Grandparents from Polesie have 57 grandchildren and 38 great-grandchildren
The family of Ekaterina and Pavel Tselushka from the village of Lyusina, Gantsevichi district, numbers 132 people. Ekaterina Semenovna remembers everyone's birthdays, but still keeps a separate notebook where she neatly records her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Their story is told by "Smartpress".
"We have 57 grandchildren and 38 great-grandchildren, and we're expecting two more very soon," Ekaterina Semenovna smiles.
The couple has lived in the village of Lyusina since childhood.
"He grew up, and I grew up. When a neighbor said I would marry her son, I replied: 'No, I'll marry Pavel.' But we started dating when I was 18 and Pavel was 22. A year later (in 1971), we had a wedding. To have everything on the tables, relatives even went to Vilnius for groceries: they bought sausages, fish... Because there was nothing in the village," the woman recalls.
"We always had a large family. Everyone is religious, good people," Pavel Artyomovich notes. "My parents had eight children, Ekaterina's family had seven. And I wanted to have many children too."
And so it happened — Svetlana, Lyudmila, Pavel, Maria, Pyotr, Lyubov, Mikhail, Artyom, Tatyana, and Samuil were born.
"In total, there are 132 people in the family. We count everyone: our children, their wives and husbands, grandchildren, great-grandchildren," the woman says, and her finger stops at an interesting note "+15 additional." "These are the husbands and wives of our grandchildren. Additional, but already ours."
Many years ago, the family stopped fitting even at a very large table. When a celebration is planned, the husband and wife follow a practiced scheme: all flowers are removed to one corner of the house (small great-grandchildren still manage to break more than one pot even then), three tables are brought into the hall and placed next to each other. First, the great-grandchildren eat, then they give way to the grandchildren, and then the hosts and their children sit down at the table.
The couple can talk about their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren endlessly.
"Almost all of them run a farm, working day and night. In our family, there are builders, so we built all the houses for our children ourselves, we didn't hire anyone. Thank God for a large family, now we have almost a hundred grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but this is not the end, there will be more."
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