Michael Vinokouroff, was born in 1894 in Yakutsk, Russia, to Fr. Zinovii and Paraskeva Prokop'eva Okhlopkova. He began to work in the public library and the Yakutian section of the Russian Geographical Society museum. In 1917, he married Anastasia Semenovna Iakushkova, who also worked in libraries, including the Ecclesiastical seminary library. In 1919, after the 1917 Boleshevik Revolution, Vinokouroff, a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, and Anastasia were arrested and imprisoned. In 1919, they fled to Okhotsk, Japan. A year and a half later, they immigrated to Pennsylvania then moved to New York City where Anastasia gave birth to their first child, Eugenia ("Zhenia"). The same year Vinokouroff began a career with the Library of Congress and moved his family to Washington, D.C. He spent his entire career with the Library of Congress, retiring in 1956. Vinokouroff died in 1983, a few months after his wife. Their first daughter, Eugenia, died at age 2 and a son, George, born in 1924, committed suicide in his mid-20s. A married daughter, Elena Tidwell, is the surviving family member. [From: Michael Z. Vinokouroff : a profile and enventory of his papers (MS 81) and photographs (PCA 243), L. Martin, PhD., 1986. Located with the collection.]