That is the last of the three digitized movies. It covers the period from summer 1972 to winter 1973. I am nine years old at the beginning and ten at the end. In the beginning, you can see that my front teeth are broken. That was due to an accident at the carnivals when Mom and I were riding a tiny electric car and bumped into another one. At that time, there was no easy way to fix them, and they remained broken until I was nineteen or so.
That summer, I was at the same place in Estonia, and I played with the same dog Neron as a year earlier. We went on a trip to see an Orthodox Convent. A cat named Dunia lived in the house where we were renting. Also, I think I’ve visited an exhibit of Rodin’s sculptures because I am trying to present them :).
In the last scenes of this movie, I am already wearing glasses. Mom and I are going cross-country skiing, and most likely, my Grandfather was filming us.
Enjoy 🙂
My historical posts are being published in random order. Please refer to the page Hettie’s timeline to find where exactly each post belongs, and what was before and after.
My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996.
I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future.
I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life.
As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.
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Какой трогательный фильм, и девочка такая живая и радостная 🙂 Я включила за кадром подборку Ларса Холльмера, прямо так здорово получилось! Я сама про себя делала фильм из фотографий на эту музыку.
Я примерно так же каталась на лыжах, мешая себе палками!
А в белом платье в очках примерно в середине – это тетя Кима?
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Какой трогательный фильм, и девочка такая живая и радостная 🙂 Я включила за кадром подборку Ларса Холльмера, прямо так здорово получилось! Я сама про себя делала фильм из фотографий на эту музыку.
Я примерно так же каталась на лыжах, мешая себе палками!
А в белом платье в очках примерно в середине – это тетя Кима?
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Там есть и тетя Кима, и баба Фаня, и дядя Миша, и еще куча народу. Мне сейчас не сообразить, кто где когда, но скорее всего – да.
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