Maria Fairweather (1943–2010)
Auteur van Madame de Staël
Over de Auteur
Maria Fairweather took a degree in Russian and History at London University as a mature student in 1991
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Fairweather, Maria
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Merica, Maria (birth)
Lady Fairweather - Geboortedatum
- 1943-11-04
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2010-03-06
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Tehran, Iran
- Plaats van overlijden
- London, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
Rome, Italy - Beroepen
- interpreter
biographer - Korte biografie
- Maria Fairweather, née Merica, married Patrick Fairweather, a British diplomat, in 1962 and had two daughters. She spoke Russian, Greek, French, English and Farsi and worked as an interpreter before writing two biographies of famous women.
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Pilgrim Princess : The Life of Princess Zinaida… door Maria Fairweather
This was a very readable biography of a highly interesting lady. Princess Zinaida Volkonsky was born into the highest echelons of the Russian aristocracy. She became a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Maria Feodorovna (the first one, not the mother of Nicholas II) and later became the mistress of Tsar Alexander I. Artistic and cultured, she served as the prototype for Helena Kuragin, in Tolstoy's War In Peace. This book has it all: war, peace, love, and hate. It's all set against the backdrop of Napoleon's siege of Russia and the subsequent events that it led to. Zinaida eventually found herself in Italy where an invitation to her salon was highly prized and sought after. Very good reading.… (meer)
½
One of the better bios of Mme de Staël in English, & an enjoyable read.
Statistieken
- Werken
- 2
- Leden
- 131
- Populariteit
- #154,467
- Waardering
- 3.6
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 8