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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

Alexandra (Alexis) Obolenskaya Vasily and Anna Sereginy
My grandmother who, to my huge regret, I never knew was pregnant with my dad
then and bore the journey very poorly, but, certainly, there was no reason to hope for
any help...

So, instead of enjoying the quiet rustle of books in the home library or the usual
sounds of the pianoforte when she played her favourite works, the young Princess Elena
listened to the ominous clatter of wheels which seemed to sternly count off the
remaining time of her so fragile life now converted into a real nightmare. She sat on
some sacks at a dirty carriage window and continuously looked at the last pitiful signs
of the civilization which she loved and knew so well, moving further and further away.
My grandfather’s sister Alexandra managed to escape with the help of some
friends when the train stopped at a station. By mutual agreement she had to get (if she
were lucky) to France where her family lived then. However, nobody had any idea how
she could do it, but it was the only, although vague and of course last, hope which they
could not permit themselves to miss being in such a stalemate. Alexandra’s husband
Dmitry was in France then and they hoped that he could try to help the grandfather’s
family to get out of the nightmare into which life threw them so pitilessly, using the
mean hands of people who lost their human look.

When they were conveyed to Kurgan, they were settled in a cold basement with
nothing being explained and no questions being answered. In two days some people
appeared, saying that they came to "escort" my grand-dad to another "point of
destination"... He was treated like a criminal, not allowed to take anything with him
and given no explanation of where he was being taken and for how long. Nobody ever
saw my grand-dad again.
Some time later an unknown soldier brought a dirty coal sack with my
grandfather’s personal things to my grandmother, again explaining nothing, thus killing

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