Death Certificate of Konstantin Bokan

Description

Creator

Nikolai Bokan, 1881-1942, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Text

Item Type

Photographs

Description

The death certificate indicates that Konstantin Bokan died on July 1, 1933 at the age of twenty-one. He is said to have died from exhaustion due to malnutrition (istoshchenie). The doctor's office is listed as the place of death. The certificate was prepared by Dr. Klym Teslia, a local doctor, who was notably one of the witnesses interrogated as part of Nikolai and Boris Bokan's criminal trial.

The date and location of death are contrary to other sources in the file. In his memoir and in the inscription to one of the photos presented in the collection, Nikolai Bokan claimed that Konstantin collapsed in a field and died on the spot. Two photos in the collection also feature the grave marker in which June 30, 1933 is inscribed as the date of Konstantin's death as opposed to July 1, 1993 which the certificate claims it to be (See the "Related Features" section for details on the mentioned photos).

The criminal case file does not include the original death certificate, but only a photo of the document. The photo of the certificate also appeared on other display boards prepared by Nikolai (see the "Related Features" section).

Date of Original

July 1933

Personal Name(s)

Konstantin Bokan

Local identifier

PD319

Language of Item

Russian; Ukrainian

Geographic Coverage

Baturyn

Chernihiv, Ukraine

Latitude: 51.34567 Longitude: 32.87794

Copyright Statement

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Location of Original

State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine: https://ssu.gov.ua/ua/pages/98

Terms of Use

Any reproductions of images from the Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine must include the following reference: Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine, fonds 6, case № 75489-fp, volume 2.

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