FW: Question about Pavel Vasilyevich Aksyonov.

[Katz, Michael]

> A colleague of mine in our physics department recently read "Journey Into the Whirlwind" and "Within the Whirlwind" by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg.  In "Journey into the Whirlwind" Ginzburg conveys the impression that she believed her (first) husband, Pavel Vasilyevich Aksyonov, had died during the 18 year period in which she was in prison, in hard labor camps, and stripped of her civil rights.  During that period she met a doctor whom she later married (second husband).  In "Within the Whirlwind", on p. 397 of the 1982 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich edition, she writes of her first husband, Aksyonov: "We now knew for sure that my first husband was alive."  That is all.
> 
> Does anyone know the full story of what happened to Aksyonov?  Did Ginzburg ever speak or meet with Aksyonov after her "rehabilitation"?  Has someone written of this somewhere?  If so, can you supply a literature reference?
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> 
Michael Katz
mkatz at middlebury.edu

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