title: Billancourt Tales (New Directions Paperbook)
author: Nina Berberova
description: Nina Nikolaevena Berberova (1901-1993) was born in St. Petersburg. She left Russia after the revolution in 1922, eventually settling in Paris in 1925 with her lover Vladislav Khodasevich. She moved to the U.S. in 1950 and taught at Yale and Princeton. In France she was honored as a Chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters.
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  **_Merchant’s_**
  
  
  **DAUGHTER**  
    
    
  
  
  **_Melanie Dickerson_**
  
  
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  # Contents
  
  
  [Cover](cvi.htm)
  
  
  [Title Page](tp.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 1](c01.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](c02.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](c03.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](c04.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 5](c05.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 6](c06.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 7](c07.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 8](c08.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 9](c09.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 10](c10.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 11](c11.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 12](c12.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 13](c13.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 14](c14.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 15](c15.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 16](c16.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 17](c17.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 18](c18.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 19](c19.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 20](c20.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 21](c21.htm)
  
  
  [Epilogue](epl.htm)
  
  
  [Author’s Note](ant.htm)
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](ack.htm)
  
  
  [About the Author](ata.htm)
  
  
  [Preview](pre.htm)
  
  
  [Other Books by Melanie Dickerson](fm.htm)
  
  
  [Copyright](cop.htm)
  
  
  [About the P