To the Memory of

Mary Krukowski Jasiulko (1906–1966)
and
Peter Paul Jasiulko (1898–1986),
my parents;

Claire Marcia Jasiulko (1930–2008),
my sister;

Edgar Frederick Harden (1932–2009),
my husband;

Arial Kromer (1886–1964),
the high school teacher who made the difference in my life;

Countess Ekaterina Alekseevna Uvarova Pastukhova (1896–1987)
and
Prince Petr Sergeevich Urusov (1899–1984),
my professors of Russian;

and for

Edgar F. Harden, my son;

Ghislaine Wood, my daughter-in-law;

and

Mirabelle Harden, my granddaughter