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15 famous writers, whose real names few people remember
Very often creative people prefer to use their real names in public life. For some, this is a way to divide activities, for others – the opportunity not to put on public display their lives. There are also those to whom real names seem less euphonious than aliases. In our today’s review we offer to know the real names of famous writers.
Boris Akunin
His real name Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili uses exclusively for the publication of scientific works on Japanese studies and literary criticism, as well as critical articles. There are two pseudonyms under which the works of the writer are published: Anatoly Brusnikin and Anna Borisova. Continue reading
Red Mata Hari: Why do the archives of the intelligence services about a friend of Maxim Gorky and Hg wells kept secret until now
She wasn’t beautiful, but men were crazy about her. Maria Zakrevskaya skillfully hid some facts of her past and shrouded in the fog of mystery of the present. She was in a close relationship with Maxim Gorky and Herbert wells, deftly out of any scrapes, was able to survive in the revolutionary grinder. Documents on the activities of Maria Zakrevskaya-Benkendorf-Budberg are still kept in the archives of Russian and British intelligence under the heading “Secret”.
Mystery of birth
In the 1920-ies, it seemed that this woman was known to many. It was said that she was the heir of Agrafena Zakrevskaya, Countess and recognized beauty, who inspired Pushkin, Vyazemsky and Baratynsky. Continue reading
