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View Tree for Zahar Micholvich MisustinZahar Micholvich Misustin (b. September 05, 1893, d. March 08, 1962)

Zahar Micholvich Misustin was born September 05, 1893 in Kuska, Burzvnia, Ukraine, and died March 08, 1962 in Canoga Park, Los Angeles County, California. He married Mary Fekitja, daughter of Adan Fekitja and Anna Blaciz.

 Includes NotesNotes for Zahar Micholvich Misustin:
Zahar was known to be a member of the Czar's Army from Approximately 1913 to 1917 when he was captured by the Communists and imprisoned in Yugoslavia. "Worker Class" rebellions and the beginning of World War I plauged the Russian Army during this period. This culminated at the beginning of 1917:

Feb After several days of demonstrations in Petrograd (formally St Petersburg) the government orders troops to open fire. The next day these troops mutiny. The Tsar abdicates when he hears that Moscow too has joined the Revolution. An agreement is reached between the Petrograd Soviet and the Provisional Government headed by Lvov.

March 12th Abolition of the death Penalty

April 18th Milyukov note. Milyukov tells allies that war aims unchanged.

April 20 - 21 The April Days. Opposition to the Foreign Minister Milyukov boils over due to his refusal to renounce annexations.

May Milyukov resigns. Members of the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries join the government.

June 3 First All-Russia Congress of Workers and Soldiers Soviets opens.

June 18 Offensive launched by Russia against Austria Hungary.

July The July Days. (3rd and 4th) Workers and soldiers in Petrograd demand the Soviet takes power. Sporadic fighting results and the Soviet restores order with troops brought back from the front. Trotsky arrested. Lenin goes into hiding. A new provisional government is set up with Kerensky at it's head (8th).

July 12th Death Penalty reintroduced for the front.

Aug The Kornilov putsch. An attempt by General Kornilov to establish a right wing dictatorship is a disastrous flop. Chernov the leader of the Socialist Revolutionaries resigns from the government denouncing Kerensky for complicity in the plot.

Sept The Bolsheviks win control of the Petrograd Soviet.
In the countryside peasant seizure of land from the gentry continues and reaches the level of near insurrection in Tambov.

Oct The Bolsheviks overthrow the Provisional government on the eve of the meeting of 2nd All-Russia Congress of Soviets.

26/27 Oct Soviet proclamations on land and peace. Death Penalty abolished.

30 Oct Kerensky repulsed outside Petrograd

2 Nov Bolsheviks gain Moscow

7th Nov Ukraine proclaimed independent by the Central Rada.

Nov 12-14 Elections to the Constituent Assembly. Socialist Revolutionaries the largest party.

12 Dec Left-SRs join Sovnarkom

Dec (early) Congress of Socialist Revolutionaries results in victory for the left under Chernov. Likewise Menshevik Congress gives victory to Martov's Menshevik internationalists.

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Upon release from prison became a farm laborer in Yugoslavia at the Fekejeta Farm



Arrived in 1922 at Ellis Island. Moved to Cleveland, Ohio
1941 moved to Westchester, LA California
Tool and Dye maker during WW-II and then worked for McDonald Douglas Aircraft.




Ellis Island duirng the 1920's
By the 1880's, steam power had shortened the journey to America dramatically. Immigrants poured in from around the world: from the Middle East, the Mediterranean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and down from Canada.

The door was wide open for Europeans - In the 1880s alone, 9% of the total population of Norway emigrated to America. After 1892 nearly all immigrants came in through the newly opened Ellis Island.

One immigrant recalled arriving at Ellis Island: "The boat anchored at mid-bay and then they tendered us on the ship to Ellis Island… We got off the boat…you got your bag in your hand and went right into the building Ah, that day must have been about five to six thousand people. Jammed, I remember it was August. Hot as a pistol, and I'm wearing my long johns, and my heavy Irish tweed suit."

Families often immigrated together during this era, although young men frequently came first to find work. Some of these then sent for their wives, children, and siblings; others returned to their families in Europe with their saved wages.

The experience for Asian immigrants in this period was quite different. In 1882 Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, severely restricting immigration from China. Since earlier laws made it difficult for those Chinese immigrants who were already here to bring over their wives and families, most Chinese communities remained "bachelor societies."

The 1907 "Gentlemen's Agreement" with Japan extended the government's hostility towards Asian workers and families. For thousands, the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay would be as close as they would ever get to the American mainland.

For Mexicans victimized by the Revolution, Jews fleeing the pogroms in Eastern Europe and Russia, and Armenians escaping the massacres in Turkey, America provided refuge.

And for millions of immigrants, New York provided opportunity. In Lower New York, one could find the whole world in a single neighborhood.

Between 1880 and 1930 over 27 million people entered the United States - about 20 million through Ellis Island. But after outbreak of World War I in 1914, American attitudes toward immigration began to shift. Nationalism and suspicion of foreigners were on the rise, and immigrants' loyalties were often called into question. Through the early 20s, a series of laws was passed to limit the flow of immigrants.


Children of Zahar Micholvich Misustin and Mary Fekitja are:
  1. +Ivan Misustin, b. September 12, 1917, Yugoslavia, d. April 16, 1993, Canoga Park, Los Angeles County, California.
  2. Sylvia Misustin.
  3. Walter Vladmir Misustin, b. March 19, 1928, d. December 28, 1993, Chino Hills, San Bernardino County, California.
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