Eldar Ryazanov. Let's talk about the strangeness of love.

What stormy, incredible passions boiled in the souls of people whose names we sometimes associate only with the Russian liberation movement (Herzen and Ogarev), with scientific genius (Albert Einstein), with the literature of socialist realism (Maxim Gorky).
The love stories told in Eldar Ryazanov's novellas sometimes seem fantastical, but they were real. This book is about the loves of famous figures, including Dostoevsky, Savva Morozov, Alexander Grin, Boris Pasternak, and Salvador Dalí, and the remarkable women they met along the way.