A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir (44 page)

My mother during the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939

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

My father after my birth, 1955

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

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

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

With my grandmother and grandfather at the dacha, 1964

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

Doing garden work in front of the dacha veranda, 1968

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

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

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

My mother and Marina in New Orleans, 1998

With my daughter in Nutley, New Jersey, 1989