So: Emil is my great-grandfather, and Alexander is his first cousin. Alexander’s daughter Lydia is what relation to me? Her great-grandson is Kirill; that is Alexander’s great-great grandson is Kirill. What relation to me is Kirill? But our common ancestor is my great-great grandfather Benjamin, who is Kirill’s great-great-great grandfather. Why does Kirill look so … More Let’s count
“I have before me a book in German, 269 pages long, entitled Thoughts on the Emancipation of Man, and written by a young Polish Jew educated at the University of Königsberg. And well, the author of this book, M. Benjamin Bary, whom one could not accuse of partiality,…” –-La revue indépendante, founded by Georges Sand, … More Benjamin Moses Bari
At first there was an apartment in the Polytechnic Museum, then they lived on Myasnitskaya (there is also a construction office), then they rented a house near the Kursk Way, in 1901 they bought their own house in Arkhangelsky Lane. Axé.
Word for today: Опричник, oprichnik. I will learn the suffix -nik, ник, and apply it in English. I will learn to spell: noodnik, refusenik, vatnik, and other -nik words. I will discover the relation of -ik (Bolshevik, etc.) to -nik. Inspiration: Sorokin, Day of the Oprichnik. And there is also мобик, mobik. In other news … More Опричник
This evening I did nothing; I could have worked or worked out or washed dishes, or done other useful things, but I was riveted to my chair listening to the radio. First, The Squash Hut. Selected songs by Samuel Scheidt, Heinrich Schütz, Johann Hildebrand, Heinrich Albert, Johann Bach, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Johann Nauwach, Johann Hermann Schein … More Classical music, Königsberg, our ancestor, Gayl Jones, and Sonny Boy Williamson
I did not discover until recently that I was so well known among the Russian cousins, or why. It was because they were having severe problems with my aunt, because she was suffering from age and from being in the USSR. They could solve many problems for her but not the facts of age and … More Sobre los rusos
So it is, dear descendants of Alexander Veniaminovich! The evening dedicated to our common ancestor is scheduled for May 24, Wednesday, at 18 o’clock at the House of the Russian Diaspora in Taganka Square, Moscow. There will be invitations. Write here, who and how many people are coming, or send me a personal message. Bring … More Taganka
This is one of the photographs saved from the police in suitcases for 100 years. Only now has it been revealed. Axé.
Only I will understand these notes, mais le blog, c’est à moi. Henrietta S. Kahn’s nephew Dr. Hugo Adolfovich Leventhal was from Riga but lived in Moscow, in the house of Aleksandr Bari. Hugo was the daughter of Henrietta’s sister Rose, who lived in Riga. His father would be Adolf Leventhal. There is a picture … More Henrietta Kahn’s family names
A map shows each country’s current second language. Saudi Arabia’s is Tagalog. That New Orleans-Havana connection. * Russia in 1921, as represented at a conference of London trade unionists, held in the Friars Hall, Blackfriars Road, London, held on May 7 of that year. Here, the report’s author visits Russia. Volin’s anarchist analysis of the Revolution. … More Des joies du printemps.
