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Popoff (Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography) sifts through diaries, memoirs, letters, and biographies to create portraits of the marriages of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Nabokov, Bulgakov, and Solzhenitsyn, with the focus on the remarkable endurance of the women they married. The women's efforts to support their husbands' works from creation through publication, preservation, and, in Nadezhda Mandelstam's case, constant threats of official persecution, are heroic. P...Log In or Sign Up to Read More