Shura Alekseeva at Sochi, 1926

"Shura" Alekseeva, Vaganian’s first wife, in Sochi, 1926. She was an Old Bolshevik who wrote a book called "Брызги" in the 1920s. She left Vaganian and married V. I. Polonsky. She was arrested in 1936 or 1937, and apparently died under extremely brutal torture.