Moura : the dangerous life of the Baroness Budberg / by Nina Berberova ; translated by Marian Schwartz and Richard D. Sylvester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berberova, N. (Nina)

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Zheleznai͡a zhenshchina. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Budberg, Moura.

Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936.

Gorky, Maksim.

Soviet Union--Biography.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

360 xxi, pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2005]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The beginnings

Love and prison

The struggle

Italian intermezzo

The deal

Survival.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-309) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1590171373

OCLC:

57405344