Captain Yermolaev
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Nikolayev, 1887. Eastern Europe was the region where many of our Family roots originated and evolved, despite the diversity of...
Destination: Siberia
Kharkov, 1952. Sasha was only four years old, when his father, Lyonya, left Kharkov for Novosibirsk. Lyonya had just received...
The Man in the Round Spectacles
Krasnoyarsk. 1946. In a quiet outskirt of Krasnoyarsk that looked more like a forgotten village than part of the city,...
Nikon and Efrocinia. Part II – Road to Siberia
Zabaikalie. 1899. An old family tale goes that Efrosinia walked three thousand miles all the way to the lake Baikal...
Nikon and Efrosinia. Part I – The Serf
Proskurov, 1860. In the late 1850s, in one of the large manors in Podolia, near the town of Proskurov, a...
How Lisa and Lyonya lost Sasha in a movie theater.
Sasha
Novosibirsk, 1954. Spoiler alert – they found me at the end and I’m here to tell you this story. I...
Dawid, Isaak, David, Isaak…
Warsaw, 1854. Dawid Berkhoer, Sasha’s great-great-grandfather, was a salesman and in 1854 lived in Warsaw at 1406 Zielna Street in the...
2 Cool for School
Kharkov, 1927. My father, Lyonya, six years old at the time, lived in Kharkov with his parents – David and...
The girl whose hair was cut way too short
Shebalino, 1952. One evening at the end of summer, a heavy truck stopped across the street from an unpainted house,...
Road to the Past
Not everybody in our families’ prior generations was lucky enough to travel for pleasure or on their own accord. Countless...