At 103, she came to the polling station herself and shared the secrets of longevity

Evdokia Klimashevich Topic news January 22, Pruzhany district. Evdokia Klimashevich will turn 103 on February 2. She is the oldest resident of the Pruzhany district. The long-liver came to the polling station with her daughter to vote for her candidate for the post of head of state, a BELTA correspondent reports.
According to Evdokia Nikitichna, despite her venerable age, she always goes to the polling station for elections. She does not want to vote at home. "The main thing I want is for peace on earth. Can't people really live in peace? What is missing? There is food, there are shoes - live in peace! I hate those who only open their mouths about war. There must be peace in the world, then life will be good for people," Evdokia Klimashevich is convinced. She has lived a difficult life. In particular, she lived through the hard years of war, and the resident of Pruzhany knows the price of peace very well.
At the polling station, a gift was prepared for the oldest voter. She was given a bouquet of flowers and a book about Pruzhany. Incidentally, Evdokia Nikitichna was born in the Smolensk region. She came to Belarus in 1946 to visit her older sister, who had settled in the Pruzhany district. She got a job as a primary school teacher. "They helped me in Belarus: the school and everyone else," the pensioner says with gratitude. "People valued me. They still respect me. When they meet me, they say hello, bow, and thank my first teacher." Having lived for more than a century, Evdokia Klimashevich does not sit idly by. "I have enough work, I am not lazy. I like to walk, read, draw, and solve crosswords. The words I don't know, I go to my daughter for help," the pensioner shared. She also revealed the secret of her longevity. "You have to keep yourself in check, not allow yourself to go too far. II don't drink alcohol , I eat normally. I work as best I can. I don't throw away candy wrappers, I make "teeth" and from them - ribbons, then I weave baskets. I've probably given away 500 of these baskets. Wherever you go, my work is there. "Looking at them, people will remember me," said the oldest resident of the Pruzhany district. She even held a small master class on weaving baskets, deftly handling colorful paper ribbons. The daughter of Evdokia Klimashevich is Maria Kuletskaya. She is a national master of Belarus in glass painting and the holder of the title of honorary citizen of the Pruzhany district. "We came to the elections to vote for peace on earth, for everyone to be healthy and happy, for us to be prosperous, for the people to have prosperity, success," the craftswoman shared her opinion. Like her mother, the woman worked until she was 70. She dedicated her life to creativity and taught it to children. Maria Kuletskaya became interested in glass painting after seeing such pictures in the houses of villagers in the Pruzhany district. The plot was simple: cats, doves, flowers. "But very beautiful, tempting, like magical. For me, village houses were a real ethnographic museum. Women did embroidery and weaving. Hard workers, talented craftsmen lived there: blacksmiths, basket makers, carpenters. I really like all folk art. I like drawing, and glass painting attracted me the most. I can’t say that it’s something ancient, but few people did it. I still draw,” Maria Kuletskaya summed up.
Photo by Violetta Yuzhakova