Nina Berberova was born on August 8, 1901 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was a writer, known for L'accompagnatrice (1992), Les mercredis de l'histoire (1995) and Apostrophes (1975). She was married to Georgy Aleksandrovich Kochevitsky, Nikolai Vasilievich Makeev and Vladislav Khodasevich. She died on September 26, 1993 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.