The blockade, evacuation to Pyatigorsk, stay in German work camps in Poland and Germany are described in her “Leningrad Diary” (Munich, 1964). After the end of the war, Scriabin did not return home. Fear of the Stalinist regime and the desire to save oneself and children from possible reprisals overpowered the desire to return to Leningrad. In the 50s she emigrates from Germany to the USA, where she manages to find use for her literary talent. Scriabin becomes a professor at one of the American universities and teaches Russian literature for many years. For the West, Elena Scriabina became the chronicler of the Leningrad blockade. Author of the famous book “900 days. Siege of Leningrad,” American journalist Harrison Salisbury called her diary “a monument to the courage and endurance of the Russian people” and noted: “First of all, these are sincere and moving records of a mother selflessly fighting for the lives of her children, who gave her last strength to defend this life in conditions of famine , cold, tyranny and death."