How do you overcome sudden, life-changing grief? That’s the question Maxim Naumov unexpectedly faced two months ago when he lost his parents, two-time Olympians Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, in a plane crash.
The pair, who were returning from a U.S. Figure Skating developmental camp in Wichita, Kansas, where they had been coaching young skaters from their Skating Club of Boston, were among 67 victims of a tragedy in Washington D.C. on 29 January. Of the 67, 28 had ties to figure skating, six of them from the Boston club.
Naumov, himself a top skater who had just finished fourth at the U.S. national championships to win the pewter medal, suddenly found himself without the two most important people in his life. Figure…