What Dreams May Come

Me, snoozing in my mom's lap, while vacationing on Lake Voldai.

We Are Scientists

My dad (top row, right), with some colleagues, at a conference in the mid-1980s.

Soviet Youth

My mom (left), with some friends, in the early '70s.

Knitting on the Beach

My mom was into knitting way before it became cool. Actually, making your own clothes was the only way to be reasonably stylish in the Soviet times.

A Day in the Country

In the Russian countryside, you can visit old churches... ...and then make shish kebabs for dinner.

My dad and his mother, sometime in the early 1970s.

Winter Fashion

My mom (to the right of the Jackie O look-alike in the middle) on a group trip to Lithuania in the late '70s.

Mother's Day

My mom and I back in 1983.

Spring

My mom, middle, with college friends.

Family Outing

My dad, 4 or 5, sulks about spending quality time with adults (his parents, middle, and family friends).

Class photo

My mom's eight grade class, I think. (There were only 10 grades under the Soviet school system.) Taken in the village of Serva in the Permskiy Kray region, 1971.

Granddads

Me, age 4, with my grandfather (left) and his brother.

In The Country

My paternal grandmother hopping a fence while on vacation somewhere in the countryside:

Grandma

My paternal grandmother as a baby, in the early 1920s.

Ski Trip

My dad and a pal of his on a ski trip: Cooking over an open fire:

Young Love

Aw, young love. My father and his very first girlfriend. Leningrad.

Girl and Doll

A relative of my grandfather's--not sure who; the family tree gets complicated here. Taken somewhere in Siberia in 1953.

Dolphin Show

My mom and I at a dolphin show in Anapa, a resort town on the Black Sea.

En Famille

My dad, age 10 or 11, with his parents.

St. Petersburg

One day circa spring 1986 or '87, my parents and some friends of theirs took me sightseeing around St. Petersburg. We posed on bridges:
I met a camel statue:
We went to the Hermitage.

Military-Industrial Complex

My dad, in 1973, at an abandoned (?) military base not from from Arkhangelsk. The caption on the back of the photo reads, "Me with a grenade and a cannon."