Quite a few personal memories
I met with Leo in the beautiful city Venetsiya.Togda I worked on cruise ship M /V "Odessa." After the repairs were in Trieste in Venice, which covers the interior of the vessel and passengers waiting to board a flight to New Orlean.Subbotnim afternoon with a group of Three people went to the city. In the beginning of the shop where "merchandised" all Soviet merchant seamen. Near and in the store was our (spoke in Russian), but clearly not moryaki.Razgovorilsya to stand aside a little gray-haired with a short beard, met Slava-Lev. Very glad to hear that I'm from Odessa. In a nutshell told - left, waiting for visas in the U.S., and now live not far from Venice. The artist himself. We talked about Odessa. Suitable my girls, waitresses from the group - All right, we are free? And Loewe - And we know where you are, let's get acquainted! You well know Venice? Well, let's go for a walk? Leo - Venice must look to the water. They sat on the cutter and ... best storyteller I have never met ... Time has passed is not noticeable. I asked Leo to the ship on uzhin.Dogovorilis avoid .... - Presented as a national business from the Union. Held Levu on the ship - from the bridge to the engine otdeleniya.Po I think it a little podustal.Peredohnuv we go in the cabin kampaniyu.Vse already had supper, only at the head of chart table Reap master (captain), Vadim Nikitin.Poznakomilis, talking and gradually moved to the captain's apartment . drank a couple having a good laugh over the "mission". Photographer Vadim imprinted with Leo on pamyat.Foto then hung in the captain's kabinete.Zakazali taxi. On the track a couple of bottles of Georgian tea - so we called the ship Georgian brandy. They invited to come, when we in the States
When "Odessa" came to New York seems to Leo went to Nikitin. At the time I was on vacation.
The last time we met in his visit to Odessa at the last exhibition in the gallery "Bridge".
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