The mystery of Olga Chekhova

Looks at the life and career of Olga Chekhova, the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov, who fled Russia for Berlin in 1920, achieved fame as an actress and a position in Germany's Nazi party, and may have been an agent for the Soviet NKVD.

  • OCLC #: 55145880
  • ISBN #:
    • 0670033405
    • 9780670033409
    • 0670915203
    • 9780670915200
  • Call #: PN2728.T8M95 2004
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Main Shelves — PN2728 .T8 M95 2004
  • Personal Collection:
    • The Parrish Collection on Soviet History.
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, 2004.
  • Physical Description: xvi, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
  • Contents:
    • Machine derived contents note: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
    • MAP
    • DRAMATIS PERSONAE
    • 1. The Cherry Orchard of Victory
    • 2. Knippers and Chekhovs
    • 3. Mikhail Chekhov
    • 4. Misha and Olga
    • 5. The Beginning of a Revolution
    • 6. The End of a Marriage
    • 7. Frost and Famine
    • 8. Surviving the Civil War
    • 9. The Dangers of Exile
    • 10. The Far-Flung Family
    • 11. The Early 19205 in Moscow and Berlin
    • 12. Home Thoughts from Abroad
    • 13. The End of Political Innocence
    • 14. The Totalitarian Years
    • 15. The Great Terror
    • 16. Enemy Aliens
    • 17. Moscow 1941
    • 18. A Family Divided by War
    • 19. Berlin and Moscow 1945
    • 20. Return to Berlin
    • 21. After the War
    • OLGA CHEKHOVA'S FILMS
    • REFERENCES
    • SOURCE NOTES
    • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    • INDEX.
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