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Epistinia Stepanova

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Russian woman (1882–1969)
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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Fyodorovna and the family name is Stepanova.
Epistinia Stepanova
Portrait in 1990
BornEpistinia Fyodorovna Rybalko
(1882-11-18)18 November 1882
Russian Empire
Died7 February 1969(1969-02-07) (aged 86)
Rostov-on-Don, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Spouse Mikhail Stepanov ​ ​(m. 1899; died 1934)​
Children15

Epistinia Fyodorovna Stepanova (Russian: Епистини́я Фёдоровна Степа́нова; November 18, 1882 — February 7, 1969) was a Russian woman whose eight sons died in the war, the ninth son died from wounds received at the front. Cavalier of the orders Mother Heroine and the Order of the Patriotic War, I degree.

Biography

Epistinia Stepanova was born on November 18, 1882, on the territory of present-day Ukraine, but from childhood she lived in the Kuban. The Stepanovs lived on the May Day farm (now the Olkhovsky farm) in the Timashyovsky District of the Krasnodar Krai. She gave birth to fifteen children.

Son of Alexander St. (1901–1918) captured in the field, tortured and shot by whites in retaliation for the help provided by the Stepanov family to the Red Army. Sons Vasily, Philipp, Fyodor, Alexander Jr. (posthumously the Hero of the Soviet Union), Ivan, Ilya and Pavel died during the Second World War from 1939 to 1943. Son Nikolai in August 1945 returned from the hospital, was ill for a long time, died of wounds.

In recent years, Epistinia lived in Rostov-on-Don, in the family of her only daughter, Valentina Korzhova. She died there on February 7, 1969. The soldier's mother was buried in the village Dneprovskaya, Krasnodar Krai, with full military honors.

References

  1. "Филипп Степанов: Донесение о потерях. Память народа". pamyat-naroda.ru. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  2. "Музей и история семьи Степановых". Archived from the original on 2019-06-10. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  3. ^ Бессмертный материнский подвиг
  4. Жемчужина Епистиния…
  5. "Александр Михайлович Степанов. Память народа". pamyat-naroda.ru. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  6. "Музей и история семьи Степановых". timashevsk.ru. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-11.

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