“I started working on“ Children of the Arbat ”at the very end of the 50s.
The novel was first announced in 1966 in Novy Mir magazine. AT Tvardovsky really wanted to publish it, I heard many kind words from him, but I could not do it. The second time «Children of the Arbat» was announced by «October», it was already 1978, but this also ended in failure. And the work continued. AT Tvardovsky had in his hands only the first part of the novel, then, when it became clear that it was not possible to publish Children of the Arbat, I began to work on the second part, and when the novel was “closed” for the second time, I wrote its third part. Nobody believed that Children of the Arbat would ever be published, even my greatest friend, my wife, didn’t believe, and I didn’t stop: all things must be completed. «
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