About Vera de Bosset
Vera de Bosset Stravinsky (January 7, 1889 – September 17, 1982) was an American dancer and artist. She is better known as the second wife of composer Igor Stravinsky, whom she married in 1940 after having been in an adulterous affair with him since July 1921. == Life == Vera de Bosset was born Vera Bosse, the daughter of Arthur Harald Bosse (1861–1937) and Johanna Catherine Henriette Malmgren. Vera's father belonged to a well-known Baltic nobility, a brother of Eduard Theodor von Bosse. Robert Craft describes Vera as being born "to a French father and Swedish mother, neither with any Russian blood." She was sent to boarding school in Moscow, where she learned how to play piano. Vera allegedly changed her name to the French "de Bosset" to hide her German ancestry. She was the only one of her family to do so. Stravinsky met Vera in 1921. She was a dancer and the wife of the painter and stage designer Serge Sudeikin. Stravinsky was then married to his cousin Yekaterina Nosenko and had four children.
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