04 — Immobility and the Move to Moscow

The turning point of the life: the loss of the use of her legs around the age of seventeen, leaving her blind and immobile for the rest of her days; the Revolution and the family’s fear; the move to Moscow around 1925; and the lodging-to-lodging life under the Soviet shadow, without the residence registration the state required.

Tradition: Russian Orthodox (canonized 1999/2004)

These files set the personal turning point (pinned to the late Life) against the documented Soviet historical floor — the persecution of the Church and the residence-control system within which an unregistered holy woman lived, moving from host to host.

Files

File Description
paralysis-and-wandering.md The loss of mobility at ~17, the doubled disability, the Revolution and the family’s fear, and the move to Moscow c. 1925
homeless-in-the-capital.md The lodging-to-lodging life without a propiska, the host families and spiritual daughters, the Zhdanov household, and the last home at Skhodnya

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