A popular blogger shared an amazing story that ended happily thanks to a series of coincidences. In an abandoned apartment, he found photographs of a mother with a baby and posted it online. And soon the woman depicted on them wrote to him …
Russian blogger Alexei Zhirukhin travels a lot around Russia and around the world. In March 2021, he visited Vorkuta and traveled around several villages in the vicinity of the city. Including visited Sovetsky, whose inhabitants were resettled a couple of months before his arrival.
According to the traveler, the village looked empty and dead. All the houses were open, they left furniture, kitchen utensils and other things of little value. But one of the apartments surprised him most of all – many personal belongings of the owners were preserved in it.
“It feels like no one has even moved out of here yet,” Alexey argued in his blog. “Everything was upside down, and there were a bunch of old photographs on the floor. Things are somehow not particularly pitiful, but that’s why they didn’t take these photos? On one of them, a mother and a newborn child were photographed.
Why didn’t the residents take photographs with them, especially if they depict the first minutes of a baby’s life?
The blogger posted a photo report from the villages near Vorkuta on the social network. Subscribers also drew attention to the decor of the abandoned apartment and wondered why the tenants did not take photographs with them, especially if they captured the first minutes of a baby’s life.
Commentators would have continued to wonder why the inhabitants of Sovetsky left the house so hastily, if a couple of days later, a subscriber Anna, who introduced herself as the former owner of the apartment, had not written to the blogger.
Alexey studied the photographs of the Russian woman and compared them with those he saw in an abandoned apartment. The resemblance was obvious: the woman and the 14-year-old boy next to her are the same mother with a baby from the picture.
“That’s the way things were. Otherwise I wouldn’t have left.”
The woman told the traveler her story. It turned out that she left the Soviet in 2009. Anna ran away from her tyrant husband, taking only her two-year-old son with her. The woman told her husband that she would go on vacation to Anapa, but she never returned home.
“That’s the way things were. Otherwise, I would not have left,” she explained. In 2010, her husband was sent to prison for 10 years – she did not disclose the reason why he ended up behind bars.
The woman again ended up in Vorkuta on New Year’s Eve – her cousin lives there. She tried to get into her old apartment in the village, but the door was locked.
The blogger told the woman that her apartment is currently open: the vandals opened the lock and scattered all the things, but the photos are on the floor in good condition. The Russian woman asked her brother to collect the pictures and send them to her.
Random coincidences helped a woman get her memorable photos after 12 years
After some time, Anna sent Alexei footage, which shows that she received photographs and other things from the apartment. “I am overwhelmed with emotions,” she admitted. Then the woman invited the traveler to visit.
In June, the Russian woman and the blogger eventually met and took a photo together. Alexey published it on the blog and said that Anna’s fate was good: she lives in a happy marriage with her new husband and gave birth to two more children. “Well, we became good friends. These are the coincidences that helped the woman get her memorable photos after 12 years!” summed up the blogger.
It is not surprising that the heroine of the story, who ran away from her husband, did not take family photos with her. The decision to leave an abuser is one of the most difficult and dangerous for a woman. During this period, she is most vulnerable, the risk of violence from a tyrant spouse is extremely high.
Anna’s story, fortunately, ended successfully. The Russian woman found the strength to break off relations with her ex-husband and start a new life. And thanks to a travel blogger and social networks, she was able to return photos with her son dear to her heart.
Alexey Zhirukhin’s blog: https://bepowerback.livejournal.com/280355.html