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time in prison camps. She herself was constantly under threat of arrest. I knew about all this and I had the
same attitude as any other normal person to it. But after Khrushchev's speech many people abandoned us. For
them we were only Stalin's relatives. Nobody came to visit us. The headmistress of our school began to pick
on my sister and me. We had to move to another school. Later, thank goodness, I met somebody who behaved
differently towards me. I was studying drama with Oleg Efremov but I wanted to be a director. Oleg Efremov
recommended me to a wonderful teacher, Maria Osipovna Knebel'. She became my mentor, my friend, a
second mother. Maria Osipovna later told me what she had thought at our first meeting. She said: "I saw
before me the descendant of a terrible person, the grandson of a person who had caused me great pain - my
brother was a victim of the repression. His fate was in my hands. Should I take revenge on him? But what was
he guilty of
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