There is a touching account of life with the late
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik as related by his daughter Olga
available on the website of the Russian chess federation here.
It is in Russian, but even English speakers should persevere.
She speaks of a two-room flat in Moscow where they
lived from 1944. Note that there were five persons living there;
Botvinnik, his wife Gayane, ailing mother, Olga herself and a nyana
(a nanny perhaps?). There is
also a discussion of life at Nikolina Gora.
Observe the
comment that Perestroika
misled the younger generation into believing they would get Western
style capitalism, whereas Botvinnik forecast they would obtain
capitalism as practised in Latin America. The late world champion was closer to
the mark!
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