Background
Vera (Veronika) Avrustovna Lothar-Shevchenko was born on June 9, 1899 in Turin, Piemonte, Italy. Her parents worked in Sorbonne as teachers. Her father was a mathematician, and her mother a philologist.
Vera (Veronika) Avrustovna Lothar-Shevchenko was born on June 9, 1899 in Turin, Piemonte, Italy. Her parents worked in Sorbonne as teachers. Her father was a mathematician, and her mother a philologist.
At the age of 12 Vera already played with the orchestra of Arturo Toscaniniera. Vera Avgustovna Lothar-Shevchenko studied in Paris. Her teacher was a celebrated French pianist Aifred Corto. Then she worked on probation at the Vienna Academy of Music (teachers Eugen d'Albert, Emil von Sauer).
After moveing to the USSR, with the help of Maria Yudina, Vera Avgustovna got a job in the Leningrad Philharmonic (Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra). Soon she was unreasonably repressed and spent more than 10 years in forced labor camps.
After discharge she worked as a concertmaster in the musical theatre of the Nizhny Tagil city. Since 1954 she had been a soloist of Sverdlovsk Philharmonic, and since 1958 of the Yaroslavl Philharmonic. From October 1960 to June 1961 she was a soloist and concertmaster of the Voronezh Philharmonic. Later she lived in Barnaul. Since mid-1970s Vera Avgustovna was a soloist of Novosibirsk Philharmonic.
Vera Avgustovna toured in Moscow, Leningrad, Odessa, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Omsk and other cities. But, refused from invitations to return to France.
In 1936 Vera Avgustovna Lothar-Shevchenko got married to a Soviet trade mission employee Vladimir Shevchenco, and moved to USSR.
