Vlady - Artist Info

About Vlady

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Vladimir Victorovich Kibalchich
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    Vladimir Victorovich Kibalchich (Rusakov), Vlady (1920-2005)

    Born to Russian revolutionary writer and poet Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (Victor Serge) and his wife Liuba Russakova on June 15, 1920, Vlady, as he later called himself, spent three years with his father in the Gulag (1933-1936). Serge was granted his freedom and the family left Russia for Belgium and then France. During the Nazi invasion of France, Serge and his son fled again, leaving behind Liuba, by then an inhabitant of a psychiatric asylum in Aix-en-Provence, where she died in 1985.

    Turned away by Martinique, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and the United States because of Serge's Bolshevik activities, they were finally welcomed in Mexico in 1941, mont...

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