Marina Denikina

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Marina Antonovna Denikina (russian: Марина Антоновна Деникина, pen name: Marina Grey) (1919 - 2005) - daughter of Russian general Denikin, leader of the anti-bolshevik White Russians in the civil war.

Born in Ekaterinodar (Russia) she lived in exile in France from 1926. She became a journalist and a producer at the French Radio and Television (working under the name of Marina Grey). She wrote several historical books about the Russian Civil War and her father, General Denikin.

General Denikin was buried in 1947 in Jackson, New Jersey, and his wife Xenia was buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois cemetery near Paris.

In exile she married a French historian, getting the title of countess. She met with Russian president Vladimir Putin on several occasions during his visit to France and eventually gave her consent to transfer her father's remains from USA to Russia. She died at her home at 86 years old at Versailles on November 17, 2005. President Vladimir Putin granted to her Russian citizenship.

She last saw her homeland in October 2005, when the remains of General Denikin were repatriated and buried at the cemetery of Moscow’s Donskoi monastery.


[edit] Books written by Marina Denikina (Grey)

  • My Father is General Denikin
  • The General Dies at Midnight
  • The Investigation of the Murder of the Romanovs.

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