Sixth grade. Taganka.
In the sixth grade, Luba went to school on Taganka.
Nina Zakharovna moved with Luba to Izvestkov Lane. There were no improvements in housing conditions - they moved from a communal apartment to a communal one.
Luba's school was not far away. Large brick building. With special love, Luba recalled Sana Arnoldovna, a teacher of literature. Sana Arnoldovna was Jewish, but this did not mean so much to her or to her students . She was distinguished by conscientiousness and warmth in relations with children, to whom she devoted time even after classes.
In the sixth - eighth grades, Lubov Borisovna was Luba's teacher. She put on performances with the girls, her pupils published a wall newspaper, sitting at school until night over an unfolded drawing paper. When Lubov Borisovna got a job at the Taganka Theater, she accompanied Luba and her friends from the back door to dress rehearsals and performances.
It can be emphasized once again that Nina Zakharovna loved her daughter, andgave her everything she could. Yes, and Luba's requests were reduced mainly to books. In the bookcase behind the glass doors were the endless volumes of The Library of World Literature and the many, many volumes of the "Lives of Remarkable People" series.
Even as a child, Luba read books from cover to cover. They taught honesty and nobility, helping comrades, although the surrounding reality was not like that. But some people believed what was in the books andand behave accordingly.
The passion for reading was so strong that at night Luba used to lock herself in the bathroom and read there, so that the light would not wake up her mother.
At the age of fifteen, Luba often copied into a notebook poems that were not published, in her beautiful student handwriting.
She loved Pushkin, Osip Mandelstam, admired the Decembrists and their wives. A little later, Mikhail Bulgakov appeared with "The Master and Margarita". How Luba admired this novel! "I'm fixing the stove" and "Eat, Behemoth" often flew off her tongue. She loved "Kukhlya" by Tarle and the stories of Nadezhda Tokareva.
As she herself said many times: "I could read books and be happy."
From the age of 15, Luba began to suffer from tonsillitis that caused her rheumatic heart disease. Rheumatic attacks destroyed her heart. Clinics, doctors, medicines... In his youth, everything seemed to be nothing, tolerable.
In the tenth grade, Luba and her mother moved to the new district of Beskudnikovo, to a separate one-room apartment. The house was nine stories high. They lived on the fifth floor. The entire area was built up with "Khrushchevs" - large-panel houses that were erected on the outskirts of Moscow at that time in order to solve the housing problem. Luba loved the old school and tried to get there by bus and metro every morning. But once Nina Zakharovna went with her, saw what a crush her daughter was in, and how much time it took to travel, and forbade her from these daily trips.
