(September 7, 2012 at 4:09 pm)cratehorus Wrote: His father was a slave, so it's difficult to tell, he was born in Russia, though
His father was not a slave, but a rather well-to-do private school teacher. He was from a serf family, which should actually make it easy to pin down his lineage, since Serfs are tied to the land and not free to move around.