Ngenyanga eyedlule, owayengumholi weqembu elithi "VIA-Gra" uNadezhda Granovskaya wayengowesithathu umama. Umculi wanikeza indoda yakhe enye indodakazi, leyo mbhangqwana ibize uMariika.
Indodana endala kaThemba kusukela emshadweni wokuqala ineminyaka eyishumi nesishiyagalolunye ubudala, kanti indodakazi yomyeni wayo wesibili, uMikhail Urzhumtsev, cishe uneminyaka emine ubudala.
Kwaphela isikhathi eside uGranovskaya no-Urzhumtsev baphila emshadweni womphakathi, futhi babhalisa ubuhlobo babo kuphela ngonyaka odlule. Lo mbhangqwana wazi mayelana nomshado kuphela izihlobo, futhi umdlali wezemidlalo ngokwakhe wayengasheshe akhulume izindaba zakamuva mayelana nokuphila kwakhe. Ngendlela, ukukhulelwa kwesithathu kwenkanyezi kwaziwa ezinsukwini ezimbalwa ngaphambi kokuzalwa.
Ngokuqondene nomshado, kwakuyisenzakalo esithobekile ngomdwebo ovamile kwelinye lamahhovisi e-Kiev wokubhalisa:
UMisha ungenzele umnikelo esikhathini eside ngaphambili, ake sithi, uhlu lwethu olusemthethweni. Futhi thina ngandlela-thile kokubili sasilungele lokhu, ngoba sobabili sasingenalo lolu phiko. Thina nje njengoba abadala beze ngamabomu futhi basayinwe ehhovisi lokubhalisa laseKiev. Konke! Asizange senze ngaleli qembu, asihlelanga umcimbi we-pathos
U-Granovskaya ukholelwa ukuthi imizwa enamandla kakhulu, ekhudlwana ukhuluma ngayo ngokuzwakalayo ukuze abantu bangaphandle bangakwazi ukuphula i-idyll. Ithemba alizange lithenge ingubo yomshado. Umlingisi nomthandi wakhe baya ehhovisi lokubhalisa ngezinto ezijwayelekile, lapho bekhululekile khona. Umyeni womculi uyazi kahle ukuthi owesifazane wakhe othandekayo akanandaba nedayimane, ngakho njengomshado, wamtshela indandatho ngeparele.