pictures by Sashatext by LaylaSenelga offered rides.

pictures by Sashatext by LaylaA year later, we returned to Babje, whose population has grown, once again:The horse Senelga had room-mates in her barn: a goat with her kid.May has grown into a beautiful Collie.And little Afanasij, who was born the previous summer, joined the 3 older knights.

pictures by Sashatext by Layla30% of Babje’s human population:

Moral of the story:Nowhere to hide from democracy. It will haunt you, even without television, technology – in the most primitive and blissful of paradises, the candidates will descend upon you from the beyond, manifesting their true face and message through the tent. During the white nights, the candidates gleam through.

This is how we went: Liouba and I in one kayak with our tent and clothes. Sasha harboured the two boys in his kayak. Lionja rowed the whole food supply in the rubber boat and fishing and other artillery.

Ira, who was expecting their fourth child, stayed at home with little Tihon (3 years old at the time). Lionja took the older two boys, Fadei (6) and Makar (5), and Sasha, Liouba (6) and I took the kayak trip on Tvertsa river.Still fired up and ready to go.

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In the summer of 2000, when we moved to Canada, our dear friends, Ira and Lionja have bought a log house in Babje, a village in the north of the Tver region.