Tag #155477 - Interview #94697 (Larisa SHYHMAN)

After the revolution, when the Pale of Settlement was annulled, the family moved to Lipki, an aristocratic neighborhood in Kiev. Only wealthier and intelligent families lived there before the revolution. During the revolution they were forced out of there and Party authorities and NKVD [6] bosses and department moved to Lipki. Only high-level Party and military bosses lived in Lipki. There was a huge apartment where we lived, but it was like a communal apartment [7]. I don’t know how my grandmother managed to move there with her family. Later my grandmother leased or sold two rooms, I wouldn’t tell… There was a Jewish family living there.