"I was eight years old then. My grandfather, Glashev Gergok, and grandmother, Orkuyat, nee Edekaeva, had five adult sons alive at that time: Uzeir (two sons and two daughters), Khyzyr (two sons), Akhmat (dad, five children), Abusalam (son), Ramazan (daughter). Only Ramazan was called to the front. He used to live with the grandmother (grandfather was gone by that time), and after he left for the army, I spent nights with her."
Tutorial #5
"We lived in a new longhouse. The old one was away, and cattle were kept there.
On that day, our relatives were at a funeral in Cosparty; by the evening, they returned home. Only Uzeir's wife remained in Upper Cheget with her brother, Endreev Zhagafar."
"Grandma was restless. She decided to ask her sons to take refuge in the old house because it was safer there. But...
"You shouldn't have gone out - they would have had enough of us," said the father.
Soldiers took them [sons and grandmother] to our room."
From left to right: dad, grandmother, Uzeir, Khyzyr.
Tutorial #6
I corrected mistakes in the third and fourth spreads.
[continued drawing]
I had some doubts about the new spreads. Even though I did not want to make them too dramatic, I had the feeling that this is exactly how they turned out.
[soldiers] "Put them on a bench... and started shooting."
"Five bullets hit the grandmother in the chest, but she died later than her sons. She still managed to hug all of them and passed away next to the oldest one.
Uzeir, who had children left in the room, tried to crawl to them"
Tutorial #7
I tried to correct the problems with the drama of some spreads. I added the wall texture in the fourth (=twelfth) spread. In the fifth spread, I diversified the reviews and shots. In the seventh one, I tried to imitate the glitch effect and use a metaphor in the form of a dead bird (an alpine jackdaw that lives in that area). I also designed the flyleaf and intro page.
"The soldiers put all four on a bench... and started shooting. And then the muzzle turned in my direction."
"Five bullets hit the grandmother in the chest, but she died later than her sons. She still managed to hug all of them and passed away next to the oldest one.
Uzeir, who had children left in the room, tried to crawl to them but could not cross the threshold of the room."
Intro page. "Mokayeva (Glasheva) Zoya Akhmatovna."
Endpaper.
Tutorial #8
“After the sentry left, I ran to my mother’s room. She didn’t know anything about the executions and was sitting, waiting for her husband. And she told me…”
"Our rooms were on one side of the long house, and as it turned out, at first, they came to us. Among them, mum recognized Osmanov Alibi, whose wife, nee Toguzaeva, was her relative. Second, they took Khyzyr, leaving his wife and small children. The third was Uzeyir. And then they came to the threshold of the room where Abusalam was and wanted to enter. But dad said that his brother was in the army. They believed and did not insist, and just at that moment, the grandmother came out..."
FINAL CRIT
Intro spread.