Alex, Tatiana and Francine fled to New York in 1941 and started a new life-Tatiana designing hats for Bendel's before a career with Saks, Alex scaling the fashion journalism ladder at Condé Nast. Tatiana then became involved with Alexander Liberman, a British- and French-educated artistic Jewish-Russian émigré.
They had one child, Francine, before du Plessix was killed in early WWII combat. Tatiana and Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky soon fell passionately in love, but the ever-practical woman married aristocratic Frenchman Bertrand du Plessix instead.
That claim gave her mother "both the aristocratic pedigree and the freedom to be a barbarian." Tatiana Yakovleva du Plessix Liberman was 19 and hungry in 1925 when she left the Soviet Union for France. Du Plessix Gray had a long and varied career, in the 1950s as reporter for several French magazines book editor for Art in America New York City staff writer for The New Yorker several professorships, including at Columbia University."My mother enjoyed claiming direct descent from Genghis Khan," Gray explains as she opens this complex and rewarding family memoir. In 1957 she married painter Cleve Gray (1918-2004) with whom she had two sons. She attended Bryn Mawr College for two years, and in 1952 received her B.A. She was a scholarship student at Spence School. Francine du Plessix Gray then grew up in New York City, and was naturalized a U.S. The Libermans were socially prominent in media, art, and fashion circles. He was a noted artist and later longtime editorial director of Vogue Magazine and then of Condé Nast Publications. In 1942, her mother married Alexander Liberman, another White émigré from Russia, whom she had known in Paris as a child. Widowed when her father died in battle, in 1940 du Plessix Gray's mother escaped France to New York with Francine. She spent her early years in Paris, where a milieu of mixed cultures and a multilingual family (French father and Russian émigré mother) influenced her. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, where her father, Vicomte Bertrand Jochaud du Plessix, was a French diplomat - the commercial attaché. Francine du Plessix Gray was a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic.
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