Not realizing they had been badly rotten, her father and respected law professor, Mikhail Chelyshev, entered the cellar first, but never returned. Her worried mother, Anastasia, then went to go look for him, and also was overcome by the fumes. Her 18-year-old brother, Georgy, went to the cellar in search of his parents, and suffered the same fate.
Anastasia’s mother, Iraida, then called a neighbor for help, after her family members had suspiciously not returned from the cellar. Before help arrived, she went down into the cellar, and tragically suffocated from the gas and died, as well.
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