Kaliningrad is still garrisoned by a shadowy regiment of these babushkas, left over from a time when it was illegal not to work. |
Women may wear peasant babushkas on their heads, and men may wear hats with floppy brims. |
I even got permission from some little old ladies, babushkas and all, to have my picture taken with them. |
Shouldn't we give up the nervous fingering of the beads of the grandmas and the babushkas? |
They vie for pavement space with old babushkas selling everything from flowers to cigarettes to kittens in socks, calendar style. |
Even matriarchs, the babushkas who enable Ukrainian families to survive, support patriarchy. |