Tamara Grigorieva, 76, has been working as a concierge for 15 years in an apartment building in southwestern Moscow.

But the residents of the house consider her not just a concierge, but an indispensable assistant and a “miracle grandmother”.

Tamara Grigorieva moved to the capital after her daughter, not completing two years before retirement.

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“I was born and lived all my life in Kirovsk, Luhansk region.

She worked at a factory for sewing winter coats, at a mine.

My daughter studied at a technical school, but left for Moscow for a better life.

Two months later, he calls: “Mommy, I can’t, come!”

I arrived and have been here since then,” says Tamara Grigoryeva.

Nothing else kept her in Kirovsk, except, in fact, at home: she buried her husband in the same 2007.

“He had golden hands, and he didn’t finish any institutes, he did everything himself.

He soldered pans to grandmothers, repaired motorcycles, cars, ”Tamar Grigorieva sighs.

At first, the woman lived in Krasnogorsk, where she cared for a dying relative.

But then, in order not to waste time on the road to work, I decided to move directly to the concierge's closet right at the entrance.

She still lives here.

“Of course, many tenants have changed over the years, but I still know everyone by sight, and their frequent guests,” she says proudly.

- Tenants often turn to me if they need help, to hand over the keys to someone when they leave, to call a plumber.

I accept deliveries - somehow I couldn’t go to the store for two days, I thought, suddenly they will come for the parcel, but it’s closed for me?

"Miracle Grandmother" was taken under guardianship by the whole house.

One of the residents, Lyubov Zhukova, says that many people from the Donbass lived here: “As soon as they found out that Tamara Grigoryevna was from Lugansk, they supported her both morally and financially.”

The concierge visited her native land for the last time this year: the tenants chipped in so that she went to draw up overdue documents: “I stayed there for 11 days, shelling was heard almost every night.

There is no light, water is given once a week for two hours.

I thought it would be better to walk out of there.”

In a couple of months, Tamara Grigoryeva plans to go to Kirovsk again to apply for citizenship of the LPR - now she has a Ukrainian passport: “And I need to straighten my pension, how much should I work.

Health is no longer the same.

And there is no money for paid doctors.

I barely collected it so that my lungs could see, I worked in production, there is pile, batting.

You can expectorate this coal dust, but the tissue particles remain in the lungs.”

“You just need to save up money: buses cost six thousand there, plus you will have to live somewhere.

My daughter called and said that nothing was left of our house.

We lived in one-story Finnish houses for four owners.

Our apartment was opened, looted, there was a fire.

Of course, you can’t live there,” she says bitterly.

With an LPR passport, a woman wants to go to her daughter in Arkhangelsk and apply for Russian citizenship.

She stubbornly repeats: “My daughter works in two days, she has no opportunity to come here.

He calls to himself, but I do not want to impose on anyone and sit on my neck.

I'm not brought up that way.

And in Russia, I didn’t ask for a penny, I didn’t apply for refugee status, nothing like that.”

When Tamara Grigorieva found out about the holding of referendums on the issues of joining the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions into Russia, she immediately got the idea to go and vote.

But the question arose of where exactly the process would be organized, says Lyubov Zhukova: “She said: “Lyubov Vasilievna, I want to vote, but I don’t know where.

I volunteered to help.

Information work, let's say, is poorly done.

And there are many people living here who could vote.

The municipality said they did not know where to go, at the school, where polling stations are usually made, - too.

On the Internet, data on hours and days of work also differ.

“I haven’t voted in a long time,” the concierge shares after leaving the polling station.

I wanted to show that I'm still alive.

And she voted for Russia, that she helps me and does not expel me.

And those who plundered my house, let them live a hundred years and suffer all this time.

Neighbor Grigorieva Lyubov Zhukova adds: “We are very sympathetic to Tamara Grigorievna.

I understand how hard it is for her to even retire due to her age and health, not to mention learning from scratch all the necessary procedures for receiving a pension.

This is the kindest person who now needs help himself.