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www.colonyleader.com — Wednesday, March 5, 2003 — The Colony Courier-Leader — Page 3A
Noted Russian poet makes new home in Plano
By SHAWN FLOYD
Staff writer
PLANO — In retirement,
many people move to a
warmer climate or to a loca-
tion closer to other family
members.
Anna Mnushkin (pro-
nounced Menushkin) moved
for an entirely different rea-
son.
“It’s very bad in Russia,”
she said. “It’s very danger-
ous.
She came to America in
1997, with her husband,
Alexander, to join their two
daughters and three grand-
children.
Mnushkin had to down-
size in moving from a larger
Moscow apartment to a one-
bedroom Plano Community
Home apartment.
That meant leaving behind
a lot of personal belongings.
But among those she chose
to bring were her poems -
and therein lies a tale.
Since arriving in the
It’s not much different
than her old one, except
that she’s living in another
country, speaking another
language, and learning
another culture.
The other difference is
that here, her grandson,
Maxim Vokulenko, types
her handwritten notes into a
computer.
Then he adds an artistic
touch, sometimes putting an
American Flag at the top of
the page.
Her home has a
European flavor. The lace
draperies are of the style
frequently seen
■ There are silk
* arrangements in
there,
flower
every
United States, she has been Matt Nachtrieb/DFWCN photo
acclaimed for her writing. Anna Mnushkin moved to the United States in 1997 to be with
It’s what she likes to talk her children and grandchildren,
about most.
At its November meeting
in Hollywood, Calif., the they vacationed in Florida. Community Center in
International Society of At the very mention of it and Dallas. This is her new life.
Poets named her an her trip to California,
International Poet of Merit. Mnushkin holds up the
In Hollywood, she read nametag she was given
room of her home, even on
top of kitchen cabinets.
Visitors may feel like
they’re in her Moscow
apartment.
But now she is in the
United States, and her first
impressions have been
favorable.
“I go in the street and all
the people smile, and this is
very nice,” she said.
Any other questions get
pushed aside and rerouted
right back to her poetry,
which tends to be the focus
of her conversation.
This is because writing
poetry is the way she
expresses her feelings; and
at the age of 74, there’s only
so much time left to express
oneself.
One guesses it has been
like this ever since she
started writing poetry at 10
years of age.
Since that time, she has
written at least 300 poems.
Some have been published
in a book called “Loveliness
Unfurled.”
In Russia, not only did
she write poetry, she also
taught psychology and
worked as a research psy-
chologist, studying the
behavior of leaders and for-
mer leaders.
That was in a former life.
Now she writes poetry and
studies history. In fact, his-
tory is what frequently
leads her to explore other
areas. Mention St.
Petersburg, Russia, and her
blue eyes get very big and
she has a look of excitement
on her face.
“St. Petersburg is a most
unusual city,” she says. "It
looks a little like Europe.”
Comparing St. Petersburg
with Europe is something
Mnushkin has done first-
hand, through her travels to
the European capitols of
Germany, Austria, Poland,
and Czechoslovakia.
She speaks English, but is
still working to perfect her
language skills at the com-
plex where she lives. Every
Friday afternoon she gets
together with as many as 20
others. While there, she is
helped by her neighbor and
friend, Florence Diemert,
who says Mnushkin is “very
outgoing, very intelligent,
and very educated.”
Mnushkin also attends
Plano Community Home
council meetings, as well as
some of the socials. And
now, whenever anyone says
anything about being a
Russian, she immediately
sets them straight.
“I am American,” she
says. "I won’t ever go back
to Russia.”
Contact Shawn Floyd at 972-398-
4267 or at floyds@dfwcn.com.
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her poem to the group, and while at the meeting. -
in addition to a medallion Then, she said, “When I
and silver cup, she was read my poem in California,
given a framed copy of her all the people stood up and
poem, “Sonnet.” clapped.”
It’s a love poem that she She spends many hours
wrote to her husband when writing poetry, or she plays
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