Russian dissident mother and daughter discuss art, imprisonment and escape in new memoir
"Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour" is a poignant portrait of Galina and Yelena Lembersky's lives behind Russia's Iron Curtain, their eventual exodus to the United States and the art they brought with them.
Mother and daughter Galina and Yelena Lembersky‘s new memoir, “Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour,” is a poignant portrait of their lives behind Russia’s Iron Curtain, their eventual exodus to the United States and the art they brought with them.
The family brought over 500 stunning paintings by Galina Lembersky’s father, Felix Lembersky. The noted Jewish Ukrainian artist was offered lucrative pay and perks to paint Russian propaganda. Instead, he chronicled moving scenes of the Russian brutality, from the Holocaust massacre at Babi Yar to exhausted Russian coal workers toiling in the mines.
Host Robin Young met with the women to discuss their lives — then and now.
