Tag #114970 - Interview #78047 (Eva Ryzhevskaya)

We had books at home. Mother brought the classics of Russian literature - Lev Tolstoy [9], Chekhov [10], Pushkin [11] - from Ingulets. We had known about those authors since childhood. Mother used to read us the books before we went to bed. Later we read books ourselves. I learnt how to read before I started school. Father was also a book-worm. He spent his spare time on self-education. After the revolution he started writing articles about village life and sent them to the local Dnepropetrovsk paper. Sometimes my father's articles were published. They even sent a certificate for part- time reports. Father took pride in it.