The Mystery of Olga Chekhova

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'Compelling ... as engaging a read as Stalingrad and Berlin Dávid Edgár, Guardian Olga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film actress who was closely associated with Hitler; she was alsó the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she was recruited by her composer brother Lev to work for Soviet intelligence. In return, her family were allowed to jóin her. The extraordinary story of how Olga and her relatives lived through the Russian Revolution, the Civil War, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist Terror and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union becomes, in Antony Beevor's hands, a breathtaking tale of compromise and survival in a merciless age. 'Beevor uses the story to evoke a world - the vague ideological borderlands of Nazism and Communism ... Exhibits Beevor's big-book knack: he can write excitingly yet with restraint, and never resorts to grand guignol to grip you' Felipe Fernández-Armesto, The Times 'An... Tovább

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'Compelling ... as engaging a read as Stalingrad and Berlin Dávid Edgár, Guardian Olga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film actress who was closely associated with Hitler; she was alsó the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she was recruited by her composer brother Lev to work for Soviet intelligence. In return, her family were allowed to jóin her. The extraordinary story of how Olga and her relatives lived through the Russian Revolution, the Civil War, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist Terror and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union becomes, in Antony Beevor's hands, a breathtaking tale of compromise and survival in a merciless age. 'Beevor uses the story to evoke a world - the vague ideological borderlands of Nazism and Communism ... Exhibits Beevor's big-book knack: he can write excitingly yet with restraint, and never resorts to grand guignol to grip you' Felipe Fernández-Armesto, The Times 'An extraordinary drama of exile and espionage? Boyd Tonkin, Independent Fascinating. An intricate, gracefully told and often moving social history of a talented family in times of revolution, civil war, dictatorship and world conflict' Rachel Polonsky, New Statesman Fascinates ... explores the shadowy, morally ambiguous world of the Russian émigré. Beevor lays out the story with the same precision, clarity and depth of research as his massive canvases' Donald Rayfield, Literary Review A true story that is dramatic, evocative and weil worth unearthing' Observer Vissza