My daughter Irina, being a schoolgirl, recorded memories of Valeria Fedorovna from her words, here I give partially: "father-Fyodor Karlovich Glezer was born, lived and studied in Saratov. He had two sisters and several brothers. Then they moved to Veliky Ustyug, where he graduated from high school and began to work in the pharmacy assistant pharmacist. Having saved some money, he went to Moscow with a cart, entered the University, graduated from it and returned to Veliky Ustyug. The owner of the pharmacy was old, and his son unlucky, and he offered Fedor Karlovich to buy him a pharmacy on credit. When he paid off the loan, his parents let him get married. He was long in love with Frederick — the daughter of Christian Andreyevich Pets, a respected and well-known man in the city. Frederick's parents were against it, but the marriage took place.
Fedor Karlovich and Frederica Khristianovna had 12 children. The first two boys, according to his grandmother, died in infancy, three others probably died later because the only survivor the seven: Edward (1883-1941.g.), Eleanor (1884-1979.g.), Leo (1886-1974.g.), Alfred (? - in 1917. left in France), Valeria (1892-1984.g.), Margarita (1894 – after 1974 ) and Ernestine (1896-1914.g).
And here is an extract from a letter Galina Chebykin – known specialist, head of Department of history of Veliky Ustyug Museum-reserve, which she sent me in response to my request to tell something about my great-grandfather:
"I inform You available to me information on Your great grandfather Feodor (Theodore) K. Glaser (b. CA. 1851-1923). His wife was really the daughter of Christian A. PEC — Frederick Christianovna PEC(R. ок1856г.-1944).The pharmacist Fedor Karlovich, probably, has arrived to Velikiy Ustyug in 1878, bought the pharmacy from I. I. Berg for 18 thousand rubles. Owned it 10 years, 1888году he sold his pharmacy, Veliky Ustyug uyezd Zemstvo, at the same time deprived of the right to have another pharmacy in the city".
In the magazine "Russian drugstores", No. 24 in 2007. in the section "pharmacy in town" contains an article about the drugstore №21 In Velikiy Ustyug. "The first archival mention of our pharmacy dates back to 1888. It relates to signing the preliminary contract, whereby the owner of the pharmacy – the pharmacist Fedor Karlovich Glaser expresses the consent to sell it, Veliky Ustyug uyezd Zemstvo: "the property of the Council passes the appropriate feature pharmacy on the street Uspenskaya (now Sovetskaya Avenue)... Freestyle Velikoustyugskaya pharmacy Glezer came into the possession of the Council on 3 March 1889. Her staff consisted of the Manager of the pharmacy of the pharmacist, his assistant, two apprentices and two servants. The pharmacy mostly sold Magistral formula of drugs and a patient-care items".
Then again I appeal to the memories of my grandmother Valeria Fedorovna Savinskaya (Glazer): "Soon my father sold the pharmacy, and they moved to Yaroslavl, so that children could learn. There father opened a new pharmacy, she was very famous in city of and there is until now. My grandmother was born in Yaroslavl, as well as her younger sisters Marguerite and Ernestine.
Evidence that Fedor Karloviches opened in Yaroslavl the pharmacy, we find in the "Russian medical list" for information on 15 March 1896.and according to the information on may 1, 1900.in the section "the Yaroslavl province".
According to the letter of Galina Nikolaevna Chebykin and according to our documents on receipt Valeria Fedorovna Glezer in class 3 Velikoustyugskaya School, in 1903 the family Glezer returned to Veliky Ustyug. Fedor Karlovich, apparently, continued to work in the pharmacy, the pharmacist, because the memories Shlau V., his sons Edward and Leo are referred to as sons of a pharmacist, and grandmother in all the surviving documents we have in the column "father" says the pharmacist.
Next G. N. Chebykina writes: "In 1907. he (Fedor Glezer) opened in the heart of the city printing house, which was located in the house on Uspenskaya street. One of the documents for the 1911. it is said that Fedor Karlovich — the personal honourable citizen".
After the revolution, the printing house was taken from Fedor Glezer. Fedor Karlovich died in Veliky Ustyug in 1923, avoiding the sad expulsion of the Germans first from Ustyug, and then from the European part of Russia.
My daughter Irina and I are now searching the Internet, turning to the archives of Engels, where collected materials on the Volga German colonies that existed there since Catherine times. In the Russian medical directory for 1866 we find that the colony Ekaterinenshtadt Samara province was listed as the pharmacist Glezer — this may well be a relative of our great-grandfather, also on the list of founders of the colony, Goldman (one of the colonies of the Samara province), we also find the surname Glezer, but it all requires more study. So while we can't give any precise information about the origin of Theodore (Feodor) of K. Glaser.
Another of the grandmother's memories about his father — Fyodor Karlovich kept their children in line. Despite the wealth in the family, no excesses were not encouraged neither in clothes nor food. My grandmother told me that, as a young schoolgirl, she was very mad at dad for what she had to go to school in a sturdy, but rough boots, and the way it walked past the gymnasium, and she was ashamed of his shoes. It even seemed that the boys laugh at her, but then she was grateful to the father — no deprivation in the 20s didn't frighten her, although, as my grandma used to say, no silk sheets and elegant shoes some young ladies were driven to suicide.
Aunt Mira (Elmira Eduardovna Glezer) says that her father Eduard Fedorovich was also offended by the severity of his father. Eduard poorly finished another course of high school, and the father in punishment for it took him from school and determined to work in the pharmacy. Maybe this is what subsequently has led to the fact that Edward graduated from high school and the Timiryazev Academy.
Remembering his grandmother Frederique Christianovna PEC, aunt of the World, in particular, stressed that she was very elegant, all the grandchildren called her "little grandma" and grandpa Fedor Karlovich "great grandfather". Other grandparents from the PEC — Arnold and Bertha (ur. Rotters) — on the contrary "big grandma and little grandpa." Frédéric Christian PEC was musical, played the piano, was exceptionally kind and patient with her children.
Children of Fyodor Karlovich Glezer and Frederica Christian PEC:
Senior son Edward (1883-1941.d.) he was married to his cousin Charlotte Arnoldovna PEC (1888-1943.g).
Edward F. Glaser graduated from the Timiryazev Academy and was engaged in agriculture, they lived with their parents Charlotte Arnold Khristianovich and Bertha Frantsevna PEC.
In Ustyug Eduard and Charlotte were born daughter Nina, Valeria and Elmira.