KNITS BY CHEL (creative knitting project from Chelyabinsk): Alexander Seraphim

My photo-biography...

My grandma and grandpa... And their daughter Zoya, my aunt, 1929

My uncle Pavel, WWII hero, 1945

My aunt, Olga. She studied brilliantly at a school with an in-depth study of the German language. When the war against Germany began, she voluntarily came to the military commissariat and offered her services. She was sent to an intelligence school, and upon completion of training, she was transported by plane to the enemy's rear as part of an amphibious reconnaissance group. The whole group went missing... After the war, my uncle Pavel repeatedly tried to find out Olga's fate, even went to Moscow, to the archive of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. But he did not find out any addition information about the fate of Olga's intelligence group. The group went missing... The photo was taken at the intelligence school in 1941, Olga sent it to her mother by mail, and when mother received the envelope with the photo, most likely Olga was no longer alive...

Grandpa, also a veteran of the war against Nazi Germany, 1949

My mom, 1948

Mom with her school friend, 1951

1952

Dad, 1956

My parents... Taisiya and Vasily, 1959

It's me, 1961

1963

1974

Alexander Seraphim (the only person wearing sunglasses), 1975

1977

1979

1981

1982

1987

(The photo was taken by Alexandra, who decided that before shooting I needed to be put makeup on and build a turban on my head. This is probably my best portrait...)