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Moisey Shoov
This is my mother's brother Moisey Shoov. The photo was taken in Gaisin in 1916. Moisey, born in 1895, was my mother's oldest brother. I don't know what Moisey did for a living. I guess he was a worker. After the Revolution he lived in Moscow with his wife and daughter Nyusia. Nyusia was a very beautiful girl. It happened so that my mother's younger brother Shoil, born in 1915, fell in love with her. Of course, the family was against their marriage for the reason that Shoil was Nyusia's uncle. But the young people insisted on getting married which they did. Their marriage didn't last long - Nyusia died when giving birth to her first baby. It was a boy and they gave him the name of Gennadiy. Her father Moisey Shoov couldn't get over his daughter's death and died soon after her, around 1937.

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