The Mystery of Olga Chekhova

New York: Viking, 2004. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x8. First American edition. Security tag on jacket reverse. 2004 Hard Cover. xvi, 300 pp. A noted historian sheds new light on the life and career of Olda Chekhova, the beautiful niece of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, who fled Russia for Berlin in 1920, achieved fame as an actress and a prominent position in Germany's Nazi party, and may have been a sleeper agent for the Soviet NKVD.