Yourieff, Alexandra Andreevna Voronine

Biographical Note

• 1905 August 20: Born, Sebastopol
• 1922 Spring: Met Vidkun Quisling
• 1922 September 10: Married Vidkun Quisling
• 1923: Abandoned by Quisling in Paris
• 1924: Brought to Norway, and subsequently sent to Nice, France, by Quisling
• 1929: Quisling halted correspondence and support; she subsequently traveled to China
• 1933: Russian Orthodox Archbishop of China annulled her marriage, enabling her to marry Dr. J. P. Ryabin
• circa 1936: Second husband J. P. Ryabin died
• 1936: Married W. George Yourieff, architect and honorary French consul in Tsingtao; Yourieff adopts the son from her second marriage
• 1947: Yourieff family immigrated to the United States
• 1993 October 1: Died, Palo Alto, California

From the guide to the Alexandra Andreevna Voronine Yourieff Papers, 1910-1999, (Hoover Institution Archives)