In her memoirs book “My Contemporaries, as I Knew Them,” Tamara Vladimirovna Ivanova tells about the people her fate brought her to—whose names remained in the history of Soviet culture.
The book of portraits of her contemporaries opens with memories of one of the largest Soviet writers, Vsevolod Ivanov, who was both her husband and her friend.
In the second part of the book, the reader will find portraits of V. Meyerhold, Olga Forsh, K. Fedin, A. Fadeev, I. Babel, E. Peshkova, and B. Pasternak.
Tamara V. Ivanova’s book is undoubtedly engaging reading for both historians of Soviet literature and the general reader.