CASE No. 46012.
On 6 March 1979, in Moscow and Leningrad, another series of searches was conducted in connection with Case No. 46012/18-76 (CCE 52.4-4).
Officials of the Moscow Procurator’s Office conducted searches at the homes of Alexander Daniel and Raisa Tseilikman. Officials of the Leningrad KGB, acting “on behalf of the Moscow Procurator’s Office”, conducted searches at the homes of Sergei Dedyulin, Arseny Roginsky and Valery Sazhin.
As a result of the searches the following articles were confiscated:
From Sergei V. Dedyulin:
- the manuscript he had compiled of a bio-bibliographical dictionary of public activists in the USSR from the 1950s to the 1970s,
- card-indexes of samizdat documents (several thousand cards),
- bibliographic materials for a history of USSR Party and State agencies,
- a bibliography of Solzhenitsyn’s works, compiled by Dedyulin and said to be the most comprehensive in existence;
- Several numbers of the samizdat journals, “A Chronicle of Current Events”, “Obshchina” (Community) and “37″ were also taken.
From Alexander Yu. Daniel:
- several handwritten and typewritten texts of the memoirs of various authors;
- books published abroad: Along a Sharp Edge by Yu. Aikhenvald (1972), Pamyat [Memory] No. 2 (1979) and The Bible;
- the brochure “The Third Plenum of the Moscow Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)” [?1920], which was published in the USSR;
- two numbers of A Chronicle of Current Events;
- two numbers of The Bulletin of the Council of Baptist Prisoners’ Relatives;
- manuscripts containing information on the position of religious sects in the USSR;
- and tape-recordings.
Officials searched the handbag of Natalya Kravchenko, who was in A. Daniel’s flat during the search, and confiscated some notebooks.
From Arseny B. Roginsky:
- books and brochures published in the USSR: “The Case of the Industrial Party” [1930], “The Case of the Mensheviks” [1931], “A Resolution Concerning the Work of Enemies of the People Inside the Komsomol”, “Crime and its Prevention”, “The Interrogation of Kolchak”, “Decembrists and Siberia” (an offprint) and the journal Minuvshee [Times Past], No. 16 (1921);
- a pre-Revolutionary book entitled From the Sum of My Professional Experience, written by former director of the Police Department A.A. Lopukhin;
- a reprint published abroad of N. Antsiferov’s book The Spirit of Petersburg, originally published in 1922;
- and books published abroad: Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1951) by his wife Zinaida Gippius; The Russian Idea (1946) by N. Berdyaev; and My Memoirs by Yekaterina Olitskaya (vol. 2, 1971).
From Raisa Pavlovna Tseilikman:
- Into the Whirlwind by E. Ginzburg,
- The Yawning Heights by A, Zinoviev,
- The Faculty of Useless Things by Yu. Dombrovsky,
- and a few dozen pages of a typewritten text from Lev Z. Kopelev’s memoirs.
In addition, all the people searched had their typewriters removed.
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On 7 March 1979, Dedyulin, Roginsky and Sazhin were summoned for interrogation. They were all asked one and the same question: “Do you know anything about the publication of A Chronicle of Current Events?” They replied in the negative.
In mid-April, A.S. Korotayev, the son of Raisa Tseilikman, was summoned several times to the Procuracy. Investigator Burtsev (CCE 52.4-4) conducted the first interrogation, in connection with the search at his mother’s home. KGB officials conducted the next two talks, which concerned the publication of the Chronicle, Poiski and Pamyat [Memory]. Korotayev replied that he knew nothing about them.
In July 1979 Burtsev interrogated Alexander Daniel about the materials taken during the search of his home.
Burtsev was interested in the contradictions in the comments appended to the record of the search: Daniel had stated in writing that all the material confiscated from him was his personal property, and had nothing to do with his former wife, Yekaterina M. Velikanova, in whose name the search warrant was made out. Natalya Kravchenko had noted that the texts concerning the position of religious sects in the USSR belonged to her, Kravchenko. Daniel refused either to refute or corroborate Kravchenko’s statement and demanded the return of the materials taken from his files, which, according to him, “are of an exclusively historical and informative nature”.
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Arseny Roginsky is 33 years old. He is a school-teacher [note 1].
In addition, he is an historian, a specialist on the history of the liberation movement in nineteenth-century Russia, and his writings have been published in scholarly collections. In February 1977 his home was searched in connection with the Ginzburg Case (CCE 45.4) and in June of the same year he received a ‘caution’ from the KGB (CCE 46.15). After the search on 6 March, he was dismissed from Evening School No, 148, where he had taught literature (see this issue “A Labour Conflict”, CCE 53.28).
Sergei Dedyulin (aged 28) is a Chemistry teacher at the same school. After Roginsky’s dismissal he left the school ‘of his own accord’.
Alexander Daniel (aged 28) is a Mathematics teacher at a secondary school.
Valery N. Sazhin (aged 32) is a research officer at the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library.
Raisa Pavlovna Tseilikman is 71 years old. She is the widow of writer V. Ya. Kantorovich.
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NOTES
[1] Arseny Roginsky was put on trial and sentenced in December 1981 (CCE 65.5) to four years in an ordinary-regime camp.
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