Woman Finds 30,000 Negatives In Her Expired Mother’s Attic Revealing Soviet Union’s Mysterious Past

By Shweta Srivastava

A Difficult Life

Kruzenstern Bark, Leningrad, USSR, 1979 | Masha Ivashintsova

Masha died of Cancer at the age of 58. According to what Aysa told to My Modern Met, it was an end to a rather difficult and bumpy life. Aysa couldn’t bear what her mother went through and the only thing that Aysa wanted was to forget the past and the torments that her mother had faced.