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bd. 8 Feb 1905, St.Petersburg
dd. 5 Jun 1973, Paris
Diplomat, painter
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bd. 30 Aug 1906, Moscow
dd. 8 Jun 2001, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne)
Name also
spelled Chakovskaia, Sachovskaja, Schachowskoy etc. in different library
catalogs
Left Russia in 1919 with her family who spent four years in Constantinople,
then moved on to Brussels
Spent two
years in the Belgian Congo with her diplomat husband
Journalist, writer (in French and
Russian), pseudonym Jacques Croisé. In the 1930s on very friendly terms with
VN. Not after WWII. Wrote V poiskakh Nabokova (Paris: Presse
Libre, 1979),
a book Vladimir Nabokov objected to
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