Marián Kvarda wishes his mother Anděla Kvardová a happy 50th birthday (1956)

Mother Anděla Kvardová in an amateur theatre (ca. 1960)

Marián Kvarda working in Šumava (1968)

Marián Kvarda during his military service (late 60s)

Marián Kvarda in the army (late 60s)

Marián Kvarda (left) with displaced German Richard Krappel (right), who used to live in his place of residence

Marián Kvarda with a book by Richard Krappel, a displaced German who used to live in his place of residence

The original house of the Krappel family, where Anděla Kvardová moved after the Second World War and where Marián Kvarda was born in 1948

Family photo of relatives on mother's side. First row from left: great-grandfather Alexander Alekseevich Mukhachev (1903-1975), great-grandmother Praskovya Mikhailovna Sharina, née Ovchinnikova (1905-1989), grandmother Valentina Alexandrovna Sharina, née Mukhacheva (1928-2015), grandmother's older brother Anatoly Alexandrovich Mukhachev (1924-1993). Second row, from left: grandmother's younger sisters Margarita Alexandrovna Tulina, née Mukhacheva, and Anna Alexandrovna Soustina, née Mukhacheva. Sverdlovsk region, early 1950s

Great-grandmother Praskovya Mikhailovna Sharin and great-grandfather Sergei Filippovich Sharin, Sverdlovsk, 1930s

Mother Tatyana Pomortseva, Sverdlovsk, second half of the 1960s

Vladimir and mother Tatyana near the New Year tree, Sverdlovsk, 1975. Photo: Anatoly Pomortsev

Grandfather's graduation photo. Third graduation of school No. 17 of Sverdlovsk city, academic year 1940-1941. On the far left in the last row is grandfather Yuri Sharin. "Grandfather's graduation fell on June 21, 1941. The next morning the Great Patriotic War began. It seems that of the 13 boys in my grandfather's class, only three returned home alive." Sverdlovsk, 1941

Grandfather Yuri Sergeyevich Sharin in the war in the rank of lieutenant of the medical service. The photograph was probably taken on 25-29 April 1945 near the village of Pelkeninken in East Prussia (now the village of Kabanovo in the Kaliningrad Oblast) immediately after my grandfather was awarded the first Order of the Red Star on 24 April 1945 and before his unit was sent to the Far East on 30 April 1945.

Wedding photos of parents. Father Anatoly Nikolayevich Pomortsev and mother Tatyana Yuryevna Pomortseva, Sverdlovsk, 1973

With the prize of the China International Press Photo Competition, 2013

Swimming pool pass, Sverdlovsk, 1984

Self-portrait, 2016

Nguyen Vuong, Praha 2025

Nguyen Vuong, Praha 2025

Mother going to first class. From left: grandmother Valentina Alexandrovna Sharina, mother Tatyana Pomortseva, and great-grandmother Praskovya Mikhailovna Sharina, Sverdlovsk, 1959

H.-G. Grech's paternal grandparents, celebrating their golden wedding anniversary in Bavaria, 1948

New Year's card of the parents' house in Drasenhofen, with skylight facing towards Mikulov

H.-G. Grech with his mother and her friends at the swimming pool in Mikulov, 1943

H.-G. Grech and his siblings Dietlinde and Gernot, 1951