He is wedded to the idea that we and ours are inferior because of projection. Due to projective identification I am the enemy by virtue of being who I am, no matter what I may actually feel or do. There is no direct solution for this. Axé.

This is one of his Moscow factories, abandoned but now restored as an office building. He also had a larger, green one at Lenin Sloboda 19, which has been boarded up but not demolished. That man staring at it is my cousin. The commission on heritage says that as a late nineteenth century wooden structure … More Aleksandr Venyaminovich’s factory

…of the kind that look bad to me today, but will look good to me in the future. Axé.

I checked out nine new books on Vallejo and there are others. The Stephen Hart biography is fascinating. I should never have quit Vallejo. All it would have taken is a no to that editor, or negotiations with that editor on deadlines for and content of that book, and I never should have quit Vallejo. … More Tulane LAL

Some of my Moscow family in 1902. Axé.

Here we have my great-aunt Lidia and son Cyrill riding in a carriage, Moscow 1915. From about 1971 to 1982 we corresponded, in French of course. Axé.

I have received photographs of family graves in Moscow. They are sharing headstones. Fyodor and Anna Samoiloff Aleksandr and Cyrill Voskresensky Lidia Voskresenskaya and Henrietta Kahn Axé.