The famous poet and bard Julius Kim, together with his sister Alina, wrote a surprisingly touching book about their mother, a teacher of Russian language and literature.
The famous poet and bard Julius Kim, together with his sister Alina, wrote a surprisingly touching book about their mother, a teacher of Russian language and literature. Nina Vsesvyatskaya is a continuation of the Russian zemstvo intelligentsia in the Soviet era, both in biography and in spirit. She was part of a huge clan of the All Saints-Uspenskys — doctors, teachers, priests; married a Korean journalist, who was later shot in 37, and herself ended up in a camp for 10 years as «a member of the family of a traitor to the motherland.» She received letters from home with stories about her children, transcribed them into funny children’s poems, and illustrations for them were drawn there, in the camp, by the artist Lisiko Kitsmarashvili — these amazing home-made products are also in the book. The camp shocked, but did not harden Nina Vsesvyatskaya, she was a pure, strict, selfless and disinterested person, who loved life, people and her profession as a teacher.
LINKS, 256 p.