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Nina Berberova (1901 - 1993) poet, prose writer, critic. In the early 1920s, she left Russia for emigration. Her autobiography "My Italics" is one of the most subjective memoirs, a documentary novel about Baroness Budberg, the Russian Mata Hari, became a world bestseller, the biographies of Borodin and Tchaikovsky amaze with the subtlest penetration into the phenomenon of a creative personality, the novel "Last and First" became in fact the first work about the life of the Russian emigration. The book "The Lady" includes the novel of the same name and "Stories not about love". Here, too, are the fates of people forcedly torn from their circle, from their country, and existing separately. They are not at home, although they read Russian newspapers, go to the Russian cinematograph, and have to arrange life here ... Including their personal lives. This is a world of sensual love, overwhelming emotions and agonizing, irresistible loneliness. These relationships have no future, only the present matters. Pre-war Europe, Russia is far away, serious trials are ahead again ...