Tag #152961 - Interview #78408 (Lidia Korotina)

My grandmother’s maiden name was Konstantinovskaya. She graduated from school in Warsaw and was an educated person for her time. She spoke Ukrainian fluently and was able to recite the poetry of  Shevchenko, Pushkin and Nekrasov. She used to recite poems to us  grandchildren when we came to visit her. My grandmother loved reading. She had many books by  Russian and foreign classical writers. She had an excellent knowledge of poetry and got very upset when she found out that one of her grandchildren didn’t know some poem. She would start explaining about the writer and his works.