Olga Chekhova — a student of Stanislavsky, wife of the great Mikhail Chekhov, state actress of the Third Reich, clandestine agent for the Kremlin — was a legendary woman who lived an adventurous life.
In 1921 a young Russian beauty fled the many horrors of Bolshevik Moscow and an unhappy marriage for Berlin. Dressed as a peasant and close to penniless, travelling with nothing more than a diamond ...
Hitler admired her for her ""cosmopolitan sophistication,"" but Olga Chekhova, niece of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, was far too pragmatic to lose herself to the charms of a powerful man. Drawing ...
During the confused years which followed the collapse of Communism, I was always fascinated by the role of Russian women. While their menfolk sought consolation in the vodka bottle, the women kept ...
The Mystery of Olga Chekhova by Antony Beevor 300pp, Penguin, £16.99 Predicting the death of aristocratic Russia, if not the Russian revolution itself, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard is arguably the ...
Was Hitler's Favorite Actress a Russian Spy? By Antony Beevor Viking. 300 pp. $24.95 The British historian Antony Beevor, author of the best-selling "The Spanish Civil War," "The Fall of Berlin 1945" ...
Like novelists, those historians who get the job done right tell great stories. One of these is Antony Beevor, who, as both historian and novelist, displays in The Mystery of Olga Chekhova a ...
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