31 March 2010. Nicola stretched out at end of bed, one white paw extended towards sunny window. Last night's rain...
A gathering of friends, passover stories. Zoya at end of table, like a small bird with bright eyes, telling Rose (in Russian) about the family's fleeing the Ukraine in 1941, in advance of the Nazis. "We bought a horse...walked alongside with all our belongings..." Also a pesach story, if unintended...maybe the most pointed of them all...
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Olga Leshinskaya, the ballerina. Her role in Kontsert Frontu (Concert to the Front), also stories. A favorite of Stalin (there were those who said it was more), and an exemplary Soviet citizen--an artist of great talent...a survivor...
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