Vozvratnaya Goryachka: Stories about Russian Writers of the 19th Century - Paperback

by Irina Chaykovskaya (Author)

This book is about Russian writers of the 19th century and their wives and girlfriends. In particular, the short stories and novels talk about Alexander Pushkin and his wife Natalie; Ivan Turgenev and the women he loved (Pauline Viardot, Varvara Bogdanovich, Maria Markovich); Alexander Herzen and his wife Natalie, Vissarion Belinsky, his wife and Sasha Bakunina; Nekrasov and Avdotya Panaeva. In many stories, it is the woman who becomes the main character. The author shows a female point of view on events that were previously described by male writers.