Box 3

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.

The last 3 letters of this group were sent to Lev in Okha. The last letter includes a newspaper clipping of a poem entitled "To Mother."

The last letter in this group, dated January 24, 1960, includes a small engraving.

Letters sometimes have small pictures or text glued where the margin allows.

The letter dated April 15 has a note written in the upper right- hand corner; Semenov indicates that it is the "ending of the previous letter."

These letters were sent to Lev in Okha; at this time Boris Semenov was travelling to Yalta as well as to London.

The letter dated October 18 includes 4 photographs; the letter dated October 31 includes 1 photo, 1 engraving, and 1 drawing.

Boris Semenov sends Lev a new year's greeting. The post card appears to be hand-drawn.

Folder includes a photocopy of a letter from Boris Semenov to Mikhail Belomlinskii an editor at Novoe Russkoe Slovo. This photocopied letter as well as a page of notes were stapled to the letter from Lev Loseff to Boris.

Boris's letter is written on the back of a photograph of his children; envelope included photographs of a statue of Mao Zedong and the equestrian statue of Alexander III.

The postcard dated May 26, 1992 is accompanied by a ruble bank note and a family photograph.

Letter is an "aerogramme."

The first letter in this group contains an old photograph of Boris's son Misha. The last letter contains a drawing, and one of the letters is an "aerogramme."

In this letter to Lev, Boris includes a letter he received from Vladimir Lifshits.

Olga Semenova, or Olia Baba, was the mother of Boris Semenov and a close friend of the Lifshits/Loseff family.

Iudif, or Iuka, the wife of Boris, supplies names and dates of family members, with regard to possible immigration to the US, which was never realized.