how did it happen that a baby boy was born in the Soviet Union with a Spanish father?
– My father studied in Russia at the MGU law faculty, and my mother studied foreign languages at college. She then became a translator of Spanish literature for the publishers Progress and it was there that my parents met. My father stayed here because of love. That was a serious step to take in those years: he had only been sent to the USSR to study. He was in the Spanish Communist Party and was supposed to go back to his home country as a qualified specialist and work for the benefit of his country and people and help set up communism. When he decided to stay here they were very angry. – Which was stronger in you family the Spanish or Russian culture and up-bringing? – Both. I was brought up more by my grandparents and their influence was even stronger than my parents. They were graphic-drawers and I was interested in what they did – I enjoyed drawing and subsequently, photography. Later, under my fathers influence I became a reporter (my father was a journalist) and I spent 10 years
