Talk:Lev Boguslavsky Family

Sometime in 1990, I began a correspondence with Maria's daughter, Unona. I don't remember how it started, but by March, 1991, we were both hoping and planning for her to visit us, possibly that June for Noah's bar mitzvah. Here is her letter to me, dated March 10, 1991:

Dear Estelle, I received your two letters dates February 9 and November 11... I shall try to answer all questions. In the first place, I received permission to visit you and foreign passport. I took down on turn for airplane tickets. It is the most problem. I shall go to the cash-desk and at once I shall write letter for you. I shall try to take tickets for roubles to America and from America (New York). I would like to go in June for Noah's bar mitzvah...There is no such bar mitzvah ceremony in our country. We usually mark all birthdays home with my friends together. We are lucky. Isabelle (had a baby) boy February 24 and I became a grandmother. He is named Dan... Now I'll try to talk about our life. I live in Uzbekistan, one of the Soviet republics. 90% of the population are Uzbeks, and 10% are people of other nationalities. All leading posts all over the plants and enterprises and especially party posts are occupied by Uzbeks. They all know two languages -- Russian and Uzbek -- so we do