The Mystery of Olga ChekhovaThe Mystery of Olga Chekhova
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Book, 2004
Current format, Book, 2004, 1st American ed., No Longer Available.Book, 2004
Current format, Book, 2004, 1st American ed., No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsIn 1920, young Olga Chekhova, the beautiful niece of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, fled Moscow for BerlinÂtaking only a smuggled diamond ring. Olga quickly won both celebrity as an actress and prominence in the ranks of GermanyÂs Nazi party, eventually becoming HitlerÂs favorite actress. But was she really a sleeper agent recruited by her brother, Lev Knipper, to spy for the Russian NKVD?Antony BeevorÂs The Mystery of Olga Chekhovatells the extraordinary tale of how one family survived the Russian revolution, the civil war, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist terror, and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. In putting together this amazing story, Antony Beevor demonstrates how people survived under the terrible pressures of a totalitarian age. He reveals a confusion of courage, idealism, fear, self- sacrifice, opportunism, and betrayal. The most astonishing part of this truly epic tale is that both Olga and Lev would live through this most murderous era in modern history.
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