Natalia, again your story moves me. As a second or third-gen Ukrainian American, I find it sad that you wrote plays in one of the most interesting of places to perform them, in a town where The Seagull was first played and playwrights like Aleksandr Ostrovsk once roamed the streets looking for something to write about. And now you are here. On substack. With the rest of us. But Grandma and lots of other relatives of mine were driven from that now miserable place just as you BUT the good news is, good riddance! Like Palmyra, Tenochtitlan, Angkor, and Rome, Moscow will fall hard and be recorded in human history as being another fucked city run by fracked people, eventually ending in ruin.
Natalia, again your story moves me. As a second or third-gen Ukrainian American, I find it sad that you wrote plays in one of the most interesting of places to perform them, in a town where The Seagull was first played and playwrights like Aleksandr Ostrovsk once roamed the streets looking for something to write about. And now you are here. On substack. With the rest of us. But Grandma and lots of other relatives of mine were driven from that now miserable place just as you BUT the good news is, good riddance! Like Palmyra, Tenochtitlan, Angkor, and Rome, Moscow will fall hard and be recorded in human history as being another fucked city run by fracked people, eventually ending in ruin.