Lenin’s cradle part 3
pictures by Sashatext by LaylaUlianovsk today
Daily Archive April 15th, 2008
Lenin’s cradle part 1
pictures by Sashatext by LaylaMy cousin Misha remains as vivacious and spontaneous as I remember him from childhood. One evening, he walked through the door and announced that first thing in the morning he was driving a car to Ulianovsk, the former Simbirsk, the birthplace of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, 950 km towards the Ural mountains, [...]
Malino
pictures by Sashatext by LaylaAfter visiting aunt Lida and cousin’s Lena’s family in Moscow, we headed to my eldest aunt Zina,where she lives in a house with her youngest daughter, Tania in Malino. Malino is where my grandmother had finally agreed to move to from Nikolo Titeli and where she died. Although Nikolo is my [...]
