“It's not in my power -- or anyone's -- to judge and review memoirs. I suspected that I would disagree with a lot of things I'd find inside. I knew, for example, that Gippius, and particularly her spouse, Merezhkovsky, supported the invasion of USSR by Hitler -- obviously they preferred "brown" plague to the "red" one, perhaps failing to see the consequences. And while I've got little sympathy to bolsheviks, the allure of supporting Hitler is lost on me. The intro to this book promised, however, deep psychological portraits of other people involved.
Deeply hidden portraits, perhaps, because I failed to find them. Bits of pretentiousness, perhaps. And, surprisingly, rather weird greetings of the February revolution. Just another narrative of events from a person who's not happy with how things are, but doesn't really feel how things should be. It started to annoy me so much that I couldn't even read all the way through.”
Yukino B. wrote this review Tuesday, April 28 2009.
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