Sophia Tolstoy : a biography —Popoff, Alexandra.

Tolstoy's false disciple : the untold story of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov —Popoff, Alexandra.

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 ...

The wives : the women behind Russia's literary giants —Popoff, Alexandra.

Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century —Popoff, Alexandra, author.

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...

Sophia Tolstoy a biography —Popoff, Alexandra.

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 Drawing on newly available archival material, including Sophia's unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff ...

The wives the women behind Russia's literary giants —Popoff, Alexandra.

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...

The wives the women behind Russia's literary giants —Popoff, Alexandra.

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...