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Moura - The Dangerous Life Of The Baroness Budberg (Hardcover) Loot Price: R564
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Moura - The Dangerous Life Of The Baroness Budberg (Hardcover)

Nina Berberova; Translated by Marian Schwartz, Richard D Sylvester

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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 emigres. 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.

General

Imprint: New York Review of Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2005
First published: June 2005
Authors: Nina Berberova
Translators: Marian Schwartz • Richard D Sylvester
Dimensions: 211 x 148 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-137-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 1-59017-137-3
Barcode: 9781590171370

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