"My Italics" is the most famous book by Nina Berberova (1901-1993), which immediately became a world bestseller. Bright, independent, provocative, deeply personal - this autobiography caused a storm of complaints from her "heroes" and remained a unique testimony to the life of the first Russian emigration. The portraits of V. Khodasevich, I. Bunin, M. Gorky, A. Bely, M. Tsvetaeva, Z. Gippius, G. Ivanov, V. Nabokov are written by an absolutely free person — without looking back, without fear, then bitterly and ironically, then tremulously and tenderly... “I am writing a saga about my life, about myself, in which I am free to do what I want, to discover secrets and keep them for myself, to talk about myself, to talk about others, not to talk about anything, to stop at any point, to close this notebook ... Everything that is written here is written according to two laws that I have recognized and follow: the first is to reveal yourself to the end, and the second is to hide your life for yourself alone.”