The party for Slava was not the first time I’ve seen how much Slava is appreciated by his staff. They know that he has given them opportunities they would not have had working in a regular bureaucratic institute in the Russian Academy of Sciences. It is therefore an honor for me to be the director’s wife, and I’m reminded of an old Russian joke that goes like this:
A military officer is selected to become a general. The day he achieves this rank is a day of great pomp and celebration. The new general and his wife return home, exhausted. The general goes to sleep right away, but his wife is too excited to sleep. She punches her husband awake and exclaims, “Genya, can you believe it? You are now married to a general’s wife!”
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