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In St. Petersburg, the sign of the "Last Address" of Grandfather Dovlatov will be installed
In St. Petersburg, the sign of the "Last Address" of Grandfather Dovlatov will be installed
© "Immortal Barak" Isaac Mechik, photos were sent from the army on February 23, 1916On February 13, in St. Petersburg at the address Dnepropetrovskaya street, house 3 will be installed a sign of the project "Last address" in memory of Isaac Mechika, grandfather Sergei Dovlatov.
By the time of the arrest, 56-year-old Isaac Moiseevich Mechik worked as the commandant of the hostel of the mirror factory in Leningrad, but in his entire life he changed many classes: he was engaged in winemaking, built the Chinese-Eastern Railway, fought in the First World War, laid tram rails.
In October 1937, he was arrested, and in January 1938 he was shot on charges of espionage and counter -revolutionary activity.
Sergei Dovlatov dedicated the first chapter of the collection "Our" to Isaac Machik.
“Twenty years later, my father began to bother about rehabilitation. Grandfather was rehabilitated for the lack of corpus delicti. The question is, then what was present then? Why interrupted this ridiculous and funny life? .. "