In Kyiv, the Dray-Khmara family lived on Sadova Street near Proletariat Park and Soviet Garden (presently, City Garden and Mariinsky Park), where Oxana had often walked with her father. Years later, she looks back at those days: ‘Despite the strain of rigorous scholarship, Daddy often took me to the park. Once, he made a photo of me. The picture of a little Oxana with a bow ribbon and a bunch of flowers was always on Daddy’s desk.’