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This photo is of the Brodsky estate with the grandparents of Nicholas J. Fehderau, Peter and Marie Bahnmann, in the foreground to the right and workers from the estate behind them.
(This photo was published in John D. Rempel and Paul Tiessen, eds., "Forever Summer, Forever Sunday, Peter Gerhard Rempel's Photographs of Mennonites in Russia 1890-1917.")

This photo is of Nicholas J. Fehderau with his mother, Maria (Bahnmann) Fehderau and his two sisters, Liese and Tina. (Nicholas was about 6 years of age in this photo.)

This photo is of Peter and Marie (Martens) Bahnmann, grandparents of Nicholas J. Fehderau.

This photo is of the grandfather of Nicholas J. Fehderau, Peter Bahnmann, standing to the right with his breeding stallion.

This photo is of Peter Bahnmann's Brodsky estate showing the main gate. Workers are shown in the foreground. In 1904, Nicholas Fehderau was born in the house to the right.

This photo is of Nicholas J. Fehderau and his two older brothers, Peter (standing) and Jascha. (Nicholas is the youngest boy in the picture.)

This photo is of Peter Bahnmann, grandfather of Nicholas J. Fehderau.

This photo is of Peter Bahnmann, grandfather of Nicholas J. Fehderau, with his two daughters, Maria (standing), mother of Nicholas J. Fehderau, and Katharina.

This photo is of Nocholas J. Fehderau's second oldest sister, Tina. As a young woman, Tina spent a year in Plauen (Vogtland, Germany) at Housekeeping School (ca. 1915). While there she learned about photography. On her return to the Ukraine, Tina took great pleasure in taking and developing her own pictures. Some of the following casual family poses were likely taken by her. See: From the Heights into the Depths, p. 69.

This photo is of Tina, Liese, and Manja (older sisters of Nicholas J. Fehderau) in their playhouse with their dolls at the Brodsky estate. Their grandfather, Peter Bahnmann, teased them by calling them the "troika"