The Family Author:Nina Fedorova "This Family was Russian -- ex-big, ex-great, ex-prosperous. Having gone through war and revolution, endured poverty and famine and illnesses, occasionally flood and fire and even an earthquake, the Family lost some members, bore others; but the death rate finally triumphed over the birth rate, and now they were only five, the total o... more »f the long process of the ramification of their family tree. In plain words, they were a granny, a mother, a daughter, and two nephews -- the boys being orphans of the two deceased brothers. All together they constituted the Family. The year 1937 found them living at Tientsin, in China."« less