Miriam Meyerovich

This photo depicts Miriam Medvedeva, my future mother-in-law. The photo was taken around 1916 in Petrograd, in a studio on Bolshoy Prospect of Petrogradskaya Side. The name of the studio - as well as the address - is written on the picture frame - ?Universalnaya fotografiya?. At that time Miriam was studying at a private high school. The Meyerovich family came from Pochep, located on the border of Russia and Ukraine. Their ancestors owned a private printing-house in Pochep. They printed books and magazines. All their sons and their whole family worked in that printing-house. They were considered a wealthy and prosperous family, middle-class for those times. They were someone who is called ?ikes? in boroughs, which means cultured respectable people with a developed dignity. My father-in-law, Abram Semyonovich Meyerovich, was the elder son of Simcha, Kusiel's elder son. In 1923 he married his distant relative, Miriam Yudovna Medvedeva. In 1924 their only daughter Marianna, my wife-to-be, was born.