Woman finds 30,000 negatives in her expired mother’s attic revealing soviet union’s mysterious past

The year is 2017 and Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan is busy cleaning the clutter from her ancestral home. She suddenly stumbled upon something that she never expected she would find. A big box full of images that tell the story of her mother’s turbulent life. What she doesn’t know is that the images also shed a revealing light on the lives of people in the Soviet Union. Wait until you find out the secrets hidden deep.

Childhood

Asya was born to a linguist named Melvar Melkumyan and Masha Ivashintsova. She was supposed to have a normal childhood like the other kids but fate had something else planned for her. Both her parents loved Aysa but sadly failed to love each other. This led to a setback in Aysa’s life that left a hollow very deep. 

Early Separation

Aysa was only a little girl when her parents decided to separate. The family was broken. While Masha, Aysa’s mother decided to stay in Leningrad- a Russian city (now Petersburg), Aysa with her father moved to Moscow, 450 long miles away from her mother. 

The Capital

At the time when Aysa moved to Moscow, it was the capital city of the Soviet Union and was located in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. It was a big territory and life there was a lot different from small cities. 

Collapse Of The Soviet Union

It was in 2000 when Aysa’s mother passed away and by that time the Soviet Union had collapsed and a new Russia was beginning to take its place. Life was now about to change for Aysa as the 21st century had seen its dusk and had something new to offer. 

A Difficult Life

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. 

Moving On

“Everything that reminded me of her caused great pain and my only longing back then was to clear all of what belonged to her from my sight.” She hid away all her belongings in an attic of her family’s house only to find it back after almost two decades.