Photo project "Simple" in the CHA

[Tamila]

Yesterday in the CHA opened the exhibition "Simple". Polish Cultural Center presented photoproject tandem Berezhetskaya Monica and Monica Redzish who organized a group of Zorka Project in Poland.
http://kulturapolshi.ru/index.php

The project is "Simple" was launched in Poland. Two Monica wanted to tell the simple Polish people, the families with their problems and joys. But for a photo shoot they did not choose the people themselves. They placed an ad on the photo project, and people who considered themselves prime themselves appealed to them. Then the same project done in Russia. Those who believed that they are ordinary, ordinary citizens of our country, was invited to participate in the contest. Be photographed at his home and took a small interview.
The exhibition next to the pictures hanging on the short stories 1 and 3 persons, such a mini-biography.

At the opening in addition to the guests and the press were themselves members of the photo project. They could talk to. The atmosphere was very friendly, all familiar, shared their stories. Background music lyrics were one of the members of Alexander Zhdanov. He walked on the show and even sang a little >

What's most interesting photos of Russian and Polish participants were not separated. Understand who is in the photo - Pole or Russian - just will not work. Only after reading the stories, it becomes clear. Perhaps this was planned by the organizers. We are similar in many respects. No matter what your nationality and what country you live. People have similar problems, similar life stories.

In the photo:

Marek Radzivon, Director of the Polish Cultural Center
Monica and Monica Berezhetskaya Redzish (do not know, unfortunately, what Monica on the right, which the left)
between them - an interpreter and an employee of the Polish Cultural Centre Pauline Yustova

[Tamila]

Among the common themes in the texts on display were family relationships, marriages, divorces, children, and loans, work, religion, etc. For Poles, the religious issue was very important. All told at the interview, whether they are walking to church, observe a religious practice. For Russian policy relevance, or rather the attitude to it. Many consider themselves patriots, they say that they love Russia, but do not like state. It is interesting actually.
The exhibition runs until June 26.

Photos from your phone as a camera s battery charger.

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Lily Obukhov (85 years)
"I shut the gate with a key"
I am a Jew. Born in Krakow. The ancestors of my father - hereditary foresters from the town Nowy Sacz. They enjoyed great respect among the Polish population. Pope at the age of seven months fell ill with measles and blindness. When he was seven years old, he was taken to study in Vienna, where he was a school for blind children. He learned to play the piano and violin, graduated from the Vienna Conservatory. After graduation came to Krakow.

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The ancestors of my mother's lines were rabbis, among them was even a tzaddik. Only my grandfather did not become a rabbi - he had ten children, and he needed to maintain them, and the rabbis
usually sit all day praying, reading the Torah and live by begging. Everything - except for my grandmother and mother - died from the epidemic of smallpox. Mom survived, but she has until the end of life throughout the body were scarred and spoiled eyes, 12 and 14 diopters.

Mom and dad love each other madly. We lived on Paulinskoy father worked as organist at the main synagogue in Krakow, led the choir and gave music lessons at the same time, often for free. Parents at home spoke only German, but we have a younger brother was told to speak Polish: "You Jews. You must have good Polish proznoshenie and literary language that you are not point the finger. "

We lived very modestly. Summer often went on Planty, mom was sitting on the bench, embroidering, and we boys were playing dodgeball. They see me very well treated, calling me "our muzhinka" - "black woman" because I had black curly hair. During the long autumn and winter evenings we all sat at a table with one hand and dad's brother Edicom played chess, and with another mom taught me to knit and darn stockings or read aloud. In the last pre-war summer in the city felt the anti-Semitic sentiments. Mom wanted to leave, but the pope replied: "Do not worry, I know German better than anyone in Krakow, they do not we do." When I was 14 years old, the war began. To us Germans came and took all things, well that is not killed or crippled. At night, we fled from Krakow. During the day hiding at night walked through the woods.
I conducted a blind father, brother poluzryachuyu mother. We rejoice that in this forest at night no one will find. Found. That was then, I do not want to remember. Cry, noise, and all fled in different directions. I stayed with my dad. Mother and brother when I saw the last time ..

The next day we somehow got to the river San, on the border of Poland which was occupied by the already half-Russian. We were surrounded by Russian soldiers. Pope was taken to the slammer, and I said - go wherever you want. I sat in the doorway and began to cry. Then to me someone came and told me to go to an empty house and waited for my father there. Imagine - one hungry! A few days later my father was released. Someone gave him money and told us to go to the station and boarded a train to Lviv.

In Lviv, a wild terror of the crowd of refugees. Dad walked around the city and looking for work, but who needs a blind music teacher, who, moreover, does not know Russian language? In early January we
put in a boxcar. We already do not care where we were going. A month later, we arrived at the heart of Russia, the Urals.

In Magnitogorsk dad could not find a job. I took the first course of the school of piano, and I received a small stipend - is what we have lived. The famine was terrible. We had no clothes - I only had a coat that is suitable for the Polish climate, rather than the Ural winters, and the pope hat. However, we have lasted until the spring. Father composed the music in honor of the anniversary of Magnitogorsk, a military wrote the words. The song caused a real sensation, the whole audience stood up. We paid a small honorarium, and we are for this money went to Moscow.

The Pope appealed to the Ministry of Education, that he found a job. There we met the director of the school for blind children, which was in the woods in the village Chuvarlei in Chuvashia. And when he learned that the father teaches music and knows the alphabet in Braille, then immediately took it. We spent the rest of the war. Dad taught music and German, has created a children's orchestra, the guys really liked him, he was happy. I went to the village school.

In 1945 I married a blind teacher of mathematics. He lost his eyesight due to the fact that he shot the best friend! He was much older than me, but I really like it - intelligent, musical, hard-working. We have lived for 38 years. In Chuvashia, I had her first daughter. When she was a month, we traveled by train along with two employee of the school. It was autumn and cold. Suddenly, someone called me. The child was asleep, wrapped in a blanket. When I returned, my daughter was lying all naked. I screamed: "Why did you disclose it?" To which they replied that they "wanted to see if everything is OK." At night, my daughter had a fever. To the doctor we had no time, she died of lobar pneumonia.

We moved to Moscow, and sold all that we had and took a bank loan, bought a house. Soon there was a terrible fire. It made our neighbors, out of envy. I do not want to talk about it. Us
It was very difficult, but gradually we have restored the house.

We lived four: myself, husband, mother-and father. My husband worked at the school for the blind. I daily have to see him off and celebrate. I gave birth to her daughter and moonlighted learning disabilities
War Braille. Then we have a son, I began to work at home with Dad, we copied the music for the blind. At the same time preparing to enter college.

I graduated from defectology. Then went to work in a boarding school for deaf children. I really loved my job. Believe that it is possible to arrange the world is good. Was member of the Komsomol, but the party did not accept me. Why? Because I'm Jewish! Work has been my happiest period in my life.

I organized a club of interesting meetings. Our school was the first in Moscow, where the astronaut had come! You have heard that there is a blind-deaf and dumb people? I have proved that they can communicate - they wrote letters on his arm, and they answered me. In 70-ies. I organized a school trip to Germany, but the director did not take me, they went the other - there were rumors that I want to stay in the West. I, who has two children, a blind father and husband, elderly mother in law?

Fourteen years I was a deputy in our county. It was on my initiative in the 60-ies. in our village had a gas and water. I published four books about interesting people. The manuscript is the fifth, but no one wants to publish. Life taught me such energy. With the work I left in 78 years.

I never wanted to return to Poland. Krakow survived hundreds of Jews. What I do there? Someone I know there? Who do I need?

My attitude towards religion? In my submission here restored church. Parents observe the Jewish holidays. I still light a candle for Chanukah and buy matzo for Passover. We had Orthodox nurse, and her mother allowed us to go with her to church. When the mother-in-baptized my children, I did not mind. I myself neither a church nor a synagogue, do not go, but I believe that religion is needed in order to temper the anger and hatred towards others.

I live in the house, 74 meters, I have a garden - 3,5 weave. More weave taken from me "good people". Therefore, I'm barred, gate all the time close to the key.

Most of all I fear evil men.

I have two children, three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. I have a dream that my grandchildren had the same honest and decent, as their parents.

In Israel, I would never have gone. I'm used to the Russian language, to the Russian society. Feel like a Russian patriot. Here, I became a man. I want to be in Russia was well.

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In Rita dryers (1921), Poznan
"I feel like an artist"
 Rita is studying film studies at the Faculty of Philology in Poznan. He lives in the dormitory "Yagenka with two girlfriends at 15 square meters.

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- I'm not the one who lives in only one passion. I think to go to study theatrical ¬ a natural thing. I teach Spanish. I go to those ¬ atralnuyu studio, doing the singing - all for creativity and psychology. Generally I try to develop. The same study! This is the time when I most need to understand what I'm all about. Another such a chance in life do not get it, or will have to fight for it.

Rita was born in Lublin. Mom retired, my father - an electrician. She was hartserkoy, but before the university abandoned the active service and transferred its force.

- Calm - is the word that I associate with Lublin. Ogre ¬ ness of reluctance change. I sen ¬ sponded to myself here depressed. As for ¬ knowledge struck me many opportunities - concerts, studios, exhibition. I was horrified by the fact that I can not just see it!

- When I finish university, with ¬ were chosen to emigrate to the United States, while considering and the UK. I ho ¬ body to live abroad, breathing different air.

On religion, she said: - I go from the Catholic Church. Most of all I do not like lying at its foundations convince ¬ assertion that men dominate women. It's not for me. But I do not want to commit the mistake committed by young people, when, turning away from the church, and turn away from spiritual ¬ STP.

- I feel like an artist. I do not think that the artist - someone who exhibits in the galleries. Anything can be art, if this creatively. I try so hard with respect to ¬ sitsya to their lives.

The refrigerator Rita chops, which she sends a grandmother.

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Paul (45 years) and Marzena (38 years) with children Szymczak, Poznan
"For us mediocrity"
Both were raised here in the working area of ​​Poznan. Their fathers worked at the plant Tsegelskogo. - And the greyness goes further - Paul says, explaining why considers himself a simple Pole. They have a high school education. Paul started as an electrician at the plant Tsegelskogo, aged 30 years and went to the police. Works in the patrol. - I'm not pushy, I have everything on the sly. Marzena Poznań Zoo prepares food for the animals.

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- rich people we've never been, - says Paul. - Rarely given a free weekend, the wife has been the third weekend in a row working. Her interest and, moreover, still cleaning, 10 hours a day. We have been working non-stop. Once upon a time was even worse. We were able to buy an apartment and breathed freely. Children is difficult - do not get pocket money. But we're not complaining. We are optimistic.

Paul and Marzena married 18 years ago. The wedding was a modest, celebrated at the garden site.
- Neither of his parents had no money, nor mine - Marzena says.

Received from the city one bedroom apartment, which 10 years ago changed to a large, two-bedroom. Machines they have. From his wealth list of three children, three cats and a dog. Mother-in-law helps, sometimes cook dinner, sometimes with a baby sit.

- Each child was planned. When we decided on the third, then arranged a party and all announced that they will work on this, so then we were not spared - laughing Marzena.

In the Poles of their annoying chronic complaints.
- At the Pole eternal claim - Paul says.
- And the annoying drivers of buses and trams that doors close at the passengers in front of his nose. I do it every day to yourself to experience, running on the deuce - another 3 seconds and managed to be.
Paul: - I never wanted to emigrate. I do not like change. I teach English, but somehow it does not go with me, at this age it is hard to learn certain things. And besides, maybe it sounds funny, but I am a patriot of its kind. I was brought up on the idea of ​​martyrdom of the Polish people.
Marzena: - I am not a patriot. Politicians are not patriots, but why would I be to them?

What do we dream?
- About the house in Puschikuve near Poznan, - answer in chorus. - Chickens, dogs, cats ... And to my mother to my pick. And best of all, to the wife's sister with the children, too, could live with us.

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Bozena (59 years), Roman (57 years), Radoslav (1922) Rutkowski, Pomehuvek
"We feel ourselves to be simple, because not rich"
- In tough times we had to earn it. I am a teacher, so, understandably, has never earned a lot do not.

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They live in a non ¬ Pomehuveke big a modest house, inherited from their parents. Near to ¬ IOM is an old citroen, family still pays a five-year loan. Bozena - a teacher of technology and science in high school in Pomehuveke. Working there for 38 years. She graduated from technical education teachers at the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute. Recently, she had to upgrade the skills to keep rate. Finish ¬ la graduate school for computer science.

In Roman secondary education. With the 95-year, he works as a driver in the district administration Vlokh. Works 8 hours plus 4 hours on the road. Previously, he had his affair. - Not really I did. No dear, kind God gave me the talent that ¬ a trade. In the 89-meter, I bought a truck and transport services, and then I had a shop with car parts. In the end, his wife said that I did not build from a businessman, and engaged in normal business. Somewhere around the year I was unemployed.

Son in September is a teacher-trainee physical education at the same high school as my mother. Correspondence studies the ne ¬ dagogiku and physical education in Plock. - It was so - he says. - No, I could not understand what I want to do. What do you like best? - Asked Mom - Sports. - Here and go to a sports institute.

On Sundays the whole family sadit ¬ Xia at the dinner table.
Radek: - Then I go out with friends in a swimming pool, play basketball, in the movies.
Bozena: - I would have gone into Options ¬ shavu at any exhibition.
Roman: - I am on TV will not want to leave.

Roman fears of disease, fear of losing their jobs. Bozena: - lack of money I am not afraid. After so many years been accustomed minimaliziruesh and their needs.

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Alex Pyatkovsky (50 years)
"Before going to bed reading a book about the Russian-Japanese War
My name is Alex Pyatkovsky. My father was a professional soldier, an officer, his mother - a journalist and editor of the satirical magazine Krokodil. She was not interested in politics and the party never took place. My stepfather, my mother's second husband, was a party man and did what he told the party: directed the district department of culture, or a Navy Commissioner. When I was in high school, he was sent to a three-year trip to Kamchatka. We lived in the village, surrounded by tundra, I went to school, Mom worked on local television and radio. In the north you can make good money. Salaries there were 60%higher than in Moscow.

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I regularly listened to Western radio stations. Getting up too, reached about the real world. She could tell not only about what they wrote in a newspaper, but also about what it could not write. This information is accumulated year after year and then joined together in my head into a coherent whole - I realized that this mode is a liar and a criminal. Then I felt a little opposition.

Upon returning to Moscow I did not enroll in college - it forced me to memorize and repeat the false communist slogans. I started working, but always come into conflict with leaders who were forced to go to meetings and listen to different nonsense: "improve the quality, make faster, better, etc. Or, for example, forced to walk on the Saturday work, when we in the name of Lenin were removed for free in offices, factories. For eleven years I have changed the work thirteen times. Worked, including the caretaker, employee of the Historical Museum, a mechanic at a factory TVs Rubin, senior bibliographer in the Book Chamber, etc. And about a dream to go to the West and bring the truth to his people in the Russian edition of Radio Free Europe.

Openly voice their intention to join the opposition and I would not risk. Is that read samizdat. I covered the feeling of hopelessness, I thought that by the end of life will lead a meaningless life. Restructuring has become for me a beautiful surprise. When she started, I felt that in front of me opening the door to real life, to freedom, to everything. It was a great joy.

I was 28 years old. I entered the Moscow Historical Archives Institute at the correspondence department, he began to study the history of the democratic movement in Russia. In the 88 th year here in my area, I headed a department of the Moscow People's Front. In all Moscow we had probably about a thousand people. We have experienced a lot of hope for change, hope that Russia will become a civilized European country. Then I started writing in the independent press on the motion of the so-called informal groups ie people who oppose the system.

With a 90-year I earned only as a journalist. Collaborated with the news agency "Democratic Union", Russia's first democratic party, the magazine "Capital", news agencies ex post "and" Interfax ", was the deputy chief editor of the agency Partinform. Voting, of course, for liberals, for the party Gaydar. In the 99-year combined Liberal Party (SPS) received only 8%of the vote in Duma elections.

In 2004, when Putin was elected to a second term as president, I realized that there are no policies about which I would like to write, and I retired from journalism. Since then I have been working in the only private institute in Russia, historical research. I study the history of the democratic movement, I am writing about dissidents and informal.

Our hopes were not realized, I'm terribly disappointed, and again went to the principled opposition. To describe the current leadership of the country I have no words. This mode of security officers, who privatized the power and property, has assumed the whole state.

A month ago I joined the opposition Solidarity movement. Not to make a revolution - I do not believe that Russia can make a difference. Rather, a sense of solidarity with the idea of ​​a democratic state and the people who remain indifferent. I just want to be among them. During his life, I can not wait for change. Most Russians like a strong power and imperial slogans. As for the young, then they copy their parents. I somehow do not see many of them are active and energetic people who have sought to change. True, the rebels always small, in any society. Only in Poland, they are generally more than anywhere, and for that I actually like the Poles. Go to Poland and Poles I feel romantic affection. "Madness of the brave I sing a song," as he wrote Gorky. 24 years, I teach Polish, himself, from textbooks. Perhaps this can be included in Guinness Book of Records. Actually, I also have some Polish roots: the parents of my grandfather were the Poles, refugees from the eastern suburbs during the First World War.

In the whole world is my favorite city - Krakow. I spend every vacation there. In addition to Poland, from overseas, I was only in the Czech Republic. Next I somehow do not pull, do not feel interest in other countries. I have enough, and Poland, I am monogamous.

My dream - to someday live there. But this is unrealistic, just dreams. Each of these should be. But it is necessary and earn money, but it is not easy.

Once I was married twice, but it was so long ago that no longer remember. Children, I make no time, because with each wife lived only a half years.

I have nothing, only this old apartment, 48 meters. Although this is an unusual flat, it's - an apartment-museum of my name. Here I have my files, magazines, books. I have no car and never was. For the Soviet people the machine was out of reach.

What am I afraid? Total. According to opinion polls, most Russians are afraid of police dogs and bandits. And I'm probably no exception.

I'm an atheist, a patriot and cosmopolitan. I really appreciate your free time, because in my life, it remains not so much. So I do not waste it on meaningless things such as cleaning. I'm a big bummer. Spend leisure time for a beer, talking with interesting people, watching TV. He did, of course, annoying, but I have something to watch - the channel "Culture", football games, news on Ren-TV, a measure not only in state-controlled news programs. Fiction I read a little, even a very little. I prefer the old journalism. When I can not sleep, read books about the Russian-Japanese war. On this topic I've read several dozen books and several hundred articles. It calms me: my own problems into the background, and I quietly go to sleep.

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Natasha Perec (33 years) with her daughter, Poznan
"I do not feel a simple polka, until it became a single mother"
 I already knew during the pregnancy that the baby's father, we are not going together. He has a wife, son, it is absolutely irresponsible, I do not want to talk about. Pregnancy was in danger, I was in the hospital and read it. Read that in Poland and a half million single mothers. From this point of view, I used to polka.

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we worked together. He accuses me that I did this intentionally, but it is not true ¬. A few days before I took a pregnancy test, I learned that he and I changed from ¬ a few years. And so when I saw the band, it was horrible. With his hand had different suggestions, but I decided - I will give birth. I'm too old for some other solutions. Previously, I was afraid to have children, homo ¬ mu that, in truth, I have never had a serious relationship. And besides, working in that firm ¬ Coy, it is difficult to plan a child. I was dolzhka be available 24 hours a day, without the right to turn off your mobile phone. During pregnancy, I took the important clients, because we decided that I do not look representative ¬ but. " In the two months before giving birth to me canceled all contracts, took an official car.

I felt helpless. If so, like me, educated and independent, in this situation feels like a beetle flipped onto his back, what should feel some kind of an uneducated girl of seventeen villages?

I graduated in Media Poznan university and school secretaries. Post-graduate student majoring "special education" in Germany. Went to six non ¬ del to London to learn English language, and stayed there for three years. Was removed, patted. caring for a child. After returning to Poland got a job in a factory secretary furniture, and then in the sales department, there I was lured to the printer for a sales position, where I worked for four years. With the money bought a flat (46 m) near Poznan.

I lived pretty well. And now I have no income. My guide - 550 PLN. Two weeks ago, I ended leave to care for the child. If in the coming days I will not go to work, none of us would not be insurance. Its not interested in anything. He never asked for his daughter. Child support case in court, because he offered to 150 zlotys per month. Do not want to pay. He cunning and unscrupulous. I help parents, but they live in Gniezno and often sick. In Poznan, for 600 thousand inhabitants, only three nurseries for young children. I wonder where those men who are so eager to protect life began?

I always think about how love is born a child. Before birth, I was depressed in the hospital, I refused to eat. But with a newborn so much running around, it's me put in place. I was with her all alone at home. In the end, I opened the bleeding, and I was back in hospital

I would like to be a good mom. I would like to be realized in the profession. I would like to be with a man. But the man so tormented me that I do not know whether there is in me even a body capable of love can, thanks to all the child ever recover? The child - this is such a pure love ..

I am afraid that it will not provide such a life, whatever she wanted. I'm afraid she will feel that her father would not, because of this it will have lowered self-esteem as I do.

My mother was divorced. When a priest, who came to us after Christmas, told me that I live in a wicked house. After several attempts to baptize a child, being a single mother, I finally questioned the Catholic Church. On the other hand, I come from Gniezno, where 90 percent of the land belongs to the Church. Some of our friends were Catholic priests, who could drink, smoke, put the girl on her knees and said that celibacy - is nonsense. So I lived in a dual sense, not understanding what was happening. I am now a believer, but I do not go to church.

In Poland, I was taken out of a hypocrisy, for example, in the job when the company throws on duty employees paying social contributions. This is how most people in Poland. I thrive in London. Now, of course, I have no chance to emigrate. If only meetings ka ¬ someone intelligent man who will take responsibility for me and my baby.

I feel myself Europeans.

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Ludmila Bobrov (57)
"A woman should always be a woman"
I was born in Moscow. My mother was born in Lake Baikal, the father of the Smolensk region. My mother worked as Deputy Chief of Staff in a law office, his father was a military man.

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I married a second time. Since we first met her husband four years ago. I then worked as an administrator at a restaurant. He joined with colleagues to celebrate a holiday, leave me your phone. Then came again. So it all started. He is a very good husband, each day brings me flowers! We cherish our relationship. Even impossible to compare with the previous marriage.

My husband often goes on business trips. It works representative of the company, which supplies the food industry.

I have a law degree. I worked as an accountant and then manager, has worked
in the pass office, and the last two years has been an administrator at a restaurant. Now plan to establish the firm and provide legal advice, but first we need to discuss everything with her husband. At our house, he decides. I can not argue with him, but the last word will always be behind him.

Until I retired and I work on a volunteer basis for the party "United Russia". Advise on employment and housing.

Before that I was the principal at home and helped in the organization of repair - it was necessary to change the lift and all the windows. So I turned to the district authorities. There I got to the deputy of the "United Russia". She said: "I see you girl is serious, active, go to us!".

I joined the party because its president Putin. Because it is a personality and it really helps people. If we turn to him with some initiative, he always comes to us for an appointment. I say this quite sincerely. He does a lot for people, increases pensions. All of his ideas come to life. And it's not nice words, but a real help: We asked him three times and three times he helped us. I fully support him and agree with the line of his policies. His and Medvedev, of course.

Grandma I repeated that a woman should always be a woman. I will never get out of the house dressed as something. And men are different, they currently do not care. Russian men feel even children in 60 years. My husband is different, and his makeup is, and shampoo and shower gel. Every day he puts on a clean shirt. I always stroke it to him - what would people think of me if my husband went to the mint? Stydoba!

I really like her grandmother. She was born on the lake, before the revolution. She sang in the choir and went on dancing with the Whites. There she met her future husband, a descendant of the exiled Poles. Maybe that's why, despite the fact that I'm Orthodox, I have always with a Catholic cross. And often the church is automatically am baptized left to right. There is something irrational. Recently, instead of the concert and disco, I went to a movie on John Paul II!

I have a hobby, I'm designing a little. I love going to concerts and exhibitions. On Sunday we went to the studio in Ostankino free concert Stas Mikhailov. On Saturday addressed Maxim Averin, and I was also on record in television. And last year I was shot in the crowd of the series "grouse"! Since I have a legal education, I love these topics: crime, investigation, and adventure. Read like detective novels, books on art.

We have no children. We live together with her husband and mother in the 60-meter apartment. The rent is not very high, and three thousand per month. My husband goes to the "Volga" I do not know how to drive. We recently bought a one-story suburban house, 200 km. south of Moscow. There's an unusually beautiful, and I love nature, forest. Maybe someday we'll move there to live - in Moscow, people were added, and will be even greater.

I like very much to go to the theater. My favorite - Theatre City Council. There goes elegantly dressed intelligent audience, true theater-goers. The theater is a park with a fountain before the performance we are walking there with her husband. At such times I feel like in another dimension.

I have not been overseas, we just want her husband to go to Poland. In Soviet times, Moscow was in store, "Wanda", which sold Polish food, cosmetics and fashion magazines. I am very interested, then we have nothing like it, but I'm after a senior accountant in the district Komsomol committee began work as an economist at the Center for the fashion of the USSR.

I live well and in the Soviet Union and now in Russia. People around me have been friendly, and have remained. We have no bitterness. The biggest drawback of Russian - low self-esteem.

To all the people I'm fine. After all, before, during the time of the Union, we were all fraternal republics. I went to rest in the Caucasus, and all treated each other well. The Chechens are now less come to Moscow - they are a lot of construction, restored the mosque.

Now in Russia, I feel good, confident - the state taking care of us.

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Alex Suslov (23), Anna Dubrovsky (22 years) and son Lenya (1 year)
"Experience the tranquility"
Sasha: - I studied the history department at Moscow University. Turning to the third course, chose the chair of the history of Southern and Western Slavs. On vacation thought that he ought to know more about the culture of these peoples and to start reading Trilogy Sienkiewicz. I liked it. I thought: "Why not Poland?". Now I am in graduate school, the second year, doing his thesis on Sienkiewicz and Polish national identity in the last third of the XIX century. Language teaching for three years. I work at the Polish Cultural Center in Moscow.

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My parents are hard perezhilikonets Soviet Union. His father, a historian by training, was interrupted career in the Ministry of Culture. My mother, an engineer, a time not worked, has not yet settled into the pot, starting all over again. Our family lost all his savings, just as we have accumulated on the car.

Anya: - All my life I spent in Balashikha, near Moscow. Mother and stepfather, along with the firm for the sale of sewing accessories. This is her third marriage, praise God, happy. From the previous it had not evolved, we had the most to cope with four children. As a senior, I took care of the rest.

I graduated from college printing, but to get a job did not have time - a baby. With Sasha, we met at the archaeological excavations in the Kremlin, where both earned additionally as a vacation. Sasha all day at work, I Lenya. In summer we live in the country in the women with his grandfather. There is remarkable: around grass, corn fields, you can swim in the lake. I wanted to have a baby soon, and that it was a baby Sasha. On children I dreamed of 16 years. I grew up in a big family and she would like to have three.

Of course, no Sasha, I sometimes feel lonely, but I have something to do. I take care of Lena, helping her grandmother with younger grandchildren. The youngest of them - the fifth child of my
mother - now 5 years old. Another thing I'm trying a bit odd jobs remotely from home - proofreading texts.

Sasha: - Before you get to know Anna, I had one and it seemed to me that I still will not be long family. I dreamed about the Mansion House, near Moscow, where I lived and did nothing except read books. When we met with Anna, it all changed. I now have a better motivation.

I work at the Polish Cultural Center. We rent an apartment. In life, we need about 30 thousand rubles per month. I'm out of the house at 8, get to work two hours - by train, then on the subway. When coming back, baby usually still awake. If all goes well, the day we'd see each other for two hours. Of course, I'm exhausted. Maybe someday I'll get to work less, but not now - to become a professional, you must acquire the means and experience. I like this way that I work, and Anya is engaged in the house. And I'd like to have three children.

About the Mansion I was not dreaming, but moved to the village would be happy. In Moscow, I do not like a dead city. He seemed to live around the clock, but it's kind of not real life, the universal rotation of the wheel. I pledge to real life - peace and harmony.

It seems to me that I was not planning to fit the style of: "Now I have to finish school and then earn some money and then think about the family." It may be that later will be too late. Or I will not be able to earn the required amount - and everything goes downhill. For me spontaneity is more acceptable. As if God intends for me.

As I imagine our dream house? Well, it's a flat, there a little nicer than here. Or maybe a simple house in the village. And in it the children, Anya, cat and dog, well, me too.

Anya: - Most of all, I'm afraid of butterflies. I'm afraid to walk one night. I dream about so many things! About the new kids on the fact that Sasha spent more time with us. On the flat, which we have no chance.

Sasha: - I was very frightened blasts in the Moscow subway. I was afraid for the people who were there, afraid for themselves. When I ride the subway all the time I see before my eyes the dead. Dream is to spend more time with Anna and her son.

I go to church sometimes and listen to hymns. I was baptized at age 13, my mother decided it was time for herself and children. We've done it three of us - me, my mother and brother. For me, God - this is natural. In absolute chance, I do not believe it. God - it's internal state. If you feel reconciliation with them - so in thee God. If you find your own meaning - that means you to God. If you try to answer for their actions - are becoming closer to Him. I think that in light of the few evil people, but many of those who can not answer for themselves - in their life there is no peace, no harmony.

I have no sympathy for our government. Go to the Communists - allegedly the main opposition force in the country - too hostile attitude. Russians like Putin, because he came to power under the slogan of stability after a very difficult 90 years. He successfully played on their wounded self-awareness.

Now the country's crisis, but on television all the time assured that Putin and Medvedev keep the situation under control. And what the Russians came back from work? Watching TV. There are other media, but to reach them, you should make an effort. Most Russians believe that the policy - it's not their business, "Look, in the 90s we had a policy - and what would you-
go? It is better to give the board authority. " And the power of such views are shared. In our country, power is associated with something hostile to man. The institutions felt that there osudarstvu to it going to solve any issues very difficult. Officials are reluctant to work and look at you disapprovingly. I am interested in politics? Of course, I am interested to know what's going on in the world. Yes, I feel pain when I know that there is something bad, like when people die because of terrorist attacks, when the ocean poured oil spill, or when a broken plane.

Anya - I'm not religious and are not interested in politics.
Sasha: - We have a lot of walking with the child. Do not watch TV at all. I read most often in the subway. I like Saint-Exupery, Dostoevsky, Pasternak, Gombrowicz Mrozhekom with, well, Sienkiewicz, too. I have been abroad once, on an internship in Poland. I would like to go to Iceland - I like Bjork and this amazing landscape. To emigrate, I would not want to, I feel attachment to their land. In a formal sense, I am not a patriot, but I love the language and familiar place for me: the outskirts of Moscow, where I grew up, or village where my grandfather was born. In the national character, I do not believe it. Meet or be ashamed of himself for better, not for the people.

I consider myself not a simple Russian, but a simple man. I ordinariness is associated with a measured pace of life. I'm not doing anything unusual, I have a normal
profession and I have no extraordinary ambitions. And perhaps the simplest is anyone who considers himself a simple? In addition, in the eyes of God, perhaps we are all simple.

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Alexander Zhdanov (60)
"In the Arctic you go, the snow crunches - and pour a rhyme ..."
I was born in 1951 in Yenakiyevo in the Donbass. My father went through three wars, Poland divided on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, all patriotic provoeval Katyusha. My mother was born in Donetsk region, round excellent student. In her room were a lot of letters with portraits of Stalin and Lenin. When the Germans arrived, they were her for that just did not shoot. His father was a native of Moscow, but after the war, went to a miner in the Donbass.

[SIZE="1"][SPOILER] He was the winner of the socialist competition, the drummer. When his mother saw him a medal, fell in love immediately. She was then 19 years. My mother was the chief accountant, then became director of a garment factory, and later president of the organization of war veterans.

We lived on the then standards, in abundance, do not have to count every penny. My father is very well earned, 500-600 rubles a month. We had a full refrigerator and "Moskvich-408", for which we are in queue.







































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