This is a photograph of my relatives who were present at the funeral of Aunt Dorah Khutoretskaya (nee Ugoleva), my father's sister. It happened approximately in 1980. Almost all Ugolevs and Khutoretskys attended the funeral.
My father's younger sister Eugenia - Bryskina after her marriage - was born in 1913. She is sitting second from left. When she divorced her husband Nikolay Bryskin, she decided to get her maiden name back, but the registration service employee muddled things up and wrote her family as Ugaleva.
Before Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev came to power I couldn’t be in touch with my relatives abroad. It was dangerous: authorities supervised all contacts of the citizens with foreigners and didn’t approve of it. At present Eugenia Ugoleva, her son Leonid Bryskin, his wife Lyudmila and their children Daniil and Eugeny live in the USA.
They left in 1992. They live in the city of Minneapolis. Sometimes we call each other, I wrote to Aunt Eugenia twice. It would be better to communicate more often, you see she is already 90 years old, and Leonid is not young either. Sometimes they call me and my relatives. All of them are fine.
