Biographies & Memoirs

Photo Section

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My mother during the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939

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My father during the Great Patriotic War (World War II) reading Pravda, 1943

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My father after my birth, 1955

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My grandmother, my mother, and Marina, 1950, Ivanovo

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Lunch at my Leningrad nursery school (I am second from the right), 1959

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Third grade: Vera Pavlovna in the center; Dimka the hooligan next to her on the left, second row; Zoya the diamond in the last row, second from right; I am in the third row, fifth from left, 1965

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With my grandmother and grandfather at the dacha, 1964

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Lunch in our dacha veranda, early 1960s. From left: my cousin Kostya, my grandfather and grandmother, Aunt Muza, my mother and father

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Doing garden work in front of the dacha veranda, 1968

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Marina (center) in her first film role: Dunyasha in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, 1963

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My mother (first row, center) with her students at a dissection class, late 1960s

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Visiting my mother in Leningrad after I had been in the U.S. for five years, 1985

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My mother and Marina in New Orleans, 1998

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With my daughter in Nutley, New Jersey, 1989

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With my husband and daughter on a trip to San Francisco, 1993

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