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“The closer, the more friendly and more confidently my relationship with Akhmatova became, the more often and more definite she mentioned about "sir", the more concrete and more clearly his image was formed in the story that happened to them. He appeared in the fall of 1945 ... He was a foreigner - in the country, covered by spy -omania. He was Russian, born in Riga ... He was a Jew. He was a European ... He was an Englishman. He was a Western intellectual ... His last name was Berlin ... His name was Isaiah, a powerful name ...
... This man, Isaiah Berlin, was, as he himself said at our acquaintance, neither one nor the other ". Not a philosopher and not a philologist. Not a historian. Not a literary critic. Not a researcher, not a political scientist, not ethics. Not a poet. In a word, a typical "non-mathematician" ...
... Akhmatova told me that my uncle Lev died in Moscow with her death. That there was a small necrologist in the Evening Moscow - that he was in order. He was arrested when all these Jewish doctors were arrested. And they sent to prison, of course, and tortured. He did not sign anything. He did not sign, did not sign - then they used some incredible torture that they had never tried before. He probably still signed something. He stayed there, then he returned near Khrushchev. He was rehabilitated. He walked around, I don’t know, some Moscow street, saw on the other side of the street, on the sidewalk, the man who tortured him. He had a heart seizure, and two weeks after that he died ... "
Anatoly Nayman
... This man, Isaiah Berlin, was, as he himself said at our acquaintance, neither one nor the other ". Not a philosopher and not a philologist. Not a historian. Not a literary critic. Not a researcher, not a political scientist, not ethics. Not a poet. In a word, a typical "non-mathematician" ...
... Akhmatova told me that my uncle Lev died in Moscow with her death. That there was a small necrologist in the Evening Moscow - that he was in order. He was arrested when all these Jewish doctors were arrested. And they sent to prison, of course, and tortured. He did not sign anything. He did not sign, did not sign - then they used some incredible torture that they had never tried before. He probably still signed something. He stayed there, then he returned near Khrushchev. He was rehabilitated. He walked around, I don’t know, some Moscow street, saw on the other side of the street, on the sidewalk, the man who tortured him. He had a heart seizure, and two weeks after that he died ... "
Anatoly Nayman
Author:
Author:Niman A.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Humor & Entertainment
- Category:Fiction
Paper:
Paper:White
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-94663-697-1
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