Raisa Davydovna Orlova-Kopeleva (russian: Раи́са Давы́довна Орло́ва-Ко́пелева, 23 July 1918, Moscow – 31 May 1989,

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) was a Russian writer and

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scholar. She was the second wife of

Lev Kopelev Lev Zalmanovich (Zinovyevich) Kopelev (russian: Лев Залма́нович (Зино́вьевич) Ко́пелев, German: Lew Sinowjewitsch Kopelew, 9 April 1912, Kyiv – 18 June 1997, Cologne) was a Soviet author and dissident. Early ...

Selected works

;Books *''Die Türen öffnen sich langsam'' (1984), Двери открываются медленно (1994) *''Memoirs'' (USA 1983), ''Eine Vergangenheit, die nicht vergeht. Rückblicke aus fünf Jahrzehnten'' (1985), Воспоминания о непрошедшем времени (Moscow 1993) *''Briefe aus Köln über Bücher aus Moskau'' (1987) *''Als die Glocke verstummte;

Alexander Herzen Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен, translit=Alexándr Ivánovich Gértsen; ) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agra ...

s letztes Lebensjahr'' (1988) *''Warum ich lebe'' (1990. posthumous) ;With

: * ''Boris Pasternak. „Bild der Welt im Wort“'' (1986) * ''Wir lebten in Moskau'' (1987), Мы жили в Москве (1) (USA 1988, Moscow 1990) * ''Zeitgenossen, Meister, Freunde'' (1989), Мы жили в Москве (2) * ''Wir lebten in Köln. Aufzeichnungen und Erinnerungen'' (1996), Мы жили в Кёльне (2003) ;Articles *

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* 1918 births 1989 deaths Writers from Moscow Russian women writers 20th-century women writers 20th-century Russian writers Soviet dissidents 20th-century Russian women {{russia-writer-stub

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