Olga Bergholz: There Was No Death and There Is No Death — Nataliya Gromova

About this book

Olga Bergholz’s diaries were the memorandum of a Soviet person reflecting on two realities, two truths: one is political and the other is private. And throughout her life, Bergholz tried to overcome the growing chasm between her external and internal world, between belief in a made-up idea and the revelation of a terrible frightful reality. The book follows her life through the pages of her transcript, unravelling her fate and proclaiming that how painfully she tried to transcend her own time: from being a Soviet person to just a simple person, from being a Soviet poet to just a poet.