Khongor Dzhavinov, About David Kugultinov's Relatives

Khongor reminisces about the relatives of the famous Kalmyk writer David Kugultinov who were from the same village as he was: In the village of Gakhan Avgnr, the Kugultinovs were rich people. Kugultinov’s younger sister, Abbi, married a man from the village of Lapino where she moved to. When the Bolsheviks came to power they exiled the Kugultinovs to the Urals. There, the head of their family died, and his wife, with her four children, came on foot from the Urals to Esto-Altai. On the way the woman lost a child, who survived somehow in Siberia, and later returned to Kalmykia where he worked in a collective farm.Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwi