![]() Mark lives in Moscow and we talk on the phone occasionally. He worked in the editor’s office of the newspaper where my father was manager and later he became a well-known photo-artist. My father and Mark, the son of my grandfather’s brother Boris, were very good friends. I know that Moisey was the director of the philharmonics for some time and his other son, Lev, was the director of a big food store in the center of Moscow. I know nothing about his sisters Sofia and Vera or their families. I know very little about the other brothers and sisters of my grandfather. Yakov and his family moved to America in 1910 and contact with him was lost because after the Russian Revolution of 1917 it wasn’t allowed to keep in touch with relatives abroad. They said the ‘mishpacha’ was big and harmonious. They were a good family and I never heard anything about any conflicts in this family. Unfortunately, I don’t know the surname of these sisters. My grandfather Filip and his four brothers married four sisters who were their cousin sisters and came from Nevel. There was an interesting story about his children. My great-grandparents had seven children: Yakov, Abram, my grandfather Filip, Ilia, Boris, Vera and Sofia. I don’t know where and when he was born or his wife’s name. He retired in the rank of sergeant major and had the right to live within the Jewish Pale of Settlement. I don’t know how many years he was in the army, but I presume it was for a long time. My great-grandfather, Zundel Grinberg, was a cantonist serving in Nikolai’s army. ![]() Unfortunately, I was told little about my ancestors. My father was a journalist and Grin first became his writing pseudonym and then his family name. This was also my father’s surname, but later he shortened it to Grin. My paternal great-grandfather and grandfather’s surname was Grinberg. Alexandr fondly talks about his family and speaks with ease. His wife Galina takes care of him.Īlexandr willingly agreed to tell me about his family and his life, particularly after his son talked him into recording his memories. His left hand and left leg are disabled now. The doctors saved him and his wife brought him to recovery. There are photographs of his relatives and pictures on the walls. There is old restored furniture that belonged to his parents.Īlexandr has many books: scientific books in geography, manuals and fiction. One of the rooms serves as Alexandr’s study. It’s a spacious, comfortable and nicely furnished apartment. He is an average height, gray-haired, blue-eyed handsome man.Īlexandr lives with his wife Galina and their grandson Pyotr Grin in a three-bedroom apartment in a recently built house in Krasnopresnenskiy district, not far from the center of Moscow. New song from Daniel Rossen's solo debut EP "Silen.Alexandr Grin is a friendly, amiable and hospitable host and an interesting and educated conversationalist.Herman Dune- Tell Me Something I Don't Know EP Review.Leonard Cohen- Old Ideas Full Album Stream!!!!!. ![]() Jack White Solo Debut Announcement!!!!!!!!!!.This mixtape gives me hope that there's still real hip-hop out there. I would try to pick out my favorite tracks but I'm too impressed with the mixtape as a whole to even try. All that aside, this is truly a magical mixtape. I do however wish that Spit had used the phenomenal beat at the beginning of Shawn Kemp throughout the whole track. After that track, it was just one song after another of one of the best hip-hop mixtapes I have ever listened to. Luckily, the album made a quick turnaround with the track Six Days Remix, which had a very eerie sample that reminded me of 1970's psychedelic rock mixed with Beach Boys, blended together seamlessly to resemble something you would hear on an album like Plastic Beach. They were very cluttered sounding and reminded me of a two year old banging on pots and pans pretending to be a drummer. However tracks 4 and 5 were a disappointing mess. They really had a unique, unusual sound unlike anything I had ever heard. ![]() I really, really enjoyed the first three tracks for this reason. A lot of these songs made my ears feel like they were having an expensive spa treatment. San Francisco born rapper Alexander Spit's new mixtape (~45 min.) is filled with smooth, clever rhymes that glide effortlessly over silky, suggestive, jazzy, dark, complex beats. Hi Guys! Carl here reviewing a new mixtape that just dropped.
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