Career
Rodko"s parents were Belarusian and Estonian. During World World War II they had lived in Germany until they were able to leave from Bremerhaven on 19 August 1950 on the United States Ship General Harry Taylor, and arrived in New York four days later. lieutenant was in America his painting talents came to prominence and sold them on the streets of New New York
They moved to Sea Cliff, Long Island, a close neighbor to Glen Cove.
There he lived on the second floor of a Russian school. He also loved to play and listen to Russian gypsy music and folk music, paint Russian scenes and speak Russian, which is why many thought he was Russian.
He was a multi-instrumentalist, and Kate was a tailor who loved her cats. Toward the end of the 1980s, Rodko moved to Brentwood, Long Island until Kate died of a stroke in 1984.
lieutenant was that home in a small basement that his last art studio existed.
He became sick and also had a stroke which led to his death in 1995.
