Deadly Love

11 hrs. 32 min.

Author Olga Kuchkina

Narrator Elizaveta Krupina

In the old Soviet times, the language said it as a matter of course: Lenin and Stalin. It was a legitimate—ideological—pair. The leaders’ private lives were sealed tight. Much later it turned out that each of them had their own partner—and not just one. Stalin had Alliluyeva and other women. Lenin had Krupskaya and Armand.

The book in front of you contains documentary love stories of the most famous people of the era: from Stalin to Gorbachev, from Marilyn Monroe to John Lennon, from Dostoevsky to Bunin, from Shostakovich to Tariverdiev.

Many of the people presented in the book worked in the genre of the novel. But the most interesting novels were their own lives.

Contents

Table of contents
From the author
THE KREMLIN BANQUET Stalin and Alliluyeva
THE TENANT Women of Stalin
WHITE HYACINTHS Lenin and Inessa Armand
THE FATE OF ISKANDER Alexander and Natalia Herzen
EXECUTION AT THE SCAFFOLD Fedor Dostoevsky
A GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE Anton Chekhov
THE SCENT OF RESEDA Ivan Bunin and Vera Muromtseva
SOUL AND PASSION Love triangle: Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Rilke
WIRES UNDER CURRENT Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya
ABOVE THE PINK SEA Georgy Ivanov and Irina Odoevtseva
THE MAGIC CIRCLE Yuri Olesha and the Suok sisters
CORRIDA Pablo Picasso and Olga Khokhlova
SEVEN GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE HEAD John Lennon and Yoko Ono
THE RED DIARY Marilyn Monroe
ASCETIC AND THE FOX Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner
“AND SULAMITH WAS LAUGHING…” Venedikt Erofeev and Natalya Shmelkova
OTHER SONGS Alexander and Angelina Galich
THE CROSS IN DIAMONDS Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev
A DREAM OF AN EMPTY APARTMENT Dmitry and Irina Shostakovich
NIKITSKY BOULEVARD Vladimir Maksimov and Irena Lesnevskaya
STAR COUNTRY Mikael Tariverdiev
WHAT TIME IS IT? Yuri Levitansky

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