She was an aspiring artists and asked me if I would look at her drawings and I agreed and took her to lunch in the dining room that was only for us Americans.
The head of the Russian minders, filed an official complaint that I had asked this teenage girl to lunch and was giving her some encouragement.
Ileyena came to the show many times and she is the only person that I did more than one session with.
Recently I found that out that all of the guides to the show (my interpreters and helpers) knew her as “Braids”
gosh, so incredibly interesting….glad i heard about this exhibit!