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Exceptional Women : Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg
Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg
by Nina Berberova
The Baroness Budberg lived in the lap of luxury until the Bolshevik Revolution forced her to live by her wits. Mistress to Maxim Gorky and H.G. Wells, she was a woman of enormous intelligence and charmwhose deepest passion was undoubtedly mythologizing her own life. Before Berberova, one of the great novelists of the twentieth century, she lived in the Gorky household with Moura. In this legendary biography, she paints a portrait of the ultimate survivor.
Hardcover • 360 pp
 
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