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I was said in Moscow that the sublime
Ludmila was actually the author of her
husband’s books -those of the good
period in any case, when science-fiction
rhymed with Revolution. Aelita is the
best known of those, thanks to the
film by Protazanov. Alexei Tolstoy
would later become a Stalinist writer
enjoying the highest honors, the kind
It’s not good to attack. Slapped in the
face by Mandelstam, he complained to
Gorky, who declared: « We’ll teach
him not to strike Russian writers! »
Mandelstam was arrested soon
afterwards; if it’s a coincidence, it’s
an unfortunate one… But in the
KGB archives one finds letters from a
Writer’s Union informer who brags of
denouncing a traitor whose crime was
to « discredit the famous Soviet writer
A. N. Tolstoy. »