Main Sources:
Interview with Lydia Kamendrovsky, 1982
Interview with Marina Chatsky, 2000
Other Sources:
About the Kamendrovskys in Nizhny Lomov:
Tatyana Kadomtseva “The Fate of the Manufacturer” (English translation, for the original in Russian, see here.)
https://plyguard.com/#history – The website of the Match Factory, which still exists today. It used to contain more information about my family, but after I reached out to them, that information was removed. However, it can still be found here and here.
История Нижнеломовского края в лицах и достопримечательностях прошлого и настоящего Нижний Ломов 2020 (History of the Nizhny Lomov region in the faces and sights of the past and present Nizhny Lomov 2020)
Каблуков Ю.В. Листая прошлых лет страницы (Годы, события, факты в истории Нижнеломовского края) Издание 2-е, исправленное и дополненное Пенза 2015 (Kablukov Yu.V. Leafing through the pages of past years (Years, events, facts in the history of the Nizhnelomov region) 2nd edition, corrected and supplemented Penza 2015)
1895 Russian Empire Business Directory, Vsia Rossiia, vol. 2
About Alexandra Staying behind:
Tatyana Kadomtseva “The Fate of the Manufacturer” (English translation, for the original in Russian, see here.)
История Нижнеломовского края в лицах и достопримечательностях прошлого и настоящего Нижний Ломов 2020 (History of the Nizhny Lomov region in the faces and sights of the past and present Nizhny Lomov 2020)
Каблуков Ю.В. Листая прошлых лет страницы (Годы, события, факты в истории Нижнеломовского края) Издание 2-е, исправленное и дополненное Пенза 2015 (Kablukov Yu.V. Leafing through the pages of past years (Years, events, facts in the history of the Nizhnelomov region) 2nd edition, corrected and supplemented Penza 2015)
Both the murder and the trial were in all French newspapers those days. For further reading:
A modern online Russian article (in PDF)
In the Newspapers: The Shooting in 1931 (in French)
The article by Lydia’s admirer Jean Guyon-Cesbron
- L’Express de l’Est: daily republican newspaper 1931/11/18 (Lorraine, France – 1931)
- Paris-soir (1923) – 1931/11/18 (ED4, Year 9, N ° 2965)
- Le Nouvelliste 1931/11/19 (Valais, Wallis, Switzerland – 1931)
- Le Populaire (Paris) – 1931/11/18 (Number 3206) (Paris, France – 1931)
- The Work 1931/11/18 (Puy-de-Dôme, France – 1931)
- La Dépêche de Brest 1931/11/18, (Finistère, France – 1931)
- Journal of Political and Literary Debates – 1931/11/19 (Number 321) (Paris, Paris, France – 1931)
- L’Echo d’Alger: Republican morning newspaper – 1931/11/19 (Year 20, N ° 8076) (Alger, Algeria – 1931)
- Le Petit Dauphinois, the great daily newspaper in the French Alps 1931/11/18 (Savoie, France – 1931)
- Le Journal (Paris. 1892) – 1931/11/17 (N14275) (Paris, Paris, France – 1931)
- Le Petit journal 1931/11/18 (Paris)
- Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 25 1932/01/30
- La Dépêche 1931/11/18
- Le Petit Courrier 1931/11/18
- Le Temps (Paris. 1861) – 1931/11/18 (Number 25652)
- The Free Man (Paris. 1913) – 1931/11/18 (Year 19, N ° 5596)
- The Charente, 1931/11/20
The Trial – in 1933 (in French)
- Le Journal (Paris. 1892) – 1933/05/06 (N14811) (Paris, Paris, France – 1933), continues here
- Paris-soir (1923) – 1933/05/06 (Year 11, N ° 3500, ED4) and continues here
- Le Petit Parisien (Paris) – 1933/01/17 (Number 20412). Note: Last ed (France – 1931)
- Le Populaire (Paris) – 1933/05/06 (Number 3741), (Paris, France – 1933) , continues here.
- Le Populaire du Center 1933/05/07 (Haute-Vienne, France – 1933)
- L’Humanité (Paris) – 1933/05/06 (Number 12562)
- Le Petit journal 1933/05/06 , continues here
- L’Action française 1933/05/06
- The Work 1933/05/06 , continues here.