Russian officer Oleg Ivanovich Isaev — Custodian of the Military Cemetery in Port-Arthur

The amazing tragic fate of Oleg Ivanovich Isaev, a Russian officer in the Tsarist and White armies, was described. Such stages of his life as a happy noble childhood and youth, the First World War, the Civil War, emigration to China, parting with his family, secluded service in the gatehouse of the Russian military cemetery in Port Arthur from 1939 to 1945, arrest and imprisonment for 10 years in a camp in Taishet, liberation and wanderings around the country, reunification with sisters and nieces in Leningrad were examined. O.I. Isaev was noted to have endured numerous trials and remained loyal to his homeland and his faith. A brief biography of the people surrounding the Isaev family is provided: the Pafnutiev dynasty of Vyatka merchants, who were significant in Russia, the Khorvat-Benoit family, the descendants of the illustrious Persian Kazem-Bek family, the descendants of the Moldavian princes Abaza and the Serbian family of one of the first Russian pilots Tomich.

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