xix, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
A biographical look at the intellectual relationships between some of Russia's greatest writers and their wives.
Contents
Anna Dostoevsky : cherishing a memory -- Sophia Tolstoy : nursemaid of talent -- Nadezhda Mandelstam : witness to poetry -- Véra Nabokov : making a single shadow -- Elena Bulgakov : mysterious Margarita -- Natalya Solzhenitsyn : sister of my work.
