#andreyev

There were prettier women than she, there were wiser women, but was there ever a better woman? Did there ever exist a woman on whose face was so clearly and distinctly written that she alone was worthy of love—of infinite, pure, and devoted love?

                  —Leonid Andreyev, Love, Faith and Hope (trans. Brad K. Berner)

Photo: Leonid Andreyev and his first wife in 1905 - Saint Petersburg, Russia. He claimed to see his wife's ghost after she died in 1906. 

One of the authors who popped up as an option when I was considering what to read for 1925 was the Russian writer, Maxim Gorky. His novel, “The Artamonov Business”, was published in that year and I do have a copy lurking as a possible read. However, I noticed from a Fitzcarraldo newsletter that they were issuing a non-fiction work by Gorky, “Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev” – well,…