@esterbagi and she clearly still has feelings for him which she hides by being rude + he is loyal as fuck,
wouldn't call it 'gem' but the dynamic is interesting
(i would however argue that lisa x nikolai is even better because intensity of spider quote almost cant be topped)
eisenstein pioneered this before the internet, honing his english reading gay novels, hanging out/corresponding with gays, and using english in notes/letters he didn't want soviet surveillance to understand