7 September 1905

Born in Drama, province of Drama, in Greece.

Daughter of Anguel Atanazov KREMENLIEV

and Elena PACHKOULELIA.

1924

She lives in Mehomia, a town in Bulgaria.

26 May 1924

Marriage of Jordana KREMENLIEV with Alexander BOLTOUKHINE in the town of Razlog, Blagoevgrad Oblast, in Bulgaria. She is 18 and he is 27 years old.

27 September 1926

The couple emigrates from Bulgaria to France with the status of Russian refugees, nationality she has obtained through her marriage.

They first lived in Ugine, Savoie, for approximately 9 months.

Then, in Pierre Bénite, Rhône, 61, avenue Jean Jaurès

And finally in Villeurbanne, Rhône, 33, rue Edouard Vaillant.

20 April 1939

Birth of André BOLTOUKHINE: birth of their son in Lyon-2. We have never met him as he left France with his mother. According to family traditions, the first boy born into the Boltoukhine’s family has to be called alternatively André or Alexander, therefore he was called André Boltoukhine.

7 May 1939

Baptism of André Boltoukhine in Saint Nicolas, Orthodox Church in Lyon.

The godfather is the nobleman Constantin Contantinovitch Ivanoff Trinadzaty, and the godmother is the daughter of an officer of the Kuban Cossacks, Zinaïda Valentinovna Romantsova.

22 September 1941

She asks for her identity papers to be rectified because of wrong information. The family lives in Villeurbanne.

21 February 1942

The French administration states that she is « gone without leaving an address ».

Probably before the Germans arrived, Jordana took her first born son André with her and went back to Bulgaria. She is already 37.

Separated or in the process of divorcing from Alexander?

Boris Kremenliev, her youngest brother, emigrated to the United States of America in 1929 where he made a worldwide reputation for himself as composer and ethnomusicologist.