Babulia

Efrosinya Gadzhieva has been coming to Gorky Park since Stalin’s time. ‘In those days the flowers were tended,’ she muses, her gold teeth glistening in the sun. ‘Now it’s just arcades and noise. Then you could buy sandwiches with caviar, not all these strange kebabs.’ But Babulia (granny), as the locals call her, is not one to complain. Since 1976, she has been operating the weighing scales from her spot near the shooting range.

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Even those who, out of love for the vine, are still growing their own grapes are far from sure they are doing the right thing, said Babulia Otiashvili, 55, a grandmother harvesting in giant wicker baskets the last of the grapes on her two-acre private plot.

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To be sure, people of all ages were on Maidan, and the grandmothers, the babulias, were out there in full force.

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Nadia’s grandmother is that extremely rare thing in Chekhov’s work, an almost entirely negative character. This is brought out in his opening description of her, which emphasises her physical repulsiveness: ‘Grandmother, or, as she was called at home “babulia”, was very fat, ugly, with thick eye-brows and a little moustache.[…]’

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