Kaminski Child to Teen Photo Albums – Vastyan, Grisha (Grigoriy), and Sveta

Севастьян Каминский


September 19, 1984 – Age 6 months

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “You don’t vant to see this photo... please skip down...” -groans-]
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CLICK ME!
March 9, 1988 – Age 4

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “My... fourth birthday party. I vos a bit obsessed vith American vizards that dressed up like Muggle ‘cow boys’. Vy they vere called that, I still don’t know for sure. I tend thestral, but it never made me ‘thestral boy’...”]
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April 21, 1989 – Age 5

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Me as a little boy... I don’t think there is too much to say here. At least it is not baby picture...”]
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July 15, 1995 – Age 11

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Daydreaming about going to Durmstrang. I had just received my letter.”]
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August 14, 1995 – Age 11

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Vatching father and Uncle Pavel caring for Morana, a thestral filly vithin the small herd ve tend on the Kaminski estate.”]
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CLICKIE HERE
June 1996 – Age 12

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “A rite of passage for all Kaminski children vos to participate on a family outing. I regret to say that this vos an errand for Voldemort, though I did not know it at the time. My father vos a Death Eater, like his father, and they had subsequently persuaded my brother to join them even though he vos only seven at the time. I vos not marked, nor vos I told vot vos to happen. I had been so thrilled to be going on a boys-only adventure, at the time...”]
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Click ME!
June 1996 – Age 12

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Here I am handing Bogdan – a cousin of mine – a muggle veapon. It looked dangerous ven I vos holding it, and ven I had looked back to see how much damage Bogdan managed to do on the mannequin, but I found out that night that it is nothing compared to a vand.”]
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Clickie Again
June 1996 – Age 12

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Bogdan, Nikolai, and I are vaiting for our qvarry to show itself. This vos right before Bogdan had had qvite enough of the camera. Unfortunately, this outing vos not the greatest vone I’ve been on...”]
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July 10, 1996 – Age 12

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Summer vacation two veeks after family outing. I am chasing Nikolai and Grisha ((Grigoriy)) along the shore, all the vhile casting harmless spells at them.”]
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August 14, 1998 – Age 14

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Evert Rosenberg tries out new camera. Ve are in my qvarters in Kaminski Manor. ”]
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September 1998 – Age 14

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Durmstrang Institute school photograph. There vos to be a group photo, and the taller boys vere asked to kneel vhile the shorter vones stood on a platform. It is the same picture vone vill find of me on my own vithin the yearbook.”]
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November 19, 1998 – Age 14

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Ah: my Qvidditch Team photograph. I played beater because the chaser positions vere all taken. I eventually became captain of the team. Ve called ourselves the Crimson Chimeras.”]
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October 31, 1998 – Age 14 – Photo courtesy of Evert Rosenberg

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “For Halloveen I dressed up as Muggle Mafia boss – Russian Mafia, that is – and am pretending to threaten vone of my henchmen, Evert Rosenberg, who is holding the camera, for botching a mission. That vos a very fun evening!”]
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March 2, 1999 – Age 14 (almost 15) – Photo courtesy of Evert Rosenberg

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Evert, my good friend, took this photo shortly after I vent through vith a dare to get my right eyebrow pierced, as vone of my older cousins vos aspiring to be a body piercer and tattoo artist. The look on my face is due to a call of sorts the boys I hung around vith uttered often ven there vos a victory for vone of us. Unfortunately, my hair is in the vay and thus said piercing cannot be seen.”]
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May 1999 – Age 14

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Right before I vent into my leather phase... I remember being distinctly miffed and not being allowed to vear my leather jacket in this photo. Neither of my parents vere too fond of the eyebrow ring...” -chuckles-]
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July 3, 1999 – Age 14 – Photo courtesy of Evert Rosenberg

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Vhile vaiting for friends, Evert decides to try out his newest camera... vonce again I am selected for subject.” -sigh-]
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September 12, 1999 – Age 14

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Several of my friends and I shocked our teachers ven ve arrived for school photos all in leather. Except Iosif Gorbachev... ve dared him to go nude. Believe it or not, he actually did it, too! The look on the ‘old goat’s’ face vos priceless!”]
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May 2001 – Age 16 – Photo courtesy of Grigoriy

[A caption in Grigoriy’s handwriting reads: BUSTED!]

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Vell, I have no need to guess who put this picture in here. Yes, I vos smoking at the age of sixteen, and this is the proof. My father and grandfather vere both none too pleased to learn that I vos the reason vy their cigars and such vent missing. Despite beatings and lectures from both, they allowed it to continue so long as I didn’t steal from them again. I began taking up pipe smoking ven I turned tventy three. Grisha vos so disappointed my punishment vosn’t vorse...”]
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June 9, 2001 – Age 16

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “I vould rather not say vot I had just finished doing here, other than to specify that I got even vith the boy that ripped the barbell piercing from my eyebrow. It so happened vone of my girlfriends – Bellatrix Valkenhorst – subsequently dumped me aftervords, as she vos in love vith the boy’s older brother, who vos caught in crossfire. She rightly blamed me for his death.”]
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December 2002 – Age 17

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “It is near Christmas... Ve are on field trip to Nurmengard Prison, vhere ve vere given the identification tags, as shown. The things became a fad amongst my peers that year. I am also sporting a new eyebrow ring on my left, but it is too far avay to see.”]
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December 31, 2002 or January 1, 2003 – Age 17

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “During a New Year’s Eve party, my friends thought it vould be funny to give me a tattoo vhile I vos passed out from too much vodka. The result, since they vere also drunk, vos I voke up vith a skull-shaped potion bottle image tattooed to my hip. Needless to say, half avake and sore from the tattooing, I vos not vot you vould call a ‘happy camper’ at all.”]
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January 7, 2003 – Age 17

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Me vith Tatiana Romanova, a teenage sveetheart of mine at that time. I... do not remember much of that evening.”]
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May 23, 2003 – Age 18

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Durmstrang Institute vos holding a dance party. I invited Tatiana to come vith me as a date, and even brought a bouquet of roses vith me. It is about at this time I realize I vos stood up, though somevone vith us thought it vould make a nice photo. If I ever find out who it vos.........”]
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July 2003 – Age 18

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Sqvaring off against my brother, and not in play despite that being vot it could look like. Ve vere doing vandless magic.”]
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September 2003 – Age 18

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “My last year at Durmstrang... our pictures vere taken en route to school, on the ship. It vos vindy... hence the sqvinting.”]
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December 2003 – Age 18

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “Right before Christmas, my friends and I vent to an Alice Cooper concert in Moscov. I didn’t get the makeup qvite right, I realize, but it vos close enough.” -laughs-]
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April 2006 – Age 21

[Sevastyan’s Reader Commentary: “This vos taken right after I vos released from Nurmengard for... minor offense not really vorth discussing.”]
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