In The Country

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

En Famille

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

Class photo

A class photo of my mom's. Taken in fourth or fifth grade, maybe. Ural Mountains region, 1960s.

Grandmother in Tatarstan

My mom's maternal grandmother, in Tatarstan, in the 1960s. My mother's side of the family is Tatar.

Siblings

My mom (on the stool), with her older sisters and brother. Ural Mountain region, early 1960s.

Nizhny Novgorod, 1960s

My mom's aunt and uncle (top), with their kids and other relatives. Taken in Nizhny Novgorod, 1963 (?).

Chess

My father, age 11 (?), puzzing over chess. He wanted to join the boys' firefighting club--they got to tour the local fire station and climb on the fire trucks. He was rejected, though, because of his nationality--Jew. So he joined the chess club instead.

Summer camp

My dad and my grandmother (top row, middle), late 1950s or early 1960s. Taken at a summer camp on parents' day.

Dad, early 1960s

My father, in Leningrad, in the early 60s.