Hi Tania, I feel terrible about the notice I just read. I'm so sorry. Your father was a unique person, a very significant person In the live of many people and specially in mine. He teached us how to live honestly, doing only good things, helping other people, and always with God in first place. You have to be proud of the father you had and you will always have from heaven. Please let all your family know and specially your mother my feelings of respect and love. God bless him, and aloud him to go to the kingdom of heaven, peace to his soul and rest for his body. We are going to pray here for that, and for the strength you all need now. I close my eyes and I can feel that my heart is with you in this moment. With deep love, Yura.

Dear friends,

As some of you might know, my sweet and wonderful papa died on Sunday morning, January 20th. He was my hero and will be for many years to come...I have no pictures of him to upload now, but will be posting them in the next few weeks as a kind reminder of the person that he was not only to me but to all whom he knew. There is an empty spot in this world that will never be replaced but will be gently covered with all his love and self-less acts of love and memories of his smiles and gentleness. He was a strong leader with the Russian Scouts Organization here in America, and am so honored to have been raised by him and guided with his love for the Russian Orthodox Church and his Russian ancestry. These two things were what made up his personality and his reasons for living and in his every day life. He was a gentleman raised by the Czar's army and naval officers who emigrated to France during the Russian Revolution and whose great un...cle was Admiral A. Nevelskoy. He was a gentleman and always kissed the 'ladies' hands even up to the past days of his life. He loved, loved, loved, children... He was like a Sante Claus to them and they flocked to him...and he enjoyed their company as much as they enjoyed his.

My godfather, Mika Popoff, was my father's 'best friend' since their youth and scouting days. Diadia Mika was a wonderful soul, full of faith in Orthodoxy,kind and gentle. Both my father and godfather would talk often over the phone in the last years of my godfather's life. I remember one time, when he called my father and I was visiting with my father, I answered the phone and Diadia Mika and I spoke for a while and as he too loved the Russian Scouts (Vitiazy) we sang one of their more popular songs together on the phone. It was memorable and I never forgot it. My father missed the passing of his best friend, whom he called 'brother' (brat), but am sure that now he will soon see him and they can once again find comfort in each other's friendship...as well as so many others whom they both knew and are not among the living...

He will be remembered and he will also be sorely missed...

With love and warm memories of Alexander Okhotnikoff (a.k.a 'Sasha', Barsuk) husband, father, grandfather, uncle, Tio, and best friend....

I did not know Alex well but I knew him to be a fine man. May he and his loved ones rise totally from any darkness and dwell forever in God's holy light and energy.

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Dear May and family, until reading the obituary, we believed Alex (as we called him at TWA) was Russian born! We did not work with him personally, so only assumed that was his accent. But, we remember him as being a dapper and refined man with a merry twinkle in his eyes and a shy smile when amused. It is you, May, that we have come to know in the last year, or so, and we are heartbroken for your loss. We know your large family will pull together to get through this. Please, let us know if there is anything we can do to help.