Tatyana Derbakova Seamon
I was born in Tashkent, the capital of the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. Although my parents lived in
Uzbekistan till I was 8 years old, I don’t have many memories about this part of my life. I remember we moved
several times and I had to change schools and I was not happy about it. The happy glimpses of memories are
associated with visits to the markers where I was fascinated with piles of luscious fruit and mountains of
watermelons and melons. Most of my adult life I spent in an ancient Russian city of Kostroma on the Volga River...more
