Swan Or Swann?

[poliphilo]

 I should have spelled Swan with a double 'n'. Or should I? Swan was the family name and his great grandfather added the extra 'n' because it looked more splendid or something. This grandfather was a Lincolnshire man who emigrated to Russia and reinvented himself as Herbert Alfredovitch Swann. Donald's father was fully Russian but of English descent and his mother was from what is now Turkmenistan. The Russian revolution sent them packing and Donald was born in Wales. His middle name was Ibrahim. 

We have his autobigraphy in the Meeting House library. The title is Swann's Way. Cheeky!

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[paserbyp]

What he did in Russia?

[poliphilo]

The great grandfather who moved to Russia was a draper. His grandson, Donald's father, was a doctor.