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...Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, edited by Elliott Mossman...
...Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, edited by Elliott Mossman...
NONFICTION: The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, edited by Elliott Mossman ∙ Going to the Dance, Arlene Croce ∙ Killing of Bonnie Garland, Willard Gaylin Love, Eleanor, Joseph P. Lash Midnights, Alec Wilkinson ∙ The Red Smith Reader, edited by Dave Anderson
...Lara." Last year there appeared a splendid biography of Pasternak by Guy de Mallac, the first in any language. Now comes an intriguing volume of letters by Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, lovingly edited and annotated by Elliott Mossman...
From Olga Freidenberg's diary, which Editor Mossman has used to illuminate the letters, we also learn that Pasternak's brother Alexander was a member of the Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, during the Great Purge. An architect, Alexander helped design and supervise the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal, which was built by slave labor in 1936. According to the diary, when Alexander was slated to receive a medal from Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin for his work on the canal, Cousin Sasha on the eve of his arrest pleaded with the Chekist to try to save...