Box Seat

St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1966. My paternal Grandmother Tatjana's younger sister, the actress Elena, wrote, "A film about the life of the past century. I am at the theater, sitting in a box seat, watching a performance. The woman who is sitting next to me I cut off. I am wearing [your] jabot. This photograph was taken in the second half of December, not long before the blows."

Perhaps Elena refers to this when she mentions "the blows."

Thanks to my friend, D, for translating the inscription on this photo.

Acting in St. Petersburg

Here is Elena, a sister of my paternal Grandmother Tatjana, in another role in a Soviet-era film.

Elena wrote:

This was a film about Pushkin. I am a “Russian aristocrat” on a walk near Pushkin's house.

These photographs were particularly pleasing to me, as this was a film about Pushkin. I also appeared in Anna Karenina, but I do not have a photo yet.

St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1966. Elena "cropped out" other actors who appeared in photographs with her before she mailed the snapshots to Tatjana. Was she protecting them, so that they would not appear in photos sent to the United States?

Thanks fo my friend, D, for translating the description of this photo.