Moura by Nina Berberova
Baroness Maria Ignatievna Zakrevskaya Benckendorff Budberg hailed from the Russian aristocracy and lived in the lap of luxury--until the Bolshevik Revolution forced her to live by her wits. Thereafter her existence was a story of connivance and stratagem, a succession of unlikely twists and turns. Intimately involved in the mysterious Lockhart affair, a conspiracy which almost brought down the fledgling Soviet state, mistress to Maxim Gorky and then to H.G. Wells, Moura was a woman of enormous energy, intelligence, and charm whose deepest passion was undoubtedly the mythologization of her own life.Recognized as one of the great masters of Russian twentieth-century fiction, Nina Berberova here proves again that she is the unsurpassed chronicler of the lives of Soviet émigrés. In Moura Budberg, a woman who shrouded the facts of her life in fiction, Berberova finds the ideal material from which to craft a triumph of literary portraiture, a book as engaging and as full of life and incident as any one of her celebrated novels.
Nina Nikolaevena Berberova was born in St. Petersburg in 1901 and died in 1993. Petersburg is a city in Russia. After the revolution in Russia in 1922, she moved to Paris with her lover Vladislav Khodasevich in 1925. She relocated to the United States. In 1950, he went to Yale and Princeton to teach. She was made a Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters in France.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781590171370 |
| ISBN 10 | 1590171373 |
| Title | Moura |
| Author | Nina Berberova |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Year published | 2005-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 404 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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