Guests
Sunday, June 18th, 2017 at 6:30 pm by Viktor IvanovichToday my first guests this year at the dacha: Kolya and Rustam with their wives. Rustam brought a watermelon from the bazaar, a very sweet one, and Kolya brought a bottle of kvass for himself, because the doctors do not allow anything stronger for any of us. We sat under the apricot tree until the evening. Kolya cried a bit when we talked about Lyudmila, and said it is the dust.

The table under the apricot tree, with the watermelon.
We talked about the old shift. In 1975 we were twenty-two people, and now four. I said: let's not be sad, let's be a good four.