“Family album of Odessa publisher Fesenko” was published in 2007 in the Odessa city printing-office, which was opened by Efim Ivanovich Fesenko – the founder of Sergey Dyablo family.

The book is dedicated to the family history of the owner of the largest printing chromolithography in Odessa in the end of XIX-beginning of the XX century, the famous Odessa publisher; to the lives of his ancestors, the fate of his children and their descendants, who have preserved the best traditions of the Odessa   entrepreneurship and patronage.

The initiator of the publication is the husband of  Tatyana Vadimovna Vopilkina – Fesenko’s granddaughter  – Vladislav Vsevlodovich Dyablo, who kept the bulk of the family archive.

The book includes memoirs of Fesenko – the founder of respected family in Odessa, the father of nine children, who lived through a revolution, and overnight lost his lifework, created due to his tireless labor and diligence.  He wrote them, having a desire to leave memories for his Odessa descendants; he wanted his descendants to know the origins of the family.

In those early years he built a house in Otrada for his large family.

His son Sergey Vladislavovich Dyablo-hereditary engineer in the fourth generation and a native of Odessa in the fifth generation, whose children in the sixth generation still live in Otrada.

“My great-grandfather Efim Fesenko was the first printer in the South of Russia. I have kept the rare document, according to which Yefim Fesenko was granted the title of gentleman by birth of the Russian Empire for his contribution to Orthodox culture. After the Revolution of 1917 he continued to work in his printing house on Rishelievskaya, 49, that was already nationalized by that time.   But my grandmother, daughter of Nikolai Aleksandrovich Khrennikov, was an engineer, and taught at the Construction and the Teacher’s Institute, and in the Higher nautical college and the Institute of marine engineers. Her husband, also was an engineer and taught. My father became an engineer of heat-power industry. And I actually walked in the footsteps of my father, after graduating from the Odessa Polytechnic Institute I received the same specialty”, – says Sergey Dyablo.

Great-grandfather of Sergey from mother’s side – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Khrennikov was an engineer of strengthening structures on the slopes of Odessa and at the same time taught at the Odessa Construction Institute. Sergey learned a lot of interesting things from him that are in service to him.

“Knowing his ancestors, one feels more confident in life, standing firm on his own feet. He can learn from them, imitate them, use their life experience. For this he needs to know that they were worthy people deserving all kinds of respect. They all were back-coated proletariat, which is the foundation of our society, who in all disasters, faced by the state, worked diligently, honestly and faithfully each in his place. These are the people due to whom, despite the terrible events of the Bolshevik period, the country is still recovering and continues to exist” – in her letter to the descendants said Vera Evgenievna Khrennikova – grandmother of Sergey Dyablo, gatherer and keeper of the family chronicles of Fesenko family.

Members of such a big family has a different fate, but they all lived their lives honestly, intelligently, with dignity, in accordance with the concept of family honour instilled in the childhood and moral values cultivated in the family.

Their traditions are continued by the descendants, who haven’t lost a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, social and public activity that has been preserved from the distant predecessors since the heyday of South Palmyra.