Vladimira (Mira) Ieronimowna Uborevich (, 14 February 1924, Chita - 21 February 2020,

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) was a Russian architect and author of memoirs, describing her experiences as a child of an

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Biography

In 1930, her family moved to Moscow. In 1937, her father Ieronim Uborevich, a prominent Soviet military commander, was arrested and executed, together with

Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky ( rus, Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский, Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevskiy, p=tʊxɐˈtɕefskʲɪj; – 12 June 1937) nicknamed the Red Napoleon by foreign newspapers, was a Sovie ...

, Iona Yakir and

August Kork August Ivanovich Kork (, also Аугуст Яанович Корк; 11 June 1937) was an Estonian Red Army commander (Komandarm 2nd rank) who was tried and executed during the Great Purge in 1937. Kork became an officer of the Imperial Russi ...

. She was a friend of

Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the fir ...

's wife, Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova. The family was exiled to Astrakhan. Vladimira grew up in an orphanage in Sverdlovsk, but started to live with her mother's friend, Elena Bulgakova, after her mother was shot for being the wife of an enemy of the people in 1941. She studied at the

Moscow Architectural Institute Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy) - MArchI (russian: Московский Архитектурный Институт (Государственная Академия) - МАрхИ) is a famous architecture school located in Moscow, ...

. In 1944 Mira was arrested at 18 for being the daughter of an enemy of the people and convicted five years to the Vorkutlag camp. She was rehabilitated, and graduated from

Moscow State University of Civil Engineering Moscow State University of Civil Engineering or MGSU (Russian: Московский Государственный Строительный Университет – МГСУ) is a higher education institution located in Moscow, Russia. It is lo ...

. She worked at ''Zentromasch.'' In 1960s, following the advice of Elena Bulgakova, she wrote a number of letters, remembering her childhood and later experiences. In January 2013, a multi-part documentary program about her by Vladimir Meletin was shown on Russia-K.

Works

* ''14 писем Елене Сергеевне Булгаковой / 14 pisem Elene Sergeevne Bulgakovoĭ'' Время, Moskva : Vremi︠a︡, 2008.

References

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