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Mayakovsky’s daughter living in New York is asking for Russian citizenship

'02.07.2015' Source: TASS Subscribe to ForumDaily on Google News

Living in New York, the only daughter of the Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) Patricia Thompson wants to re-learn the Russian language and obtain the citizenship of the Russian Federation.

“I spoke Russian until I was five years old. Of course, even now I remember some words that I heard as a child, “yes”, “no”, “thank you”, “please”, “stop”, “no”, noted Thomson, who prefers to be addressed by Elena Vladimirovna . “However, I would like to truly remember the Russian language, it would give me back part of my lost inner essence. If I regularly communicated with someone in Russian, I could probably master the language again.”

“I would like to be closer to Russia,” admitted the 89-year-old daughter of the great poet, who is a professor of philosophy at Leman College of the City University of New York and the author of more than 20 books. — I’ve been wanting to get a Russian passport for a long time. This process seemed to have begun, but then, apparently, something stalled. But I would still really like to have Russian citizenship.”

According to the poet’s daughter, she keeps pictures taken during Mayakovsky’s stay in America with Elly Jones, formerly Elizabeth Siebert, an emigrant from Russia, the mother of Patricia Thompson.

Thompson said that she willingly watches Russian TV shows in English. She keeps a personal archive where she is stitching articles from the American press on the subject of Russia.

Vladimir Mayakovsky lived in the US for several months in 1925. According to Thompson, she only once saw her father in 1928, in Nice.