Menegaldo, H. (2017). Diana Nikiforoff. De La Russie en révolution à la Cité interdite. Paris: Vendémiaire. (In French).

Abstract

The review is devoted to Diana Nikiforoff. De La Russie en révolution à la Cité interdite, a documentarybiographical work by Hélène Menegaldo, a renowned French scholar of Russian émigré literature and professor at the University of Poitiers, dedicated to her mother, a fi st-wave Russian emigrant Diana Nikiforova (Nikiforoff ). Both in terms of the plot and the form (fi st person narration), this book is the author’s experiment combining research and creative writing, and analytical approach and documentary quality, on the one hand, and philosophical lyricism, on the other.

The fact that the book and its likes spring into existence is evidence of the intense, profound and enduring emotions and experiences that characterize the fi st-wave Russian emigration.