>Sofia KRYLENKO and descendants > >Hard facts: > >She was in Paris in 1909 where she had a child, in Liège in 1911, went back to Moscow that year, married a gentleman called DE MAYER, had two or three children and was eventually sent by Stalin in the 1920s to Mas Gorsk, where she died. > >Unconfirmed facts: > >She was the sister (or cousin) of Nikolai Vassilievitch Krylenko, a prominent bolshevik, and married a fist time in 1908 in Warsaw a gentleman called Karl von Hörnigk, who left for Russia from Paris in 1908 with a Red Cross mission and whom she followed when she left in 1911, because she had no news from him. > >Those are the facts. Now who could advise me as to how to go about it? First, does the gentleman in question have a birth certificate? How is the name written there? If she was the sister of N. V. Krylenko, her name would be Sofiia Vasilevna; if it isn't, she isn't his sister. N. V. Krylenko was born in the village of Bekhteevo in 1885, the son of Vasilii Abramovich and Olga Aleksandrovna Krylenkov. V. A. Krylenkov had been sent there in 1883 for his "revolutionary" activities; it was his village of origin, and his father, Abram Korneevich Krylenkov, still lived there. In 1888 the family went to Smolensk. If Sofia was not the sister of N. V. Krylenko, but a cousin, then Abram Korneevich was her grandfather, too. Gordon McDaniel mcdaniel@hoover.stanford.edu