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They had a nice small wooden house. There was no electricity supply, they used kerosene lamps. They heated their house with Russian stove [2], they also cooked food in it. They had no water supply, and brought water (by the way, very tasty water) from the well in the court yard. There were some furniture pieces inside (certainly), but we used to sleep on the floor. The town was very small; grandfather's shop was situated in its center, near the market building. We used to help him to bring bread from the bakery to the shop.
The house was surrounded by a small garden, full of old apple-trees. They produced poor crops. My grandparents had neither cattle nor domestic animals.
They had no assistants about the house. But in grandfather’s bakery, someone helped him for sure: otherwise he would have not managed.
The house was surrounded by a small garden, full of old apple-trees. They produced poor crops. My grandparents had neither cattle nor domestic animals.
They had no assistants about the house. But in grandfather’s bakery, someone helped him for sure: otherwise he would have not managed.
Period
Location
Staraya Ladoga
Russia
Interview
Isaak Rotman