1. Xenia Denikina's father was Vassili Ivanovitch Chizn, an artillery officer and local official, and her mother was Elisaveta Alexandrovna Toumskaya.
11 Facts About Xenia Denikina
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Xenia Denikina graduated from the Institute for Young Ladies in Warsaw, and was training to be a teacher when she started a relationship with Anton Denikin.
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Xenia Denikina acted as an interpreter between the German occupiers and the Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian exiles there.
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Xenia Denikina kept a hidden journal from 1940 to 1945, totalling 28 school notebooks by the end.
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Xenia Denikina's husband died in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1947.
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Xenia Denikina was chair of the Russian Institutes Alumnae Association when it was founded in 1954.
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Xenia Denikina assisted Russian history scholars, organized her husband's papers, and hosted cultural events for the Russian emigre community in New York.
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Xenia Denikina Chizh married a White Army general, Anton Denikin, in 1918.
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Xenia Denikina became an American citizen in 1951, returned to France in 1971, and died at Louviers in 1973, aged 80 years.
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Xenia Denikina's daughter translated Denikina's wartime journal into French and published it in 1976, as Mimizan-sur-Guerre, Le Journal de ma mere sous l'Occupation.
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Xenia Denikina's remains and those of her husband were reinterred at Donskoy Monastery in Moscow in 2005, just before Marina's death that year.