Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story

Illustrations

xi Illustrations Illustrations follow page 162. 1. Peysakh (Pyotr) Shrayer, David Shrayer’s father, with parents and siblings 2. Borukh-Itsik and Fanya (Freyda) Shrayer, David’s grandparents 3. Anna (Nyusya) Studnits, with her brother Grigory and relatives 4. David Shrayer with his parents, Bella Breydo and Pyotr Shrayer 5. David Shrayer and Bella Breydo 6. Captain Pyotr Shrayer 7. Emilia Shrayer with parents and sister Zhanna Volynskaya 8. David Shrayer, lieutenant of the medical corps 9. David Shrayer in Leningrad 10. Maxim Shrayer with his mother in Moscow 11. Maxim in Arkhangelskoye outside Moscow 12. Maxim at his father’s typewriter 13. Maxim in Tbilisi, Georgia 14. 43 Marshala Biryuzova Street, where the Shrayers lived from 1971 to 1987 15. Rannahotell in Pärnu, Estonia 16. Jüri Arrak’s Corona 17. Maxim with parents visiting Panga-Rehe, Jüri Arrak’s summer home 18. Emilia and David Shrayer with Urve and Jüri Arrak 19. Maxim with Katya (Ekaterina) Tsarapkina 20. Emilia and David Shrayer at the Shrayers’ apartment 21. Maxim with Emilia Shrayer, Urve Roodes Arrak, Jüri Arrak, and Vaïke Lubi xii | Il l ust r a ti on s 22. Maxim with classmates 23. Maxim’s secondary school diploma 24. Maxim’s field journal 25. David, Emilia, and Maxim Shrayer 26. Map of Russia with Maxim’s expedition route 27. Maxim’s expedition journal entry for 5 June 1986 28. Maxim’s expedition journal entry for 8 July 1986 29. Maxim during an ascent to a glacier 30. Maxim drinking boiled water at the expedition camp 31. Maxim writing at the expedition camp 32. Maxim with Maxim Mussel 33. Maxim harvesting potatoes with university classmates 34. Emilia Shrayer at a demonstration in support of Yosef Begun 35. David Shrayer interviewed by Dan Rather of CBS News 36. Maxim, Emilia, and David Shrayer, and Anna Studnits 37. Maxim’s travel document, issued in Italy 38. Maxim with Katya Tsarapkina and Max Mussel in Moscow 39. Maxim with Genrikh Sapgir in Paris 40. Maxim with David Shrayer 41. Emilia and David Shrayer 42. Yosef Begun, David Shrayer, and Emilia Shrayer 43. Maxim, Tatiana, Karen, and Mira in Newport, Rhode Island 44. Maxim, Tatiana, Karen, and Mira in South Chatham, Massachusetts ...