Habibullo-Eugene Kiselev
A Synopsis of my Life
June 7th, 2019, Friday, 11:41:00 p.m.
Yekaterinburg, Russia. GMT 05:00
Right before leaving the University building, I got acquainted with a woman named Nailya. She is studying Muslim theology at the Ural State Mining University and goes to the Copper Mosque. Nailya is very well acquainted with Zəlija Vəlijeva, Şahban Kuramagomedov and others. Generally speaking, we have a lot of mutual friends and acquaintances. My new acquaintance told me about her experiences of learning French and English, she also kind of eased my worries about the fact, that many students have no desire and yet no motivation to learn English. “These are their own problem that they don’t want to study. It’s not your problem”, Nailya said. The woman told me about the problems with her computer, I promised her to find a good computer expert to help her restore access to the Internet. And this ends here.
I had scarcely left the University building when I came across Edward Belinkov, my Muslim acquaintance. His Muslim name is Sabir and he is Georgian by nationality. I must say, he is a very talkative chap. He told me about his relatives, that Belinkov was his granny’s last name and that his own last name was Kapanadze. For this once he was in a hurry, so he told me briefly about Georgian last names, in particular, he denied my opinion that all Georgian last names ending with –dze belonged to the nobility and all the last names ending with –shvili belonged to common people. ““Shvili” means “child” and “Dze” means “heir””, Edward said. “Everyone in Georgia belongs to the nobility nowadays” he added. Having talked about different nations which live in Georgia, such as Mingrelians and Laz people, we parted.
When I was already coming to the bus stop, I suddenly came across Dmitry Kargapoltseff (Russian: Дмитрий Каргапольцев), with whom I studied at the Department of History. He told me his story. So after the University he became a postgraduate student. Having finished his postgraduate studies, he got a degree of a Candidate of Historical Sciences (corresponds to the PhD Degree in History). Nowadays he is working in a water company (“Vodokanal” in Russian). I was kind of stupefied at first. Having talked a bit, we parted.
At last Granny Galya told my mom that Nina Ignatyevna Brezgina had died recently. This was sad news. I knew her personally, both of us participated in family celebrations, however, we were relatives, however, we were not closely related.
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