Galina Konstantinovna admitted that she was barely making ends meet. “My pension is about 25 thousand rubles a month. Enough to pay for an apartment, for electricity, for a telephone … My medicines are very expensive. A lot is spent on them – 10 thousand a month! I take both for hypertension and heart disease …
I don’t have allowances. I didn’t finish anything. I am often asked: “Are you folk?” I answer the truth that I have no titles. I am a nugget, an artist from the people. Folk, but not folk, ”says the 82-year-old artist.
