Lev Loseff prints several of the letters in his childish hand, while other letters he "dictates" to his mother Asya, who occasionally adds a note of her own. Lev sometimes adds a note to "Borinka," Boris Semenov, who was serving in the same unit on the Leningrad front.

One letter is clearly dated October 4, 1957, and the rest, though undated, relate to this same period, a time when Lev was hospitalized.

It is difficult to determine exactly where Nina and Lev are located in these letters. For example, in one, it appears that Lev is in Sochi, and in another Nina is participating in communal field work outside of Leningrad.

In these letters Nina is writing from various places in the Crimea: Feodosia, Sudak, Koktebel, etc.

Again, in these letters Nina is writing from various places in the Crimea; occasionally she is on board a train when she is writing.

Nina and Lev married on April 20, 1959, so Nina here is writing to her mother-in-law.

The last letter in this group appears to be incomplete.

Nina discusses the possiblity of her joining Lev on the island of Sakhalin.

One of the letters in this group may be incomplete, lacking the typical closing. In these letters Nina focuses on the pending move to Sakhalin.

Letters all seem to be from Fall of 1959 and sent from Leningrad to Okha.

It is difficult to specify a great deal about this group of letters aside from the fact that they date from the beginning of the relationship between Nina and Lev. Several are from Nina in Leningrad to Lev when he was in Bukhara in Uzbekistan for a summer.

In this group of letters Nina is sometimes writing from Krasnodar and Tuapse near the Black Sea and from Sochi and Koktebel in the Crimea.

In this group of letters Nina is writing from Iuzhno-Sakhalinsk where she was able to find a job in the editorial department of a locally produced children's TV show. After 2 months Lev was able to join her. Letters include 4 pages of typed poems.

Nina and Lev returned from the Far East and resumed their lives in Leningrad in November of 1961.

It would appear that Nina is pregnant with Dimitry, who was born on July 15, 1963.

These are letters or notes that Nina sent when she was hospitalized and giving birth. Written on small note pages (3 3/4" X 5 1/2"), she frequently dispenses with the conventional salutations and closings, and it is difficult to distinguish beginnings and endings.

These are letters or notes like those in folder 99, marking the end of Nina's stay in the hospital.

Nina is writing from the hospital upon giving birth to her daughter Maria, who was born on November 4, 1964.

Nina sends these letters from Uzkanaves, just north of Palanga in Lithuania, where she is vacationing with the children.

Nina sent the second of these 2 letters from Krasnovodsk on the Caspian sea.