Word: avilova
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ernest Simmons, formerly chairman of the department of Slavic languages and literature at Columbia University, suffers from the biographer's occupational disease -a constitutional inability to leave out any detail, however trivial. But his book does build to considerable power. Using new source material, Simmons demolishes Writer Lidiya Avilova's claim, put forth in her book Chekhov in My Life, that she was the writer's secret lifelong passion. Chekhov's only love. Simmons insists, was Olga Knipper, one of the first of a long series of famous actresses (including Dame Sybil Thorndike. Dame Judith Anderson...
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