(For the 110th anniversary of his birth) On February 14, 2012, my father, Professor P. A. Gushcho, would have been 110 years old, and on December 19, 2012, it would have been 75 years since the verdict of the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on the execution of a "member of a spy and terrorist organization", carried out on the same day (FSB Archive, No. 14499,Moscow). op. P-8960). P. A. Gushcho was born on February 14, 1902 in Irkutsk in a family of exiled settlers. One of his grandfathers was Valerian Gintovt, a nobleman of the Vilna province, and the other was Matvey Gushcho, a nobleman of the Minsk province. One of Matvey Gusho's four sons, Anton, was exiled in the 1880s.Together with his wife and children, he was exiled to Siberia to settle in the Irkutsk province. The future father of Peter Antonovich-Anton Matveyevich Gushcho (1863-1907) and the future mother - Yadviga Valerianovna Gintovt (1868 - 1918) (OSU GAIO, f. 294, op. 4; f. 294, op. 1 and 4) were married in 1891 in Irkutsk in the Roman Catholic Church. The Russian noble family of Gusho and the Lithuanian noble family of Gintovt are mentioned in the XVI century. Anton and Yadviga had seven children, in addition, they also raised an adopted son-a Buryat who was left without parents. Anton Matveyevich worked as a locksmith in the settlement. page 132 His wife, after the death of her husband, worked for some time in a photo studio in Irkutsk. P. A. Gushcho, a descendant of the nobles, did not lie to the Soviet authorities when he indicated his social status in the questionnaires - from the workers. His first job in tsarist Russia was as a shoemaker in Kazakov's shop in Irkutsk, where he also taught the owner's children to read and write. Of Pyotr Antonovich's four brothers, only the youngest, Henri Antonovich (1907 - 1986), is known to have died. He graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and worked as an engineer at Moscow's thermal power plants. On December 29, 1919, P. A ... Read more