{"id":31884,"date":"2013-09-04T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T06:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=31884"},"modified":"2013-09-04T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T07:48:09","slug":"russian-girl-8-orphaned-after-her-entire-family-is-wiped-out-by-deadly-gas-caused-by-rotting-potatoes-in-the-cellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=31884","title":{"rendered":"Russian girl, 8, orphaned after her ENTIRE family is wiped out by deadly gas caused by rotting potatoes in the cellar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Maria-Chelysheva.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31882\" alt=\"Maria Chelysheva\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Maria-Chelysheva.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Maria-Chelysheva.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Maria-Chelysheva-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a>An eight-year-old Russian girl has been orphaned after her entire family was wiped out by deadly gas caused from rotting potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Grief-stricken Maria Chelysheva lost her father, mother, brother and grandmother who were killed one by one after entering a cellar where they stored potatoes for the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives are caring for the girl who is inconsolable over her loss.<\/p>\n<p>Her father, respected law professor Mikhail Chelyshev, 42, was first to enter the cellar, not realising the potatoes had become seriously rotten.<\/p>\n<p>He fainted from the noxious fumes, and soon afterwards died, say police.<\/p>\n<p>When he failed to re-appear, his worried wife Anastasia, 38, went to look for him in the dark and was also overcome by the poisonous gas.<\/p>\n<p>Next the couple\u2019s 18 year old son Georgy went in search of his parents, only to suffer the same tragic fate as his mother and father after inhaling the highly toxic fumes.<\/p>\n<p>Anastasia\u2019s mother Iraida, 68, called a neighbour to say there was something suspicious and to plead for help.<\/p>\n<p>But before assistance arrived, she also went into the cellar, suffocated from the gas, and collapsed and died like the others, say police.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that as she went in, she left the door open, allowing the fumes to disperse.<\/p>\n<p>When Maria entered the cellar, she found the bodies of her whole family on the cellar floor.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking case was at Laishevo, a town near Kazan, in the Russian republic of Tatarstan on the Volga River.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives and friends are appealing for cash to support the girl.<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service for Professor Chelyshev was held in the marble hall of\u00a0 Kazan Federal University, where he was head of the department of civil and business law.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eight-year-old Russian girl has been orphaned after her entire family was wiped out by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,149,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-russia","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}