Moura

Autor*innen

• Nina Berberova

Parameter

• 404 Seiten
• 15 Lesestunden

• Autobiografien und Memoiren
• Biografien
• Geschichte
• Russland
• Sachliteratur

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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

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Einband: Hardcover