from RusHarbin.com
The brilliant Russian officer, awarded the Order of St George, Oleg Isaev lived with his family in Shanghai. Having not taken any roots, left his family, his wife and two daughters - Eugenia and Olga, moved to Port Arthur, settled in the chapel-caretaker's lodge, on the Russian cemetery and lived there until the arrival of Soviet troops. It seemed to him that he is closer to the Motherland. He introduced himself to Marshal Vasilevsky as Father Herman (this information is from Koval, A.I.)
From some ancestors he had French roots, he was offered to take French citizenship (which was unprecedented, when one dreamed to get any citizenship) but he declined, hoping still to return to Russia.
One of his daughters Olga Horvat-Isayev (daughter-in-law of General Dmitry Leonidovich Horvat, who was the director of the Chinese Eastern Railway for 18 years) lives in Vancouver, Canada. At one time she was considered one of the most beautiful women in Shanghai. The second - Eugenia Pafnuteva-Isayev, lives in San Francisco, USA.
Commander of the Soviet Army in Manchuria, Marshal Vasilevsky called him pride of the Russian people, and a week later Isaev was arrested. He received 10 years in the labor camps, as a white emigrant. Many years later, came the information from the Red Cross, who found Olga in Canada, that her father, Oleg Isaev, died in the 1960s in the city of Aktubensk.