Olga Rapay-Markish
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Olga Rapay-Markish or Olha Rapai-Markish was one of the best-known Ukrainian ceramicists of her era. She is especially noted for her large decorative works on buildings throughout Kyiv. Previous to he
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Rehabilitation (Soviet)
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Rehabilitation was a term used in the context of the former Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states. Beginning after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, the Soviet government undertook the political a
Olga Rapay-Markish
…became engaged. She gave birth to her daughter Kateryna while still in exile. In 1955, after the death of Stalin, the family returned to Moscow and were rehabilitated. Rapay went and retrieved Markish and together they returned to Kyiv, where she completed her studies in 1956 with a degree from the sculpture department…
A rehabilitation certificate declaring: "...and the case was closed for lack of corpus delicti... rehabilitated posthumously"
Georgian student activist Dimitri Vardanashvili, whose rehabilitation was refused in 1989