an engineer for the Russian Navy, and her mother, Inna Erazmovna Stogova, were both descended from the Russian nobility. Her family moved north to Tsarskoye Selo, near St. Petersburg when she was less than a year old. The three of them lived in a house on the corner of Shirokaya Street and Bezymyanny Lane, the building is no longer standing. She spent summers from the ages 7 to 13 in a small cottage near Sevastopol. She attended school at Mariinskaya High School, then moved to Kiev (1906–10) and…
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