Countess Zenaïde Schakhovskoy Malevsky-Malevitch

Born into an old princely family, sister of Archbishop John of San Francisco and West America (1902 - 1989).

In 1920, she left Russia with her family for Constantinople, where she studied at the American College, then for Brussels in 1923. Having married the artist Sviatoslav Malewsky-Malevitch, she settled in Belgium. During the Second World War, she participated in the French and Belgian Resistance.

From 1941, she worked in London as an editor for the French Information Agency. From 1945 to 1948, she was a military correspondent in Germany, Austria, Greece and Italy.

She settled in Paris from 1949, worked at the International Federation of Film Archives, French radio (1961-62), the Russian section of radio and television (1964-68), editor-in-chief of the newspaper "La Pensée russe". She also contributed to several reviews and periodicals of the Russian emigration.

Author of thirteen works, including "Reflets" (1975) and "A la recherche de Nabokov" (1979).

Knight of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Died at the Russian house in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois. She is buried with her husband Count Sviatoslav Sviatoslavovitch Malewsky-Malevitch (1905-1973) and Nathalie Nabokov born Schakhovskoy who died in 1988.