This book is about the history of my family. About the difficult life of my grandmother and grandfather - Jews in pre-revolutionary Russia About the Pale of Settlement and attaining a honorary citizenship and striving for nobility. About serving the Tsar and the Homeland. About the revolution and the tragic death of my grandfathers. About my grandmother fleeing Soviet Russia and emigration to France with her two daughters. About surviving the years of the second world war in Paris occupied by the Nazis. About my childhood and youth and about many other things.