Irina Kichanova was the second wife of Vladimir Lifshits and thus Lev's stepmother. The postal card contains a reference to the poet, Mikhail Eremin.

A family member probably marked these letters as dating from 1971; presumably they were sent from Moscow to Leningrad.

Irina, writing from Yeysk (near the Sea of Azov), includes a bibliographic citation to a posthumously published book of verse, Neveroiatnaia riadom by Vladimir Lifshits. We have a copy of Lev's reply, written from Hanover, New Hampshire.

Ilya V. Meizerov was Asya Genkina's second husband and thus Lev's stepfather.

One letter includes a clipping of a "Punch" cartoon.

The letters are sent to Lev in Hanover (NH), the TLS from Chicago (IL) and the ALS from SUNY in Oswego (NY).

Igor Efimov was a writer, who together with his wife Marina founded Hermitage Publishers. The earlier letter has to do with proof sheets for the publication of the verses of Mikhail Yeremin, while the 1986 letter is a proposal for a book about "literary Leningrad."

Marina's letter has to do with the publication of Mikhail Yeremin's verses.

Mikhail Eremin, the Russian poet, was a close friend of Lev Loseff. Loseff was closely involved in the publication of Eremin's book, Stikhotvoreniia, Hermitage in 1986.

The letters have to do primarily with proofreading the poems and making changes. Eremin frequently sends multiple copies of his changes.

Eremin sends these letters and changes from various places. The only envelope in this group shows that it was sent from France.

The letter of October of 1983 includes a drawing. Photocopied material is frequently used for further edits.

The photocopied letter for January 1987 contains a birthday greeting for Lev dated July of that year.

The photocopy duplicates the typed letter, the note, as well as an earlier telegram (see folder 155).

The first item is dated and was sent from Geneva (Switzerland) to Hanover (NH), while the second clearly accompanied poems which have since been lost. It is difficult to establish the second item's date and the place from which it was sent.

Natalia Krotova was Lev Loseff's secretary at Koster.

Sergei Kulle was a Russian poet, as well as an old friend of Lev Loseff's.

The postal card is addressed to Nina, congratulating her on her son's birthday.

Yuri Mikhailov was a close friend and colleague of Lev Loseff's at Koster.

Naum Nim from the newspaper Vechernii Klub writes in reference to Vladimir Lifshits's poems in Stikhi iz Bloknota.

Evgeniia Putilova, a co-editor of Russkaia poeziia detiam writes in reference to re-publishing some of Vladimir Lifshits's poems.

Evgenii Rein is an important contemporary Russian poet.

Kazis Saja was a Lithuanian writer who became a good friend of Lev Loseff.

Boris Semenov was primarily an artist, who was a close friend of the entire family. At this time like Vladimir Lifshits, he was in the military on the Leningrad front.

The second letter appears to have been written from Peredelkino, just to the southwest of Moscow.