"Easy Money" and Family Firms. How Much Did Writers Earn in the BSSR?

"Easy Money" and Family Firms. How Much Did Writers Earn in the BSSR?

Legends circulated in the USSR about the fortunes of top Soviet writers. About Sholokhov, for example, two stories are immediately recalled. The first concerns a private helicopter. The second — a piano. Sholokhov did not know how to play the instrument, but used it as a "safe" for cash. The money was allegedly counted by his assistant, who regularly "duped" the classic...