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Photo of an array of handwritten letters with a snapshot of Einstein and Margarita Konenkova. Photo: Getty Images.

Einstein’s Love Affair at Princeton

Posted by: Neely Tucker

The Library has six letters that Albert Einstein wrote to Margarita Konenkova, a Russian national with whom he had a passionate, late-in-life affair while he was at Princeton. Einstein was a widower, Konekova was married to a famous Russian sculptor. The affair was not revealed until 1994. The letters, our staff experts write, mix Einstein’s humanity with his genius.