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Jun 04, 1889 London Died on 16 Apr 1977 (aged 87)
English-Russian writer, translator and wife of Maxim Litvinov
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About Ivy Low Litvinov
- Ivy Teresa Low Litvinov (Russian: ???? ??????????? ?????????) (4 June 1889 – 16 April 1977) was an English-Russian writer and translator, and wife of Soviet diplomat and foreign minister Maxim Litvinov.
- She was also known as Ivy Low, Ivy Litvinova or Ivy Litvinoff. She was born into an Anglo-Jewish family.
- Her father Walter was a friend of H.
- G.
- Wells.
- In 1894 her father died, and in 1896 her mother Alice remarried to John Alexander (Sandy) Herbert, and published some novels under the name Alice Herbert.
- Early in 1916 Ivy Low married Maxim Litvinov, who at the time was a revolutionary exile living in London.
- They had two children, Mikhail (Misha) and Tatiana (Tanya). Following the Russian Revolution Maxim returned home in 1918, and she followed him two years later.
- Maxim Litvinov became a prominent diplomat and served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs (foreign minister) from 1930 to 1939, and Soviet ambassador to the United States from 1941 to 1943.
- He died in 1951, having survived the purges of nearly all of his closest colleagues despite having fallen out of favour with Stalin on more than one occasion. Apart from brief stays abroad as part of her husband's diplomatic service, she lived in the Soviet Union for most of her adult life before moving permanently to Hove, England in 1972.
- She died in 1977.
- Looking back on the precarious situation that Maxim and Ivy had faced in the Stalin era, George Kennan wrote "It is one of the wonders of the age that Ivy survived to die a natural death."
