Tag #114706 - Interview #102852 (Chaya Sakhartova )

My parents worked in Olshanka. I also worked in that village: as a school teacher for three years. There were two classes, one for boys and one for girls. It was impossible to work with the boys, they were out of control. I told them, ‘If you want to know about Leningrad, I will tell you about it for ten minutes.’ So they sat and listened quietly, because they certainly wanted to hear about Leningrad, as it was the cultural center of the Soviet Union, ‘the cradle of the Revolution’ [18], the city of Pushkin [19] and something beyond their knowledge, which, as they thought, mere mortals were not given to see in their lives.