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Nina Fedorova


Born
in Lokhvytsia, Ukraine
March 08, 1895

Died
February 01, 1985


Antonina Riasanovsky was a Russian-born author who, under the pen name Nina Fedorova, wrote The Family, the tenth highest selling fiction book in the United States 1940. The book won the 1940 $10,000 fiction novel prize from the Atlantic Monthly. The Family tells the story of an exiled White Russian family in Tianjin, China.

Born Antonina Fedorovna Podgorinova in Lokhvytsia, Ukraine in 1895, she moved to Verkhneudinsk (now known as Ulan-Ude) after her father's death and mother's remarriage. She left for Harbin in China shortly before the 1917 revolution, and married historian Valentin Riasanovsky in 1923. The Riasanovskys ended up in Tianjin herself in 1936, though she claimed The Family was not autobiographical. The Riasanovskys came to the ...more

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The Family
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Жизнь
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The Children
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Deti: Roman
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