On 26 September 1980 the feminist Natalya Lazareva (b. 1947) was arrested in Leningrad. On feminism, see CCE 55.9 “Miscellaneous Reports” (and CCE 57.18 “The Right to Leave”).
She was charged and convicted [1] under Article 190-1 (RSFSR Criminal Code).
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On 16 December searches were conducted in Leningrad in connection with her case (No. 36) at the homes of Natalya Maltseva, Victor Krivulin and Tatyana Begicheva.
Maltseva (b. 1951) was arrested after the search.
She was charged under Article 70 [2] (RSFSR Criminal Code). On the day of her arrest she had a temperature of 39° Centigrade; she has tuberculosis.
Maltseva is one of the editors of the almanac Women and Russia.
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The following were confiscated from Victor Krivulin (see (CCE 43.16 [4] and //56.27):
a typewriter, a children’s Bible with pictures, the first volume of a US edition of Osip Mandelstam, about fifteen cassettes with recordings of a discussion of No. 20 of the journal “37″ and of music, and poetry (the search record listed about 70 items in all).
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Manuscripts by Natalya Lazareva and Nataliya Malakhovskaya were confiscated from Tatyana Begicheva (b. 1946), a graduate of Leningrad University’s Philosophy Faculty.
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NOTES
- Lazareva was sentenced to 10 months in the camps. For her trial and photograph, see CCE 61.3.
↩︎ - Maltseva was given a 2-year suspended sentence in spring 1981.
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Natalya M. Lazareva, b. 1948
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