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Mikhail D. is probably one of the most well-traveled of my interviewees based on his self description, and while he traveled, he tried a lot of solyanka. Originally from Odessa, Mikhail was 32 at the time of our interview. I met him while taking a B2…

At the time of our interview Valentine was 29 years old and living with her husband and son in Germany. She was originally from Petrozavodsk. We met in a B2 German language class at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

At the time of our interview Tatiana was 53 years old and working as a professor. She was born in Tambov, but spent her childhood in Lviv and Nizhny Novgorod. At thirty she moved to Moscow. She teaches as a visiting professor at Colorado College and…

When I met her, Galina was working as a baby-sitter for K.C., a Russian-Israeli woman. K.C. acted as Galina's interpreter. We did the interview over a lemon cake filled with dulce de leche that I brought. Galina was 59 and living in Los Angeles. Her…

At the time of our interview, Medea was 45 and living in the U.S.. She is originally from Tbilisi and is a professor of anthropology. We met at my university's Russian tea event.

I met Regina through friends when I was studying at Göttingen, she introduced me to my other interviewee, Yevhen P.. At the time of our interview, Regina was 30 years old and a masters student in Germany. She is originally from Mirny.

Elizabeth C. was born in Kiev in the USSR but currently lives in Los Angeles. During our interview she called multiple family members, originating from both Ukraine and Russia, to pick their brains. The relatives she consulted were her mother (50s,…

I met Alexej in my class on Ethnic Germans in Russia in Göttingen. At the time he was 31 and had lived in Germany for 14 years. He was working for the German government with ethnic Germans who were trying to immigrate to Germany from the former…

Robert was the only interviewee I found through the paper ads I posted. At the time of our interview he was 22. He was born in Germany to ethnic German parents from Kazakhstan.

I met Lidiia when she was the Russian
Cultural Program Coordinator at my university. At the time she was 28 years old. She is from St. Petersburg.