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| Sasha, pensive with apple, summer 1978, breakfast room of our house on Bronson Ave. | Vladimir, Eugene, and Sasha, and Anne's beret and disembodied hand, early 1977. | Sasha draped over Eugene, summer 1976, our first apartment on Laurel Ave. |
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| My (maternal) grandfather, Isaak Glouberman, 1950s. | My (maternal) grandmother, Ida Glouberman (Izarova), c. 1936-37. | My grandmother, 1950s. | Anne's cousin Ida Berman, Anne's (maternal) grandmother Paulina Izarova, and Anne herself, 1946, in a buckwheat field at a dacha in a Ukrainian village. |
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| Anne, 1945, right after the return from evacuation in Siberia (Kazakhstan), looking sideways at something. | Anne, 1942, in Kuibyshev (now Samara) (in evacuation). Two-line note on the back: "Ania lovit b / abochek" ("Ania is catching b / utterflies"). |
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| Ida (grandmother), 1917. | Ida (grandmother) with a funny hat, in an art nouveau chair, with Polish nanny Rosalia, 1913. | Adults: Ida's aunt Fania Baivel', and an anonymous governess. Children: Ida (grandmother, labeled "ialpats" or "heron" ["tsaplia"] backwards), Ida's half-sister Liuba (Liubov'), Ida's older stepbrother Liotsa (Lev, labeled "tsatsa" or "fusspot"), 1912, at a dacha near Kursk. |
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| Vladimir doing gymnastics, at Kiev Government University, early 1960s. Nine point seven! | Vladimir with Eugene near a statue of a heron, 1971, Kiev. | Sasha trying to brush Eugene's hair with the wrong side of the brush, summer 1974, Kiev, at our apartment on 10 Lenin Street (apt. 36). Vladimir's disembodied hand. |
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| Sasha wielding the brush with Vladimir, summer 1974, Kiev, 10 Lenin Street. | Vladimir, Anne, Sasha, Eugene, summer 1974, Kiev, 10 Lenin Street. |
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| Vladimir, Sasha practicing kung fu, and Eugene, next to the wood-burning stove, in front of map of Poland with coats of arms, early 1974, Kiev, 10 Lenin Street. | Sasha with pacifier, early 1974, Kiev, 10 Lenin Street. |