In 1968, friends typed samizdat copies, repeating the pictures on the back sides of the sheets.

During the Russian Civil War the family moved to their estate in Bessarabia to become farmers.

In 1940, Bessarabia was annexed by the Soviet Union, and the Kersnovskaya family (Eufrosinia and her mother) were oppressed as former landowners.

In June 1941 she was deported to Siberia as an exile settler (ссыльнопоселенец) to work as a logger.

[3][4] She refused to ask for clemency and wrote on a sheet of paper provided to her for this purpose: "I cannot demand justice, I do not want to ask for mercy".