REUNION IN MOSCOW
Boys From U.S. Join Parents
N.Z Pres.- Association — Covynqhti MOSCOW, August 30.
Four young Chicago boys were reunited in Moscow last night with weeping Russian parents they could not understand. The Kozmin brothers, Richard, aged 12, George, aged 11, Paul, aged 10, and Peter, aged 3. speak only English—their parents, Mr and Mrs George Kozmin. speak Russian.
The boys arrived in Moscow via Brussels, after an American Judge ruled last week that they should be reunited with theii parents. They were made wards of a Chicago Court after their Rus-sian-born parents were admitted to a mental home. In 1957, Mr and Mrs Kozmin were released, and returned to Russia, while the boys stayed on. Mrs Nadejda Kozmin, aged 37, burst into tears as the Russian TU-104 jet airliner drew up on the runway at Vnukovo Airport. Surrounded by about 24 Soviet photographers she pushed her way to the plane and sobbed: "I am so happy” as the boys appeared. The boys will begin their new life under Russian equivalents of their names—Rotislav (Richard). Yuri (George), Pavel (Paul), and Pyotr (Peter). The parents left Russia during World War II and found refuge in a displaced persons’ camp in Germany, where the three oldest boys were born. In 1951 they went to the United States.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28987, 31 August 1959, Page 14
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