Rita Razumovskaya with her family

This is a photo of my family: my grandson Denis Razumovsky (first from left), his son and therefore my great-grandson Alexei Razumovsky (second from left), Denis' wife (first from right), and their other son Artem Razumovsky (second from right). Here you can also see me, Rita Razumovskaya (in center) being old and it seems to me, very ugly. The photo was taken two or three years ago in St.Petersburg.

My elder son Alexei was born in 1946 in Leningrad. He has only a high school education, and then he became a car mechanic. He tried numerous jobs, now he is a businessman: in Opochka together with his elder son, also called Alexei, he builds hotels and houses. He is married to a Russian girl, his schoolmate; he was eighteen when he got married. His wife never worked, now she is deeply immersed in the Russian Orthodox religion. They studied in the same class, and suddenly he decided to marry her, my husband said that our son ‘went for seed’ [i.e. by getting married early he stopped developing and would reproduce]. And really, Alexei, the elder son of our son has three children, my great-granddaughter is eleven and she goes to the fifth grade. My younger grandson Denis, the second son of my son Alexei, is a programmer; he lives in Leningrad and has two sons too. So far I have five great-grandchildren. My grandchildren are ‘earth people’; they live in Russia and don’t want to leave.