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If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate wa...
On the snowy morning of February 8, 1897, the Petersburg secret police were following Tolstoy's every move. At sixty-nine, Russia's most celebrated writer was being treated like a major criminal. Prominent Russians were ...
As Leo Tolstoy's wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. Drawing on newly available archival material, including Sophia's unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff ...
Muses and editors, saviors and publishers: Meet the women behind the greatest works of Russian literature “Behind every good man is a good woman” is a common saying, but when it comes to literature, the relat...
Muses and editors, saviors and publishers: Meet the women behind the greatest works of Russian literature “Behind every good man is a good woman” is a common saying, but when it comes to literature, the relat...
An " i ntriguing collection of biographies of six extraordinary women . . . Fascinating proof that being a writer's wife is a profession in itself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). "Behind every good man is a good woman" is a co...