Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
A British art historian married a Russian curator who had survived the siege of Leningrad as a child. Their novelist son-in-law reconstructs the marriage from letters.
Iain Pears tells the story of his parents-in-law: Francis Haskell, the British art historian, and Larissa Salmina, a Russian curator who survived the siege of Leningrad as a child. A marriage conducted across the Iron Curtain, reconstructed from letters and from Larissa own account, given in old age when she had stopped minding what anyone thought.
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Tyler Cowen
A delightful story/indirect memoir, telling the tale of the lives and marriage of Francis Haskell, the British art historian, and Larissa Salmina Haskell, a Russian woman who survived the siege of Leningrad as a girl.
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