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keywords: Francesco Misiano (Sandro's
maternal grandfather, of whom he takes the last name.)
International Workers' Help
Mezrabpom film - Pudovkin Trotsky Moscow
Radio The Great
Purge gulag Elodia Manservigi Stalin
Togliatti Togliattigrad Gualtiero Misiano DAnnunzio
Lux
hotel
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synthesis: Francesco Misiano (Sandro's
maternal grandfather, of whom he takes the last name):
origins;
in 1919
partecipates at General strikes in Berlin; gets
arrested and sent to German prisons for ten months,
and then he is able to escape prison only because he
gets elected as a deputy through the Socialist Party in Italy;
arrives in the USSR after the October
Revolution in 1919;
returns to Italy and founds the Italian
Communist Party ("Pcd'I"); in 1921 partecipates
in the founding of the Communist Party at
Livorno and becomes a deputy;
antifascist activities;
trip to Berlin,
then to Moscow,
where he becomes a director of the
International Worker's Help;
founds a film company: the
Mezrabpom film; relationships with directors
(Pudovkin, Eisenstein),
He is able to bring to the limelight
The Battleship Potemkin
(Eisenstein);
with the foreign distribution of soviet films he is
able to finance the International Worker's Help.
In 1938
the father gets arrested and executed,
as a university student he gets accused of
deviancy Trotsky -
Sandro works in the Italian section of the Moscow Radio:
Togliatti, Ornella e Carolina Misiano (respectively
mother and aunt of Sandro;
their house is famous in Moscow as a meeting place for
Italian Communists)
The Great Purge:
grandfather's arrest Elodia
Manservigi's return
from the gulag -
betrayal
and
self-accusations - 20th
Conference of the CPUS -
death of Stalin
- story:
mother's encounter
with Stalin - job in
Fiat at Togliattigrad
- uncle Gualtiero Misiano: life and profession
as a singer of popular
Roman and Neapolitan songs
in USSR - Sandro Misiano translator and simultaneous
dubber of Italian films
for the Kremlin's
own
private
screening. Audio: songs of Gualtiero
Misiano - Photos: Francisco Misiano -
Documents: D'Annunzio
orders the capture of
Francisco Misiano - deputy
medal of Francisco Misiano.
subject biiography:
Sandro Misiano, grandson of Francisco Misiano. Francisco is
a communist deputy
in Italian from
1922 to
1924 and then
a Parliament
member. The family moves
to the USSR when the
grandfather Francisco becomes an
anti-fascist activist.
The Misiano family lives in
Moscow at the
Lux
hotel ,like other
international Communists. Francisco Misiano,
director of the
International Worker's Help, dies in
1936 of
natural reasons while escaping the repression.
In 1938 the father gets
arrested and executed.
After the war Sandro
works at
the
Moscow Radio
conducting programs
for Italian children. In 1959
he works in the Fiat plants of Togliattigrad taking care of the
relationships with Italy.
Subsequently he is assigned to direct the
foreign relations of the Vass plant. In the
same period he works as
a
simultaneous translator of Italian films for
private screenings in the Kremlin.
Currently he lives in
Moscow. |
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DOCUMENTS:
SONGS
DOCUMENTS:
SPORT/ LABOR AWARDS - MEDALS
PHOTOS
REPORTS:
ORDER
OF ARREST FROM GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO
LINKS:
http://www.usask.ca/
history/cjh/craver.htm
http://www.mclink.it/com/
itnet/giovani/eng/
giocine_e.htm#23AVI.2001
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