In the shadow of a great personality (the fate of Pana Styazhkina - an unofficial wife of V.V. Kuybyshev)

The article is based on archival documents and devoted to the life and activities of Praskovya Afanasyevna Styazhkina, a convinced revolutionary, party activist and stateswoman who remained in the shadow of a great personality - Valerian Kuibyshev, being his unofficial wife and mother of his son, Vladimir Valerianovich Kuibyshev, born in a Samara prison. The author distinguish three stages of Styazhkina’s life, in Vyatka, Samara, and Moscow.