Name index

Natalya Gromova-prose writer, literature historian of the 1920s-1950s. The author of documentary books “Knot. Poets. Friendship. Gaps ”,“ Disconnection. The fate of Soviet criticism in the 40s-50s ”,“ Key. Last Moscow ”,“ Olga Bergholz: There was no death and not ”, etc.

The book“ The Name Index ”contains exciting archival investigations, and personal memories, and records of conversations. Natalya Gromova finds out who the security officer is in the essay of Marina Tsvetaeva “House at the Old Pimen” and where there was a Dobrov house, in which Daniil Andreev lived before the arrest; tells about the playwright Alexander Volodin, about the mysterious Italian journalist Malapart and his acquaintance with Mikhail Bulgakov; He recalls how the unique dictionary of Russian writers of the XIX - early XX centuries was created in the “Soviet Encyclopedia”, “not permitted circularly, but not forbidden quite quite”.