that the people had to endure through. I presume your grandparents lived through that. They did. 900 days. I mean, that's wild. I'm always fascinated by these types of the people that survive these types of cataclysms, the qualities that you find in those types of folks, whether it's the Nazi death camps or in this case, again, Leningrad. I guess, first of all, we'll have a chance also to get into what you do professionally. So first of all, why don't you just tell me a little bit about what that was like? Who are you? What's your personal story? Can you walk us down the path? Where I grew up and who I am is a bigger topic. But I mean, I grew up in, I was born in Leningrad or now St. Petersburg. My parents were born there as well and grew up there as well. My grandparents came from different parts of Russia, mostly Ukraine and Latvia, which is the western Russia. But they all moved after the revolution. They moved to St. Petersburg or Leningrad and they had their kids there and my (6/96)
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