Chance Encounters: Anastasia Tsvetaeva, the Nabokovs, French Evenings

Yury Gurfinkel is a well-known doctor, writer, and author of the book “Unlikely Encounters.” The book tells about his close acquaintance with the Tsvetaev family and other famous figures of the 20th century. It includes conversations reconstructed from memory, impressions from trips, and unique photographs. Anastasia Tsvetaeva calls Yury a most valuable and rare phenomenon, because he combines service as a reanimator doctor with literary work—never missing a minute of reality, and at the same time listening to the melody of fairy-tale.