Box 3

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.

Iudif here refers to the papers of Boris Semenov, who has passed away.

Vadim Shefner was a writer of both prose and poetry. At the time of these letters, he was serving as a war correspondent on the Leningrad front. The postcard was sent to Asya in Omsk, but by August 28, 1944, the date of the letter, she should have been back in Leningrad.

The sender, Andrei Zuev, has not been identified.

The senders have not been identified; one new year's greeting is clearly dated as 1975, and the other items in this folder appear to be roughly from the same period, just prior to the family's immigration to the US.