The Woman of a Thousand Names by Alexandra Lapierre

Author:Alexandra Lapierre [Lapierre, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781501197932
Google: Or-eDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2020-03-30T23:00:00+00:00

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She was trapped.

And this time, she was trapped for life.

In the end, General Knox and Captain Hicks had all been exactly right. She had become what they had all accused her of being. A spy. An informant. A snitch in the pay of the Cheka.

Or, in the slang of those who had been betrayed and arrested, a seksot. A secret collaborator.

* * *

But she had no choice. She had to please, she had to lie, she had to survive.

At the same moment, while she was locked up and Yakov Peters was making his way to Grigory Zinoviev’s residence in Petrograd, the Cheka was executing sixty-seven people in the Lubyanka and twenty-nine on Gorokhovaya Street. The majority of them were university professors, scholars, and members of the intelligentsia.

In September 1919, Moura’s friend, the great literary critic Korney Chukovsky, wrote in his diary:

I’ve just seen Gorky crying.… I followed him… to ask for his help with Maria Benkendorf (my assistant at the Studio), who has also been arrested. He started in on a long reply, but it disintegrated into gesticulations. “What can I do?” he finally managed to come out with. “I told the bastards—I mean, the bastard Zinoviev—that if [my friend] wasn’t released this very minute I’d make a scandal. I’d break with them, with the Communists, for good, damn them!” His eyes were moist.

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