"Everything that might be required for an evacuation was prepared long before the war.
I remember that for almost two years some long smooth poles stood in the corner of my office.
I didn’t believe myself that the time would come when would wrap fabrics from Coptic Egypt around those poles to send them to the Urals."

Militsa Matye

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Militsa
Edvinovna
Matye
(1899–1966),
Ancient Egypt
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