The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova
A Military, European Literature, Literature book. Antony Beevor is best known as the writer of brilliant military histories...
Antony Beevor's The Mystery of Olga Chekhova is the true story of a family torn apart by revolution and war.Olga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film actress who Hitler counted among his friends; she was also the niece of 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...
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780670915200 / 670915203
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Antony Beevor is best known as the writer of brilliant military histories like Stalingrad, Berlin The Downfall, Ardennes and the Second World War. The Mystery of Olga Checkova shows he is equally adept at biography as he unravels the amazingly complex life of Chekov's niece whom we first meet in pre Revolutionary Russia and then during... This was a fascinating book. I loved reading about the Moscow Theater and all of the people that worked there and their adventures and trips abroad. The description of the book led me to believe that Olga was a spy, but there wasn't much about it. What exactly did she do? It tells more about what Lev did than anything else. But I read... Beevor is awful. He keeps on pop psychologizing and there's a kind of obviously misogynistic slant to it. I liked the material though.
