Salomea Andronikova

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Salome Andronikashvili (

St. Petersburg. A friend of the poets Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam, her physical and intellectual charms were celebrated in their poetry and inspired other writers such as Grigol Robakidze and Ilia Zdanevich, as well as the artists Boris Grigoriev, Alexandre Jacovleff and Zinaida Serebriakova.[1]
In exile she lived in Georgia (1917-1919), France (1919-1940), the United States of America (1940-1947) and Britain (1947-1982).

Family

Salome Ivanovna Andronikashvili was born in

Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia) in October 1888 into the family of the Georgian prince Ivane Andronikashvili (1863–1944) and his Russian wife Lidiya Pleshcheyeva-Muratova (1861–1953), a relative of the poet Aleksey Pleshcheyev. Salomea's real patronymic was "Ivanovna", but she thought that somewhat vulgar and adopted "Nikolayevna" instead.[1] The Andronikashvili family claimed descent from a natural son of the Eastern Roman Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos.[2] Salomea also had a sister, Maria (1891–1976), and a brother, Jesse (1893–1937), who became a White Russian officer and was killed in 1937 during Joseph Stalin
's rule.

St. Petersburg and emigration

Princess Salomea Andronikova, by Boris Grigoriev

In 1906, at the age of 18, Salomea moved from Tiflis to St. Petersburg. There she married the tea businessman Pavel Andreyev, and gave birth to a daughter Irina. Her salon hosted, among others, the poets Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam. After divorcing Andreyev, Salomea had a 7-year affair with the Russian poet Sergey Rafalovich.

After the

Tiflis, and co-edited the Russian-language literary monthly Orion. Here she began a love affair with Zinovy Peshkov
, a French diplomat of Russian background.

In 1919 she fled with Peshkov to

Soviet Russia, and supported the poet Marina Tsvetaeva during her forced exile in Europe.[3] But when her brother's wife and their son Constantin
fled to France in 1920, her brother was imprisoned in Russia by the Bolsheviks, and he later died in captivity.

In 1925 Salomea married the

Alexander Galpern, a Russian émigré to London and a close friend of Alexander Kerensky
; but the couple lived separately. She worked for the fashion magazines of Lucien Vogel.

During

United States of America, where Galpern served at the British embassy. She took her grandson with her, but her daughter Irina, baroness Nolde, a member of the French Resistance
, remained in Nazi German captivity.

After the War, Salomea moved back to Europe, and in 1947 settled in London. There she remained until her death on 8 May 1982, at the age of 94 - in a house which had been purchased for her by the philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin.[4] In accordance with her will her ashes were scattered in Trafalgar Square.[5]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0198159544
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  2. ^ Kelsey Jackson Williams (2006), A Genealogy of the Grand Komnenoi of Trebizond. Foundations - the Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy – Vol. 2, No. 3.
  3. ISBN 978-0822314820
  4. ^ (in Russian) Лобанов-Ростовский Н. Дм. История: Портрет Саломеи Андрониковой работы Александра Яковлева Archived 2011-04-26 at the Wayback Machine. Русская Газета. 03.31.2005, №12(83).
  5. ^ (in Russian) Мнухин Л., Авриль М., Лосская В. Российское зарубежье во Франции 1919—2000. — Москва: Наука; Дом-музей Марины Цветаевой. 2008.
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