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Married. Boris Spassky, 38, former international chess champion; and Marina Stcherbatcheff, 30, a secretary at the French embassy in Moscow; he for the third time, she for the first; in Moscow. When Spassky first announced his intention to marry the pretty French-born daughter of Russian emigres, Soviet bureaucracy said she would have to leave the Soviet Union by Sept. 30. Anxious to avoid an international scandal on the eve of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's October visit to the U.S.S.R., Russian authorities relented. Said Spassky: "Now I have an extra queen...
Spassky is planning to marry Marina Stcherbatcheff, 30, a lissome brunette Frenchwoman who is a secretary in the French embassy in Moscow. Although the Soviet marriage bureau granted the pair permission to wed on Nov. 11, the Foreign Ministry began pressuring the French to force Marina, daughter of Russian émigrés to France, to leave the country by the end of September. Spassky feared that once his fiancée went, she would not be allowed to return for the wedding. Failing in his attempts to have the ceremony moved to an earlier date, Spassky complained, "I feel...
...Dargomyzski, Stcherbatcheff, Scriabine, Vassilenko...
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