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