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“... and excellent – introduction to a new edition of Pasternak’s verse. Then, under the pseudonym Abram Tertz, he began to publish fiction in the West; he was arrested, together with his friend Yuly Daniel in 1965, and after a famous trial, sentenced to seven years’ hard labour for ‘anti-Soviet agitation’. In prison camp he wrote Strolls with ...”

“... of Sarov, Artorkhanov’s The Riddle of Stalin’s Death – but she never mentions the Adam Tertz novels of Andrei Sinavsky. In Goodnight Sinyavsky, still in Paris, to which he was allowed to emigrate in 1973, gives what is perhaps the last of his judgments on himself. This is said to be an autobiographical novel, and Richard Lourie, in his ...”

“... her dangerously disloyal Requiem was being published in Munich; Sinyavsky was being exposed as Abram Tertz and sent to a camp; and her half-hearted rehabilitation, after the spectacular denunciation by Zhdanov just after the war, was shaky at best. I set the notes aside and forgot about them. To have written about Akhmatova then would have imperilled ...”