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GABAEVA

St Petersburg

Gabaeva, Nataliia Sergeevna
Natalia Sergeevna was interviewed twice by Tat'iana Morgacheva in March and October 2004. She talks about her family's history and her upbringing, highlighting the tensions between her family's intelligentsia and religious traditions and the Soviet environment in which she herself grew up, tensions that were particularly acute after the arrest of her grandfather. Much of what she says ampifies and expands on her memoirs in the family archives. She reflects on the dilemmas of living with a spoilt biography, on the friends that helped her family, and on her relations with her mother after her return from the labour camps.

Interview 1 [March-04]
Interview 2 [October-04]

 


The Introduction
In 1944, she was taken back to Leningrad, where she graduated from the Faculty of Biology at the State University.
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The Family Archive
The archives contains several memoirs as well as family photographs.
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