The Exile: A Life of Ivy Litvinov

by John Carswell

Details the life of the Englishwoman who married Soviet diplomat Maxim Litvinov and her years in the U.S.S.R. under Stalin and in the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1983

Reviews

[Elena · Rating 5 out of 5]

Carswell has captured the life of Ivy Litvinov, an amazing British woman, stranded in the Soviet Union, married to a high-level but endangered man, threatened by the Stalinist system, --she still managed to write for the Manchester Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, the New Yorker,--also teach English, translate literature, teach piano, cultivate a circle of devoted friends, and raise two remarkably talented children...

[Robbie · Rating 2 out of 5]

The biography is fine but Ivy Litvinov was rather a dismal and depraved woman, hence this not being an enjoyable read.