Olga Chrieptowicz-Butieniewa

Olga Aleksandrowna Chrieptowicz-Butaneev, Russian Ольга Александровна Хрептович-Бутенева (born December 18, 1893, died April 17, 1987 in Clamart) - Russian emigre, pedagogue, social activist, Polish Army officer in the USSR during the Second World War II.

She was born under the name of Charinow. She studied at the Conservatory of Music in St. Petersburg. During the Russian Civil War her family left for France. In 1928 Chrieptowicz-Butaneva became a professor at the Russian conservatory in Paris. She led the class of piano. She was also a member of the revision committee of the artistic council of the conservatory. In 1936, she lived in her husband's family estate in Szczorski near Nowogrodek. After the occupation of the eastern part of Poland by the Red Army in autumn 1939, she worked as a music teacher in Nowogrodek. In the beginning of 1940 she was arrested by the NKVD. She was sent to Kazakhstan. At the end of 1940 she was released. From February 1941 she was a music teacher in Aktiubinsk. After the conclusion of the Sikorski-Majski Agreement at the end of July this year, General Wladyslaw Anders joined the Polish Army. She served as a nurse. After the evacuation of Polish troops from the USSR to Iran, she became a nurse at a hospital in Tehran. Then she worked at the British hospital in Cairo. After the war ended, she returned to Paris. She was involved in charity. In 1954 she co-founded the children's orphanage at the Moulin de Senles in Montgeron near Paris. In 1984, <1939-1942>. Bibliography

Lew A. Mnuchin, Marie Avril, Russian Abroad in France, 1919-2000, 2008

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