Lyudmila Vasilyeva

The father Hvetut Mikulajĕ, appointed the head of the collective farm was poisoned by the local doctor in revenge for being fired.

In 1942, having graduated four grades of the elementary school she had to work at the collective farm because the family was poor.

But after year she gave it up and went to the Teachers Training College in the town of Aksu.

But she insisted, saying: “I’ll die in the corridor, but won’t go away!” After two months in hospital she never recovered, and they sent her home.

Four days before her death she wrote 620 lines of «Асăнмалăх» (In Memory), a poem about of her life, which was published in many Chuvash magazines and newspapers.