Tatiana Bakounine Alekseevna Ossorguine

Tatiana Alekseevna Ossorguine is a Franco-Russian historian, bibliographer, librarian, teacher and public figure specializing in Freemasonry.

A graduate of the Historical Faculty of Moscow University, Tatiana Ossorguine is a researcher on the Kurakin family archives at the Moscow State Historical Museum.

In 1926, she emigrated to Germany with her parents, then to Italy and arrived in Paris. She married the Russian writer Mikhaïl Ossorguine there. In 1929 she defended a thesis at the Sorbonne on the Kourakine princes in Saratov's government.

She is the author of “Russian Freemasons” (Paris, 1934), “Famous Russian Freemasons” (Paris, 1935) and a biographical directory of Russian Freemasons (Belgium, 1940). In 1942, she moved to her house in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois. She worked as a librarian-bibliographer in the periodicals department of the BNF. Until 1969 she taught Russian literature at the École normale supérieure in Saint-Cloud. Curator-archivist and editor of the works of her husband Mikhail Ossorguine, in 1955 she published an autobiographical work "Времена" ("The Times"). In 1957 she was among the initiators of the restoration of the Tourguenev Russian Library in Paris. She was its general secretary for more than forty years2. She also collaborates with the Institute of Slavic Studies in Paris, works on bibliographies and bibliographic compilations of Russian writers and philosophers: Mikhaïl Ossorguine (1973), Léon Chestov, Mark Aldanov, Zinaïda Hippius, Alexeï Remizov, Boris Zaïtsev, Nicolas Berdiaev, Marina Tsvetaïeva and Sacha Tchorny among others. In 1967, she published a “Biographical Directory of Russian Freemasons” in the supplement to the Revue des Etudes Slaves.