The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants (54 page)
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Authors: Alexandra Popoff
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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander,
250–86
in America,
273–74
arrest of,
268–69
assassination attempts on,
261–62
as celebrity,
252–54
children of,
256
,
259–60
,
263–65
,
268
,
271
death of,
284
deportation of,
269–70
divorce of,
264
early years of,
250–60
family of,
159
later years of,
275–86
meeting,
253–54
Nabokov and,
272
in prison,
137
return to Russia,
280–83
wife of, xvii–xviii,
250–86
in Zurich,
270–72
Solzhenitsyn, Ermolai,
259–60
,
268
,
277
Solzhenitsyn, Ignat,
264
,
268
,
277
Solzhenitsyn, Natalya,
250–86
in America,
273–74
birth of,
250
children of,
252
,
259–60
,
263–65
,
268
,
271
deportation and,
269–71
early years of,
250–60
education of,
252
family of,
250–51
interview with,
284–86
later years of,
275–86
on Mandelstam,
285
meeting,
254
name of,
vii
,
return to Russia,
280–83
role of,
xvii–xviii
on Tolstoy,
285
in Zurich,
270–72
Solzhenitsyn, Stepan,
265
,
268
,
270
,
276–78
Son of the Fatherland
,
12
Song Without Words
,
100
Soul of a People, The
,
103
Stalin, Joseph,
xv–xvii
,
130
,
135–37
,
140
,
160–61
,
212–19
,
222
,
227–29
,
233–35
,
238
,
244
,
274
,
284
Stanislavsky, Konstantin,
208
,
231
Stavsky, Vladimir,
149
Steinberg, Saul,
xi
Stolyarova, Natalya,
253–54
Stone
,
116
Sunday Express, The
,
198
Sunday Time
,
198
“Superficial Glitter and False Content,”
228
Surkov, Alexei,
163
Svetlov, Ferdinand,
250
Svetlova, Natalya,
170
.
See also
Solzhenitsyn, Natalya
T
Taboritsky, Sergei,
186
Tale of the Unextinguished Moon, The,
234
Taneev, Sergei,
99–100
Tartuffe
,
213
Tatlin, Vladimir,
126
“Terrible Question, A,”
98
Teush, Vaniamin,
259
Theatrical Novel, A
,
231
,
233
,
234
,
247
Thomas and Jane Carlyle
,
287
Thornton, Elena,
191
Time & Tide
,
201
Times Literary Supplement
,
199
“Tired Woman, A,”
105
Tiurin, Galina,
255–56
“To a Secret Friend,”
213
Tolstoy, Alexandra,
48
Tolstoy, Alyosha,
91
Tolstoy, Leo,
61–112
betrothal of,
67
children of,
61
,
69
,
71
,
75
,
77
,
79–80
,
82–83
,
87
,
91–93
,
96
,
99
,
106
death of,
110–11
early years of,
61–68
family of,
62–63
helping needy,
96–98
later years of,
107–10
Solzhenitsyn on,
285
wife of,
xi–xiii
,
xv–xvi
,
xviii
,
61–112
Tolstoy, Masha,
106
Tolstoy, Misha,
91
Tolstoy, Nicholas,
62
Tolstoy, Sasha,
87
,
91
,
107
,
109–12
Tolstoy, Sophia,
61–112
betrothal of,
67
children of,
61
,
69
,
71
,
75
,
77
,
79–80
,
82–83
,
87
,
91–93
,
96
,
99
,
106
death of,
112
early years of,
61–68
education of,
65
family of,
61–66
helping needy,
96–98
illness of,
106
later years of,
107–12
name of,
vii
,
publishing business of,
87–88
,
92–97
,
105
Solzhenitsyn on,
285
Tolstoy, Tanechka,
106
Tolstoy, Tanya,
71
,
80
,
83
,
91
,
102
Tregubov, Andrew,
277
Trial, The
,
143
Tribute Money, The
,
19
Triolet, Elsa,
258
Tsvetaeva, Marina,
vii
,
127
,
251–52
,
289
Tukhachevsky, Marshal Mikhail,
225
,
233
Turgenev, Ivan,
6
,
48
,
62–64
,
67
,
83
Tvardovsky, Alexander,
245–46
,
252–53
,
257–58
Two Hundred Years Together
,
283
Two Wives, The
,
182
Tyshler, Alexander,
116
U
Uborevich, General Ieronim,
233
Uborevich, Vladimira,
243
Udgaard, Nils,
270
Ulyanov, Vladimir,
159
Ulysses
, xvi
Updike, John,
205–6
V
Vaksel, Olga,
125
Vasilievna, Pelageya,
100
Velikorodnij, Dmitri,
250
Vigdorova, Frida,
166
Vinogradov, Alexei,
273
Vishnevskaya, Galina,
260–61
,
263
Vladimirovich, Yuri,
266
Volga-Volga
,
235
Volpin, Nadezhda,
124
von Meck, Galina,
153
von Suppé, Franz,
20
Voronezh Notebooks
,
144
Voronyanskaya, Elizaveta,
265
Voroshilov,
229
W
Wallace, Mike,
280
War and Peace
,
xii
,
xvi
,
61
,
65
,
69–70
,
72–75
,
78–79
,
105–7
Washington Post, The
,
262
White, Katherine,
197
White Guard, The
,
209
,
211
,
213
,
218
,
247
Who Is to Blame?
,
68
Widmer, Sigmund,
272
Wiedenfeld, George,
201
Winer, Bart,
203
wives,
x–xix
,
285
See also specific wives
“Wolf, The,”
157
“Women and Stenography,”
21
Wordsworth, William,
287
Y
Yagoda, Genrikh,
136
Yanovskaya, Lydia,
207
Yasnaya Polyana
,
66
Z
Zamyatin, Evgeny,
218
Zeibig, Woldemar,
20–21
Zhukhovitsky, Emmanuil,
224
Zhukovsky, Vasily,
223
Zoika’s Apartment
,
224
Zvezda
,
156
Acknowledgements
Many people supported me during the research and writing of this book. I want to thank translator and author Antonina Bouis, biographers Robert Calder and Michael Shelden, and writers Dave Carpenter, Myrna Kostash, Dave Margoshes, and Yann Martel, who read portions of my manuscript.
I am also indebted to my husband, Wilfred, for his insightful editing suggestions: these were helpful, as ever. My special thanks go to my parents, from whom I inherited my love of literature.
This book would have been impossible without grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Saskatchewan Arts Board. I am grateful to the many librarians and museum curators for helping with my research at the L.N. Tolstoy State Museum in Moscow, the Manuscript Department of the Russian State Library, the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library, and the University of Saskatchewan Library.
About the Author
ALEXANDRA POPOFF is the author of the 2010 award-winning
Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography
. She wrote for Russian national newspapers and magazines in Moscow and, as an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow, published articles in
The Philadelphia Inquirer
and its Sunday magazine. She also contributed to
Huffington Post
and
The Boston Globe
. Popoff lives in Canada, where she obtained post-graduate degrees in Russian and English literature.
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