Troeruchitsa village [C]* Burials of Poles from Ostashkovо

Card

№69-08

Date of burial

1939-1940

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Address

Tver Region, Ostashkovsky district, Troeruchitsa village

Access outside a populated area

Public transport

On foot

Comments

At junction of Ostashkov-Nilova Pustyn Road and woodland track to Svetlitsa

Visiting Hours or Restrictions

Unrestricted

Type of burial

Camp (prison) burial ground

Current use

Burial ground and/or commemorative site

Ceremonial events

Presence of memorials, etc.

Yes

Protected status

Not protected

Background

Polish prisoners of war at the Ostashkovo POW camp who died of natural causes in 1939-1940 were buried at a graveyard near Troeruchitsa village (today the Sorozhskoe settlement). Local historian B.F. Karpov remembers that the dead were buried in wooden boxes each containing two bodies. By the early 1990s one Polish grave had survived at the Troeruchitsa graveyard. Karpov placed a cross there with a metal nameplate listing 41 surnames.

In the early 2000s the dilapidated cross was replaced by staff from the Mednoe Memorial Complex [69-04]. The new cross was flanked by two boards listing 41 individuals who died in the Ostashkovo camp between September 1939 and May 1940. The information was based on reports by camp commandant P.K. Borisovets, preserved in the Russian State Military Archive. In 1989 Karpov showed the location of the burials to the first delegation of relatives of the Polish POWs. The first Service for the Dead was then held in the Troeruchitsa graveyard.

Ceremonies

Date	Nature of ceremonies	Organiser or responsible person	Participants	Frequency
2-3 September	Day of Remembrance and Sorrow	Polish delegation	delegations from Poland and Polish embassy in Moscow, representatives of the Mednoe Memorial Complex	Annual Event

Nature of area requiring preservation

State of burials	Area	Boundaries	Other sites in same area
a grave-marker has been placed on one of the surviving graves	not determined	not delineated	Early 20th-century church of the Mother of God, Troeruchitsa village (protected since 1999)

Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site

On land under the control of the Ostashkovsky municipal district administration

Sources and bibliography

[ original texts and hyperlinks ]

Report from P.K//. Borisovets [commandant of the Ostashkovo camp], to P.K. Soprunenko about the inmates, regime and security conditions of the Polish prisoners of war throughout their internment in the Ostashkovo camp, 25 May 1940 – Russian State Military Archive

V. Karpov, B.F. Karpov, “Ostashkov: our town, my home, my life”, in B.F. Karpov, Ostashkov, 2006 (264 pp)

Along the Paths of Memory: A guide to places in Tver and the Tver Region linked with repressive political measures in the 1930s and 1940s, Tver, 2009 (28 pp)

“Troeruchitsa village. Burial of Polish prisoners from Ostashkovo camp”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 29 May 2022]