“Your Letter Was Like a Song to My Ears…”wrote Svetlana Ivanova to Lev Mishchenko (About the Book “Just Send Me Word” by Orlando Figes, Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2012.

To comprehend this book about the relationship of two young Russian people who lived at that pre-war, war-time and post-war time, different in many ways, it is necessary to try to immerse at that time at least for a while, which myself I was a witness too but just a child. Svetlana Ivanova was born…

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