Word: semipalatinsk
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Maria Isaeva was blonde, thin, neurotic and married. Her drunken clod of a husband was controller of the distillation and sale of liquor in Semipalatinsk, the Siberian border town to which Dostoevsky was sent as an army private after his release from prison. Soon the smitten 33-year-old soldier and the sensitive lady were holding hands and crying into each other's sweet tea while hubby sprawled in a drunken stupor on the divan. After Isaev died, they were married. But Maria was frigid, and Dostoevsky was soon complaining: "We're living so-so . . . The heart will...