Natalja Sharandak was born in Kiev. She studied art history at the Russian Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. She had been living in Berlin, where she works as a freelance author, since 1992.
Natalja Sharandak was born in Kiev. She studied art history at the Russian Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. She had been living in Berlin, where she works as a freelance author, since 1992.
As a young man, shy and self-conscious, Dostoevsky only met his first wife when he was in his early thirties: Maria Isaeva. »Despite the fact that we were rather unhappy together,« remembers the writer after her death, »we still could not stop loving one another.« Even while Maria was still alive, he began a passionate affair with Polina Suslova, who became the model for his »infernal« female...