About the book: 2018 / Vyacheslav Nedoshivin - writer, author of the books "Addresses of Love. Houses and households of Russian literature. Moscow, St. Petersburg, Paris" and "Walks through the Silver Age. Saint Petersburg". For many years – from a dissertation on dystopias in 1985 to articles in scientific collections and magazines (“Foreign Literature”) – I studied the work of George Orwell and translations of his works. “George Orwell. The Unapproachable Soul” is not only a detailed biography of the English classic, not just a fascinating story about his life and books, about his views and his era, but also, in a sense, his first “Russian portrait”. About the Russian woman with whom he was in love, about the emigrant officer from Russia who saved him in Paris, and about his front-line friend from St. Petersburg, who, on the contrary, was saved in Spain by Orwell himself, about the writer’s diaries that disappeared in the basements of the Lubyanka, and about correspondence with the USSR, which was made public only in the nineties... The book is illustrated with unique photographs from the writer’s London archive, many of which are published in Russia for the first time.