they?___
Answer: My father by origin is of petty bourgeois. Before revolution he was a cabman and had 8-10 horses, 3 hired workers. In Poltava he had 2 private houses in which I live with my sister Petlyura Marina Vasilivna.
Question: Had you ever got brothers and what were they?
Answer: I had got 4 brothers. Two of them died before revolution.. Third brother served in czarist army and didn’t returned and about his hereabouts I know nothing. 4th brother Petlyura Simon, former defense minister in Central Rada (Counsil) left us in 1918 and where he was I knew nothing but afterwards I learned that he was killed in France in Paris._______

Question: Your house is a place for assembly of anti-soviet elements, among which You spoke in counter-revolutionary spirit.
Answer: Yes, my home is a place for counter-revolutionary elements –Vlasenko a daughter of a landowner, Korkishko – a nun and others. And I also spoke in counter-revolutionary spirit.
Question: Recollecting Your relatives the Skripnikovs You spoke in counter-revolutionary spirit concerning Soviet Power and told “to what the Soviet Power had brought, mocked at poor Ukrainians, simply strangled Ukrainians, deprived their living and studying. For example, my nephew Skripnikov Valerian was expelled from educational establishment as well as my nurse - Zina Skripnikova. Yes, I really spoke in anti-soviet spirit in address of Soviet Power. The aforesaid words of anti-soviet content I really said.

Question: Speaking about taxation, about insurance, You alleged that Soviet Power plundered Ukrainians and simultaneously You praised your brother Simon Petlyura – saying if Petlyura was alive their had been an independent republic, and we had lived much better than with Soviet Power”.
Answer: Such conversation took place and I reaffirm that I praised my brother Simon Petlyura and spoke in anti-soviet spirit in address to Soviet Power.
Question: In period of food hardship in Ukraine You spoke that “Bolsheviks with Moscow had plundered Ukraine , brought her to poverty, famine and death and you suffered that”.

Answer: About food hardship I spoke but in anti-soviet spirit in address to Soviet Power I didn’t.
Answer: In 1937 when we had to pay the insurance we recollected Simon Petlyura and spoke in anti-soviet spirit – “now we are unhappy, might complain but where, the “zhid” (Jews) are everywhere.
The record was read and written correctly and I attest it and sign -signature_______
Interrogation conducted by authorized investigator of 2nd department. Sergeant of State Security –Shmigelskiy . Case 132
 

UkSSR
People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs
of State Security Management
Interrogation record
 

To case№_________
1937, November 16. I, authorized interrogator of 2nd division of NKVD
Smigelskiy_______ interrogated the accused
1. Surname - Petlyura________________________________________________
Name and patronymic - Marina Vasilivna___________________________
2. Birth date - 1883___________________________________________________
3. Place of birth - Poltava________________________________________
4. Residence - Poltava_20____________________________________________
5. Nationality and citizenship - Ukrainian, USSR_____________________
6. Passport -11/V-36year. 2nd department of RKM in Poltava, XH №505412
7. Employment - unemployed_______________________
8. Social origin of parents, their position and property - petty bourgeois. Father was a cabman, had 8-10 horses, exploited by hiring 3 persons and had 2 private houses.
9. Social status (employment and property)
a. before revolution - lived with father________________________
b. after revolution -owner of 2 houses together with her sister.
10. Family members - single________________________
11. Education (general, special) - town primary school_____________
12. Party membership (former and present) - non-party_____________
13. What repressions suffered: convictions, arrest, etc. (when, by whom and for what)
a) before revolution - no
b) after revolution -In 1924 was arrested by GPU but soon released.
14. Awards ( orders, certificates, weapon, etc.) during soviet power. –No.
15. Attitude to military service - No
16. Service in Red Army (Red Guard, partisan) when - No.
17. Service in White Guards and other armies - No
18. Participation in bands and other counter-revolutionary organization and revolts - No
19. Information about social and political activities _______
Evidence of the defendant (witness)
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Question: Who are your parents and what were they?___
Answer: My father by origin is of petty bourgeois. Before revolution he was a cabman and had 8-10 horses, 3 hired workers. In Poltava he had 2 private houses in which I live with my sister Petlyura Feodosia.Vasilivna.
Question: Had you ever got brothers and what were they?
Answer: I had got 4 brothers. Two of them died before revolution.. Third brother served in czarist army and didn’t returned and about his hereabouts I know nothing. 4th brother Petlyura Simon, former defense minister in Central Rada (Counsil) left us in 1918 and where he was I knew nothing but afterwards I learned that he was killed in France in Paris._______

Answer: I had got 4 brothers. Two of them died before revolution.. Third brother Alexander together with Petlura’s regiments went abroad and where he is now I know nothing. 4th brother Petlyura Simon was defense minister in Central Rada (Counsil) and soon organized Petlyura’s army that fought against Red Army. After defeat of Petlyura’s army my brother Simon Petlyura emigrated abroad – to France where he was killed by a clock master a Jew by nationality

Question: Your house was a place for meetings and a den for anti-soviet elements among which you carried out counter-revolutionary work. Tell to investigation about counter-revolutionary work in details.____________
Answer: Yes, indeed, people with anti-soviet past live in my house, namely: Vlasenko Maria Ivanovna, a landowner’s daughter who had 300 hectares of land, Korkishko Nadezhda Borisovna,53, a nun, but I didn’t carried any counter-revolutionary work with them.

Question: After exclusion of your relatives from the institute – the Skripnikovs, you showed your regret and in address of Soviet Power you alleged: “what the Soviet Power did with Ukrainian people though it had been unfortunate, they aren’t allowed even to live and study and so on.
Answer: Yes, really when I learned about exclusion of my relatives from the institute I showed my regret but in address of Soviet Power I said nothing.
Question: You praised your brother – Simon Petlyura and said that he had wished for Ukraine all the best, he wanted to make Ukraine an independent republic, but it happened that bolshevics by a fraud won and now Ukrainian people are unhappy. Everywhere are only the ”zhids” Jews.

Answer: I didn’t praised Simon Petlyura and said nothing against Soviet Power.
Question: You are an active church member and in connection with closing the church you said: “ Bolhsevics like tyrants mocked at heaven belief and don’t allow even to pray.”
Answer: I amn’t an active church member and in connection with closing the church I said nothing in address of bolshevics.
Question: In the period of food hardship in Ukraine did you show your anti-soviet mood and praise Simon Petlyura? Will you give the evidences?
Answer: I didn’t showed any anti-soviet mood but as for Simon Petlyura I praised him many times and proved his genius.
Question: Did you discredit socialist industry, abuse Soviet Power for expensiveness, for plundering Ukrainian people? The prosecution demands some evidences.
Answer: I didn’t discredit socialist industry and didn’t abuse Soviet Power.
The record was read and written correctly and I attest it and sign -signature_______
Interrogation conducted by authorized investigator of 2nd department. Sergeant of State Security –Shmigelskiy .

A note: In 1937 in Ukraine there was a criminal code with an article that was used to punish for anti-Semitism. That is why a word “zhid”, which came into Ukrainian from Polish language, for new Russian-bolshevics occupants become anti-Semitic. That’s why those who used the word “zhid” were sentenced to death according to article 54-10 of criminal code of UkSSR.

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