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

by Popoff, Alexandra.

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Pegasus Books, c2012.

Authors' spouses -- Russia -- Biography.

Women -- Russia -- Biography.

Wives -- Russia -- Biography.

9781605983660 (hc.)

1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.

xix, 332 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

“Behind every good man is a good woman” is a common saying, but when it comes to literature, the relationship between spouses is even that much more complex. In Russian literary marriages, however, the wives of some of the most famous authors of all time did not resent taking a “secondary position,” although to call their position secondary does not do justice to the vital role these women played in the creation of some of the greatest literary works in history. From Sophia Tolstoy to Vera Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, Nadezdha Mandelstam, Anna Dostevsky, and Natalya Solzhenitsyn, these women ranged from stenographers and typists to editors, researchers, translators, and even publishers. Living under restrictive regimes, many of these women battled censorship and preserved the writers’ illicit archives, often risking their own lives to do so. They established a tradition all their own, unmatched in the West.

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