Imennoi ukazatel' - Gromova Natal'ia

Natalia Gromova is a prose historian and literary historian from the 1920s and 1950s. He is the author of the documentary books Knot. Poets. Friendship. Breaks," "Breaking Up. The fate of Soviet critics in the 40s - 50s, "The Key. Last Moscow, "Olga Bergholz: There was no death" and others.
The book "The Pointer" contains and exciting archival investigations, and personal memories, and recordings of conversations. Natalia Gromova finds out who is the Chekist in Marina Tsvetaeva's essay "The House of Old Pimen" and where dove's house was located, where Daniil Andreev lived before his arrest; tells about the playwright Alexander Volodin, the mysterious Italian journalist Malapartand and his acquaintance with Mikhail Bulgakov; recalls how the Soviet Encyclopedia created a unique dictionary of Russian writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, "not allowed circularly, but not forbidden quite."
"Sometimes the book is taken into hand only for the sake of one name. And suddenly the link reveals a connection between the characters who were not to meet either in life or in the book, but suddenly crossed. It is like a map of the starry sky, where the baptisms of fate are taking place."
Natalia Gromova