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Olga Ilyin (1894–1991)

Auteur van White road: A Russian odyssey, 1919-1923

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Gangbare naam
Ilyin, Olga
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Ильин, Ольга
Боратынска, Ольга
Boratynska, Olga
Geboortedatum
1894-09-08
Overlijdensdatum
1991-11-06
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
Russian Empire
USA
Woonplaatsen
San Francisco, California, USA
Kazan, Russia
Opleiding
University of Kazan
Beroepen
poet
writer
memoirist
novelist
aristocrat
Korte biografie
Olga Ilyin, née Boratynski, was born to a wealthy, aristocratic Russian family. After her mother died, she was cared for by her father’s sister, a lady-in-waiting at the Imperial Court in St. Petersburg. In 1917, she married Kiril Ilyin, a Russian cavalry officer. After the Bolshevik Revolution and civil war, she fled across Siberia with her infant son Boris and other White Russian officers' families, first by train then by sled. Four years later, she was reunited with her husband in Harbin, Manchuria. In 1923, they made their way to the USA, settling in California. There she started a couture clothing business. She had been a poet before the Revolution, but lost the gift during her hardships. She published an autobiographical novel, Dawn of the Eighth Day (1951); a novel, St. Petersburg Affair; and a memoir, White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923. At her death in 1991, she left behind an unpublished memoir called Visits to the Imperial Court, later published by her son.

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