Aleksandra Izmailovich

Izmailovich was free for only 16 months before being arrested again by the new post-revolutionary authorities.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=265}} After the [[Left SR uprising]], on 6 July 1918,{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=270}} Izmailovich and Spiridonova were arrested and imprisoned in the [[Kremlin]].{{Sfnm|1a1=Lyandres|1y=1989|1p=448n77|2a1=Maxwell|2y=1990|2p=270}} Izmailovich wrote that the conditions of the former Tsarist prisons remained largely the same under the Soviet Republic, except that they had become dirtier.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=265}} Izmailovich was arrested again in Minsk in January 1919, but released shortly afterwards. She was later held in Butyrki prison from October 1919 to September 1921. She and Spiridonova were then either imprisoned or kept under house arrest or internally exiled for the rest of their lives.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=270}} Spiridonova wrote to Izmailovich that she believed their treatment in the Bolshevik prisons was intended to slowly kill them.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=267}}

Izmailovich was free for only 16 months before being arrested again by the new post-revolutionary authorities.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=265}} After the [[Left SR uprising]], on 6 July 1918,{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=270}} Izmailovich and Spiridonova were arrested and imprisoned in the [[Kremlin]].{{Sfnm|1a1=Lyandres|1y=1989|1p=448n77|2a1=Maxwell|2y=1990|2p=270}} Izmailovich wrote that the conditions of the former Tsarist prisons remained largely the same under the Soviet Republic, except that they had become dirtier.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=265}} Izmailovich was arrested again in Minsk in January 1919, but released shortly afterwards. She was later held in Butyrki prison from October 1919 to September 1921. She and Spiridonova were then either imprisoned or kept under house arrest or internally exiled for the rest of their lives.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=270}} Spiridonova wrote to Izmailovich that she believed their treatment in the Bolshevik prisons was intended to slowly kill them.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=267}}

Under constant police surveillance, Izmailovich cared for Spiridonova at a trade union's [[dacha]] in [[Malakhovka, Moscow Oblast|Malakhovka]], until she was rearrested in 1923 and exiled to [[Kaluga]].{{Sfn|Rabinowitch|1995|pp=429-430}} In 1925, Izmailovich and Spiridonova were then exiled to [[Samarkand]],{{Sfnm|1a1=Maxwell|1y=1990|1p=304|2a1=Rabinowitch|2y=1995|2p=430}} where they reunited with Irina Kakhovskaya.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=304}} There they worked menial jobs until 1928, when they were transferred to [[Tashkent]].{{Sfnm|1a1=Maxwell|1y=1990|1p=304|2a1=Rabinowitch|2y=1995|2p=430}} As the health of Izmailovich and Spiridonova declined due to [[typhoid fever]], they were taken to a [[sanatorium]] in [[Yalta]]. Their accommodation, treatment and their medication was not paid for by the authorities, so they were sent money by friends living abroad. Izmailovich soon went back to Tashkent, while Spiridonova stayed in Yalta until August 1930.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=304}} Izmailovich, Kakhovskaya and Spiridonova were then transferred to political exile in [[Ufa]], where they were kept under house arrest and subjected to constant surveillance.{{Sfnm|1a1=Maxwell|1y=1990|1p=310|2a1=Rabinowitch|2y=1995|2p=430}} Over the course of the 1930s, Izmailovich progressively rejected politics, refusing to read any newspapers. As her health deteriorated, she was no long able to continue with her office job and took over housekeeping for her comrades that were still working. She spent most of her time writing, completing a book on art and literature by 1937.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=310}} In Ufa she shared a flat not only with Kakhovskaya and Spiridonova, but also with the latter's husband, {{ill|Ilya Mayorov|ru|Майоров, Илья Андреевич}}, his invalid father, his teenaged son, and Kakhovskaya's elderly aunt.{{sfn|Rabinovitch|1995|p=430}}

Under constant police surveillance, Izmailovich cared for Spiridonova at a trade union's [[dacha]] in [[Malakhovka, Moscow Oblast|Malakhovka]], until she was rearrested in 1923 and exiled to [[Kaluga]].{{Sfn|Rabinowitch|1995|pp=429-430}} In 1925, Izmailovich and Spiridonova were then exiled to [[Samarkand]],{{Sfnm|1a1=Maxwell|1y=1990|1p=304|2a1=Rabinowitch|2y=1995|2p=430}} where they reunited with Irina Kakhovskaya.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=304}} There they worked menial jobs until 1928, when they were transferred to [[Tashkent]].{{Sfnm|1a1=Maxwell|1y=1990|1p=304|2a1=Rabinowitch|2y=1995|2p=430}} As the health of Izmailovich and Spiridonova declined due to [[typhoid fever]], they were taken to a [[sanatorium]] in [[Yalta]]. Their accommodation, treatment and their medication was not paid for by the authorities, so they were sent money by friends living abroad. Izmailovich soon went back to Tashkent, while Spiridonova stayed in Yalta until August 1930.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=304}} Izmailovich, Kakhovskaya and Spiridonova were then transferred to political exile in [[Ufa]], where they were kept under house arrest and subjected to constant surveillance.{{Sfnm|1a1=Maxwell|1y=1990|1p=310|2a1=Rabinowitch|2y=1995|2p=430}} Over the course of the 1930s, Izmailovich progressively rejected politics, refusing to read any newspapers. As her health deteriorated, she was no long able to continue with her office job and took over housekeeping for her comrades that were still working. She spent most of her time writing, completing a book on art and literature by 1937.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=310}} In Ufa she shared a flat with Kakhovskaya and Spiridonova, as well as the latter's husband, {{ill|Ilya Mayorov|ru|Майоров, Илья Андреевич}} and their family.{{sfn|Rabinowitch|1995|p=430}}

In February 1937, during the first days of the [[Great Purge]], as their sentences of exile were due to end, the whole household was hauled in by the [[NKVD]]{{Sfnm|1a1=Maxwell|1y=1990|1p=311|2a1=Rabinowitch|2y=1995|2pp=130-131}} and detained for several months under the charge of having attempted to create a united counterrevolutionary centre and having carried out terrorist acts against the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist]] leaders of [[Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic|Bashkiria]].{{sfn|Rabinovitch|1995|p=431}} While they were held and subjected to harsh interrogations, however, "the entire Bashkir government itself was arrested, so charges of plots against [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] and [[Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Politburo]] member [[Kliment Voroshilov|Klementi Voroshilov]] were substituted".{{sfn|Brazier|2019}} According to Kakhovskaya, Izmailovich defied the interrogations by the NKVD, despite her own weakening health. She believed that the Great Purge had exposed the "monstrous lie" of the Soviet revolution.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=312}} On 25 December 1937, in a closed session of the [[Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union]] on the fabricated case of the All–Union Socialist Revolutionary Center, Izmailovich was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Kakhovskaya was also sentenced to 10 years, Spiridonova to 25. According to Kakhovskaya's report, her own hearing lasted no longer than seven minutes.{{sfn|Rabinovitch|1995|p=445}} All three refused either to confess anything or to accuse anybody. Mayorov alone was forced into tearfully signing a guilty confession under the threat of sentencing his sick father and young son to hard labour.{{sfn|Rabinovitch|1995|p=438}} The Left SR prisoners, except Kakovskaia, were eventually transferred to a prison isolaton ward in [[Oryol]].{{sfn|Rabinovitch|1995|p=446}}

In February 1937, during the first days of the [[Great Purge]], as their sentences of exile were due to end, the whole household was arrested by the [[NKVD]].{{Sfnm|1a1=Maxwell|1y=1990|1p=311|2a1=Rabinowitch|2y=1995|2pp=130-131}} They were detained for several months under the charge of having attempted to create a united counterrevolutionary centre and having carried out terrorist acts against the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist]] leaders of [[Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic|Bashkiria]].{{sfn|Rabinovitch|1995|p=431}} While they were held and subjected to harsh interrogations, however, "the entire Bashkir government itself was arrested, so charges of plots against [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] and [[Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Politburo]] member [[Kliment Voroshilov|Klementi Voroshilov]] were substituted".{{sfn|Brazier|2019}} According to Kakhovskaya, Izmailovich defied the interrogations by the NKVD, despite her own weakening health. She believed that the Great Purge had exposed the "monstrous lie" of the Soviet revolution.{{Sfn|Maxwell|1990|p=312}} On 25 December 1937, in a closed session of the [[Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union]] on the fabricated case of the All–Union Socialist Revolutionary Center, Izmailovich was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Kakhovskaya was also sentenced to 10 years, Spiridonova to 25. According to Kakhovskaya's report, her own hearing lasted no longer than seven minutes.{{sfn|Rabinovitch|1995|p=445}} All three refused either to confess anything or to accuse anybody. Mayorov alone was forced into tearfully signing a guilty confession under the threat of sentencing his sick father and young son to hard labour.{{sfn|Rabinovitch|1995|p=438}} The Left SR prisoners, except Kakovskaia, were eventually transferred to a prison isolaton ward in [[Oryol]].{{sfn|Rabinovitch|1995|p=446}}

On 11 September 1941, as [[Operation Barbarossa|Nazi troops]] dangerously approached Oryol, Izmailovich, Spiridonova, Mayorov and other 154 fellow political prisoners were taken from their cells, gagged and read their death sentences (decided personally by Stalin), without being allowed to comment on them in any way.{{Sfn|Rabinowitch|1995|p=445}} The prisoners were then driven by auto into the nearby [[Medvedev Forest massacre|Medvedevsky woods]], where they were shot and buried in a secluded area, the location of which has never been determined since.{{Sfnm|1a1=Leoniev|1y=1993|2a1=Rabinowitch|2y=1995|2p=445}}

On 11 September 1941, as [[Operation Barbarossa|Nazi troops]] dangerously approached Oryol, Izmailovich, Spiridonova, Mayorov and other 154 fellow political prisoners were taken from their cells, gagged and read their death sentences (decided personally by Stalin), without being allowed to comment on them in any way.{{Sfn|Rabinowitch|1995|p=445}} The prisoners were then driven by auto into the nearby [[Medvedev Forest massacre|Medvedevsky woods]], where they were shot and buried in a secluded area, the location of which has never been determined since.{{Sfnm|1a1=Leoniev|1y=1993|2a1=Rabinowitch|2y=1995|2p=445}}