| Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg Contributor(s): Berberova, Nina (Author), Schwartz, Marian (Translator), Sylvester, Richard D. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1590171373 ISBN-13: 9781590171370 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2005 Annotation: Translated into English for the first time, this is a portrait of the Baroness Budberg, who was intimately involved in the Lockhart affair--a conspiracy which almost brought down the fledgling Soviet state--and also a mistress to Maxim Gorky and then to H.G. Wells. B&W photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005000248 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.84" W x 8.3" (1.22 lbs) 404 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |