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Raised in Moscow and its vicinity where I spent a lot of time with my cousin Kolya.
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I used to walk in this park 2 min. from my Moscow apartment near Leningradsky prospect. Masha, left, looks
like my sister but I'm an only child. Photo is by Steven Maine I hosted as a part of the Global Family cultural exchange.
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Since I was 18, I worked as an interpeter & tour guide for foreign guests to the Soviet Union in different walks of life.
Irkutsk, Siberia 1984.
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But I had the most fun working as a cultural bridge for musicians and artists. "Popeda," a Finnish rock band, became a life
time friend. Moscow 1987.
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Dating James in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in 1994 is one of the fondest memories of my life in the U.S. since 1990.
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In 1996 I took James, now my husband, to my countryland.
In St. Petersburg with Irina and Yulia.
The links below highlight places where I left a part of my heart.
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The path through life:
Lake Como near Milano 1996
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In Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on a work assignment 1983
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Mexico: Nohoch Mul Mayan pyramid at Coba 1995
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Peter the Great Palace in the vicinity of St.Petersburg 1996
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There are few places and people where you experience the sense of home... like Anja and her summer house at Lohijarvi, one
of 60,000 pristine lakes of Finland 1996
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James by the monument to the founder of Finnish literature. Helsinki 1996
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Grand Canyon, Arizona 1994
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My father on an official visit of the US, New York 1993
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Louvre, Paris 1996
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With ?Sielun Veljet? (Brothers in Soul) touring Moscow from Finland 1986
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Traveling to Leningrad with Jeffrey Daily and Carolyn Andersen, founders of the Global Family based in Marin County, California
1990
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Translating a personal empowerment seminar by US instructors for young Moscovites1990
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My last two years in Russia I was involved in coordinating/networking for American-Russian projects aimed at new ways of thinking
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A fun citizens' exchange at my home... the guys on the left are my American house guests 1990
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My "sisters" Olya and Alla
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The Russian rock scene also became exciting and I made many friends since I worked at a music club at the International Youth
Festival in 1985. Here we celebrate the 1989 Chinese Year of the Snake at my home with Yuri Orlov, Mitya Tsvetkov, Kostya
Gavrilov of "Nicolas Kopernikus" and our Leningrad guest Andrei Otraskin ("Jungle")
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My dance instructor Elza with her partner Sergei Vsehsvyatsky, artist Ilya Gorov, and Sasha Kalugin, then manager of "Nautilus
Pompilius," all greeting the Snake year
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Sasha Bashlachev four months before he died and became the Legend of Russian Rock
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Slava Zaderiy of "Alisa" band. This is one of the concerts I arranged with my friend at a Moscow artists' studio for our
out of town musician friends staying at my home
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My then friends Lyolik Bortnichuk (No.1) and Pasha Hotin (No.3) of the Moscow punk band "Zvuki Mu" - a specific Russian punk
more outrageous than Tom Waits but less radical than "Sielun Veljet"
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All unforgettable times "Sielun Veljet" performed in Moscow I was their translator and guide...
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... their magic is reflected in my face 1988
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I am not relaxing... I am simultaneously translating an avantgard? art project
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For several summers I translated on the beach for foreign guests of the Central Committee of the Communist Party - until one
day at this Tsar of the Seas Neptune Celebration I got so rowdy (with a birch branch) that I was kicked out of the luxurous
Black Sea resort... put on a plane to Moscow two days before the departure of my now guideless delegation 1988
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Simultaneous interpreting at the United Nations
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My first year-long job as a translator/babysitter for young Finnish communists at the Marxism-Leninism Boarding School 1983
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I am 19
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Like many city kids, I spent summers in our summer home, dacha
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My mother's first profession
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My mother Lyudwiga Martsovskaya
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