She taught the President, considers peace and harmony to be the most important things in life. Legendary teacher from Alexandria celebrated her 101st birthday

Tatyana Karpechenko. January 13, MINSK . Belarusian teacher Tatyana Nikolaevna Karpechenko from the village of Alexandria in the Mogilev Region celebrated her 101st birthday. Many guests - both friends and relatives and representatives of government agencies - came to congratulate this legendary woman, BELTA reports.
 
The day turned out to be warm and very sincere, because so many wonderful and kind words were said to the teacher, there were so many pleasant emotions, memories and wishes. And the birthday girl, in turn, gave the following parting words to the guests who congratulated her: "Live in peace and harmony, this is the most important thing."
"Yes, I had to go through a lot. However, I am a very happy person," says Tatyana Karpechenko. She is a Teacher with a capital T. There were many events in her life that make up not only a family chronicle, but also a part of the life of the country. She has four children, five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren.
For four years, Tatyana Karpechenko was the class teacher of the President of the Republic of Belarus ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO during his years of study at the Alexandria School.  

Tatyana Nikolaevna was born in a taiga village in the Vologda region (on her mother's side, her roots are from the Shklovsky district). In 1941, she graduated from a pedagogical college, receiving the specialty of a primary school teacher. The girl was sent to work in one of the districts of the Arkhangelsk region. She began teaching at the age of 18, during the Great Patriotic War, and then devoted her entire life to teaching her favorite subject - mathematics.

The woman sadly recalls the hard times of war, when a bread card for 400 grams and a matchbox of SALT were considered happiness, and a rye flatbread could be exchanged for a theater ticket.
 
Her teaching path to her mother's homeland, Alexandria, was intricately unpredictable. Tatyana Nikolaevna talks about the twists and turns of fate, unexpected fateful meetings and also about the education of her famous student, about amazing and unforgettable meetings with his mother, a simple village woman. From the height of her 101-year-old age, Tatyana Nikolaevna tells young people about the spiritual values ​​that were passed on to her by her grandfathers and great-grandfathers and which she in turn passes on to the younger generation. In this unshakable continuity of generations, the foundation of foundations is love for the native land, for the golden ear of grain grown on it, for the spring water in grandfather's well, for the delicious and unforgettable taste of fresh MILK milked by mother's calloused hands, for the blue, like the peaceful Belarusian sky, cornflower, as well as the memory of ancestors and all those who defended their father's home from a fierce enemy, who fell in an unequal battle and to whose names on the obelisks we come to bow, leading our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren by the hand. And in this infallible essence of life there is room only for peace and goodness.
The fate of this unique woman is described in more detail in the author's journalistic project "The Fates of Women - the Fate of a United Belarus". This section of the project is published on the BELTA website under the title .

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