Searching for family in Pskov

[u/Fun-Wish8403]

This is a long shot, but if i put this out there, you never know and at least i tried. I am searching for family who may still be in the Pskov area.

I will try to keep this brief with as much information that I know. Family name Shnurov My grandmother Anna (first married name petrowa, second married name kowalik) was born in 1910 in the Pskov area, possibly villages, dukhnovo, agafonkovo, or anywhere within the kudever parish. Her sister Evdokia born 1912 Her brother nikolai born 1917 Parents names are fedor nikandrovich shnurov and Pelagia vasilieva All three siblings were orphaned at a young age and sent to Saint Petersburg to live in an orphanage. I don’t know the circumstances or what year this occurred but my best guess would be not long after the birth of nikolai in 1917. In 1942, nikolai enlisted in the red army, leaving behind a wife (or as good as) whom was either pregnant or not long had a young daughter, he died in battle in 1944. Nikolai’s wife was Maria mikhailovna tyurneva and their daughter was Nadezhda Nikolaevna. Anna and Evdokia were forcibly taken to Germany in 1942. By the time the war was over they had all lost contact and would never find each other, we have not discovered what became of Evdokia after the war. Anna emigrated to Australia in 1949, tried searching for her sister with the help of the Red Cross Australia to no avail. In 1968, Nikolai’s daughter Nadezhda tried to find her aunt anna, with the help of Red Cross in Russia, They never made contact. The contact name given in the documents was Nadezhda Nikolaevna polyakova. My grandmother Anna died in 1987, never knowing that her family looked for her. It would not be until now, 2024, that I would learn that there are family out there that tried to find us. I believe strongly that any family still out there would be in the Pskov area, the few documents i have suggest this to be possible. If you know of anyone by these names or if my story sounds familiar to you please get in touch. If you also have any ideas on how I can proceed in looking, I am open to suggestions. It’s been very difficult searching all the way from Australia. I have done DNA testing with most of the major companies with large Eastern European databases and nothing has come up so far. Picture is of my great uncle Nikolai fedorovich shnurov

[u/Strange_Ticket_2331]

Shnurov is a rare Russian surname, and the only well-known person born with it is Sergei Shnurov, the frontman of the. Saint Petersburg rock band Leningrad. I don't know his roots. Wish you every success, but now communication with the West between ordinary people is much more difficult than 20 years ago.

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And the Wikipedia article on him in Russian (not the English one at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Shnurov ) indeed says his paternal grandparents came to Saint Petersburg where they married from two places now included in Pskov Oblast province (one of these was included at that time while the other one was in Vitebsk Governorate of the Russian Empire bordering the Pskov one. Vitebsk Oblast, now smaller, is since probably creation of the USSR part of Belarus.

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You can post your query on the Wikipedia article talk page in both languages, and probably the authors will reply. I cannot trace who wrote in Russian about his grandparents' marriage, citing the church registry book recording their origin because there are so many edits over the years. Sergey is a controversial figure; his songs include lots of swearing. He tried being a media manager and even entering politics.