I had known about my uncle since my early childhood, because my mother (his sister) and my grandfather, the painter Leonid Pasternak, had told us all about their Russian family.
Ngangazi ngomalume wami ukusukela ngiseyingane, ngoba umama (udadewabo) kanye nomkhulu, owayengumpendi u-Leonid Pasternak, wayesitshelile sonke ngalo mndeni waseRashiya.