Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg by Berberova, Nina

Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781590171370)

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Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg by Berberova, Nina

Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg

$24.95
Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg by Berberova, Nina

Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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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 migr s. 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.

Author: Nina Berberova
ISBN-10: 1590171373
ISBN-13: 9781590171370
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2005
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.84w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 48
Booklist 06/01/2005 pg. 1743
By Nina Berberova
By Nina Berberova
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Nina Berberova (1901-1993) was born in St. Petersburg. She and her companion Vladislav Khodasevich, later described by Vladimir Nabokov as the "greatest Russian poet of our time," lived in the household of Maxim Gorky for some years before emigrating to Paris. Khodasevich died in 1939, and in 1950 Berberova moved to the United States, where she taught herself English and worked as a clerk before becoming a professor of Russian literature at Princeton in 1963. In 1985, the novellas Berberova had written in the 1930s about Russian 駑igr駸 living in Paris were rediscovered by Hubert Nyssen, the director of the French publishing house Actes Sud, who began a program of reissuing her works, which include The Ladies from St. Petersburg, The Tattered Cloak, The Book of Happiness, The Accompanist, and an autobiography, The Italics Are Mine.

Marian Schwartz has been translating Russian fiction and nonfiction for over thirty years. Her work includes Edvard Radzinsky's The Last Tsar, Yuri Olesha's Envy, and many works by Nina Berberova.

Richard D. Sylvester is Professor Emeritus of Russian at Colgate. His writings about Russian poetry include essays on Khodasevich and Brodsky, and Tchaikovsky's Complete Songs: A Companion with Texts and Translations published by Indiana University Press.

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