For several years, Valentine Hodasevich together with a number of well-known cultural figures vacationing at Lake Seliger. Memories of those days devoted a chapter in his memoirs Vecheslova "I Ballerina " and Hodasevich book "Portraits of words." Here is an episode related to the summer of 1940 , when the company is expected soon to Seliger Alexei Tolstoy with his wife : " I want dignity and parade to welcome visitors . From the lake to the house was attached to an outdoor terrace with a sweeping staircase in the center. Flooring terraces , stairs and railings were reinforced with thick logs forming in the corners of the high tables . solemnly We decided to decorate them . on the lower poles planted domesticated and tamed my two hawks on the top at the last moment were " on the arabesque " two dancers (one of them - Tatiana Vecheslova , by restlessness to match the tall, the other - Galina Ulanova ) , on the other pillars in huge clay makitry were incredible amount bouquets of wildflowers . sleepy on the train and fill up on the ship Tolstoy was stunned by what he saw . "
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In the photo on the far left Hodasevich Valentine , with her Tatiana Vecheslova
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