Vera
Names: VeraMamenka
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 9 (8)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
B4
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 9Died in a car accident near Matsesta, after Tamara had warned her not to go on the trip.
- Ch 9On her deathbed she made Pyotr promise to leave Tamara with the old ones in Upper Bzyb for four years, until age nine.
- Ch 9Born in Verkhnyaya Bzyb, she rejected her people's soul-way as superstition and fled to Sochi before the Great Patriotic War; she had told Pyotr her family was dead.
- Ch 9Bore Tamara at forty-two; she was a physician-type healer devoted to Party loyalty, but was consumed with guilt over rejecting her heritage.
Connections
- family ofPyotr Sergeyevich Sakhvadzehusband
- family ofTamaradaughter
- family ofSeliac Eshbagreat-great-grandfather
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 9Vera's deathbed promise
Dying in a car crash, Vera makes Pyotr promise to take Tamara to the old ones in Upper Bzyb for four years. Tamara senses her mother's death and has packed her bags.