This is an automatically translated description

Anatoliy Dobriansky (1935-2003) was a significant figure in the cultural life of Bukovyna and Chernivtsi, a bright and extraordinary personality. That is why his Letters to My Mother is interesting from many perspectives, in particular as a story of the formation of a young man in the conditions of Bukovyna, which was then relatively recently annexed to the Soviet Union. At the same time, it is a true story about the trusting and sincere relationship between mother and son, and at the same time a kind of chronicle of student life, interesting information about the city, university, army summer training camp, the regional newspaper, literary association, travels, plans, and hopes. These letters also give us a clear picture of the life of Faina Vasylivna, a village teacher whose husband was repressed in 1937 and whose sons were raised by relatives during the most difficult years. In that nomadic life, full of exhausting work and deprivation, she managed to give Anatolii a sense of home, shelter, and family warmth.

Letters in the Soviet era were a territory of privacy that was encroached upon by the System, but people subconsciously resisted it. For an attentive reader, these letters will reveal much more than what they say verbatim: the very spirit of that time - from the mid-1950s to almost the end of the 1960s...

The letters are a testament to the spirit of the times.