Born in Bessarabia, the young Ida Schreibman left the Moldavian region and its Ukrainian, Romanian, and Judeo-Slavic influences for Belgium in 1922, where she studied medicine. She moved to Paris in 1924 and specialised in psychiatry. There, she associated with the Russian bohemians and became a close friend of the poet Boris Poplavski, who was the lover of her sister Dina Grigorievna. In 1930, she married the painter and...
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