45 Facts About Ariadna Scriabina

Ariadna Aleksandrovna Scriabina was a Russian poet and activist of the French Resistance, who co-founded the Zionist resistance group Armee Juive.

Ariadna Scriabina was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre and Medaille de la Resistance.

Ariadna Scriabina was the eldest daughter of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin and Tatyana Schloetzer.

Ariadna Scriabina married three times, last time with poet Dovid Knut.

Ariadna Scriabina was baptised in an Orthodox rite as a child, but later converted to Judaism taking the Hebrew name Sarah.

Ariadna Scriabina was murdered in Toulouse by a Milice agent shortly before the fall of the Vichy regime.

Ariadna Scriabina Schletzer, the eldest daughter of Scriabin and Schletzer, was born in the Italian town of Bogliasco, where Scriabin worked on The Poem of Ecstasy.

In July 1905, his eldest daughter Rima died in Switzerland, and the birth of Ariadna Scriabina finalized his separation with a legitimate wife.

In Moscow, Ariadna Scriabina was baptized in the Orthodox rite, and in November 1912 her sister Marina was born.

Since then, Ariadna Scriabina developed a fear of deep water for life.

Ariadna Scriabina took Marina to Moscow, while placing Ariadna in the boarding school in Novocherkassk.

However, the school was closed down, and Ariadna Scriabina was sent to her sister and mother in Moscow.

Ariadna Scriabina liked the poems of Alexander Blok and Konstantin Balmont.

Ariadna Scriabina loved to recite the line of Balmont "I want to be the first in the world, on land and on the water".

One year before graduation, Ariadna Scriabina decided to leave school and enroll in college.

Ariadna Scriabina was joined by Katia Zhdanko, her friend from Novocherkassk whom she treated like a sister.

In college, Ariadna Scriabina attended only lectures that she liked: linguistics and orthoepy, the history of Western literature, poetics, and aesthetics.

Ariadna Scriabina was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery, next to her husband.

Ariadna Scriabina enrolled to the philological faculty in Sorbonne, but was not much interested in the lectures.

The wedding solved financial problems of Ariadna Scriabina, but brought other problems.

Later Ariadna Scriabina gave birth to two daughters, Tatiana-Miriam and Gilbert-Elizabeth.

Ariadna Scriabina later told her son that his father was Knut, and Mejean learned that the child was his only in his old age.

However, Russian Jews separated within this community, and Ariadna Scriabina associated herself with them, so as her third husband Dovid Knut.

Ariadna Scriabina usually worked in bed, while smoking, and disliked to be interrupted by anyone.

Ariadna Scriabina was a poor housewife, and was always in need for money; yet her housemaids liked her and stayed even when they received no payment.

Ariadna Scriabina and Dovid Knut anxiously followed the growth of anti-Semitism in Europe, especially in Germany.

Gradually, they both became convinced Zionists, and Ariadna Scriabina went up to even a more extreme position than Dovid.

Ariadna Scriabina became intolerant to even slightest manifestations of anti-Semitism to the point that many Jews felt embarrassed by her overreaction.

In early 1939, Dovid and Ariadna Scriabina managed to start publication of a newspaper Affirmation that aimed at awakening the national consciousness of the Jews.

Ariadna Scriabina served in Paris, and on 30 March 1940 he and Ariadna finally registered their marriage.

Ariadna Scriabina then demanded all friends to call her only by the new name.

Ariadna Scriabina started working at a plant, but it was closed only three days later as people started fleeing from Paris.

Ariadna Scriabina was arrested, but managed to escape through Germany and Belgium to Toulouse.

Ariadna Scriabina came up with an oath and a ceremony carried out when joining Armee Juive, which over the years was followed by almost 2000 people.

Ariadna Scriabina was involved in one of the most difficult and dangerous task of ferrying Jewish children whose parents were deported to the camps.

Betty, the youngest daughter of Ariadna Scriabina, lived in relative safety with Boris de Schloezer.

On 22 July 1944, Ariadna Scriabina had an appointment regarding the promotion of a new member of Armee Juive.

Ariadna Scriabina was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre and Medaille de la Resistance.

Ariadna Scriabina wrote a book in French about her parents, which was first translated into Russian and published in Russia.

Ariadna Scriabina had a rank of lieutenant in the US Army and received the Silver Star personally from George S Patton, as well as the French Croix de Guerre.

Ariadna Scriabina recovered, but suffered from headaches for the rest of her life.

Ariadna Scriabina published a popular book La Ronde de Mouche on her military experiences.

Ariadna Scriabina became disabled after inadvertently shooting himself in the head.

Ariadna Scriabina demobilized and studied French literature at Tel Aviv University.

Ariadna Scriabina published a book of memoirs about his father and his own collection of poems in Hebrew.