Sad but interesting bio. I have a Great-Uncle who escaped the USSR.
Enjoyed the poem, especially the last stanza: "Thus must it be, when willingly you strive
throughout a long and uncomplaining life,
committed to one goal: to give yourself!
And silently to grow and to bear fruit."
"Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing" - Mary T. Lathrap; A Woman's Answer to a Man's Question... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw254.html