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Irina Odoevtseva
Irina Odoevtseva was a Russian novelist, poet, translator and memoirist. Born in 1895 in Riga, she fled Russia in 1922 and, after a brief period in Berlin, settled in Paris with he...voir plusIrina Odoevtseva was a Russian novelist, poet, translator and memoirist. Born in 1895 in Riga, she fled Russia in 1922 and, after a brief period in Berlin, settled in Paris with her husband Georgy Ivanov. There Odoevtseva published short fiction and several successful novels. Later, she had great success with her memoirs On the Banks of the Neva (1967) and On the Banks of the Seine (1983). She returned to Russia in 1987 at the age of ninety-one to a rapturous reception.voir moins