Lev Drobyazko with his mother Leah Vaisblat and father Yevgeny Drobyazko.

Me, Lev Drobyazko, with my mother Leah Vaisblat and my father Yevgeny Drobyazko. The photo was taken in 1948 in Kiev. The marriage of my parents, apart from uniting people from the Russian Orthodox and the Jewish Orthodox families, also united two strong atheists. Nevertheless, this marriage was very happy for my father and my mother. Mother actively helped father in his Yiddish to Ukranian translations. They translated Sholom-Aleichem's works into Ukrainian together. Side by side, my parents lived a long life. They lived through the war, the evacuation, and through post-war hard times. My mother kept father's literary salon in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, and she preserved our house up to her death in 1997.