Stravinsky, Vera, 1888-1982
Variant namesVera Stravinsky (January 7, 1889[1] – September 17, 1982) was a Russian American dancer and artist. She is better known as the second wife of the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, who married her in 1940.
Born Vera Bosse (de Bosset), the daughter of Eduard Bosse (1854–1927)[2] and Hedwig von Ruckteschel (1866–1938).[3] Both parents were Baltic German nobility. She was sent to boarding school in Moscow, where she learned how to play piano.[5] Vera allegedly changed her name to the French "Bosset" to hide her German ancestry. She was the only one of her family to do so. Stravinsky met Vera in 1921. She was a dancer and the wife of the painter and stage designer Serge Sudeikin. She also had two prior marriages before Sudeikin.
In 1910 she entered the University of Berlin, where in her first year she studied philosophy and natural sciences - physics, chemistry, anatomy, and in the second, moving to the faculty of art, she attended lectures by Heinrich Wölfflin on the history of art, and studied architecture.
In Russia, she appered in silent movies, and appeared on dramatic stage. In later life she created designs for opera, but she mainle devoted her life to the carrier and legacy of her husband, Igor Stravinsky
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| associatedWith | Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929. | person |
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| associatedWith | Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. | person |
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Birth 1888-12-25
Death 1982-09-17
Female
Americans
Russian
