Alexandra reminisces about her mother-in-law:My mother-in-law was highly educated and stood out among her peers. She wrote poetry. One day when she worked as a nurse in a hospital, the famous Kalmyk singer Valentina Iltsaranova came for treatment. My mother-in-law wrote a poem dedicated to her, which Valentina Iltsaranova later turned into a song and sang it herself. When my daughter was going to secondary school, my mother-in-law bought her a dombra instrument. My mother-in-law always said that she wanted the whole country to hear my daughter’s voice. She foresaw it – if not the country, at least our republic now hears her voice. My daughter Victoria works at the radio station.