Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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'''Helena Petrovna Blavatsky''' (1831-1891) | '''Helena Petrovna Blavatsky''' (1831-1891) | ||
− | Born 30 Jul 1831 as Helena von Hahn in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine | + | Born 30 Jul 1831 as Helena von Hahn in Ekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) to Colonel Peter Alexeivich von Hahn (1798-) and his wife Helena Andreyvna Fadeyev (1814-42) |
− | + | Her mother died while Helena was a young girl and she was sent, with her two younger siblings, Vera (b 1835) and Leonid (b 1840), to live with their maternal grandparents. | |
− | + | The grandparents, Andrei Mikhailovich Fadeyev, Imperial Councillor to the Viceroy of the Caucasus, and his wife Helene Dolgoruki. | |
− | + | She married firstly on 7 Jul 1848 in Tiflis, Russia to Nikifor Vasilievich Blavatsky, the Vice-Governor of Erivan. | |
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+ | She married on 3 Apr 1875 in Philadelphia to Michael C Betanelly. (IGI - North America - Batch M748744) | ||
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+ | She died 8 May 1891 in London, Middlesex, England. ([http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FreeBMDDeath&so=2&rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=Blavatsky&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&ufr=0&srchb=r&prox=1&db=&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-b&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416 FreeBMD Death Index]) |