Deep Raid

Vladimir Dmitrievich Uspensky (October 11, 1927, Odoev, Tula Oblast — January 18, 2000, Moscow) was a Russian writer, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, and a member of the Union of Writers of Russia.
Born on October 11, 1927, in the city of Odoev, into a family of teachers. Uspensky’s father, Dmitry Petrovich Uspensky, was born into the family of a priest, Petr Petrovich Uspensky, in a village neighboring Odoev; he worked as an inspector in the district department of public education and headed DOSAAF, in the early years of the war he was arrested under Article 58 and disappeared without a trace, but later, closer to the end of the war, he was rehabilitated. Before taking the priestly rank, Petr Petrovich worked as a teacher at a village school and knew many foreign languages. Together with his wife, Elizaveta Lvovna, they had and raised six sons and three daughters. Uspensky’s mother, Sechkina Nina Nikolaevna, was born in 1907 in Odoev in Tula Governorate, into a wealthy merchant family. Her father, Nikolay Alekseevich Sechkin, was of Cossack origin from the Zaporozhian Sich; her mother was Maria Ivanovna Bulgakova. Nina Nikolaevna actively engaged in social work. For example, having joined the Komsomol, she organized one of the first pioneer дружин in the district and finished the Tula party-school. After the birth of her son Vladimir, due to a marriage with the son of a clergyman, she was expelled from the party, from Komsomol.