Chapter 3 – The School: First Year(Girl who changed my life book)

The school was beautiful: Kyiv State Music Lyceum named after M. V. Lysenko. My teacher was Sergei Sylvansky, the son of a famous composer in Ukraine. He dreamed of escaping the Soviet Union and immigrating to the United States. Leaving the Soviet Union was considered a betrayal of your motherland, so he kept his dream on the down low. He pretended to be a loyal member of society while secretly planning his escape