The Ladies from St. Petersburg: Three Novellas Nina Berberova, Author, Marian Schwartz, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $ (p) ISBN . The three short stories - or novellas as they are called - in "The Ladies from St. Petersburg" study the lives of people have lost their home during the revolution. The stories glitter with nuance and must be read several times to get to visual and dramatic richness/5. Nina Nikolaevena Berberova () was born in St. Petersburg. She left Russia after the revolution in , eventually settling in Paris in with her lover Vladislav Khodasevich. She left Russia after the revolution in , eventually settling in Paris in with her lover Vladislav Khodasevich/5(9).
Berberova, Nina Nikolaevna (b. 8 August in Saint Petersburg, Russia; d. 26 September in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Russian émigré writer whose autobiography, The Italics Are Mine (), chronicled nearly a century of intellectual life in tsarist Russia, the early Soviet Union, and exile in www.doorway.ruova was the only child of Nikolai Ivanovich Berberov, an Armenian civil. Nina Berberova () was born in St. Petersburg. She and her companion Vladislav Khodasevich, later described by Vladimir Nabokov as the "greatest Russian poet of our time," lived in the household of Maxim Gorky for some years before emigrating to Paris. Khodasevich died in , and in Berberova moved to the United States, where she taught herself English and worked as a clerk. "The Ladies From St. Petersburg" covers a great swath of time and History, which it is recounted in so few pages, and feels so complete when read is remarkable. The main event is not new or unique, however Ms. Berberova adds a circumstance that takes a routine if unhappy event, and makes it almost grotesque.
''The Ladies from St. Petersburg'' is a very slight book, but it should add to readers' respect for Berberova and, as Schwartz puts it, for ''the force of her art, her intellect and her will.'' Ken. By NINA BERBEROVA A New Directions Book. Read the Review. The Ladies from St. Petersburg A tall gig harnessed to a broad-boned, long-maned mare stopped at the porch of a large country residence. Berberova’s point is this sheltered family’s slowness to comprehend the reality of the changes shaking their country—a point vividly underscored when the daughter, Margarita, returning years later (with her own young daughter) to reclaim her mother’s body, finds in place of the rustic town she had remembered a landscape altered beyond recognition, and her mother’s grave indistinguishable from many equally anonymous others.
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