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8 November 1892 |
Augusta’s birth in Olonetz, Russia.
Her nickname was « Gootia ».
Daughter of:
Alexander Pavlovitch POTEMKIN and Anna Ivanovna SAKHAROV
Mother of Irina KALITOWICZ (our mother)
Other birth dates:
8 November 1892 on birth certificate
8 November 1892 on marriage certificate
8 November 1898 on notarized deed in Autun, France
(The date given as 1898 must be deliberate wrong data) |
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14 November 1892 |
Augusta’s baptism in the Orthodox Church. |
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10 June 1911 |
Passes the « Attestat », A level in Russia. |
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6 August 1915 |
She marries Edward Kalitowitcz in Kharkov, Ukraine. |
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28 February 1916 |
Birth of Irina Kalitowicz.
Birth registered on the 12th of March 1916 according to the Gregorian calendar (on February the 28th, 1916 according to the Russian Calendar) in Barvienkovo, Russia. |
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1918 or 1919 |
Her husband voluntarily enlisted and went to war. They are separated and already at odds with each other. |
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Spring 1921 |
Augusta is in Kiertch, Caucasus. |
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Summer 1921 |
Augusta and her daughter are in Theodosia, Crimea. |
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Autumn 1921 |
They spent a short time in Barwienkowo. |
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March 1922 |
They live in Slaviansk – Thermal resort where Augusta undergoes a course of treatment. |
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24 June 1922 |
Her daughter Irina is put out to nurse. |
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22 March 1923 |
According to a letter, she is now in Backmatch Ukraine with her daughter, she stays there with her mother in law, Edward’s mother. Edward asks her to come back home. |
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26 August 1924 |
She received a birth certificate for her daughter’s schooling, but in fact we believe that she was organising her emigration. |
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February 1925 |
Irina is ill with measles, they leave for Warsaw with Doctor Opalskie. |
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5 January 1926 |
Augusta is in Warsaw. We know that she was taking French lessons. |
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1926 |
She emigrates to France with her daughter Irina and they are labelled « Russian Refugees ».
She has no specific profession, but we could find proof of several employments: material decoration – painting on scarves and employed as a cook.
She lives in Vincennes, Paris with her daughter Irina, 95 boulevard de la République until1935. |
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27 October 1928 |
Her divorce is pronounced and the marriage is officially cancelled by the Court of Rome based on the fact that they had different religions. This was the only procedure that made it possible to cancel a sacrament.
She then lived 5 rue Mizon, Paris 15th before buying a house at La Porole in Saône & Loire, but this was done well after the war. |
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8 November 1934 |
Her first husband Edouard Kalitowicz dies in Warsaw, her daughter Irina had just arrived a few days earlier in Warsaw to visit her father. |
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30 January 1936 |
Her brother Vladimir Potemkin gets married in Issy les Moulineaux. |
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10 September 1940 |
Second marriage with Constantin Chestakoff in Paris 15th (Certificate n°1102). |
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11 March 1942 |
Arrested with her daughter by the Gestapo at her home, rue Mizon.
Jailed for several months at “Prison de la Santé”.
She looks after Marianne, her grand-daughter, who has been repatriated from Germany. |
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7 September 1948 |
Her permanent work permit was issued at that date N° 449982 – in Paris. |
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28 September 1955 |
Augusta and her husband buy a small house in La Porolle – Etang sur Arroux in Saône & Loire, France.
They move to La Porole near Autun and they live isolated in the country until her husband’s death. |
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17 March 1965 |
Death of Constantin Chestakoff in La Porole sur Mesvre, he had no posterity. |
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March 1965 |
Her husband’s burial in Ste Geneviève des Bois (Essonne).
Then, she was a pensioner at the retirement home « Fondation Tolstoï » in « Le Chatelet » in the so-called « Résidence des Sapins » in Rouen les Sapins. |
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31 March 1966 |
The house « La Porole » is sold by her daughter who resituated the funds to her mother for the payment of the retirement home. This money will also cover her burial costs.
Hospitalised at « Hôtel Dieu » when she broke the neck of her femur. |
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18 June 1992 |
Dies in Rouen les Sapins.
She was 99 years, 7 months and 10 days old. |
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22 June 1992 |
Burial in Ste Geneviève des Bois in the Orthodox cemetery (Essonne). |
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Concession N° 6107 signed on 21 March 1965 for 50 years. |
