Anna Timireva was the last love of the famous admiral Kolchak, who accompanied him everywhere. Some believe that she was shot after the execution of the military leader, but in reality this is not the case.
Anna Vasilievna Timireva lived a long, but very difficult and tragic life. She was not executed because no corpus delicti was found. However, she spent the last years of her life in exile and arrest, which totaled 30 years.
Payback for love
As a young virgin Anna Timireva met the famous Russian sailor Alexander Kolchak. He was 19 years older than her, but this did not interfere with their proximity. Anna was devoted to her lover for the rest of her life, but she never became his lawful wife.
Timireva had to pay for her loyalty and feelings for 30 years.
After the execution of Kolchak, who was shot, Anna was released from arrest. However, a little later she was arrested again and sent to a camp in Omsk, where she served 2 years. After her release, the woman wanted to return to the place where her first husband lived. However, instead of approval, the authorities arrested her for another 1 year.
In 1922, Timireva was exiled again, a short respite after exile was replaced by a new arrest for 3 years. Basically, Anna was accused of having connections with foreigners and enemies of the people. After another release, the woman managed to become the wife of the engineer Knipper, whose surname she took. But this did not save her from further links.
The fifth arrest and contrived accusation of Anna's concealment of her past came in 1935. After the camps and exile, she worked as anyone she could, but for a very short time, she was persecuted again and again. Subsequent final arrests of Timireva fell on the war years. Anna was finally free only after the end of the war.
Over the years of arrests and exile, she lost her adult son, who was shot in 1938. Her husband Knipper died of a heart attack, as he could not survive the bullying of his spouse, whom he sincerely loved. Anna finished her ordeals in the Yaroslavl region, where she found work as a prop in a small drama theater in the city of Shcherbakov.
The time is new, but the fears are the same
The changed policy, the new ranks in power still looked incredulously at the former beloved of the famous white admiral, she was for them a living reminder of his exploits and the era that they shot with him. She is again arrested on suspicion of propaganda against the Soviet state system. Anna Vasilievna will leave exile only at the age of 60, she will return to the theater, where she was loved for her quiet disposition and impeccable upbringing. This woman managed to find a common language with ardent revolutionaries and women who were a bargaining chip for the men of the new order.
According to Anna Timireva herself, she was not shot due to the absence of true charges, since there were no facts of her participation in the political events of that time.
In 1960, Anna Timireva was rehabilitated. She was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.
