The first telegram dated 1941 is from Belkina in Moscow to her son Vladimir Lifshits in Leningrad, and the last dated 1956 is from Belkina to her grandson Lev Loseff in Leningrad.

During the war Rebekka Belkina was in Omsk, helping to care for her grandson.

10 of the postal cards were sent to Leningrad and 1 to Yalta.

Dimochka, the recipient of this letter, is unidentified.

Part of the letter appears to be missing.

Letters are clearly from the Omsk period and often bear a specific day and month, but it is sometimes difficult to specify the year.

Again, there are sometimes specific days and months on the letters, but the year is not indicated.

Without envelopes, it is frequently difficult to determine where Lev Loseff, the recipient of the letters, is located. Internal evidence occasionally helps; for example, in the letter of July 20, it appears that he is in Kokchetav in northern Kazakhstan.

Most of these letters are sent from Leningrad; however, the last letter dated August 31 and the telegram are sent from Kheibani near the Black Sea in Abkhazia to Kokchetav.

These letters or notes were sent to Lev Loseff when he was hospitalized in Leningrad. In one place Asya Genkina mentions the poet, Mikhail Krasilnikov.

This is another hospital letter or note from Asya to Lev; however, it appears incomplete.

The "talon" system allowed a person to send money by post; the talon acted as a receipt and included a place for a note or short letter. Through the rest of this finding aid, "note receipt" will be used instead of "talon."

One letter written from Pavlovsk and dated August 24, 1958 includes 2 small pressed flowers and a small newspaper clipping.

Content of these letters centers around Lev's impending move to the island of Sakhalin in the Far East.

The second letter in the folder dated August 19 includes a copy of the poem "Zaveshchanie" by Nikolai Gumilev.

Most of these letters are sent from Leningrad to Lev in Okha in the norther portion of Sakhalin. In the 3rd letter of this group, dated November 12, 1959, a note from Nina Mokhova is inserted into Asya's letter; Lev and Nina had been married on April 20 of 1959.

The 4th letter of this group, dated December 17, 1959, is addressed to both Lev and Nina, who has joined her husband in Okha on the island of Sakhalin.