CHAPTER 11. OUR PARENTS MARIA, our parent, compared to the other her two sisters and brother, was the most industrious of all as she chose her residence place in a bigger city BRYANSK than her siblings’ PJCHEP. MARIA created the favorable conditions for studies for her husbands BORIS, NICKOLAY, and her children. Her principle ”…
CHAPTER 10. The PENYUKOVS MARIA’s older sister’s name was POLINA. She was married to PENUYKOV IVAN. In the PENUYKOV’s family there were raised 3 children: two brothers Nickolay and Mikhail, and one sister Zinaida. When NICKOLAY (my cousin) got a promotion for a position of the CHAIRMAN of Sovkhoz “PIONEER” of Vygonichi District, he shared…
CHAPTER 9. THE KRYLOVS MARIA has got two sisters and one brother. The younger sister’s name was ANASTASIYA ( we called her always Auntie Nalya ). She was married to ALEXANDER KRYLOV. They had 5 daughters (my cousins): Evgeniya (Zhenya)- the oldest, Nadezhda, Svetlana, Vera, Lyubov (Lyuba). Two sisters Zhenya and Sveta worked as nurses…
CHAPTER 8 POCHEP POCHEP is a native land of the family of MARIA. It is a very interesting town historically. It is situated to the South-West from BRYANSK, its population is more than 17.000 people. The prominent Russian composer Matvey Isaakovich Blunter was born here, and this is his famous song “KATYUSHA”: When I was…
CHAPTER 7. OUR GRANDMA NATALIA IVANOVNA Actually, NATALIA IVANOVNA was a Grandmother for me and Gennadiy. EMMA was left alone in this relationship. For LARISA she was a GREAT GRANDMA, but for GLEB – GREAT GREAT GRANDMA. What kind of a person was she? TYpical Russian woman of a beatiful outlooks and a srtong character….
CHAPTER 6.The 1946-th In July, 1946 on the threshold of MARIA’s home her husband Nickolay showed up. Listen to the popular song of the war time “My Beloved” : “Where have you been, Kolya? All the year 1946-th? The war had been over last year?!” asked MARIA in surprise. He did not answer not a…