Word: katya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friend. Well-wishers kept the house she rented in Princeton, N.J., filled with flowers. Fan letters, presents, even proposals of marriage arrived. Academic and society people lionized her. Amid such warm attention, she did not appear to worry unduly about her children in Moscow. Joseph, 22, and Yekaterina ("Katya"), 17, were already grown up, she explained. "The life of my children will not be changed...
...letter to a friend in Cambridge, Svetlana complained, "With this precious, long-legged and dumb-headed daughter of mine I'm tied hand and foot. She goes back to school on Sunday, THANK GOD! When she's with me, I miss more than ever my Katya and Osia (her children in the Soviet Union). They are so nice, and she (Olga) is a fool, spoiled rotten...
...reeled in stage by stage. First, just before Christmas 1983, a phone call came from Joseph in Moscow. As the excited Svetlana related it, she had scarcely heard from either of her children in the Soviet Union for 17 years. Joseph, now 38 and a physician, and Katya, 33 and a scientist, had been forbidden to communicate with their mother since her defection. The presents she sent them had come back marked REFUSED. Only an occasional card or telephone call had circumvented the ban. After Christmas 1983, though, Joseph called her regularly, and she could phone...
...Summer of Katya, Trevanian...
...Summer of Katya, Trevanian...