[Leica] Advent Calendar : #13 - Peter

[Gerry Walden]

To add to your story, we frequently stayed at a hotel where the wife of the owner was French but of Russian descent. One evening she asked if I could copy the photos in her family album for her as she only had the album for couple of weeks, and it was bought out of Russia when her family fled the Revolution. I took the album from her without thinking twice, but on return home and taking it out of its wrappings I found that it was full of hand-signed photographs and Christmas cards etc. from the Tsar and Tsarina. It turned out that her grandmother was a relative of the Romanov family. A true family treasure!

Gerry

> On 12 Dec 2015, at 06:57, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just joking, Philippe!  :-)  Interesting about your uncle.  And how
> wonderful for a kid to have both Julian and Gregorian-calendar Christmases.
> 
> Interesting coincidence:  My wife just read (in Russian) a book by Nina
> Berberova, who wrote extensively about the Russian emigres who lived in
> Paris after the Revolution. I'll have to see if I can find an English
> translation. Many stories about the hard life most of them had, plus
> anecdotes about Stravinsky, Nabokov, Kerensky, etc.
> 
> --Peter
> 
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Philippe <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Are we not forgetting the Russian taxi drivers in Paris, Peter?
>> Well, that was long before Uber of course ;-)
>> 
>> FYI: one of my uncles had Ukrainian and Orthodox roots. His father and
>> family had left during the revolution, never to return.
>> Born in France, he was a stateless person for about 30 years.
>> France finally granted him a passport, after 2 long unpaid years in the
>> army after his own son was born …
>> 
>> I have fond memories of a second helping of Xmas (gifts) with his
>> Ukrainian family -13 days after Dec 25 if I remember well :-)
>> 
>> Amities
>> Philippe
>> 
>> 
>> Le 11 déc. 2015 à 10:01, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>> 
>>> French Matrioshka dolls?  Mon Dieu!  :-)
>>> --Peter
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:45 PM, Philippe <
>> photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Two for the price of one today.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/2015-Avent-13-1340.jpg.html
>>>> 
>>>> and the next one, which is an effort I made to save my soul, inch' ...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Amities
>>>> Philippe
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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