A New View

A few months ago, I thought we had no more photos to post of my Great-Grandmother, Nina K.. My discovery of a new resource—the photos stored in the "Grandma's family in Russia" envelope—revealed one snapshot that no one had seen earlier.

This is Nina K. with a Grandson, Sasha. The photo does not identify which sister of my paternal Grandmother, Tatjana, was Sasha's mother. Based on the handwriting, though, it appears Sasha was the son of Elena. 

We did not know that Elena (or Natasha) had children. Sasha has the melancholy eyes that are common on that side of the family. He looks a lot like Tatjana's brothers.

Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, May 1931. Elena, the sister of my paternal Grandmother Tatjana, wrote, "My mother [Nina K.] and my son Sasha. May 1931. A keepsake for my beloved Tanjusha."

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Thanks again to my dear friend, D, for translating Elena's words from Russian to English.