I graduated from a Russian gymnasium, which was founded in late 19th century for daughters of Russian colonial officers. In the Soviet period, it was an elitist school for, mostly, the Party kids (not me). Our curriculum included waltz dancing 🤦🏽♀️. Russian literature was the
I graduated from a Russian gymnasium, which was founded in late 19th century for daughters of Russian colonial officers. In the Soviet period, it was an elitist school for, mostly, the Party kids (not me). Our curriculum included waltz dancing 🤦🏽♀️. Russian literature was the
major subject. To train us to love Russia, its poets, above anything. We did. (Most Kazakhs by the 1990 spoke Russian as mother tongue.) However, a couple of decades before the school was founded, I learned much later, the grandfather of my grandmother was exiled to Siberia for