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The presentation of the book "About the peasant woman Mikhailova" took place in Sebezh. Prepared in the "Mitkovo" edition of "Red Sailor", it is a memoir of Tatyana Sergeevna Mikhailova, a resident of the village of Khroshki. A few years ago this...

The presentation of the book "About the peasant woman Mikhailova" took place in Sebezh. Prepared in the "Mitkovo" edition of "Red Sailor", it is a memoir of Tatyana Sergeevna Mikhailova, a resident of the village of Khroshki. A few years ago, this unique manuscript in all respects was discovered in the museum's storerooms by its director Alexei Petrenko.

A whole group of “Mitki” arrived at the presentation, headed by the ideologist of the movement, writer Vladimir Shinkarev.

The writer was born (you can’t say otherwise here) in 1887. From need and deprivation, the family, which had five children, moved to the then capital. At first they were begging, and then, when Tatyana grew up, she managed to get a job as a nanny. According to established Russian tradition, she married unsuccessfully, and at the end of her life she moved to Khroshki, not far from Sebezh. It was here, having bought a common notebook, that the peasant woman Mikhailova began to write memoirs about her life. She wrote as best she could and as she remembered, not having the slightest idea about punctuation marks, spelling. But this artlessness of presentation struck the publishers:

I lived all my life in need

To a bowl of good people

Zhis how the weather smiles

That shrinks then smiles

It's a pity that I've been radilas for a long time

And I didn't go to school

I wanted to write to know

Mother did not send to school

In addition to these poetic lines, the book also contains a description of the daily worries that her family experienced, as well as the memories of people who knew Tatyana Sergeevna closely, who even had a chance to sit in prison, from where, according to the stories of relatives, Lenin himself rescued her.