antohins (2005-present) Knowing how long it takes to put together pages of the family past, this page is at the very beginning of the journey back into my Russian history -- Anatoly's MyStory. There are photos to scan, documents to type -- most likely it will take YEARS. This is the only "geneology" page on my Russin website and the only hope I have that the children or their children will work more on it. Family Tree, Sellassie Family * kremlin.newrussian.org 2007 -- fool.vtheatre.net [ru] Русские Страницы 2004 * Summary Не хочу больше одноязычия - почему не писать по-русски? Три года назад моя американская жизнь оборвалась, или просто остановилась. Я пролжаю жить по инерции; страшно умирать, не хочется детей оставлять, еще несколько лет, еще немного... Но еще и тень надежды - может еще одна осталась, может напишу... Questions Что означает этот возрат к русскому? Старость? Или просто какая разница, если пишу для себя? Notes Я вывез всех близких, остался один отец; когда умрет, Антохиных больше не будет в России. Этих Антохиных. Часто думаю, что это значит? Знаю, дети и внуки - американцы. Даже могилы своей в Москве не вижу. Или просто не вижу. Было столько планов, а теперь ничего не вижу. Разлюбил будущее -- совсем не по-американски, и даже не по-русски. Что человек без будущего? Мертвец. Хуже. ... filmplus.org/rus [ru] American Fool В Америке я - Анатолий, в Москве я был Антохин, это еще со школы. Может поэтому фамилию свою не люблю, хотя и имя не любил - Толя, Толик... 1975 - 2005: Lost Manuscript * Потерянная Жизнь NonFiction Father-Russia, nonfiction 2006. summer: Продолжаю писать "Антохиных", без плана, тупо. Про себя. После удара чувствую себя дураком. А дуракам плохо. Все медленно, с трудом, в голове одни глупости. А еще говорят "дураку всегда везет" -- в чем? antohins.vtheatre.net [ru] "Книга Антохиных" (ру) -- Только по-русски? 2007 -- Ethiopian Millennium jumpcut.org/anatolant -- russian web-videos ... картинки. anticommunism + new pages А из России все бегут. Теперь те, кто преуспел после коммунизма. Не все тебе, одному! Неужели даже Антохиным родина-мать не хороша? Вот как в Москву бегут со всей России, так и дальше побегут. Какая "родина" в третьем тысячелетии? Что Россию, когда человечество кончилось, одна человечина осталась. Бегут правнуки русского мужика, внуки российского пролетария, дети советского интеллигента... ... Book of Fool [ Winter & Summer Fool ] 2007 ... Anatoly XXI (writing blog) filmplus.org/kino [ru] ... diary.vtheatre.net

Antohins, the Russian side of the Family

"Американские Антохины" -- это не Антохины.

On my father' side there were ten children, on my mother's -- four. Only one of them still has the name Antohin -- me.

Born and raised in Moscow, I defected in 1980 at age of 31 ... and it's unlikely I will die in Russia.

We came back to Russia in 1992 for two years with the children (on Fulbright scholarship) and you can read about it at Russian American Theatre project. It didn't work...

That was the second time I left Russia -- more is in "Father Russia" manuscript.

What didn't it work? I don't know. I became a member of the Soviet Writers Guild at age 26, but I do not write in Russian anymore.

At age 50 and almost 20 years in US it is too late ask questions about the facts of your own biography....

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The Russians of the family:

My father, Georgy, and mother Lidia (Jiryakova).

Grandfather Iosif (Osip) and grandmother Malania -- on father's side.

Mother's: Ivan and Olga.

Great-grandfather (Malania's father) -- Ivan Moroz

( "Морозята" )

The name. Antohin (Antoxin, X in Russian, which should be spelled "kh" like in Chekhov) is from the Greek "Antioch" (I should say the Byzantine is its origins, like Anatoly).

It's unlikely I can get further back than my great-grandfathers; the rest is more like family legends.

According to those stories, my mother's line comes from the North (Novgorod) and my father's -- from Ryasyan' (south of Moscow). My grandfather Osip came to Moscow after the revolution, civil war and Stalin's war on Russian peasantry.

My father loved to tell the saga of the rise of his grandfather to a wealthy farmer with many hourses and mills -- that was the reason why the NKVD (more known as KGB) came after him. After several years of the bush fighting the army, most of the males were executed -- and my grandmother, Malania, ran to Moscow, where she met my grandfather, Osip, who served his time in the Soviet army fighting "the enemis of the people" like his wife's father.

Osip was with the Bolshevicks in St. Petersburg and took part in looting the Winter Palace. His reolutionary past didn't do him much good, but we had several good books he stole from what is today Hermitage.

The origins of my father and my mother were obvious for any Russian: platinum blonde hair and blue eyes of the Russians (or Scandinavians), never mixed with the Tartars and my father's dark hair and green eyes.

Since my grandmother Olga was very millitant in spirit, she would bring this difference over and over to drive my father crazy.
Poor soul, she did't live to see her African grandchldren.

Her pride was based on the old Russian class structure -- the Antohins were peasants, rich or poor, it didn't matter. Her husband (another Ivan) was from the long dynasty of the merchants and he managed the biggest store in Moscow, the Eliseev's, even under the Soviets.

He died young and left Olga with three daugthers and son to manage.

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"Книга Антохиных" -- не книга. Антохины книг не пишут. Писать про Антохиных не для кого. Антохины книг не читают.

Какие там проспекты, мосты и дворцы -- Кремль!

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"Русский Дневник" -- ? livejournal.com/anatolant [2008]