This is my mother Nadezhda Dziekovskaya with her father Yefim El'bert and a group of holiday makers in a water resort. This photo was taken in Baden-Baden in 1912. My mother and other people have mineral water mugs in their hands.
My grandfather had health problems and traveled to Baden-Baden to get water treatment every year. My mother went with him several times. Grandfather Yefim loved my mother. Every now and then he called her home saying: 'My joy, the treasure of my life'. When my mother grew into a young girl, other students began to do the same. They called and said parroting my grandfather: 'My joy, the treasure of my life'. By that time there were frequent gatherings of young people at home: my grandfather liked the company of the young. He liked to teat them to something to eat. He used to say jokingly: 'Cavalry, welcome to sweet treatments!' My grandfather died at the age of 56 shortly after the October revolution.
