Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who headed the puppet government of Norway during the country's occupation by Nazi Germany du
Quisling, c.1919
Vidkun Quisling (far left) with his family, c.1915
Quisling and his second wife, Maria
The Armenia commission of the League of Nations. 19 June 1925. From left, sitting, are C.E. Dupuis, Fridtjof Nansen, and G. Carle; standing are Pio Le Savio, and Vidkun Quisling.
Maria Quisling, born Maria Vasilyevna Pasek or Pasetchnikova, was known as the wife of the Norwegian fascist politician Vidkun Quisling, but some historians have doubts on whether the couple were lega
Vidkun Quisling
…distressed her. Quisling found the situation much improved and, with no fresh challenges, found it a more boring trip than his last. He did however meet Maria Vasiljevna Pasetchnikova (Russian: Мари́я Васи́льевна Па́сечникова), a Ukrainian more than ten years his junior. Her diaries from the time "indicate a blossoming love affair…
Maria Quisling lived in central Kharkiv and fondly remembered a stroll at the river when Vidkun walked her home from a party a summer night in 1923. Postcard c. 1900
Villa Grande (Gimle) in 1945
The library in Villa Grande included a Russian table which had belonged to the Russian Prime Minister Stolypin