The Archive · 1939

Marries English Woman

He married one of these English friends. She was Miss Ivy Low, niece of that staunch British Tory Sir Sidney Low. They have two children now, a boy and a girl.

They are smart children always well dressed. Their mother does not live in Moscow. She teaches Basic English in a town far away, to which she was banished because, it is said, she said some rude things about the famous purge. Maybe that was the beginning of her husband's decline.

He was working in England when the war broke out. So when the Bolshevik Revolution overthrow Czarist Russia Mr. Harrison became Maxim Litvinov, first Bolshevik Ambassador to the Court of St. James, although he was not received there.

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