From my interview with Marina Gewlitch Chatsky – Maria Kamendrovsky’s daughter in Queens, New York, 2000
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Marina’s escape out of Russia
Only in 1927 Maria and Sergey were somehow able to get a friend of theirs who was a diplomat to file papers to officially ‘adopt’ Marina. She was issued a passport to travel to Danzig. But since she was only 7 years old, her uncle Aleksey Kamendrovsky, who was 14 at the time, was given a passport and visa to accompany her, supposedly to return. But of course they never returned. Aleksey attended a Catholic boy’s boarding school.
Sao Paolo
Eventually, Marina immigrated to Sao Paolo, where she met Leonid Chatsky.
New York
In the seventies, Marina got a job for the Publishing house Harper & Collins and they moved to New York, where – in 1972 – Marina and Leonid married in Manhattan. They lived in Jackson Heights, New York, where I also met Marina. Leonid died on October 30th, 1995. He is buried in the Novo-Diveevo Russian Orthodox Cemetery.