Lyudmila Kreslova’s granddaughter Alexandra’s birth registration

Lyudmila Kreslova’s granddaughter Alexandra’s birth registration

This is the birth registration of my granddaughter Alexandra. She was born in 1977 in Leningrad. My mother Rakhil is utmost to the right, my elder brother Boris, holding the child, is second to the right; Mother's younger sister Basia is third to the right; my daughter Elena is fourth to the right; I am with my elder granddaughter Marina (Elena's daughter) fifth to the right; my husband Abram is utmost to the left.

My husband, Abram Zosimovich, had a Polish last name, Krislav. I think he had relatives in Poland. I got married in June 1946. I was 25 at that time. We didn't have a wedding celebration. After the wedding I started to live at my husband's place. He had a small room, 11 square meters, in a communal apartment located on Goncharnaya Street. While we lived in the communal apartment, our children were born.

Our eldest daughter Galina was born in 1947. I was rather plump after the war and no one guessed that I was pregnant. Galina went to a Soviet school for ten years. She went to work as a cook in a cafeteria after finishing school.

She didn't continue her studies, because she didn't want to and money was needed. She married a Russian, Victor Gurianov, at the age of 20 in 1967.

In 1969 their daughter Julia was born and in 1974 their son Yuriy was born.

Our second daughter Elena was born in 1950. She went to a Soviet school for ten years and after that entered a technical school to study to be a sales assistant of confectionary goods. She worked in a store for a year.

After that she studied to be a projectionist in the 'Barricada' cinema, there was a teacher who taught her. She found a job at the 'Leningrad' cinema and worked there until 1970.

Then she studied to become a hair-dresser and now works in a beauty shop. Elena fell off a swing when she was ten years old and hurt her spine. We treated her spine all her life and she still suffers.

Other parts of her body began to ache because of her spine and Elena became disabled.

She married a Russian, Sergey Sidorov, and had two daughters: Marina and Alexandra.

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