The Introvert Genius

Leningrad, USSR, 1978 | Masha Ivashintsova

Aysa believes that her mother was a genius but she never realized it herself. She never let the world see what she was from within. Mahsa herself agrees to this when in a note in her diary she says,

“I loved without memory, I never had a memory for myself, but always for others.” This reflects the selfless trait Aysa’s mother carried.