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Ariadna Scriabina

Russian poet

Died when: 38 years 270 days (464 months)
Star Sign: Scorpio

 

Ariadna Scriabina

Ariadna Aleksandrovna Scriabina (Russian: Ариадна Александровна Скрябина; also Sarah Knut, née Ariadna Alexandrovna Schletzer, pseudonym Régine; 26 October 1905 – 22 July 1944) was a Russian poet and activist of the French Resistance, who co-founded the Zionist resistance group Armée Juive.

She was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre and Médaille de la Résistance.She was the eldest daughter of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin and Tatyana Schloetzer.

After the death of her father, Ariadna took his last name, and after the death of her mother she was exiled in Paris.

Being part of the literary circles of the Russian Diaspora, she wrote and published poetry.She married three times, last time with poet Dovid Knut (real name Duvid Meerovich Fiksman).

Together with her husband she supported the ideas of Revisionist Zionism.She was baptised in an Orthodox rite as a child, but later converted to Judaism taking the Hebrew name Sarah.

During the German occupation of France, she was the organizer and active member of the Jewish resistance in the south of the country.

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


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