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Date Posted: 11:33:48 10/18/06 Wed
Author: Gelena Bronshteyn (happy)
Subject: Milyavskys of Chernihiv, Ukraine

Probably time to go home soon (I haven't been there for awhile). Can I post information about my other relatives here? I am looking for info about their ancestors as well. I can't always spend 24 hours a day googling millions of websites, just to see which ones fit my purposes, maybe I "drop by" the same ones sometimes too. Anywho as my mother said, when I posted a memorial photograph, of her parents in Birmingham News last autumn: "If my father knew that he would appear in an American newspaper, he would twist in his grave." Yes, I posted photos of her relatives twice in that newspaper: once last year, and her mother (in childhood) with that woman's mother and father's sister-this year, just a few weeks ago, on September 24th. I'm very happy that this year "justice was restored", and the Birmingham News published our family photo there without any "tricks" like a cut-off corner of our photograph last year, seriously this was a nation-wide embarassment, one time I trusted them and did not correct that problem myself and they ran to post that ugly photo in such a prestigious newspaper.

Anywho (this messages starts looking like an anecdote), my mother's father, Simon Itzkovich Milyavskiy, is the other subject of my investigation in this message who was born in Chernihiv, Ukraine, in 1915, the only child of Itzhak and Fanya Milyavskiy- who died quite quickly after the birth of her son leaving her widower to remarry twice after her death, probably both time to cousins. Itzhak moved to Odessa (not surprisingly, that city in the Soviet Union is considered the "pinnacle" of human desires) when Simon was little and continued procreating there by having a son from his second wife-a boy,Boris, a noted athlete who died very young in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, during the war.

During the war Simon started his rapid rise on a career and power ladder (although I do not want to create an impressions like Simon was abusing his power or anything, he lived almost like a monk, being on a very high governmental position, yes, such miracles rarely happen), at first in the army where he quickly advanced from a position of an ordinary soldier to a post of a captain of a division or something. All that happened in the army of the infamous Marchal Rokossovsky (probably an ethnic Pole, I don't know) who probably heard somewhere that Simon played music instruments and gave Simon a couple of presents of this nature, ceased from one of German conservatories-the thing that was allowed to Soviet conquering soldiers to be done during the war, including Simon himself who took something from a villa either of Goerieng or Goebbels (final "revenge", isn't it?).

Anywho after the war Simon, who had been married before the war (but like many marriages of that era, his one could not outlive the war) married in Kishinev, Moldova my mother's mother, Hannah Revich, daughter of Sonia Slavina, from my previous message, and Simon and Hannah by late 1940s must have relocated to Kaluga, a suburb of Moscow, because that's where my mother, Yelizaveta, was born in 1950. That was a pretty short-lived marriage, the newlyweds lived extraordinarily poorly (which is seen on one of my family photos, on my own website, on genealogy.com, Lee Nocella-will you leave me alone, jump from the 20th floor or something), and Simon was pretty sick, he had been injured during the war and was starving after it even though he held one of the highest-ranking positions in Kaluga, a director of all their restaurants and cafes (till his death, 1960).

Anywho on one of those family photos it is obvious that Simon's funeral was extraordinarily lavish, the entire Kaluga gathered on his funeral, they brought 28 wreaths from Moscow (representing probably most or all eating establishments in that city) and even installed (for the first time in Kaluga's history) the guards of honor on his funeral which did not stand several days in a row like in a Stalin's funeral, as I mentioned it on another forum but still nevertheless an enormous honor for that city.

Time to call it quits probably, can't make this message 10 pages or something. Looking for info on the ancestors of Simon, let's put it that shortly. If anyone possesses this information, please forward your corrrespondence to my father's address, using my first and last name:

Gelena Bronshteyn,
313 Dulaine Cove,
Birmingham, Alabama 35210,
United States of America

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