Peter's great-grandfather. A major. A personal pensioner of all-Union significance — the highest category in the USSR. Fought in three wars. Peter is named after him.
Born in June 1893. At 21 — mobilised into the First World War (1914). The Civil War in Siberia (1918–1922) — Barnaul was a theatre of combat, and the railway workers were a mainstay of the Bolsheviks. The Second World War — at the front with the rank of major. "All wounded, all that sort of thing..." — from the father's stories.
After the Civil War — a "responsible railway official". He was billeted in the house of the Kolmakov family in Barnaul (housing consolidation after the revolution) — and married their young daughter Katerina Diomidovna (1902). Then he moved into trade-union work — "went into the unions".
A personal pension of all-Union significance — granted by the Commission under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Only for "special services to the state". 200 roubles a month plus free sanatoriums, medicine and transport. After his death his wife Katerina was granted the title of "pensioner of local significance" and her pension was raised to 120 roubles.
Died in May 1971, a month short of his 78th birthday. Buried, presumably, in Barnaul or Omsk.