![]() But most of all, intoxicated with life, she slept the exuberant sleep of undaunted youth. ![]() Tatiana Metanova slept the sleep of the innocent, the sleep of restless joy, of warm, white Leningrad nights, of jasmine June. LIGHT came through the window, trickling morning all over the room. Our Souls have sight of that immortal seaĪnd see the Children sport upon the shore,Īnd hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. ![]() Appendix: Lev and Maria’s Story: Paullina Simons’s Tribute to Her Grandparents, Survivors of Russia’s Terrible Twentieth Centuryįor my beloved grandparents, Maria and Lev Handler, who have lived through World War I, the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War, who have lived through World War II, the siege of Leningrad and evacuation, through famine and purges, through Lenin and Stalin, and in the golden twilight of their lives, through twenty non-air-conditioned summers in New York. ![]()
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