Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Umm-El-Banine Assadoulaeff (1905-1992) was a French writer of Azeri descent - a granddaughter of two famous Azeri millionaires: Shamsi Asadullayev and Musa Nagiyev. She wrote under the penname of Banine. Banine emigrated to France in 1923 following her father, a former minister in the government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (dec. 1918-April 1920). She moved to Istanbul where she abandoned her husband whom she had been forced to marry at the age of fifteen and then fled to Paris.