Donald Rayfield

Donald Rayfield who has published books on Chekhov and Przhevalsky, is head of the Department of Russian at Queen Mary College, London.

Letter

Did anything happen at Yalta?

20 February 1997

Donald Rayfield writes: Patrick Miles is right to point up one slip in my text: I meant to say that Anton had not seen Olga since the autumn after their honeymoon (not that this invalidates my point). The documentary evidence for Olga having conceived extramaritally does, however, add up to more than innuendo.20 August 1901: Olga Knipper leaves Anton in Yalta and goes to Moscow.17 September 1901: Anton...

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A Snack before I Die

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Walter Kendrick, 5 September 1985

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