Background
Kandinskaia, Nina was born in 1899. Wife of Vasilii Kandinskii. Daughter of a general.
Kandinskaia, Nina was born in 1899. Wife of Vasilii Kandinskii. Daughter of a general.
Met Vasilii Kandinskii at the age of 17 (he was then 50). Married him on the day of the October Revolution 1917. In 1921, left the USSR for Weimar, where they were received and taken care of by Gropius.
Moved to Paris on the day Hitler took power in 1933. After Kandinskii’s death in 1944, became his sole heiress. For tax reasons, moved to Gstaadt.
Became obsessed with diamonds and other precious stones, and used to wear diamonds even when shopping. Was found strangled in her bathroom. It was assumed she had let her murderer in herself since there were no signs of a forced entry.
Religious edicts impose irrational rules on people’s behaviour.
The role of the individual as a member of a collective is more important than the individual.