Oklianskii, Iurii Mikhailovich Nezhnyi, Aleksandr, preface.	Ostavshiesia v teni. Biograficheskie povesti o pisateliakh. M., 'Izvestiia', 1987. 638 p., portr., ill., 16 b/w plates.	€35,00

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8 vo, attractive publisher´s binding designed by N.Abakumov. Seventeen page preface by A.Nezhny on Iu.M.Oklianskii´s research. Revised and enlarged edition of 'Shumnoe zakholust´e', well researched monograph on Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, nicknamed by Joseph Stalin 'Nash sovetskii graf' and his mother Aleksandra Leont´evna Tolstaia (Bostrom). 'Povest´ o malen´´kom soldate' is a monograph on Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Emilie Charlotte Steffin (1908- 4 June 1941, Moscow) years in the USSR. Valuable new materials from Soviet archive on 'Das Wort'. Margarete Charlotte Steffin was a German actress and writer, one of Bertold Brecht's closest collaborators, as well as a prolific translator from Russian and Scandinavian languages. Born to a proletarian family, at the age of fourteen she went to work for the phone company but her interest in Social Democratic politics got her fired. She worked in publishing and agitprop theatre, and became secretary of the party's Lehreverband (1930) and worked at the Rote Revue. In 1931, she took a diction class from Brecht's wife Helene Weigel and became his lover. She was introduced to the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, playing a maid in Die Mutter (1932). Brecht's 1955 Collected Works names Steffin as the collaborator on Roundheads and Peakheads, Señora Carrar's Rifles and The Horatians and the Curiatians. In addition Brecht acknowledged her role in Fear and Misery in the Third Reich, Life of Galileo and Mother Courage.[1] She is also thought to have had a large hand in Mr Puntila and his Man Matti, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. See: Briefe an berühmte Männer, Europäische Verlags-Anstalt, Hamburg (1999), Konfutse versteht nichts von Frauen, Rowohlt, Berlin,1991 See also: John Fuegi: Brecht and Company: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama; Sabine Kebir (Ed.): Ich wohne fast so hoch wie er: Margarete Steffin und Bertolt Brecht. Theater der Zeit, Berlin, 15 December 2008; Oklianskii, Iu.M. Besputnyi klassik i Kentavr : A.N. Tolstoi i P.L. Kapitsa : angliiskii sled. M., 2009 and 'Burbonskaia liliia' grafa Alekseia Tolstogo : chetvertaia zhena M., 2007.