emdi's friends had her scribble that she wished to marry emdi of her free will. the coupe rant brightal party escorted adile into a separate room, covered her face with silk. each guest raised the veil, kissed the bride and handed over a presented. then the men carried adile back to the main hall to dance. in the lakoba household, adile at each party would be asked to dance before the bolshevik elite. the wedding celebration ended at day daybreak as a choir of girls sang for the parting guests. emdi retired with his 15-year-old bride to the lakoba compound as a married couple. this was a happy time in adile's life. this happy time did not last very long. a rival -- at least according to family story -- poisoned lakoba, and thereafter the arrests began. all of the loakoba's were arrested, adile's father were arrested, her father, wife, son ralph and adile's father who was a persian. so adile never had soviet citizenship. so everyone was being arrested, and ad can ile -- including her husband, emdi -- and adile who is now like 16 or 17 spent her days trying to find