Russian dissident mother and daughter discuss art, imprisonment and escape in new memoir

When Joseph Stalin’s regime offered Felix Lambersky riches to paint sunny Soviet propaganda, the Jewish Ukrainian artist declined. Instead, he painted scenes from the Holocaust in Ukraine and images of exhausted Russian coal workers.

Following his death in 1970, Lambersky’s wife, Lucia, fled the Soviet Union for the United States, bringing 500 of his paintings and the hope that her daughter Galina and granddaughter Yelena would soon join her. In their new memoir "Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour," the mother and daughter tell the story of the art that traveled with them to the United States..