by Nina Berberova · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782868692443
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«Histoire de la baronne Boudberg» is the biography of Baroness Boudberg, by Nina Berberova, in paperback (Actes Sud, 350 pages, in French).
Moura Boudberg, a Russian aristocrat, was Gorky's companion for twelve years and Wells's for thirteen, as well as an Anglo-Soviet double agent. Berberova, who lived with her for three years in the 1920s, portrays her as a figure between Mata-Hari and Lou Andréas-Salomé; the work spans half a century of Russian and English intellectual and political life.
Work translated from Russian, with a biographical index of cited figures (pages 319-347). Edition published in 1993.
For readers of biographies and twentieth-century history interested in exile Russia and its singular female figures.
Nina Nikolayevna Berberova was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of anti-communist Russian refugees in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia. Her 1965 revision of the Constance Garnett translation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina with Leonard J. Kent was considered by the academic Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit to be the best translation before 2000.
