Lydia Yudifovna Berdyaev

Lydia Yudifovna Berdyaev ( 20 August 1871, Kharkov, Russian Empire - September 1945, Clamart, France) was a Russian poet, member of Russian apostolate and leader of the Russian diaspora in France. Biography She was born in Kharkov, into an Orthodox family. Her father served as a Civil law notary at the Kharkov District Court. Her first marriage was with Baron Victor Ivanovich Rapp, an official of Kharkov Chamber of Control and coowner of the publishing house "V.I. Rapp and V. Potapov." She was member of the Kharkov Union of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, for which she was arrested on 6 January 1900 and jailed for a month. After her release, she went to Paris to study at the School of Social Sciences. She divorced her first husband.