1959 CHICAGO RUSSIA CUSTODY LISTED FRANCIS MILLER PHOTO LIFE MAGAZINE VINTAGE

Framing: Unframed An original period photo, possibly a proof photo, measuring approximately 13 1/4 x 9 inches. By listed Life Photographer Francis Miller. Last found in Washington, DC, in all likelihood from Mr. Miller's estate. Some bends, creases, here and there, some as seen in pictures. Thanks for looking. Below is some background of the story after the boys returned to Russia.Forced to leave as boy, Russian visits memoriesJune 10, 2001|By Kim Barker, Tribune staff reporter.Pyotr Kozmin doesn't remember much about Chicago. Just the smell of cut grass and spicy flowers, the taste of cornflakes and milk, and the feel of his arms around a tree in his foster parents' front yard.He doesn't remember the international custody dispute, or dressing in the gray wool suit before boarding a plane to join his parents in the Soviet Union. He doesn't remember making headlines with his three older brothers more than 40 years before Elian Gonzalez was caught in a similar tug of war between Cuba and America.This week, Pyotr Kozmin returned to Chicago for the first time since leaving Midway Airport in 1959. He's having a reunion with the surviving members of the family who cared for him when he was an American. He wanted to find his roots and hug the tree that sometimes shows up in dreams."He never expected that somebody worried about him and was thinking about him in America," said Sergey Korobkov, Kozmin's friend and translator. "He built his life, conscious that there was no way back to the United States, no way back to the people he knew."An Illinois judge took the Kozmin brothers from their biological parents, Russian emigres, after they ended up in a mental hospital. The older boys were sent to an orphanage. Peter, now Pyotr, was born in the mental hospital and immediately sent to live with his brother Paul at David and Gladys Moon's house in Bensenville.The Kozmin parents returned home to the Soviet Union. They wanted their children. So did the Soviet government. After a two-year battle, a judge sent all four children back. Peter was 3.For years, the Moons wondered about Peter and Paul, about what had become of them.Last year, the Moon family contacted the Kozmins after the Chicago Tribune tracked down the boys.Pyotr Kozmin, 44, a well-known Russian artist, returned to Midway Airport on Thursday morning, with translator Korobkov, some paintings and a stiff neck from the flight.Curt Shires, a grandson of the Moons, hugged Kozmin like a long-lost brother.While here, Kozmin will have a reunion with another foster child and with Moon family members. He'll also show his art to Chicago galleries.But Friday was the tour of places Kozmin didn't remember.In the morning, Shires, Kozmin and Korobkov planned to go to the site of the Moons' home, once a forest of fruit trees, a boys' paradise. They planned to visit the graves of the Moons."I just don't know what we're going to find," said Shires, adding that the family home had been knocked down and that most all the trees were gone.They drove past a home where Peter's brother Paul once had a birthday party. They drove past the Clark gas station, once the Road Pilot gas station, where Paul and the other older children bought milk, cereal and cigarettes for Gladys Moon.They turned left onto Brookwood Street, once Home Avenue, where Gladys and David Moon lived. It's now the home of Pallet Services Inc., with semi-trucks and pallets stacked where the Moon house once sat.There was a lone tree, a thick maple that once marked the Moons' property line.Kozmin walked up to it, laughed, looked around at the aluminum cans, tires and bits of pink insulation on the ground. "A terrible area, 42 years after," said Kozmin.Still, he put his arms around the tree, not the same as the one in his dreams.Kozmin carried two of his paintings to the tree looking for some inspiration. But he put them away.He tried to meditate."This is no good energy," he said, pointing at the ground.He smoked the last of his Kent III Ultra.…