![]() Lieutenant was the beginning of an eastward journey which was to last a month. Sgovio wrote, "Our train left Moscow on the evening of 24 June. Sgovio was transported in a prison train to Vladivostok. Therefore I believe that there is no reason to review Sgovio"s case. The prosecutor who dealt with the application concluded that, "Sgovio does not deny that he did make an application at the American Embassy. Some years later Sgovio sought to have his case reviewed. After a perfunctory and routine inquiry in which the Soviet authorities seem mainly to have been concerned with his attendance at the embassy, he was sentenced by a troika of three officials to forced labour as a "socially dangerous element". After his arrest, he was first taken to Moscow"s Lubyanka Prison and later transported to Taganka Prison in a Black Raven. ![]() He became disillusioned after three years living in Moscow, tried to reclaim his passport at the United States embassy there and was arrested by the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs on 12 March 1938 as he left the embassy. (age 80) Buffalo, Erie County, United States of America ![]()
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