tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20990868.post1689639014457562550..comments2024-01-29T10:50:15.619-08:00Comments on Modern Americans: Larkin's DARCrodney khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10515711262628729312noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20990868.post-62733121326047354182010-06-24T10:16:51.749-07:002010-06-24T10:16:51.749-07:00Late-breaking P.S.: Artaud's famously in "...Late-breaking P.S.: Artaud's famously in "The Passion of Joan of Arc," but I just read in Simon Karlinsky's bio of her that Marina Tsvetaeva's husband, Sergei Efron, also played an extra.<br /><br />Sergei, who fought with the pro-Czarist Whites in the 1917-1922 civil war in Russia, fled to Prague, then Paris, where over the course of the '20s he drifted to a pro-Soviet position, not totally uncommon among the political refugees of the Russian diaspora, that first put him in the employ of the Cheka, then repatriated him to the Soviet Union in the '30s, where he eventually ran afoul of Stalin's agents (everyone did) and died in a camp.rodney khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10515711262628729312noreply@blogger.com