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Olga Lodigensky Wyman

Daughter of Alexandre Alexandrovitch Lodigensky and Marie Dmitrievna born von Wlicken.

In 1917, because of the Bolshevik revolution, leaves St-Petersburg to join, with his family, his father in the White Army. After 3 years of multiple changes of places of residence, the whole family is evacuated, via Constantinople, to Serbia at Novi-Becej. In 1924 all the family emigrated definitively to France (Paris).

In 1930 she obtained the Baccalaureate at the Russian Gymnasium in Paris and trained as a nurse. In 1933 left for Lithuania to marry Nicolas Josefovitch de Faria e Castro on 08/11/1933 and settle in the property of her husband's family (Château de Raudone near Kaunas). In October 1939, following real threats of German invasion, returned with her 3-month-old son (Dimitri) to her parents in Paris.

From 1944 practiced the profession of nurse. On 06/22/1955, she married Prof D Jeffries Wyman in Quincy, Massachussets (USA) and left for Cairo, where her husband took over the management of MESCO. In 1957, they are expelled from Egypt by Nasser (like all other foreigners). They stayed 2 years in Switzerland (Lausanne) then moved to Rome. In 1983 she definitely returned to Paris with her husband.