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."