On March 31, 1901, in Mogilev, in Nicodemus and Maria Konarskikh's family the girl was born. Parents, for certain people devout, named her Balbina, in honor of the early Christian martyr on whom memory is made this day. Well, as you will call the ship, so it also will float. Spring – both year, and a new century. There is a lot of optimistic hopes and aspirations, not only in Konarsky' family. Expectation something new and fine soared in air, perhaps, of the whole world. And there was everything as before – troubles and tragedies fell one by one. Three years old the girl lost suddenly mother and the father.