Night Train.
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Novosibirsk. May 1945. Iskra was sitting by the window in an overcrowded common car of a slow night train. Although...
Family members of another kind.
We like to tell the stories about our family – see them all in the Time Travel section of our...
Chagall in Upside Down Russia
When The Russian Revolution blew up in 1917, Marc Chagall lived in Petrograd – that is how St. Petersburg was...
“Should we go?”
If there was only one family selected to illustrate the numerous internal conflicts within the Jewish community of Lithuania at...
Florence – From David to Ai Weiwei
Most likely you came to Florence, Italy because you are either an art lover or an adept in medieval history,...
Train to Nowhere
Kharkov, 1941. On June 22, 1941, without declaration of war and in direct violation of the peace agreement between Soviet...
Escape
Shebalino, 1921. When Aleksey Popov looked out of the window of his study and saw the armed group of members...
Remember Glukhov
Kharkov, 1909. The Mondrus branch of our family – the family of Sasha’s grandfather – had originated in the small...
Road to Altay
Chuysky Tract, 1880s. When she was a little girl, Tanya lived in Novosibirsk with her parents, Iskra and Victor, and...
Pajama party.
Prague, May 9, 1945 In the early days of May 1945 the War was about to end. Lyonya, Sasha’s father,...
Alexander Yermolaev
From Nikolaev, 1887 to Petrograd, 1921. Alexander was the last child in the family of Colonel Alexander Yermolaev, Tanya’s great-grandfather....
The Rosenblatts
When we first started this series of stories about our Family history, it quickly became obvious that some additional digging...