Как я познакомился с Володей Рокитянским 7. Ambassador's Daughter. My mother worked with Inna Kozyreva, a child psychiatrist, who was a daughter of a USSR Ambassador to Italy Semyon Kozyrev. Once, it was around 1968, my mother and Inna went to Moscow Conservatory and invited a young post-graduate student (also a psychiatrist) Valerii Abramovich. Valerii invited his friend Boris Gordon (they both were from Volgograd where they attended school together). Thus Boris Gordon got acquainted with my mother and soon became a friend of our family. In September 1975 I asked Boris Gordon to give me for a few days a novel "Doctor Zhivago" by Pasternak. At that time it was forbidden and could be read in USSR only in samiztat copies. Boris Gordon said that he doesn't have a copy, but suggested me to apply to his friend, Volodya Rokityanskii. So it happened that on sunny October day 1975 I for the first time entered the flat, where Volodya and his wife Tanya lived. They met me with true Russian hospitality and gave me a copy of the novel I asked for. Thus began my friendship with Volodya (who was 15 years older than me), which led to many other events in my life.
7. Ambassador's Daughter. My mother worked with Inna Kozyreva, a child psychiatrist, who was a daughter of a USSR Ambassador to Italy Semyon Kozyrev. Once, it was around 1968, my mother and Inna went to Moscow Conservatory and invited a young post-graduate student (also a psychiatrist) Valerii Abramovich. Valerii invited his friend Boris Gordon (they both were from Volgograd where they attended school together). Thus Boris Gordon got acquainted with my mother and soon became a friend of our family. In September 1975 I asked Boris Gordon to give me for a few days a novel "Doctor Zhivago" by Pasternak. At that time it was forbidden and could be read in USSR only in samiztat copies. Boris Gordon said that he doesn't have a copy, but suggested me to apply to his friend, Volodya Rokityanskii. So it happened that on sunny October day 1975 I for the first time entered the flat, where Volodya and his wife Tanya lived. They met me with true Russian hospitality and gave me a copy of the novel I asked for. Thus began my friendship with Volodya (who was 15 years older than me), which led to many other events in my life.
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Спасибо за добрые слова, Ваня.
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