Orlikova Elena’s maternal aunt Rosa and her husband Osip Oguz

My Aunt Rosa (my mother's sister) and her husband Osip Oguz.

Rosa, my grandparents' older daughter, was born in 1900.

Rosa finished a grammar school. She got involved in the revolutionary movement and was fond of the revolutionary literature. She went to Moscow and worked with the Ministry of Education (ministers were called People's commissars - narkom ) Anatoliy Vassilievich Lunacharskiy . She met Osip Semyonovich Oguz (a Jew and a revolutionary, like herself - he came from the Baltic republics) and they got married. Very soon they both dot disappointed in the revolutionary movement and in the idea of communism and moved to Kiev. They worked in medical institutions. Rosa died in 1955. Her husband Osip Semyonovich lived a very long life and died at 96 1990. He worked at the logistics department of Kiev Medical Institute until he was 92. He was a very respectable employee. Everybody liked him.