Background
Vera de Bosset was born Vera Bosse, the daughter of Eduard Bosse (* 19 October 1854 in Saese by Tamsal. † 27 jun 1927 in Riga) and Hedwig von Ruckteschel (* 24 April 1866 in Kiew. † 17 April 1938 in Riga).
Vera de Bosset was born Vera Bosse, the daughter of Eduard Bosse (* 19 October 1854 in Saese by Tamsal. † 27 jun 1927 in Riga) and Hedwig von Ruckteschel (* 24 April 1866 in Kiew. † 17 April 1938 in Riga).
She is better known as the mistress and, ultimately, second wife of the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky who married her in 1940. Both parents were Baltic German nobility. Vera allegedly changed her name to the French "Bosset" to hide her German ancestry.
She was the only one of her family to do southern
Stravinsky met Vera in 1921. Katerina accepted the relationship.
In September, 1939, Stravinsky arrived in America to give the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After Stravinsky"s death (1971) Vera lived on in the New York apartment they had bought shortly before his death.
She died, aged 94, in 1982 and is buried with Stravinsky in Venice, Italy.
Her survivors include nephews, nieces and more remote relatives, who live in Europe, the United States and Chile.