Olga Petit
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Olga Petit or Sophie Balachowsky-Petit was a Russian-born, French lawyer. She is noted as the first woman to take the legal oath in France. She is also known for assisting Russian emigres settling in
Sophie Balachowsky Petit 1900
Olga Petit's father Herz Balachowsky was a Ukrainian industrialist.
Ivan Bunin
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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was a Russian writer. He became the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the class
Olga Petit
…the family of Zenaida Gippius and Dimitri Merejkovski in Paris. She also helped the existentialist philosopher Lev Shestov and his family as well as Ivan Bunin, who was the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shestov was particularly close to Petit. Her brother Daniil was married to the…
Bunin in 1928
Alexey Nikolayevich Bunin
Bunin in 1891
Ivan Bunin with his brother Yuly