(1901-1993). He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. At a very young age, at the dawn of the Revolution, she went abroad with her husband, the poet Vladislav Khodasevich. He lived briefly in Berlin and spent more than two decades in Paris before settling in the early '50s in the United States. The only child of an official of the Ministry of Finance, Berberova excelled in poetry, prose and essays and narrated like few authors of her generation the life of Russian exiles in Europe. Among his books are The companion, Roquenval, The lackey and the whore, The ladies of St. Petersburg, The book of happiness and the autobiography The underlining is mine.