August 13, 2013

Fifty


Soviet Union, October 16, 1924. This is Nina K., the mother of my paternal Grandmother, Tatjana. This is a second image from the same photo shoot.
 
One of Nina K.'s other daughters, Natasha, sent this photo to Tatjana. Natasha noted that their mother had just turned 50 when she sat for this photo.

2 comments:

edutcher said...

This is a woman that's been through some hard times.

I know Lithuania wasn't near the Eastern Front of WWI, but she's had some real hardship in her life.

With the worst yet to come.

Irene said...

She was Russian. The Bolsheviks executed her husband, my Great-Grandfather Pavel. She and her children searched for his body in the city's garbage dump.