Ursula Keller studied slavic studies and German philology; she visited Russia many times for research purposes. She lives in Berlin where she works as an author and freelance translator.
Ursula Keller studied slavic studies and German philology; she visited Russia many times for research purposes. She lives in Berlin where she works as an author and freelance translator.
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...