Background
She was born in Odessa, but lived in Norway.
She was born in Odessa, but lived in Norway.
She issued biographical novels about Catherine the Great (1949), Alexander I of Russia (two volumes in 1950 and 1951), Nicholas I of Russia and Alexander Pushkin (1954), Alexander II of Russia (1956), Alexander III of Russia and Nicholas II of Russia (1963), Sonya Kovalevsky (1967), Karl Marx (1968) and Vladimir Lenin (1972).