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In 1947 I was visiting my grandmother [Tamara] in the Caucasus. Once, when I had just come from a walk, I saw a boy – a Greek boy – who I met on the train. He declared his love to me, and I said, ‘All right, let’s go to the Terek, and if you swim across the Terek in the evening, then I’ll believe that you are really in love with me.’ That’s what kind of girl I was. He swam across the Terek, I was very impressed, but when I came home to Grandmother’s house I stopped in the doorway. There was my mom sitting there in the company of a young man, very handsome, blue-eyed, blond, very attractive, with a high forehead. I was stuck there in the doorway and fell in love with him literally from the first glance.
We dated for one year. His mother wanted us to get married. And he was a student of the Aviation Institute, and came to the Caucasus to have a rest at his mom’s home. His mother, whose name was Bratislava, knew my grandmother very well. Bratislava was a dressmaker and sewed for them. And that was how we met. We had an ordinary secular wedding.
We dated for one year. His mother wanted us to get married. And he was a student of the Aviation Institute, and came to the Caucasus to have a rest at his mom’s home. His mother, whose name was Bratislava, knew my grandmother very well. Bratislava was a dressmaker and sewed for them. And that was how we met. We had an ordinary secular wedding.
Period
Year
1947
Location
Russia
Interview
Valentina Fidelman