摘录还透露出这对鸳鸯的家人是如此的不幸——茂文的父亲因反对这一婚姻关系而疏远儿子,柳德米拉的父亲因客死古拉格(劳动改造营总管理局)而永别爱女——以致双方似乎可如此恰好地相偎相依。
They also show how the couple 's unhappy families - Mervyn 's father is absent because he disliked his relations , Lyudmila 's because he died in the Gulag - made them seem to match each other so neatly .