Aunt Lena

On the same day my mother's father's aunt died anniversary of Lena, Elena Fedyanina -
physics teacher from God, for half a century in matshkole Academic, students adored,
respected colleagues - 17 years Party organizer - she was born in the family merchant and Gypsies!
childhood in the North - 1937 - we have youth in gypsy corner - and a school for life.
intelligent companion, a connoisseur of poetry and theater, complicated character, a heavy smoker,
aunt Lena is most valued his privacy, very near one did not admit;
friends for life, with ups and downs. Lived alone, but it was buried 200 people.
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Summer recorded her story about the family - but this one about the parents, found in the book of the Memorial:

K. Alexander Pavlov-Fedyanina hit the edge of Ukhta complex route Moscow-England-Moscow-water fishing village, where the radium factory. In Moscow, a theater "Romen", where she was a real gypsy, has worked with Black Lyalya (which, incidentally, was only half-gypsy). But where does Britain? As in England, and in Ukhta it was because of her husband, Mikhail Pavlovich Fedyanina, a graduate of Bauman Higher Technical School. He studied with Tupolev in Zhukovsky, who like his talented student persuaded to go into aviation. But Mikhail Pavlovich chose a different path - became a mechanic textile machinery. Maybe he decided thus to honor the memory of his grandfather, who, before the Revolution had a textile factory. (One of the oldest Russian enterprises for the production of linen wrapping and bagging is Nikologorskaya spinning and weaving factory. First hand the linen bobbin, or "attic" was opened in Nikologorah in 1828, one of them, based MM Fedyanin, is managing the factory, and building and weaving preparatory workshops were built by his sons. After the revolution of 1917 the factory was nationalized and given the name "Bolshevik»).

In 1927 he was sent on a mission to England for four years as an expert for the purchase of textile machinery. To him had come to England, his wife, Alexandra K., actress, "Romain." Four years have passed. It can be assumed that these were the happiest years of their ... In 1931, they returned home, soon had a daughter, Elena. In 1937, Mikhail Pavlovich was arrested and accused of espionage as an "enemy of the people" was sent to Uhtpechlag, specifically, to the village water fishing on the radium factory. Here he became deputy chief engineer, and then - as a chief mechanic. Graduates' Baumanki "highly valued not only abroad but also in the Gulag! In the zone, he spent only about one and a half years, after which he was transferred to the township position. To him had come from Moscow with his wife and daughter Lena's niece Lucy Pauline, who was left without parents. Lena and Lucy went to the same school together with Vika Kolybin (Dimitrova) and Tamara Davydova, their friendship continued after school many, many years. They are school friends of Lena Fedyanin, and so were the source of information, which allowed me to describe this amazing story of actress, gypsies, gypsy-dekabristki, Alexandra Pavlova. Girl, girlfriend Lena Fedyanin, called her Aunt Shura. Victoria Kolybin says:

«What Lena's father was a highly educated specialist, said that in high school, he taught us and physics, and mathematics, and English. And the last years of his stay on the water fishing, he surprised everyone yet their artistic abilities. When meeting with Lena in Moscow, I saw his drawings, made by ordinary colored pencils - and there the portrait of Aunt Shura against the young pines, and the portraits of his daughter, and copies of paintings by the famous Italian Renaissance artists. Yes, we can only marvel given - what was his multifaceted talent! Incidentally, the fact that my sister and Fields, went to Moscow, enrolled in the textile institute, it is largely his influence. And Aunt Shura I always remember to concerts in our club. I so liked the way she sang gypsy songs and old Russian romances! Especially liked the romance in her performance, "Our stake in the mist of light." It is a pity that did not allow much to sing gypsy songs. Aunt Alex got a job to work first on duty in the tower rocking, which rocked the radioactive water from chemical plants in the forest to plant concentrates and then switched to the telephone exchange. Their daughter, Lena, grew at a very beautiful girl, the farther away, the more they appear in her gypsy beauty. Lena was 1 year older than me, so we were not in the same class, but in a boarding school in Ukhta we had to live together. Lena graduated from the Moscow Pedagogical Institute and went to his father's footsteps - became a teacher of mathematics and physics. Even in the few years left for Poland, worked there too, at school, taught to children of employees of the embassy. Now working in one of Moscow schools that were converted into high school. (We are talking about 1993 - Auth.). Her father died in 1980, and her mother before that, and stayed in the apartment of Elena alone. "

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