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Mayakovsky's daughter wants to become a citizen of Russia
Mayakovsky's daughter wants to become a citizen of Russia
© Russia Beyond the HeadlinesThe only daughter of Vladimir Mayakovsky, 89-year-old Patricia Thompson, living in New York, expressed the intention to re-learn the Russian language and obtain citizenship of the Russian Federation.
“I spoke Russian up to five years. Of course, and now I remember some words that I heard the child, “yes”, “no”, “thank you”, “please”, “stop”, “you can’t,” Tisson said in an interview with TASS . “However, I would like to really recall the Russian language, this would return to me part of my lost inner essence.” If I regularly communicated with someone in Russian, I probably could have mastered my tongue again. ”
Patricia Thompson, professor of philosophy of the Lemanovsky College of the city University of New York and the author of more than 20 books, prefers to be called Elena Vladimirovna. Mayakovsky met with her mother, immigrant from Russia Elizabeth Zibert (married to Ellie Jones) during a trip to the United States in 1925. Patricia Thompson was born in New York in June 1926. She saw her father only once - in Nice, in 1928, but remembered this meeting for life.
“I would like to be closer to Russia,” said Mayakovsky’s daughter. - I have long wanted to get a Russian passport. This process seemed to begin, but then, apparently, something was stalled. But I would still really like to have Russian citizenship. ”
Thompson also said that she regularly watches Russian television programs in English, cuts out articles about Russia from American newspapers and put them in his personal archive. She is sure that this archive "can give an idea of what kind of prejudice many media outlets in the United States present information about Russia."
“The Americans have a limited and in many ways a distorted view of what is happening in Russia. To achieve Russia, including in the social sphere. It generally seems to me that the Russians are smarter than the Americans, ”Thompson concluded.
She also said that she is ready at any time to transfer to Russia her personal library and 40 folders of family archival materials, including photographs, documents and manuscripts telling about Mayakovsky’s trip to the United States.
In the next six months, Thompson intends to finish an autobiographical book with the working name “Daughter. The unexplored story of the American child of Mayakovsky’s love. ”