Letter from Olga Capablanca to Mario Figueredo

Olga Capablanca [nee Olga Evgenyevna Choubaroff (1898-1994)] signed

Edité par Self Published, Havana, 1957

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1 leaf quarto (10 1/2" x 7") typed letter in Spanish signed on the verso by Olga Capablanca in bold black ink. The letter discusses the difficulty in published material by the author and requesting Mario Figueredo's assistance and advice on how to proceed. Olga Evgenyevna Choubaroff was born on September 23, 1898 in Tbilisi, the Caucasus region of Georgia. She was able to speak Russian, French and English fluently as an adult. She married four times during her life but never had any children. Her first husband was a White Army officer with the surname Chagodaeva. They escaped together from the Red Army in 1920. He was, according to Olga, a descendant of Genghis Khan, and prince, who left her his title. Olga met her second husband, Jose Raoul Capablanca, in the spring of 1934 at function given at the Cuban Consul in New York. At the time of their meeting Capablanca was an employee of the Cuban Foreign Office. He had been give a post in 1913, with the title Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary General from the Government of Cuba to the World at Large, which allowed him to travel the world playing tournament chess. He was married to Dona Gloria Simoni Beautucourt, and was was world champion form 1921 to 1927. In 1937 Capablanca divorced his wife and her family had him demoted to the post of Commercial Attache. In 1938 Capablanca and Olga were married in New York. Capablanca died in New York while at the Manhattan Chess Club in 1942. After his death it was not easy for Olga the first few years and turned to Mario Figueredo for assistance. She was interested in publishing a biography on Capablanca. Olga then married a third time to an Olympic rowing champion, but divorce. In 1963 she married her four husband Admiral Joseph James Clark. Mario Figueredo received the fragments of letters between Capablanca and Leon Paredes which were part of a collection of historical correspondence of the Havana Chess Club and later under the care of Rosendo Romero former Cuban chess champion and friend of Capablanca. Included in the collection were many of the letters from Olga Capablanca to Mario Figueredo. Condition: Some edge wear with old paper clip stain else a very good copy.

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• Titre: Letter from Olga Capablanca to Mario Figueredo
• Éditeur: Self Published, Havana
• Date de parution: 1957
• Reliure: No Binding
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Chess