Born in Kiev February 11, 1903 Irène Némirovsky is raised in the veneration of the French language, the haunting of the ghetto and ignorance of Jewish culture. Too young to remember
the pogrom of October 1905, his first memory is that of the Nice carnival, in 1906. His father, Leonid, a “Little Dark Jew”, is bold in business and knows how to turn a blind eye to his wife’s affairs. Irene, on the other hand, does not forgive her mother for firing her beloved governess. When war breaks out, Leonid became a banker familiar with the circles of power.
In February 1917 Irene attends the “Bread Demonstrations”, then to a simulacrum of execution: horror follows enthusiasm.
In January 1918, the Bolshevik revolution forced the Némirovskys to flee Saint-Petersburg in a sleigh for a Finnish holiday. Irene writes her first verses there and devours the French authors. It is from Stockholm, in the late spring of 1919, That they succeed in winning France, “the most beautiful country in the world”...
1903, 11 February
Irina Irma N mirovsky Kiev is born, the only daughter of Leonid N mirovsky and Anna Margoulis. She is nicknamed Irotchka, or Irinouchka . A French governess of about fifty years , Z cell , will be responsible for her education : In my childhood, she represented the refuge, the light. [ ] I really did not like her in the world. (Journal of work, 1934/IMEC)
1905, 17 - 18 October
Following the revolutionary days, Nicholas II publishes the Manifesto which establishes the Imperial Duma and guarantees civil liberty. Anti-Jewish pogroms from Kiev and Odessa. Irina, an orthodox cross on the neck, is cach e derri re a bed by the cuisini re Macha.
1917, February
Revolutionary days. Irina attends the large women’s demonstration (23 February), then the mock exhibition of Ivan Dvornik, concierge of his building.
October 25: Bolshevik putsch. The N mirovsky installed s Moscow, in an apartment under a knight-guard. Irina reads Huysmans, Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Plato.
1918
Irina reads Balzac, Dumas, Gautier and modern French authors.
1919, July
The N mirovsky arrive in Rouen, France
