The Whisperers

1914. Right: Serafima with Sasha and Anton Ozemblovsky in 1937

116  Maria, Nadezhda and Ignatii Maksimov with Ignatii’s brother Anton, Arkhangelsk, 1934

119  The Uglitskikh family, Cherdyn, 1938

122  The Golovins’ bed from Obukhovo

135  Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 1940

140  Simonov ‘the proletarian’, 1933

147  The otlichniki of Class B, Pestovo School, 1936

148  Fania Laskina and Mikhail Voshchinsky, Moscow, 1932

149  The Laskin household in the Arbat

152  Left: Maiakovsky Metro Station, 1940. Right: Avtozavod Metro Station, 1940s

166  Left: Vladimir Makhnach, 1934. Right: Maria and Leonid, 1940s

168  From left: Anatoly Golovnia as Chekist, 1919; Liuba Golovnia, 1925; Boris Babitsky, 1932

170  Volik Babitsky and Liuba and Oksana Golovnia at the Kratovo dacha, 1935

176  The Khaneyevsky household

178  Communal apartment (‘corridor system’), 1930–64

182  The Reifshneiders’ room in the Third House of Soviets, Moscow

199  Simonov in 1936

206  Teachers and students of the Law Department of the Communist Academy in Leningrad, 1931

209  Zina and Pavel Vittenburg at the Kem labour camp, 1931

212  Pavel Vittenburg in his office, Vaigach labour camp, 1934

217  ‘Papa’s Corner’. Drawing by Mikhail Stroikov, 1935

220  The Poloz family, 1934

222  Letter (extract) from Tatiana Poloz to Rada, 12 June 1935

225  Nikolai and Elena (‘Alyona’) Kondratiev, 1926

226  Nikolai Kondratiev, ‘The Unusual Adventures of Shammi’ (detail)

229  Osip and Julia Piatnitsky with their sons and neighbours’ children at their dacha near Moscow, late 1920s

232  Osip Piatnitsky at the Seventh Congress of the Comintern, Moscow, 1935

247  Ida Slavina and her parents, 1937

266  The Malygin house in Sestroretsk, 1930s

288  The Nikitin and Turkin apartments, Perm

291  Gulchira Tagirova and her children, 1937

299  Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko with his wife Sofia and stepdaughter Valentina, 1936

317  Angelina and Nelly Bushueva, 1937

321  The house in Ak-Bulak where Elena Lebedeva lived with her granddaughters, Natalia and Elena Konstantinova, 1940s

322  Elena Lebedeva with her granddaughters, Natalia and Elena Konstantinova, Ak-Bulak, 1940

323  Veronika Nevskaia and her great-aunt Maria, Kirov region, 1939

325  Inna Gaister with her sisters Valeriia and Natalia, Moscow, 1939

328  Oleg and Natasha Vorobyov, 1940

330  Left: Mikhail Mironov. Right: extract from a letter to his mother

332  Zoia Arsenteva, Khabarovsk, 1941

334  Marksena Karpitskaia, Leningrad, 1941

337  Girls from Orphanage No. 1, Dnepropetrovsk, 1940

346  ‘On Land and Sea and in the Sky’ gymnastic demonstration, 1938

351  Elizaveta Delibash, 1949

355  Physics teacher Dmitry Streletsky with schoolboys of the seventh class in the Chermoz ‘special settlement’, September 1939

357  Left: Zinaida Bushueva with her brothers, 1936. Right: Zinaida in the ALZhIR labour camp, 1942

359  Children at ALZhIR, 1942

361  Embroidered towel (detail) made by Dina Ielson-Grodzianskaia for her daughter Gertrud in the ALZhIR labour camp

365  Ketevan Orakhelashvili with Sergei Drozdov and their son Nikolai, Karaganda

370  Zhenia Laskina and Konstantin Simonov on their honeymoon in the Crimea, 1939

375  Valentina Serova, 1940

389  Natalia Gabaeva with her parents, 1934

391  Anastasia with Marianna and Georgii Fursei, Arkhangelsk, 1939

403  Serova and Simonov on tour, Leningrad Front, 1944

406  Aleksei and Konstantin Simonov, 1944

407  Simonov in 1941

409  Simonov in 1943

425  Ivan Bragin and his family, 1937

451  Antonina Mazina with her daughter Marina and Marina Ilina, Chimkent, 1944

456  The Bushuev ‘corner’ room in the communal apartment at 77 Soviet Street, Perm, 1946–8

474  Inna Gaister with two friends at Moscow University, 1947

476  Nelly and Angelina Bushueva, 1953

477  Leonid Saltykov, 1944

481  Valentina Kropotina and her husband, Viktor, 1952

483  Simonov in 1946

495  Fadeyev at the Writers’ Union, 22 December 1948

500  Aleksandr Borshchagovsky, 1947

504  Simonov at the Congress of Soviet Writers in the Belorussian