Great Couples

THIS MATERIAL INFORMATION IS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND OR SENT BY DMITRY BYKOV, WHO IS A FOUNDER, MEMBER, PARTICIPANT, HEAD OR PERSON INCLUDED IN THE COMPOSITION OF THE BODY OF PERSONS SPECIFIED IN PART 4 OF ARTICLE 9 OF THE FEDERAL... LAW ON CONTROL OVER THE ACTIVITIES OF PERSONS UNDER FOREIGN INFLUENCE, INCLUDED IN THE REGISTER OF FOREIGN AGENTS. I do not know if there is always a great woman behind a great man, but almost every great creator, regardless of gender, has a unique love story behind them. Sometimes for a lifetime. Most often tragic. Yet happy, for genius is the only partner with whom you are guaranteed not to be bored. This book gathers the stories of couples who became symbols of creative collaboration, mutual torment, or spiritual closeness. Not all of them were related to art, but all these people became heroes of remarkable works. Sometimes they inspired each other, sometimes they destroyed each other. But each couple wrote a unique chapter in the global grammar of love that humanity continues to add to and reread. DMITRY BYKOV Leo Tolstoy and Sofia Andreevna ¦ Turgenev and Polina Viardo ¦ Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya ¦ Blok and Lyubov Mendeleeva ¦ Akhmatova and Gumilev ¦ Tsvetaeva and Efron ¦ Mandelstam and Nadezhda Kazina ¦ Pasternak and Zinaida Neigauz ¦ Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius ¦ Bunin and Vera Muromtseva ¦ Schwartz and Ekaterina Ivanovna ¦ Zabolotsky ¦ Alexei Tolstoy and Natalia Krandieva ¦ Gorky and Maria Andreeva ¦ Andrei Bely and Asya Turgeneva ¦ Khodasevich and Nina Berberova ¦ Bryusov and Nina Petrovskaya ¦ Kapler and Yulia Drunina ¦ Nikolai Erdman and Lina Stepanova ¦ Bonnie and Clyde ¦ Elem Klimov and Larisa Shepitko ¦ Simonov and Valentina Serova ¦ Bernard Shaw and Patrick Campbell IN The Lectern Direct Speech, outstanding scholars, writers, actors, and science popularizers perform every day. For many years now, the calling card of Direct Speech has been Dmitry Bykov's lectures on literature. Now they are available in book form. The collection is based on transcripts of Dmitry Bykov's speeches, as well as his