I was born on the 21st
of December 1917 in the city of Chita, Siberia, Russia of Russian parents
of Greek orthodox faith. My father Gregory Iosifovich Stichinsky was en
employee of the trans-siberian railway and my mother Olga Petrovna Strijalkovsky
was a house wife.My parent shad abandonned
Rusia in 1920 on account of the revolution and had fled to Harbin, Manchuria.
At first my father worked as specialist in candies and cakes and in 1922
was employed by North China Railway.In Harbin I went to Russian
school but did not graduate the High School on account of the sudden death
of my father. My father worked with
the North China Railway until 1929 when the sino Soviet conflict started.
In view of his negative to support the Soviets in the mentioned conflict,
he was fired from his job. Without much commercial experience he started
a business of his own, a restaurant working with my mother. He was not
very lucky in his business and soon lost his money. This has affected him
so much that shortly after this he fell ill and 1933 died of a heart attack.
In view of this, I had to quit school and begin to work. I had worked in
several commercial stores as saleswoman nd had acquired experience in the
sales of toyr and ready made clothes.In 1936 I entered to work
with South Manchurian Railway Cooperative in the section of ready made
clothes. This cooperative be,onged to the Japanese.In April 1939I left for
Seisin (North Korea) with my mother to join my future husband Mr. Mikail
Vasilievich Sisikin who at that time lived in Seisin and was in charge
of his father's business dealing in ready made clothes and dry goods in
general. I knew mr. Sisikin from Harbin, Manchuria.In may 1939 weleft for
Yokomama, japan where my husband's parents resided and were married on
the 2nd of June 1939 in Tokyo in the Russian Orthodox Church. Already in
July 1939 my husband left for Seisin ( North Korea) to continue his work
in the store of his father and in August 1939 I and my mother joined him
in Seisin.We stayed in Seisin till the month of Ocotber 1939. That same
month my father-in-law sold the business and bought a similarone in Toyohara,
Karafuto (Southern Sakhalin) where we went to work. I helped my husband
in this business til April,1941.On the 25th of may 1940
my son gregory was born in Toyohara. In the 31st of may 1941 we left Japan
forChile and had arrived in Valparaiso on the 31st of July 1941 with the
ship "Rakuyo Maru". My mother and the parents of my husband came
with us.In Santiago we lived on
Las Enchinas 3010 and in october 1941 left for Quilota on account of ill
health of my husband who fell with fierce influenza.In February 1942 we went
to Rancagua where my husband had opened a soda fountain "Quick Lunch"
- Calle Independencia 764 (Pasaje Cillero).In August 1944 we came
to Santiago (San Nicilas 1149) where on the 3rd of december 1944 my daughter
Catalina was born. In the middle of 1945 I started to work in the American
Milk Bar , Ahumada 140. I was in charge of the purchases of products for
the business and at the same time had to work as administrator. The owner
of one of the owners of the business was Mr. Juan Simon, now owner of the
firm Bradley y Cia. - Ahumada 51, dealing in electrical articles. Then
i worked in the following firmsPubill Hnos. y Cia. Ltda
(Waldorf) - Ahumada 131 - Owners Pubill Bros from march 1950 to July 1951Haiti Coffee Italo-American
Co., Ltda. - Ahumada 142 - Owners Luigi Benetti and Guide Almerhigi.fromAugust 1951 to July
1952Mendler v Cia - FarmmeisBoston,,
Bandera 801 - Owner Mr. Marcos Kodno From August to Sept 1952 Av Schedique
4053. This business continued till almost the end of 1956 when my husband
lieft for Africa with his former boss Mr. Abraham Poniachik to work there
in exchange business and importation.I sold the machines and
gave the money to my husband for his work.In August 1959 I again
started to work with the Sociedad Distribuidora de Articulos Cosmeticos,
Ltda - (Casa Grant) - Ahumada 178, where I now working. i am in charge
of the business and hold at the same time as chief saleswoman.I never belonged to any
political party. I am a religious person and belong to the Russian Orthodox
Church. I also go every thursday toi a Catholic Church on Calle Santo Domingo
for a special mass. I helped to create a Russian cemetary in Puente Alto
and my children are educated in a Christian spirit.I had assisted several
feasts given by the Centre de los Patriotas Red Cross. I think that at
that time I was doing well in order to help the Allied Vicxtory, but when
the war finished I never took part in any feast of theirs.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF
Mikhail Vasilievich
Sisikin Moshnin
I was born on the 25th
of September 1915 in the Village of Boltunovka province of Saratov, Russia.
My father Vasiliy Lukianovich Sisikin Kuznetzoff and my mother Ekaterina
Mioshnina Hramova are both of the Ancient orthodox faith. Since the year1911
my gandfather had a business of his own in Irkutsk (Siberia) dealign in
fruits including the importaiton of lemons from Italy. he also dealt in
dry goods which he used to take in a barge dwn the riveLens to the gold
mines in Bodaibo.My father took part in
the Russian civil war on the side of the White army and after the defeat
of the whites was condemmed to death as a counter revolutionary. His death
penalty was replace by 5 years of forced labor. After six months in the
camp in saratov he fled to his home town Boltunovka and took me to the
neighboring village of Podlesnoe With my mother and brother we took the
boat is Sisran across the Volga and on to Irkutsk to join my grandfather
but found he hd already fled the revolution to Manchuria. In irkutsk my
father was again mobilized by the Oriental Siberian White Army In spring
of 1921 we crossed the manchurian border with my mother to rejoin my grandfather.
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