Yakutsk: The descendants of the building commander and General Pepelyaev met in Amga

In Yakutsk, the descendants of the White General Anatoly Pepelyaev and the red commander Ivan Strend, who fought here with each other more than 95 years ago, met. The grandson of the White General Anatoly Pepelyaev, Viktor Lavrovich Pepelyaev flew from Tashkent. The granddaughter of the Red Commander Ivan Strek Olga Novomirovna Rusina-STROD from the United States. They also arrived at the meeting and great -grandchildren: Igor Pepelyaev from Moscow and named after the great -grandfather Jan Strod from Vyshny Volochka.

Today and tomorrow in the Yakut village of AMGA, a conference will be held on the topic "A long way to reconciliation and agreement: Civil War Lessons in Yakutia." The descendants of the main characters of the last siege of the Civil War - the commander of Ivan Strek and General Anatoly Pepelyaev managed to collect the organizer of the conference, the academician of the Academy of Spirituality of Yakutia, historian Athanasius Migalkin.

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Ivan Strod (1894-1937), after 1917, defended the new government during the civil war, Anatoly Pepelyaev (1891-1938) in 1922, at the head of the Siberian Volunteer Squad, tried to overthrow the Soviet government, starting a campaign from Okhotsk to Yakutsk. In the winter of 1923, in Alas, Sasil of the Sysyyy of the Amginsky ulus, they fought with each other. Their confrontation in Yakutia was called the last siege in the history of the Civil War. These events with the participation of Pepelyaev and Stripes became widely known after the publication of the documentary novel by Leonid Yuzefovich “Winter Road” in 2015, which received the main literary prizes of Russia “National Bestseller” and “Big Book”.

According to Yuzefovich, in the novel he, first of all, wrote the story of people during the Civil War, the meaninglessness of bloody clashes between these people ... both Pepelyaev and Strod are people of left beliefs. Strod could well have the Belykh, and Pepelyaev, on the contrary, was red, ”Yuzefovich believes. In addition, the Yakut siege, in his opinion, is an example of how “you can maintain nobility in the inhuman conditions of the war among the Yakut snow ... And therefore, when Pepelyaev and Strod will meet in the courtroom in 24, everyone will express respect to another, and Strod will try to alleviate Pepelyaev’s fate in every way,” the writer notes.

Later, faced with the horrors of collectivization, Ivan Strod left the party and threatened to kill Stalin. And in 1937 he was arrested, charged under the article 58 - "Participation in the Anti -Soviet Terrorist Organization." On August 19, 1937 he was sentenced to the highest degree of punishment. Shot on February 4, 1938.

After the defeat of the Siberian volunteer squad in 1924, the military court in Vladivostok sentenced Pepelyaev to the death penalty. Then the verdict was softened - 10 years of imprisonment, but Anatoly Pepelyaev will spend 13 years in prison. In August 1937, Pepelyaev was arrested a second time and delivered to Novosibirsk, where he was charged with creating a counter -revolutionary organization. On January 14, 1938, he was sentenced to the highest degree of punishment. The verdict was carried out on the same day in the prison of Novosibirsk, buried Anatoly Pepelyaev in the courtyard of the prison. On October 20, 1989, the prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk region rehabilitated it.