Part of the first book, “The Paths of My Destiny,” talks about the family’s pedigree, pre-revolutionary peasant life, dispossession, and Stalin’s repressions...

Part of the third book, “The Paths of My Destiny,” talks about life in Israel, travel to Holy Places and Europe, icon painting, drawing, and family events.

The book is an expanded and updated version of the first part of the trilogy “The Paths of My Destiny” and contains family stories of an everyday, tragic, co...