Evgenia Ershova's paternal aunt, Fania Gutianskaya

My father's sister, Fania Gutianskaya, was photographed around 1916 in Ladyzhyn, during her studies in Odessa grammar school. She sent this photo to her parents in Ladyzhin. Fania born in 1897, was the closest to our family. She went to elementary school for few years and then studied at home. She passed the exams for the 6th grade at Odessa grammar school and graduated with the diploma of a primary school teacher. After the revolution Fania graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics at Odessa University. Fania got married. She lived in the town of Beshad with her husband. In the early 1930s she divorced him and came to Kiev with her son, Victor. Victor went to the front during the first days of the war and perished at the very beginning of the war. After evacuation, Fania returned to Kiev. She died in 1964.