Misha Prishvin, 8 years old (1880), and Lyalya Liorko, 9 years old (1909)

Photographed in studio. Mounted by Prishvin.

No date. I printed a picture of me as a child for Lyalya, and remembered my past. It seems to me now that as a boy I did not smile, that I was born without a smile and acquired it gradually.