The wife is off to Russia this week. Her parents have been evicted from Russia for being capitalists. The KGB came to their house and gave them 30 days notice to get out of the country or be thrown into the gulag… Ok, maybe not, but they are coming to the USA to live. They [...]
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Winter Blues
Wow, I am tired of winter. We’ve had a couple nice days recently and it really makes you want spring to come a bit sooner. Glad I don’t live in Russia! My in-laws will be here soon. My wife will meet them in Ekaterinburg next month and fly back with them. She is getting exited [...]
A Little Ekaterinburg History
The city was founded in 1723 by Vasily Tatischev and named after Saint Catherine, the namesake of tsar Peter the Great’s wife Catherine (Yekaterina). It was renamed Sverdlovsk after the Bolshevik party leader and Soviet official Yakov Sverdlov from 1924 to 1991. Soon after the Russian Revolution, on July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his [...]
